OT: US Education (brief) and wizard edu

[vjmerri]

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From: vjmerri
Subject:  OT: US Education (brief) and wizard edu
Reply To: [Yahoo! #7208] Re: OT: US Education (BEWARE--long!)
Date: 8/20/00 5:31 pm  (ET)

By: selah_1977
Date: 8/18/00 5:15 pm
On behalf of all of those who represent the worst of my profession,
I apologize. I like the fact that the public is demanding more from
schools. As one who teaches three sections of fifth grade (among other
things), reading Alicia's post about her experience with parts of
speech drills made me ashamed of what we as educators have passed off
as professionalism.


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Even though this OT is two days old, I wanted to explain that I did not
in any way, shape or form MEAN to imply that US educators were not doing
their job. NOT AT ALL.

It _was_ intended as a jab at US parents (present company excepted, I'm
sure) who do not instill in their children a) an understanding of the
necessity for education, if not a love for it and b) a respect for the
teachers and c) some discipline to behave themselves in class. Education
_does_ begin at home.

vicki


De rigeur on topic question. Hermione and Justin appear to have gone
to regular muggle primary schools, as did Harry. I'm thinking that
wizarding families couldn't send their children to muggle schools until
they were old enough to understand not to talk about magic. That would be
awhile. Young kids just talk about things from home without any concept
of what is normal and what isn't. I can see a 6 or 7 year old visiting a
muggle friend and asking where her mom's wand is. After all, mom always
makes dinner with her magic wand. What happened to your mom's wand? Of
course, some of that might be taken as normal children's imagination,
but too much and people would start to investigate.