How do Hogwarts' muggle-borns drop off the radar?

[Geoff Bannister]

No: HPFGUIDX 127769


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Steve" <bboyminn at y...> wrote:
 
> bboyminn:
> 
> I'm not sure if this solves the problem entirely, but in England all
> 11 year old kids leave school. That is, they leave their primary
> (grade) school and go off to another secondary (combined middle and
> high) school. I'm pretty sure that's why JKR chose this natural
> transition as the time for kids to enter Hogwarts. 

Geoff:
Excuse my being pedantic, but large numbers of pupils change schools 
at 13+ and some at 12+. The percentage of transfers at 11+ is far 
less than it was in the past.

When I started teaching in a UK state secondary school in the 1960s, 
transfer at 11+ (in the state sector)was almost universal. Following 
the Labour Government's document Circular 10/64 which aimed at making 
all UK secondary education comprehensive, a large number of Local 
Education Authorities (LEAs) went for a first/middle/high school 
structure to replace the infant/junior/secondary layout; for many of 
them, it kept the costs of converting buildings down.

My LEA switched in '69. We then underwent a further change in 1990 
when we moved to 12+ as we were transferring Sixth Form pupils to 
Sixth Form colleges and out of the main schools so that my school 
then had Years 8-11 only (corresponding to Second up to Fifth Year at 
Hogwarts).

End of education history lesson. :-)