Teachers' workload

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No: HPFGUIDX 86966

Booby J wrote:
> The Hogwarts teachers are overworked!  Think of McGonagall.  She 
> teaches each of the four houses individually for each of the first 
> five years -- that's 20 classes.  And if each class is one hour 
long 
> and if it meets twice a week, that's 40 hours of classes.  Plus her 
> NEWT classes.  Plus reading all those homework assignments that 
> Harry complains about -- it must take half an hour just to read 
> Hermione's parchments alone.  Forget about the house-elves, Hermy, 
> help the teachers!

Now Neri:
I wondered about number of teaching hours myself for some time. The 
problem is actually even worse than you presented it. See Harry's 
schedule in the lexicon http://www.hp-lexicon.org/calendar_op.html . 
Regarding checking homework assignments, however, I'd be very 
surprised if a competent witch such as Prof. McGonagal does not have 
a Homework Checking Quill or something of that sort. I'm sure there 
are many ways magic can spare you tedious teaching work, although I'm 
not going to think about them because it makes me sick with envy (I 
was a university instructor myself).

Neri