OT: Drill Sargeant (with a tiny bit of ontopic talk...)

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> Susan wrote:
> Forgive me if you don't agree, but I don't think any of this 
provides 
> a decent excuse for Snape.  And if you're right, it would still fit 
> in with my argument that he's potentially underminding the 
students' 
> ability to learn, because you're saying he's using either 
ineffective 
> teaching methods for this particular type of students or methods he 
> hasn't mastered.  What you're suggesting--his not being trained or 
> not knowing how to teach children properly--means that it's going 
to 
> be hard for him to be an effective teacher and does *nothing* in my 
> mind to remove him from blame.  It would, however, put **DD** more 
at 
> fault for not having Snape address some of this.
> 
> Personally, I think you're closest to the mark when you say these 
> methods suit his *personality*.  I don't think he's concerned in 
the 
> slightest about whether the little urchins care for his methods. ;-)


Potioncat:
I like that last paragraph!
Well, although I'm a Snape fan, I wouldn't want him for a teacher.  I 
think we've agreed on that before.

If I decided to look over Hogwarts before sending my little wizards 
off to school and I got a look at some of the teachers, I think I'd 
go visit France and wherever.  The best teacher is McGonagall and 
she's not exactly the nurturing type.  Granted, in the WW parents 
might expect something different than those of us in the RW.  And in 
my RL experience, I've disapproved of teachers that other parents 
liked and vice versa.

DD doesn't seem to be the type to interfere does he?  He didn't even 
get upset when Harry went into his pensieve.  I wonder what he said 
to Lupin after not taking the potion, or what he says to Snape about 
his teaching methods. (Sorry Severus, no raise for you this year.  
I've worn out 20 owls responding to upset parents.) 

Actually, I think we've all taken this thread way too far!!! Now, if 
you'd like to hear about my son's French teacher.....
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