Comments on: Hogwarts is a Terrible School

By: maliekai

maliekai — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 01:17:23 +0000

It is a rather ridiculous word. Blame the French. :)

By: Matthew Belinkie

Matthew Belinkie — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 20:52:31 +0000

@maliekai – [Googles] Yup, you’re right about that. My bad. Although maybe the “Juilliard” people just include extra vowels because they don’t study English over there.

By: maliekai

maliekai — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 16:04:45 +0000

The thing that REALLY made me *headdesk* here is that you spelled “Juilliard” incorrectly every single time you wrote it in your post… although you did manage to link the website correctly. Sigh. I’ll try not to blame your primary school for that one.

By: BMB

BMB — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 04:15:43 +0000

Stuyvesant FTW~! W00t! I had fun there – would’ve liked it more if there was the occasional (legal) potion involved tho…

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By: Jackson

Jackson — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 07:45:40 +0000

I feel kind of funny arguing this, but Muggle Studies covers most of that. It’s from a Wizarding perspective, but it’s there.

Plus, I’d imagine things like math and English would be included… sort of like immersive learning. Potions is chemistry, which you need math for, and they do have to write a lot.

By: Gab

Gab — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 14:03:58 +0000

D28108: Read Belinkie’s latest comment for the words of the author. Since I totally agree with his point, I’ll put in my two cents. I suppose a comparison to average British eleven-year-old English (language), math, science, history, etc. comprehension to that of Americans of the same age could give some insight as to whether it would or wouldn’t be more feasible in the UK than the US to cut off the basics at that age; but I find it hard to believe the education system in the UK is *that* much more accelerated than in America, and American students would definitely be set up for failure if they didn’t keep learning those basic subjects after the 8th grade, if only because they’d be out of practice for so long before being of the proper age to enter the workforce/ move out of Mom and Dad’s house.

By: D28108

D28108 — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 10:18:23 +0000

You forget they’re 11 when they go to that school.

That’s roughly the equivalent of getting up through the 8th grade, maybe the 7th. This means they have SOME versing in Math/English/Science/Etc.

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By: Matthew Belinkie

Matthew Belinkie — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 18:54:03 +0000

@VAroh – You’re right. I always thought secondary school was high school, and anything before that is primary school. Turns out that’s not the case. Doesn’t change my argument, though. 11-year-olds should still be getting a general education. There will be plenty of time to learn magic after they learn algebra.