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Back at it
Jan. 11th, 2013 09:12 amAll right, you lot. So far I'm impressed with how you've returned to school and immediately got back into the swift pace of things. You must not have had very much fun on your hols.
Pre-Owl level Duelling Club will resume on Tuesday. Same rules apply as last time- and I mean it.
Now I've heard some grumbling from various quarters about certain new rules and restrictions about the use of Private Messages in the journals, and I do have a couple things to say on the matter.
First, would it kill you to be friendly? Nothing wrong with saying Hi to the rest of the school, in addition to your nearest and dearest.
Second, I suppose I must be getting old, because all I can think about was how we didn't have this kind of magic when I was a student, and how hard we would have been to control if we had. Which is to say- it's understanding that there's a temptation to use the journals for private gossip and the like. One of the professors we had back in my day tried to keep us from passing notes in class, to no avail. Eventually, he started making us read the notes out loud when he caught us, but that only inspired us to start writing more notes, especially ones filled with unflattering things about him. Eventually he gave up and started ignore the note-passing and, funnily enough, it lost some of its appeal and we sent fewer notes.
Just before NEWTs, I asked that professor why he stopped concerning himself, and he said "I came to my senses and realised that all my attention on the matter was doing nothing more than making you far more effective note-passers. And a little more rude, besides."
A lesson there for all of us, I think.
Pre-Owl level Duelling Club will resume on Tuesday. Same rules apply as last time- and I mean it.
Now I've heard some grumbling from various quarters about certain new rules and restrictions about the use of Private Messages in the journals, and I do have a couple things to say on the matter.
First, would it kill you to be friendly? Nothing wrong with saying Hi to the rest of the school, in addition to your nearest and dearest.
Second, I suppose I must be getting old, because all I can think about was how we didn't have this kind of magic when I was a student, and how hard we would have been to control if we had. Which is to say- it's understanding that there's a temptation to use the journals for private gossip and the like. One of the professors we had back in my day tried to keep us from passing notes in class, to no avail. Eventually, he started making us read the notes out loud when he caught us, but that only inspired us to start writing more notes, especially ones filled with unflattering things about him. Eventually he gave up and started ignore the note-passing and, funnily enough, it lost some of its appeal and we sent fewer notes.
Just before NEWTs, I asked that professor why he stopped concerning himself, and he said "I came to my senses and realised that all my attention on the matter was doing nothing more than making you far more effective note-passers. And a little more rude, besides."
A lesson there for all of us, I think.