[HPforGrownups] Snape's abuse v Mcgonagall abuse

MadameSSnape at aol.com MadameSSnape at aol.com
Sat Jul 2 21:23:57 UTC 2005


No: HPFGUIDX 131868

 
In a message dated 7/2/2005 1:38:09 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
dumbledore11214 at yahoo.com writes:

Speaking  about putting child on the spot... I see no justification 
whatsoever of  Snape reading Rita's article in class in GoF. Talk 
about putting child on  the spot simply because one feels like it, 
IMO.


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Sherrie here:
 
Were you never caught passing notes in class?  It was standard  procedure in 
my schools - even with "nice" teachers - that notes  intercepted in class were 
read aloud.  If you were caught whispering in  class, you were made to stand 
up and "share what's so important with the  class."  When I was in elementary 
school, if you were caught chewing gum in  class, you could find yourself with 
it in your hair.  I recall one incident  when a boy, having been told to sit 
down and be quiet several times and refusing  to comply (testing the new 
teacher), had his ears used as handles to return  him to his seat.  We didn't have 
a dunce cap, but kids who misbehaved were  sometimes made to sit in a corner.  
And verbal dressing-downs were quite  common.
 
No, this wasn't in the Victorian age - Kennedy/Johnson/Nixon,  actually. No, 
this wasn't a boarding school - it was a public school in New  York State.  
And no, parents didn't complain.  And teachers had  control of the classrooms - 
they didn't have to fear their students, as they do  today.  (I never saw a 
metal detector til I went to work in a maximum  security prison - my nieces & 
nephews walk through them to get into  school.  And none of MY teachers ever had 
to break up knife fights in class  - a friend of mine left one school where 
he was teaching after he got cut  breaking up a fight - between two SEVENTH 
GRADE GIRLS.)
 
Sorry - I don't see either McGonagall or Snape as outside the norm.   They're 
strict, they hold their students to high standards - something NOT the  norm 
in today's schools - and they keep their classrooms under control.   And they 
TEACH.
 
Umbridge is another story...
 
Sherrie
"Some  kid a hundred years from now is going to get interested in the Civil 
War and  want to see these places. He's going to go down there and be standing 
in a  parking lot. I'm fighting for that kid." - Brian Pohanka, 1990 


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