My problem with teaching Harry Potter

[kewiromeo at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 85015

I am friends with this nice woman that turns out to be the Litterature for 
children teacher in my school. She loves Harry Potter and has given me some 
suggestions as to what books I might like after reading Harry Potter. I wanted to 
take the Lit. for children class, but she wasn't teaching it this semester, so 
I took it with the other teacher in the department that teaches it. When I 
looked on the sylabus I saw that Harry Potter ss/ps would be read later in the 
semester. I said, all right, it's on the list, I'll stay in the class.

I heard that this teacher wasn't the best, but I didn't think of anything 
about it. I went through the fairy tales, the picture books, and childrens 
fiction and such. After reading Alice in Wonderland we got to Harry Potter ss/ps. I 
wrote to you guys on the problem I had when she started teaching this, but I 
thought I would tell you the whole story and update you.

Aparently, we were discussing class differences shown in Harry Potter, and as 
Harry is rich he can have Hedwig to deliver his mail, but Ron, whose family 
is poor, must have scabbers deliver his mail. My teacher thinks the school is 
like its own little society as the school has its own newspaper, the Daily 
Prophet. and somehow or another, the entire Wizarding World is called Hogwarts.

This is a University level class. It stands like this. If we weren't going to 
read Harry Potter I wouldnt have taken this class, but at the looks of it, I 
shouldn't have taken it since the teacher only read the book for our class.

Do you guys think I should take it up with the department chair? How can I 
listen to a teacher who is getting fundamental facts wrong? I would prefer she 
not taught Harry Potter at all. Which of course meant that I wouldn't have 
taken the class. I'm not being overzealous for complaining, but these are things 
that my 6 year old neighbors know.

Tzvi of Brooklyn


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