My mum was a teacher in the Mid Sussex at the time and something to do with the NUT so I got to see some of our teachers outside the school environment. Strangely I got on OK with Mr Brown, or Kevin as he was known round our house, and in school I always managed to deflect my inadequacies on to...
In the simplistic dark ages of 1970s people with Downs were simply referred to as "Mongs" so the house name didn't really have a other connotation. Plus, from memory, Mr Lowe was the head of Downs and man you didn't want to diss his house or mess with him in any way. Every school has a teacher...