[HPforGrownups] Re: - Nonmagical studies

[Margaret Dean]

No: HPFGUIDX 14646

Steve Vander Ark wrote:
 
> So what do Wizarding kids need to know? What are the basic
> educational requirements for THEIR society? And how could they get
> those skills? Homeschooling, certainly; small schools would be
> workable. It wouldn't involved years and years of 9-months-per-year
> training. 

Yes, let's remember that the present-day schooling system wasn't
produced with the sole purpose of educating children.  Part of
the goal was to get them off the streets and out of the
workforce; public schooling goes along with child labor laws and
the like.  (And the main reason our school systems have a
=summer= vacation is that the big exception to the ban on child
labor was farming families -- who needed every hand they could
get during the summer.)

Would wizarding society have these same concerns?  I doubt it. 
(They'd have =different= ones.)


--Margaret Dean
  <margdean at erols.com>