Number of Students

[GypsyCaine]

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From: GypsyCaine
Subject: Re: Number of Students
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Date: 8/15/00 7:16 pm  (ET)

Couldn't it be like a public school system, here in Ohio? There is
a High School (one) with many little elementary schools that funnel
into one or two middle schools (ours was Elementary to Middle School
to Jr High to High School, one of the last three, and about seven or
more of the elementary). Hogwarts would be like the High School. Then
scattered around our city are "Christian Circle School", (Making
up names here), "St. Paul's Montessouri" (sp?), etc... for the more
specialized students. Usually the religious themed schools have a smaller
attendance. If you take the folks who decide against Hogwarts, or perhaps
their children couldn't get into Hogwarts(?), and have their kids going
to the "non-mainstreamed" schools, perhaps that'll answer the question?






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I think there are definitely more wizarding schools in the UK and
everywhere else. The "Big Three" are the premier schools, of course,
and everyone wants to get into them who has ambitions toward things like
the Ministry of Magic. But that doesn't make them the biggest by any
means. Sometimes the most exclusive schools are very small intentionally
because they're selective. Think too that the number of schools may also
have declined during the V years and is only now coming back.
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Good point, Steve! I've always thought that there might be a few wizard
children who are home-schooled as well. Muggle children are home-schooled,
why not wizard children? Perhaps there are other parents like the Malfoys
who disapprove of Dumbledore but don't want their children going as far
away as Durmstrang