school stuff

[Catlady (Rita Prince Winston)]

Potioncat wrote in
<http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPFGU-OTChatter/message/36639>:

<< She knew enough about Salem Witch Trails to put the American School
of Witchcraft there. (Don't remembe what she named it.) >>

You're thinking of the Salem Witches' Institute. I am sure that is not
a school of witchcraft, because it is named after the Women's
Institute <http://www.womens-institute.co.uk/> which is a social and
educational club for (at least from old novels) rural housewives.  

Carol wrote in
<http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPFGU-OTChatter/message/36656>:

<< have (IMO) and inflated grade average because of an A being 5.0
instead of 4.0. So a kid who gets straight A's but doesn't take AP
classes will have a 4.0 average and a kid who gets straight A's taking
AP classes will have a 5.0. >>

In my day (my high school graduating class was 1974), an A was worth
4.0 whether it was in AP Calculus or Remedial Arithmetic. Not that I
was in the habit of getting A's, but I always thought I could have
gotten A's if I'd taken the easier classes...