[HPforGrownups] Pre-Hogwarts

[manawydan]

No: HPFGUIDX 55016

Barb writes:

>What you say is true for some of the WW...Hermione's parents are
>Muggles...as I am sure there are  others who have Muggles
>as parents or caretakers.They have to deal with educating their
>children somehow.

It's certain that Hermione will have had a muggle education and probable
that children with muggle mothers do - just a suggestion that mothers would
find it harder to elude the clutches of muggle bureaucracy than fathers!

>The Malfoys may be an exception...they obviously have the money to
>afford to hire a private tutor. But how many families, Muggle or
>Wizarding can afford to do that?

Probably only those who are "old money" like the Malfoys (and possibly those
whose employers have a scheme for it - I wonder if Ministry employees have a
"perk" that the MoM pays for their children to have junior level education?)

>There has to be some type of uniform schooling for the WW...either
>through Muggle Schools(ie Harry)or Tutors(Malfoy's). And to get
>uniform schooling, the Tutors or parents who educate their children
>need to have the same standards.

But actually you've just argued very effectively against this requirement.
Although from our perspective, children get educated to uniform, centrally
imposed standards, that has only been so for a short time in historical
terms (1870 in this country, I'm not sure elsewhere) Before that, education
was "wherever and whenever", often by religious bodies (who seem to have no
equivalent in the WW).

Maybe there are wizards who work as junior level teachers and the local
community pay them by subscription - teaching basic literacy, numeracy, that
kind of thing - not magic, because they pick that up at home. It's a part of
everyday life, the same as you wouldn't expect a junior muggle school to
need to teach children how to work the remote on the TV set!

Cheers

Ffred

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