[HPforGrownups] Re: Ron as Head Boy ( was ...My guess about book 7)

[danielle dassero]

No: HPFGUIDX 161345

Also, I know some people have talked about class presidents and such in American schools. Most public american schools try to model themselves after american politics and goverments. And I am only discussing public schools because some private schools are different. American public schools hold elections for class president and vice president, some do presidents for each grade and some schools have a president for the whole school, then you have student counsels, treasurer, secretary, and representatives for each grade. The representatives for each grade could sorta be like prefects and the class president and vice president could be like head boy/girl, except instead of the school principal or headmaster or teachers choosing them, the school votes for whom they would like, making it a democratic system. Ok so I've spoken my thoughts for the month, and now I'm going to crawl back into my hideyhole and wait patiently for the 7th book/ 5th movie to come out.

Danielle, from colorado 


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Subject: [HPforGrownups] Re: Ron as Head Boy ( was ...My guess about book 7)

> montims:
> I don't quite understand this. Hogwarts is a boarding school, but most
> schools in Britain are day schools, and ALL schools in Britain, to the 
> best
> of my knowledge, have head boys and girls, and prefects. We also had those
> in my primary school, with obviously lesser responsibilities.
>
> The wonder to me is still that American schools do not have them...

Hestia Lurkswell:
It's really no wonder to me, being a U.S. citizen born and bred. The 
education system here is modeled after the old Germanic school system; 
not the British school system. Also, U.S. schools are about 
inclusiveness not talent, thus prefects and such are rare and students 
tend to get graded on a curve rather than for their abilities and merits.

As to Hogwarts being a boarding school as opposed to a day school; 
wouldn't it make more sense to have a magical school where the students 
are kept away from the outside world in order to prevent major accidents 
and mishaps and disasters from occurring? At any rate Hogwarts is an 
ancient school, and the Wizarding World is old in it's methods. Correct 
me if I'm wrong, but weren't boarding schools the norm in the 18th and 
19th centuries?

just my thoughts on this subject...






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