[HPforGrownups] Where do Wizards go to school before Hogwarts?

[Patricia Bullington-McGuire]

No: HPFGUIDX 66055

On Sun, 29 Jun 2003, amanda brock wrote:

> Jade:
> >>Now, obviously some students go to standard primary schools. The ones who are muggle-born, and possibly some half-bloods. As for the others - I've always pretty much assumed that there were wizarding primary schools. Others still are probably home-schooled.
> 
> >>Even wizards need to learn English.
> 
> Yes Jade but surely Molly Weasley couldn't have schooled all hers at
> home could she? 

Why not?  There are plenty of people in the real world with large families
who successfully homeschool their children.  My husband used to have a
co-worker whose wife homeschooled all seven of their kids.  I couldn't do
it myself, but then I couldn't raise seven children without losing my mind
under any circumstances, even if someone else taught them their ABCs.  
Molly is clearly made of stronger stuff than me.

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Patricia Bullington-McGuire	<patricia at obscure.org>

The brilliant Cerebron, attacking the problem analytically, discovered
three distinct kinds of dragon: the mythical, the chimerical, and the
purely hypothetical.  They were all, one might say, nonexistent, but each
nonexisted in an entirely different way ... 
                -- Stanislaw Lem, "Cyberiad"