Things that you wish were in the Harry Potter novels -- OWL System

[Bruce Mull]

No: HPFGUIDX 192055

> Crescent:
> > Personally, I always thought it was odd that there were so few
> > teachers. I mean, one teacher per subject for ALL AGES??? <snip>
>
> Geoff:
> 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.<snip>


Bruce:
These kind of real-life experiences can partially answer why Snape
is so unpleasant. However, I doubt that any of the teachers here
who have experience as "only specialist" will actively target
particular students to embarrass like Severus did in every book
until he became Headmaster. [Then we have no real scenes of him
with students. But then, he did not have the same opportunities to
embarrass students.]


Dr Bruce P. Mull
Professor of Computer Science
Professor of Mathematics