Today's lessons.
Dec. 9th, 2012 07:29 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alt_umbridgeDear boys and girls,
How fast our time together has flown! I can scarcely believe we are nearly at the end of our first term working together. Now, I do hope you are all prepared to do just your very best on your coming exams, and that the little notes and study tips from our session in November are still fresh in your mind.
We also covered such a great deal of information today. And so I wanted to give you this space, here, through the wonder of the journals, that if you have any teensy etiquette questions we did not get to this afternoon, that you should feel free to ask them here.
I want to send you back to your parents demonstrating the very best of what the YPL Programme has to offer, encouraging you to be courteous, well-behaved young witches and wizards, a credit to the Protectorate. And of course, the Protectorate traditions of valuing the very best that pure Wizarding blood can bring to our building a bright future.
Dear parents,
Let me take the opportunity to let you know about a few teensy advances. You should all have the latest newsletter in hand by now, and I do appreciate each and every letter you’ve sent. Some of you will even see your letters excerpted in our subsequent newsletters. I have been giving a great deal of thought to something that clearly concerns a number of you, the quality of education here at dear old Hogwarts.
To that end, I have begun observing each of the professors here, getting a better sense of their skill and mastery of material. Thus far, I’ve had the opportunity to observe Professors Vector, Sinistra, and Acton, and will be observing Professor Grubbly-Plank this week, with the rest to follow once we return from our holidays. And of course, I am teaching myself, now. Our first two weeks of Civics classes have gone splendily, and I look forward to our next sessions. With that, I have also begun attending staff meetings, and it is just so very intriguing what conversations happen there.
Now, again, any little questions or concerns, you know just where to find me. I will be continuing to respond to YPL business and correspondance over the holidays - there is no rest for those truly seeking to build our strongest future, of course!
How fast our time together has flown! I can scarcely believe we are nearly at the end of our first term working together. Now, I do hope you are all prepared to do just your very best on your coming exams, and that the little notes and study tips from our session in November are still fresh in your mind.
We also covered such a great deal of information today. And so I wanted to give you this space, here, through the wonder of the journals, that if you have any teensy etiquette questions we did not get to this afternoon, that you should feel free to ask them here.
I want to send you back to your parents demonstrating the very best of what the YPL Programme has to offer, encouraging you to be courteous, well-behaved young witches and wizards, a credit to the Protectorate. And of course, the Protectorate traditions of valuing the very best that pure Wizarding blood can bring to our building a bright future.
Dear parents,
Let me take the opportunity to let you know about a few teensy advances. You should all have the latest newsletter in hand by now, and I do appreciate each and every letter you’ve sent. Some of you will even see your letters excerpted in our subsequent newsletters. I have been giving a great deal of thought to something that clearly concerns a number of you, the quality of education here at dear old Hogwarts.
To that end, I have begun observing each of the professors here, getting a better sense of their skill and mastery of material. Thus far, I’ve had the opportunity to observe Professors Vector, Sinistra, and Acton, and will be observing Professor Grubbly-Plank this week, with the rest to follow once we return from our holidays. And of course, I am teaching myself, now. Our first two weeks of Civics classes have gone splendily, and I look forward to our next sessions. With that, I have also begun attending staff meetings, and it is just so very intriguing what conversations happen there.
Now, again, any little questions or concerns, you know just where to find me. I will be continuing to respond to YPL business and correspondance over the holidays - there is no rest for those truly seeking to build our strongest future, of course!
Private message to Septima Vector
Date: 2012-12-10 12:50 am (UTC)Well, that’s one less thing to manage until January. Honestly, I must give you credit for keeping so many pieces going at once, my dear. Your own classes, and Ravenclaw House, and then keeping everything together for Minerva (and that is just such a task these days.)
Now, are you really sure that the punishments for that duelling circle were the right thing? It just seems uneven and unfair to me, somehow. Only six of them with their magic bound, no matter how many others will end up serving detentions. (And didn’t you and I have quite the talk about that kind of punishment not being generally appropriate? How is this different, I ask.) And I still cannot fathom some of the other decisions. Not to remove the Prefects from positions of power..
And related, are you certain that dear Antonin should be teaching? I swear, every time I see him, I have to wonder whether he is really capable of dealing with his classes, should anything arise. I know he’s spent quite a bit of time talking to Rabastan and Aurora, but neither of them can be considered an unbiased evaluator of his skills.
Now, on the observations, I am glad you didn’t take offence, my dear. You know I have to have something to share with Latimer and with the Board. And Gwendolyn is the same, nothing at all to worry about, though we’ll go through the formal process. I am going to be quite curious how Wilhelmina does, on Friday. (And of course I'll continue to share my notes with you.)
Aurora, well, she does know her field to all accounts, but she does overcomplicate things for herself, doesn’t she? (I do hope she sees reason soon and actually plans for a successor, whatever her Guild Master implied about her being difficult to replace.) At any rate, she’s made a strong enough objection about most of the points I raised that I will let it be for now. No sense wasting too much energy in pointless back and forth. She does get defensive, doesn’t she?
I would love time after supper tomorrow, just the two of us, to chat. I learn so much from you, my dear, about what this school could become, given the right direction.