Why DD lets Snape be a bastard (WAS Teachers and fairness)

[jenny_ravenclaw]

No: HPFGUIDX 56766

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "rane_ab" <rane_ab at h...> wrote:

> So, IMO, DD is just trying to 'prepare' (if passively) the students 
for the real world - in all its goodness and evilness, fairness and 
unfairness. Letting Snape act the way he does is like warning the 
students: well, life really isn't always fair.> 

*Sigh*  Apparently, JKR agrees with you, as Anne has pointed out, but 
that doesn't make me like this little life lesson any more.  If I had 
a daughter who told me that her teacher insulted her, threatened her 
or embarrassed her, there'd be hell to pay.  There are plenty of 
shitty people out there but my children don't need to sit in their 
classes.  In reality, teachers do experience consequences when they 
treat students unfairly.  More and more, kids in our world stand up 
and talk back to teachers, tell on teachers, even make strides to get 
teachers fired.  

In the WW, I get the feeling that the Hogwarts students don't often 
approach their parents when dealing with a bad teacher situation.  We 
never hear Hermione mention telling her parents about Snape's comments 
or Neville swearing he'll send an owl right away to his formidable 
grandmother after Snape threatened to let Trevor the toad die.  Maybe 
that is also part of JKR's lesson: if you don't speak out, deal with 
it.  It is also a more traditional view of schooling, where kids 
suffer bad teachers in silence.  In fact, students speak back so 
rarely to teachers in Hogwarts, everyone is shocked when Hermione 
throws up her hands and walks out of Trelawney's class.  In my school, 
kids storm out of their classes all the time.  

--jenny from ravenclaw ************************