[HPforGrownups] The real worst teacher at Hogwarts

[Kriselda Jarnsaxa]

No: HPFGUIDX 56956

Chase Wildstar recently mentioned:

>Telling a student that they do not have the "gift" or aptitude for something
>is not being mean at all.

But if it's to be done, it should be done in private, and not in such a 
manner as to sound like the teacher is upset because the student insulted her.

>Its not being unprofessional either. Why allow a student to struggle thru
>something they have no hope of ever mastering?

It's hard to tell that, though, from just a few lessons.  I've had subjects 
I took where, for the first several weeks of the class, I could have easily 
been described as hopeless, but then something would just "click" in and 
I'd be understand it.

>Isn't it better to let them know that they MIGHT be wasting their time, and
>MIGHT want to invest such time in something else that they may have a 
>better apitutude
>for?

Possibly, but discouragement at such an early stage of learning, and done 
in such a humiliating way, can be a great deal more damaging than taking a 
student aside and offering a gentle suggestion of a better direction to go....

Kriselda


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