[HPforGrownups] Re: Things that you wish were in the Harry Potter novels -- OWL System

[Lynda Cordova]

No: HPFGUIDX 192030

> Crescent:
>
> > Personally, I always thought it was odd that there were so few teachers.
> I
> > mean, one teacher per subject for ALL AGES??? I sure wouldn't want to be
> > under that kind of pressure. And they give out lots of homework, when can
> > they actually grade it?
>
> Geoff:
> Not really. It depends on the subject. and the size of the school. I
> introduced
> Computing subjects to the school in South London where I taught and I was
> the only specialist member of staff teaching IT to every class and then
> option
> groups in Years 10 and 11 to GCSE level (equivalent to OWLs).
>

Lynda:

And in the town I live in, the music classes, until middle school for
chorus and band and through middle school for string instruments, are
taught by teachers who drive around to the different PS in our area, each
of them taking 5-6 schools plus having one schoolroom and clas that is
their home base, usually the middle school classroom. And handling the
after school groups as necessary, anywhere from 3 to 5 days a week from
3:30 to 6:00 or so in the evenings. As I'm friends with most of the music
teachers in town, I happen to know they're all up past midnight 7 days a
week doing prep work and grading papers.