Mindy: Some possible avenues of thought.

[A.E.B.Bevan at open.ac.uk]

No: HPFGUIDX 24311

Schools... and keeping away from Muggle files.

"Alexandra Y. Kwan" <litalex at y...> wrote:

>>>
we were talking about only Muggle-born students, where it would be
necessary for the child to be in a some school on record (the parents 
will go to jail if their kid isn't going to school, no?).
<<<

Not in Muggle Britain  where it is not compulsory to send your 
children to school. The law says that parents are obliged to provide 
their children with a full-time education either by enrolling them in 
a recognised school 'or otherwise'. The Home Education Movement in 
Britain is called 'education otherwise...' Basically you can just do 
it without asking permission. Assume this as the background to 
Wizarding Britain.

Harder to escape is healthcare and child welfare - everyone in 
Britain has from birth a National Health number entitling us to 
register for free medical care. All birtns have to be registered and 
there is a Health Visitor service which checks up on childrens' 
progress over their first year.

Wizards in some European countries where there are  compulsory 
identity cards and you have officially to register with the local 
authorityb when you move house will need the memory charm more often. 
As for countries like Italy and France where everyone is included in 
an offical Family Dossier which you need for almost every important 
life stage... 

Edis

> Hello,
> 
> From: "Yis M Koslowitz" <tkoz1 at j...>
> > I don't understand why it's necessary to go out into the Muggle 
world.
> 
> Well, we were talking about only Muggle-born students, where it 
would be
> necessary for the child to be in a some school on record (the 
parents will
> go to jail if their kid isn't going to school, no?).  So, to keep 
Hogwarts a
> secret and the lower officials happy, wouldn't you need some sort 
of a front
> for Hogwarts regarding Muggle-born students?  Actually, talking 
about that,
> why haven't social services or some such gone to the Dursleys to 
ask them
> why they are keeping a certain Harry Potter from an education?
> 
> > It's a little bigoted to
> > assume that wizards would NEED to live in our world. I'm still a
> 
> I didn't assume that, but if Hogsmeade is the only village with a 
completely
> wizard population, the logical conclusion is that the rest of the 
wizards
> live within Muggle neighborhoods.  And we were talking about the
> wizards/witches who choose to move into the Muggle world (decided 
to marry a
> Muggle, whatever).
> 
> little Alex
> 
> 
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