Education before Hogwarts?

[finwitch]

No: HPFGUIDX 54886

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Jonathan Pessin" <
> Trond Michelsen, in reference to pre-Hogwarts schooling, posted this
> excerpt from a JKR interview:
> 
> "Q: Do wizards and witches have to go Muggle school before they go 
to
>    Hogwarts?  
> 
> A: No, they don't have to."
> 
Jonathan postulated:
> This makes me wonder if there are any WIZARDING primary schools that
> wizarding children must attend before Hogwarts.  JKR never says kids
> don't go to school, just that they don't attend MUGGLE schools. 


Well - she only said "they don't have to". They could be home-
schooled, attend a wizarding low-level school... but they *could* go 
to muggle elementary - if their parents knew enough of Muggles to do 
so... Who knows, maybe wizards even have some schooling-forms we 
don't know of. Draco Malfoy probably had tutors, probably even some 
with Crabbe and Goyle...

With Weasleys - supposedly Mom, Dad, big brothers, uncles, aunts 
cousins... All older than Ron, I presume, most out before he 
started...

-- Finwitch