[HPforGrownups] Re: Hogwarts: A tight schedule/ Timetable Challenge!

[Megan Carlin]

No: HPFGUIDX 43521

I have been reading along this thread for awhile, and something occurred to mean. It really doesn't have to do specifically with Penny Lane's post but it was a sort of catalyst for me to actually post to it.

Alright here's a short question, in regards to all the 
mathematics going on in this thread (I always was bad at maths 
hehe). My question is, who's to say that the students only go to 
school five days a week? I can't remember offhand, so I'll read 
into it and maybe some people can inform me on the thread that 
I'm wrong. But I can't seem to recall any evidence that there were 
only five school days. That would certainly give the teachers 
more time to spend teaching even more classes. 

cpennylane12 wrote:
>   If classes begin at 9, and end at 6, with 1 hour for lunch... then 
>   they are getting approximatly 8 hours of class a day, which 
>   means 40 hours a week. Each teacher has time to teach 8 
one 
>   hour class a day...  
<<snip>>

If you say 8 hours more a day of teaching/class time that's 16 extra classes 
in a weekend! (though I doubt they wouldn't deprive them of at 
least one day off a week).


<<partial snipping just to get an idea of what I'm replying to>>

cpennylane12 also wrote:
>   Friday Mornings they have Herbology and Transfiguration. (pg. 
>   197 US ) 
> 
>   On the 1st day of classes they have db. Herbology w/ 
Hufflepuffs 
>   ( pg 91) then they go directly to Transfiguation ( pg 94).  After 
>   Transfiguation, they have Lunch, then they go to Defense 
against 
>   the Dark Arts. (pg 98) 


After all not all schools/countries have the same standards for what makes a school week. When I was in boarding school in the U.S. years ago we only went to school for a total of five hours a day. In public school we went about six. I've read articles (mostly by those trying to up the hours for school and they number of days a week for American public schools) that show some countries average 10 hours a day of schooling (that's 10 more classes a week!). And a few countries I've read about go to school on Saturdays as well. (a total of 20 classes a week more if we assume they school on Saturdays)

Like I said, there may be evidence in the books that blows my theory out of the water. I need to pour through the books again and see if I can find it. I appreciate any thoughts...


Schoolingly,
Megan


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