[HPforGrownups] Re: School year system in the UK/Gluttony

[Kendall McCallum]

No: HPFGUIDX 128783

Marcelle wrote:
> > It always seemed strange to me that Hogwarts would include 11 
> > year olds with 17 and 18 year olds...I'm not an educator, but 
> > certainly some things that are appropriate for older teenagers 
> > are not appropriate for 11 year olds?  They all share meals 
> > together, walk the castle halls, share a common room...its simply 
> > foreign to me that Hogwarts throws the students all together.
 
Gerry wrote:
> I've read this about three times and I have no idea what you are
> referring to. Why would sharing meals, walking in the same castle
> halls or sharing a common room be anything other than completely 
> normal?  



In my Middle School the seventh and eighth grades had all their classes in different hallways, they ate lunch in different cafeterias, and the teachers discouraged any mixing between the two grades.  In high school this separation continued for the most part, if only through habit.  You only had classes with the people in your grade and so you only talked to the people in your grade, unless you were in the music program or involved in sports which mixed the grades.  It therefore seems strange that Hogwarts would toss all the age groups into social situations with each other.  
-Kendall