Late in the topic but oh well

[Amy Z]

No: HPFGUIDX 13016

Saitaina wrote:

> Classes ARE weekly guys, go back, read the books and realize this.  
You can even work out their schedule if you are so inclined.    But I 
have a new question...what do teachers do with all their time off?  If 
you only teach four classes as week (assuming you teach ever year for 
the house in one day which isn't that hard) what do you do at Hogwarts 
for the other three days....take really long bubble baths?

Some classes appear to meet once a week, some two or three.  The kids 
definitely don't have 7 classes per day.  They seem to have at most 
two before and two after lunch, plus Astronomy at night (one hopes 
they don't have a first-thing-in-the-morning class the next day).

Even if the teachers did fit 7 classes into a day, four days 
that each go from the beginning of breakfast to the end of dinner 
sounds like a full week's work to me.  Most of us get 2 days off per 
week, reasonable if you work 8-hour days; 3 days off would be the fair 
arrangement if you work 10-hour days the way the Hogwarts teachers 
appear to.  Then there's not only planning and grading to do, but for 
at least some of the teachers (maybe just Heads of House?), various 
kinds of dorm duty and administration.  I think that extra day off has 
been filled up a few times over.  Not too much time left for bubble 
baths with Myrtle...not that that would be very relaxing.

Amy Z

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