Honestly, I am so very frustrated, not only by the students, but by the staff. I do ask you, what would it take to find staff like dear Gwennie and Cordie? It is a subject I would like to devote a great deal of attention to this summer, among the other necessary tasks. I don’t suppose you both could begin to develop a list of suitable replacement candidates to be considered?
I do not suppose we can budge Antonin unless Our Lord has other duties for him, but we must replace Defence at the least. On the others, I would like very much to find someone more obliging for Astronomy (for all Sizzie’s infuriating Guild insists there isn’t a suitable alternative) and it would be as well to have a backup ready for Artithmancy and Runes - Septie has been most unpredictable recently.
Perhaps Potions as well: Horace has gotten very set in his ways, and perhaps a younger and more flexible mind might come round to our new and modern practices far more easily. And Transfiguration, well. Surely we could do better than a foreigner who persists in giving no hint of his real loyalties or goals.
On that note, I was reminded that the past methods for managing the YPL counsellors and the CCF simply won’t do. I’ve had a discussion with a few of the committee, as well as the oversight board, and I am determined to simply make a selection from among those best suited. For the CCF, of course, I would allow them to go through the trial process (so deeply informative, some of those Ministry tests and questions) but we could start with a far more deliberately selected group than Sizzie allowed in. Breeding will out, honestly.
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Private message to Josiah Peakes and Latimer Caldwell
Date: 2013-04-17 02:28 pm (UTC)Honestly, I am so very frustrated, not only by the students, but by the staff. I do ask you, what would it take to find staff like dear Gwennie and Cordie? It is a subject I would like to devote a great deal of attention to this summer, among the other necessary tasks. I don’t suppose you both could begin to develop a list of suitable replacement candidates to be considered?
I do not suppose we can budge Antonin unless Our Lord has other duties for him, but we must replace Defence at the least. On the others, I would like very much to find someone more obliging for Astronomy (for all Sizzie’s infuriating Guild insists there isn’t a suitable alternative) and it would be as well to have a backup ready for Artithmancy and Runes - Septie has been most unpredictable recently.
Perhaps Potions as well: Horace has gotten very set in his ways, and perhaps a younger and more flexible mind might come round to our new and modern practices far more easily. And Transfiguration, well. Surely we could do better than a foreigner who persists in giving no hint of his real loyalties or goals.
On that note, I was reminded that the past methods for managing the YPL counsellors and the CCF simply won’t do. I’ve had a discussion with a few of the committee, as well as the oversight board, and I am determined to simply make a selection from among those best suited. For the CCF, of course, I would allow them to go through the trial process (so deeply informative, some of those Ministry tests and questions) but we could start with a far more deliberately selected group than Sizzie allowed in. Breeding will out, honestly.