Teaching wizards (was Re: Jobs)

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starlandcolleen wrote:
> A somewhat related question; on another thread, somebody pointed 
> out that J.K.R. confirmed in an interview that wizard kids do not
> have go to muggle school before Hogwarts. Are their basic skills,
> i.e. reading, home-taught? Perhaps there are tutors for this? Any
> thoughts?

Hmm.  I go with the teaching at home theory because they are all so 
far apart they couldn't get together on a daily basis but maybe they 
do some kind of short courses for lots of students, a bit like summer 
schools.  It could be that tutors go to the house to teach but how do 
families with little money afford this?  It might be something that 
is provided for nothing and funded by the MoM.  I would favour the 
teaching at home option and believe that different levels in ability 
are indicative of the quality of teaching they have received from 
their parents.  Tutors would only be available to visit for certain 
subjects and for a certain amount of time during any given week, as 
with home taught muggles who have private tutors and irregular tutor 
groups.  

I also think there are apprenticeships rather than colleges and 
Unis.  We must remember that the students stay at school for an extra 
two years if they choose to, and I think in this time they not only 
take lessons applicable to the type of job they want to do, but also 
have practical tasks to help them to get tp grips with the jobs they 
will be going for.  We haven't really seen yet what happens during 
these next two years.  I think there will be more focussed work 
instead of it being general teaching.

We only have to look at Percy to realise that he went straight from 
Hogwarts into the MoM.  Of course he could have attended a very brief 
summer school before Harry arrived at the Weasleys, we don't know 
that he didn't.

Mandy