[HPforGrownups] (long) Re: Schools all around

[Christian Stubø]

No: HPFGUIDX 6129

[snip]
> The New England 
> school IS named New Hogwarts (and might be wittily
> located in Salem 
> MA, altho' I suspected Levettown NJ) even tho' it
> wasn't named by 
> Puritans. 

Was not a Salem Witch Institute mentioned if GoF?

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> The point, 
> however, is that it doesn't matter if the New
> Orleans school can only 
> scrape together enough students to have graduating
> classes of 2 or 3 
> students (in fact, they would boast of such
> personalized education!) 
> because the school was founded and funded for
> nationalist pride, not 
> for an unfilled need in the marketplace.

Running such a school, however, would be frightfully
expensive, compared to its output.  I do not see it as
something a government would be willing to pay for on
a longterm-basis.  You would need teachers in Potions,
DADA, Astronomy, Transfiguration, Care of Magical
Creatures, Magical History and Arithmancy, at least,
and possibly Divination as well (I am not certain
about the international credibility of divination as a
subject in general).  If you have a teacher in each,
that is seven or eight teachers.  Assuming eight
teachers, and output of three students each year, you
have a student/teacher-ration of 2.6/1.  Assuming a
yearly pay equivalent to USD20 000, and USD1.5/GBP,
and 10GBP/Galleon, that is a yearly pay-per teacher of
1333 Galleons.  Per student, this is 507 galleons or
USD7619 per year, just to cover the teachers' pay. 
Most likely tuition would have to be paid for by
parents, limiting access to those of wealthy origin. 
Sounds like something the Malfoys would have
appreciated.

I am not saying that there aren't schools like this,
mind, though there are none in Britain (Draco would
have gone to it, had there been one).

How many Francophones are there in and around
Louisiana, by the way?

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Christian Stub
Student of Technology, architectura navalis

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