Basic Education

[sbursztynski]

No: HPFGUIDX 148657

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Karen <kchuplis at ...> wrote:
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> 
> On Wednesday, February 22, 2006, at 10:41 PM, Rebecca Dreiling wrote:
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> > Rebecca writes:
> > I've always wondered about this particular thing.  I'm sure
> > that it has to have been discussed but I'm curious to hear people 
> > opinions
> > on it now.
> >
> > If most wizarding children don't start school until they enter Hogwarts
> > where do they learn to read and write?  I don't recall any mention of 
> > it in
> > the first book so I assume there isn't a basic english class.
> > I know that Harry went to school before he entered Hogwarts but he was
> > raised in a muggle house so it would make sense that he was taught to 
> > read.
> 
> kchuplis:
> 
> I don't know if this was a suggestion I read here or something in the 
> books or an article, but I thought that some homeschooled until then 
> (the Weasley's in particular I think this applied to) or some might go 
> to public schools even if not muggles?
>

Sue:

Yes, I vaguely recall JKR saying they were schooled at home. Given how little the children' 
of wizarding families seem to know about the Muggle community or the Muggle lifestyle, 
you have to assume that very few of them go to regular primary schools!