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

[Tammy]

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> > 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.
> >
> > End of education history lesson. :-)
> 

>Sandra:
> Your answers are always interesting and nicely structured, Geoff! 
> However, I wasn't questioning 'why' Harry got his invite at 11, I 
> was wondering how he managed to disappear off any academic 
> registers and therefore no longer have any academic records of 
> being anywhere. Are the LEA's (or whatever authority) that poor at 
> keeping tabs on who is at a school and who isn't? The same 
> goes for Hermione and any other student brought in from the 
> muggle world. Suddenly they go from one muggle school to...  
> one which isn't exactly listed anywhere. I would be surprised 
> (and very shocked) if it was so easy for any child to drop out of 
> the system.

Tammy:

First of all, I'm not the slightest bit familiar with British
schooling systems. That having been said, I do recall having read the
most plausible explanation, IMO, that the students "drop off" the
schooling authorities radar. Wherever I read it (I think it was here a
few months ago), it was said that there are actually a decent number
of students who are homeschooled and some of them simply disappear
from the system. Presumably that would be because the British
government is as efficient as most governments tend to be. 

I think homeschooling or an out-of-country private(US)/public(UK)
school is the simplest answer. After all, Harry is supposedly going to
St. Brutus' and they don't sound like a place most people would question.