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

[brandy]

No: HPFGUIDX 127849


> USA doesn't have government mandated standardized testing, but when I
> was in school we did have basic skills test; specifically the Iowa
> Basic Skills Test (even though I was in Minnesota). An independant
> organization collected, score, cataloged, correlated, and documented
> the results of the test, but the test themselves were given/supervised
> by teachers in our local school.
> 
> As a side note, in the areas of the USA where states do have
> standardized testing, while the students are tested, it's actually the
> school that is being graded. The tests are to make sure that the
> schools are meeting a minimum standard of education. So, in the USA
> these standardized tests aren't part of a students 'qualifications'.

Well, with No Child Left Behind there actually is government-mandated
standardized testing - but only in public schools. Private schools and
homeschoolers don't have to do it. So a wizarding school in the US
wouldn't have any problems with it even if they had a muggle "front"
school.

I always assumed this sort of thing (the child disappearing) was
partially dealt with through memory charms. If a muggle neighbor or
friend accidentally finds out too much about where a wizard child goes
to school, *poof* they don't know it anymore. 

I mean, eventually the wizard kids have to basically disengage
completely from muggle society, don't they? So maybe it's best if
their muggle friends just forget they exist, they make new wizard
friends, and their only connection to muggles is their family.

-Brandy