School year system in the UK/Gluttony

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No: HPFGUIDX 128800

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Kendall McCallum"
<coronaborealisla at h...> wrote:

> 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

Thanks, so Hogwarts is just different from what you are used to. What
you describe seems very strange to me. Especially the discouraging
part, what Hogwarts does I consider perfectly normal. In your original
post I got the impression your school had actually reasons for doing
so (though I cannot imagine what those could be. What you describe now
seems to me just a (weird) custom. Do I see this correctly? 

Gerry

Gerry