[HPforGrownups] Hogwarts letters Re: Choosing sides

[Annette Hamel]

No: HPFGUIDX 119937


> Annette:
> A question I have often pondered ... a child is required to 
> attend school up to a certain age, either a state school or 
> a private one.  If the WW is "hidden", wouldn't there be a 
> truancy issue?  <snip>

Mac <macfotuk at y...> wrote:
<<Am amazed at how few people know that home education is legal in 
UK and undertaken by parents of 1 in 100 kids for a huge variety of
reasons. <snip>  So, education is compulsory (in the UK), but school 
is not. The authorities ARE supposed to check, but are remarkably 
(well, not really, given high workload, voluminous paperwork and 
extreme resource limitations) slow and infrequent in making such 
visits.>>


Annette again:
Homeschooling is also legal in the U.S., but is supervised by the state 
school system - parents have to file reports with the local school that the 
child would have been attending - so there would still be a record of the 
child.  The child must be in school up till a certain age, and the record of 
the child would rest either with the state school or with the private 
school, if that's where they attend.  I was not ignorant of homeschooling, I 
was including those kids in the "state school" group.  Even if the 
authorities are slow and infrequent about checking, I can't imagine that the 
entire population of Hogwart's would go unnoticed decade after decade.  I 
also assume that the majority of the muggle-borns attended regular school 
prior to Hogwart's (and, as you state, only 1% are homeschooled).  That was 
my point anyway ;)