[HPforGrownups] Re: Is Hogwarts Public or Private? (I was using the American version of the word

[Jennifer Boggess Ramon]

Again, veering off-topic and thus replying to Chatter:

At 6:31 PM +0000 3/14/02, siriuskase wrote:
>
>Americans would call Hogwarts a "statewide residential magnet
>school for students with a strong aptitude" in the magic arts. 
>I copied this almost verbatom from the website of one:
>
>                             http://www.ncssm.edu/
>
>That one is supported by taxes and would be called public.

Yup.  There's a series of these, sometimes called the "governors' 
schools" or "the academies" by those of us who attend them.  They're 
essentially state-funded boarding prep schools, and they don't charge 
tuition although there are sometimes yearly fees for supplies.  I 
went to the Mississippi one, as did/do two of my brothers.  (My 
sister's applying this year.)  Several things, including the slippery 
schedule, the stress level, occasional things blowing up in the 
hallways, and a few teachers who are fantastic at their field but not 
too good at teaching it, about Hogwarts remind me very strongly of 
the governors' schools.


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