[HPforGrownups] Re: Snape as new DADA teacher (was "New Dark Arts Teacher")

[T.M. Sommers]

No: HPFGUIDX 69989

michelle.pagan at colorado.edu wrote:
> 
> I really don't understand everyone who supports Harry teaching DADA on his 
> own, or as you suggest, as a TA.  Does this happen fairly often in the U.K? I 
> can't imagine someone saying to an exceptional student in a U.S. high school 
> class -- "hey, you're advanced, why don't you teach the subject?"  

That's because the teachers' unions would never allow it.

> this is more the case in U.K. schools.  But in highschool in the U.S. there 
> aren't teachers and T.A.s...furthermore, in college where that is the case, 
> the student has gone through higher education and is going for an advanced 
> degree in the subject.

Although that is the usual situation, there are exceptional 
cases.  When I was an undergrad one of the other students in my 
year taught a seminar.  It was attended mostly by faculty 
members, because the subject was too advanced for most grad 
students, and far too advanced for other undergrads.  Whether 
Harry is such an exceptional case is debatable.