Number of teachers? (WAS children responsibility)

[joanne0012]

No: HPFGUIDX 34080

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "Hollydaze" <hollydaze at b...> wrote:
 
> Is it really possible that 13 teachers (12 in reality as Hooch only seems to 
teach in the first year, how exactly do you carry on Flying lessons after one 
year, what else is there to learn? You can only practise.)
> 
> I just don't see how it is possible for the 12 teachers we have to teach that 
>number of pupils (even if it is as low as 280 - 10 per house per year) unless 
>they are ALL double house classes, and with no breaks, as that would be 20 per 
>class and so 14 simultaneous classes which is already more than the number of 
>teachers we have!

One additional factor is that the kids don't have every subject every day.  In 
HPSS, Astronomy is just Wednesdays at midnight, herbology is stated to be 3 
times per week, and DADA doesn't start until Friday so it's clearly not every day.  
On the first day of classes in CoS, they have 3 subjects.

If the kids have 3 classes per day it's do-able; 4 houses times 7 years is 28 
groups of kids and if they have 3 classes per day that's 84 class sessions per 
week; divide by 12 teachers and that's 7 per teacher per day.  Lighten that load 
a bit to 5 classes per day because of the double sessions, and that's a typical 
load for a US high-school teacher.