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

[leslie41]

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> 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.
>

Leslie41

After that experience she came back to England and trained properly, 
and then went to work at Leith Academy (Scotland?).  She was 
apparently what they call a "supply teacher."

So no, obviously she's not a "career teacher" but yes, she was 
formally trained and yes, she had a (semi) regular job in a Scottish 
Acadmey about ten years ago.  

Google Rowling and "Leith Academy".