[HPforGrownups] (long) Re: Schools all around

[Christian Stubø]

No: HPFGUIDX 6128

[snip]
> > The number of students at school, however, will in
> some countries
> > differ from the Hogwarts-number.  In  Norway, for
> instance, the
> > educational system is different from Britain, with
> the result that
> > Norwegian magical children would have to go
> magical school from
> > they are 6 years old (7 years old before 1997),
> and stay till they
> > are 19 years old.
> 
> Surely Norway has some way for children to transfer
> from one school to 
> another when their parents move house. When they're
> old enough to go 
> to wizarding school, their old Muggle school can be
> given 
> paperwork indicating that they moved out of town.

I do not think that would work - if one of the
children was magical and the others mundane, it would
draw attention if one was pulled out of school all of 
a sudden.  You cannot really force the family to move
away, either.  Also, going to private schools or
boardingschools is really not that common in Norway. 
Norwegian children invariably go to the closest school
in their school-district.  

I think that on general principle the
wizarding-education would mirror the muggle-education
of the region that the wizarding-school services.  In
Norway, we start comprehensive school at age 6 (age 7
before 1997), leaving the year we turn 16, when we
start upper secondary or vocational school.  Upper
secondary school last three years, vocational school 2
years plus 2 years apprenticeship.  For
wizarding-education, one could imagine a parallell,
where one goes to the same school all the time, but
the last three years contain the ability to do
specialisation.

Actually, requiring magical children to go to magical
school from normal startign-age for school, would mean
that all magical children had a relatively equivalent
starting-point for their magical education.  One would
probably see an earlier face-in of simpler magical
subjects (magical history, care of magical creatures),
and a later fade-out of muggle-subjects
(muggle-history really should be on the time-table -
avoiding past mistakes is easier if you know the
what/when/where/why of them).

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"There are two trillion six-houndred and sixtyfive billion  eight-houndred and sixtysix million, seven-houndred and fortysix thousand, six-houndred and sixtyfour litte devils in the world"
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Christian Stub
Student of Technology, architectura navalis

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