Scary Teachers - Good Teachers (was: Re: Hagrid and Snape...

[houyhnhnm102]

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Finwitch:
 
> Actually, she IS a teacher. She's been teaching French 
> abroad for instance, and reached an education in Scotland - 
> not that she's teaching now, rather doing a campaign 
> against the cagebeds for the sake of poor orphans and 
> writing the 7th book - but she certainly has been.

houyhnhnm:

Please correct me if I am misinformed, but I understood that Rowling 
taught English in a night school in Portugal for a year or so.  Many 
people who want to travel and work in another country do this.  It does 
not require any kind of professional training or certification, AFAIK, 
just being bi-lingual.  I know it is part of the media hype that 
Rowling was a former teacher, but I think it's just that--hype.  I 
don't regard her as a professional educator.  She is certainly not a 
career teacher.  Her knowledge of the culture of a school appears to be 
mostly from a student's point of view.