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

[Rebecca Stephens]

No: HPFGUIDX 128785


--- Kendall McCallum <coronaborealisla at hotmail.com> 
> 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


I'm from the US, and from a small school (about 800
students, K-12).  We had one lunch room.  Generally
the youngest students went first until you reached 7th
grade and started changing classes (probably two or
three grades at a time).  Then you went by class
rather than grade.  As I was eating my lunch (as a
senior) the seveth graders were in line to get theirs.

PE and studyhall (before they canceled our studyhall)
were mixed classes (several grades).  So was creative
writing (which was really just yearbook for half the
year).  Typing and home ec was generally mostly one
grade with two or three people from another grade also
in there (though sometimes it was split pretty
evenly).  I assume ag was the same. (Note: all these
"mixed" cases are 7-12).

Kindergarteners had recess alone.  First and second
together, third and fourth, and fifth and sixth, were
paired.  7-12 all had recess together at the same
time.

So, what you're suggesesting seems odd to me.  I can
sort of get the separate common rooms (or at least two
common rooms, one for older, one for younger) but
beyond that it just seems strange.


Rebecca


		
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