"We-well. I reckon it's 'cause I am half giant. She calls me a ha'f breed. Reckon tha's why she dun like me. But why you wan fire me 'cause of that fur?" he said as he dabbed at his eyes.
Jet felt a surge of sympathy. Aha! This was the reason the woman disliked the man so much. But Jet was fine with giants. In fact, he was fine with any creature that could possibly be life threatening.
"Well..." Jet started off uneasily. Was he allowed to say that he didn't want to fire the man after all? Could he just say that the man could go back to playing apparition snooker or something?
Well, he was just an apparition. It wasn't like Hagrid was even alive. He couldn't actually do anything to Jet. But, seeing the mans reaction would probably be too much for him. Not emotionally, but rather...sympathetically. Whatever. They could deal with the fact of Jet not firing Hagrid.
"Actually, Hagrid, I don't want to fire you..." He said, as he settled into his chair comfortably. "Actually, I would be curious if you could tell me exactly what animals you taught. I imagine they would be quite amazing, weren't they?" Then, after a bit of speculation, "Did you perhaps show them Sphinx's? As long as you had a code breaker in the area, they're totally safe, you know."
The Announcer
04-22-2010 03:14 AM
Quote:
Originally Posted by Slitherclaw
(Post 9287712)
Jet felt a surge of sympathy. Aha! This was the reason the woman disliked the man so much. But Jet was fine with giants. In fact, he was fine with any creature that could possibly be life threatening.
"Well..." Jet started off uneasily. Was he allowed to say that he didn't want to fire the man after all? Could he just say that the man could go back to playing apparition snooker or something?
Well, he was just an apparition. It wasn't like Hagrid was even alive. He couldn't actually do anything to Jet. But, seeing the mans reaction would probably be too much for him. Not emotionally, but rather...sympathetically. Whatever. They could deal with the fact of Jet not firing Hagrid.
"Actually, Hagrid, I don't want to fire you..." He said, as he settled into his chair comfortably. "Actually, I would be curious if you could tell me exactly what animals you taught. I imagine they would be quite amazing, weren't they?" Then, after a bit of speculation, "Did you perhaps show them Sphinx's? As long as you had a code breaker in the area, they're totally safe, you know."
Professor Hagrid shifted uncomfortably and began to name off some of the animals he had taught, "Flobberworms, Blast-ended skrewts, Hippogriffs, Theastrals... a whole lot of 'em" he said. "Why-why do-does that matter much, sir?" asked.
Mrs. Weasley
04-22-2010 03:16 AM
Quote:
Originally Posted by The Announcer
(Post 9284212)
The image of Rubeus Hagrid appeared in front of the lady and began to sob into his oversized tie. "Wha you wan fir me fur. I love those kids, I do," he said in his husky tear filled voice.
Edward turns in his assignment and waits to be told what to do next. Obviously he was not expecting what happens. An image of Rubeus Hagrid appears before Edward crying no less. Now Edward is used to the odd female recruit crying from time to time. Actually he enjoys consoling them, but male recruits are never allowed to cry under any circumstances. There is no room in the Department of Magical Law Enforcement for cry baby males particularly not a giant cry baby. Edward takes out a handkerchief and wipes Hagrid's tears from his person. "Mr. Hagrid, I'm Edward Lestrange. I am here representing the Department of Magical Education. I'm afraid you have failed your evaluation. It is my duty to inform you that you have been terminated." Now that wasn't too difficult. All you have to do is be direct and get to your point across as quickly as possible. Most of the recruits I had to tell they were not going to be continuing with the program generally took it like a man. Well there was that one who took off his clothes, painted himself to look like a banana, and tried to feed himself to Tucker's hypogriff. Poor boy, mad as a hatter, but I do still get a lovely Christmas card from him. St. Mungo's does have a wonderful arts and crafts program.
Erindipity
04-22-2010 03:17 AM
There were two people left in the room and Tiggy noticed that one man seemed to be having social hour with the Hagrid illusion he had been tasked to fire. Walking up to them she cleared her throat. "Excuse me, sir. THe instructions clearly state that you are to fire one. Could you do so, please," she said in a kind tone to the man.
Reincarnation Jones
04-22-2010 06:53 PM
SPOILER!!: High Inquisitor's Excerpts
Charms:
While Professor Flitwick is cheerful and welcoming, the Hogwarts High Inquisitor, that is to say I, feel that this demeanor encourages the wrong sort of learning environment. While the students were focused on their studies, there were more mishaps than one would have expected, all of which resulted in far too much merriment.
Points for improvement: Professor Flitwick should focus on disciplining his classes when they step out of line, and conduct his lessons with a serious manner.
Action to be taken: Probation not deemed to be necessary.
Divination: Professor Trelawney lacks the basic skills of divination and teaching. Her predictions are a mixture of deduction and wild guesses. Her class control is minimal, she resorts to making ghoulish predictions in order to scare or bore her students into submission. She is also unable to make predictions on request.
Points for improvement: Professor Trelawney needs to revisit some tried and tested, ministry approved disciplinary procedures and apply them. She must also become more accurate in her predictions and teaching methods.
Action to be taken: Further inspection is required. Probation may be a necessary measure.
Care of Magical Creatures:Professor Hagrid is difficult to understand, intimidating to the students and seems to take pleasure in the thought of other people being hurt. His curriculum is vastly inappropriate for the age group he is teaching and he refuses to admit this. There have been injuries in his classes, one of which has led to a hypogryff being sentenced to death by the Committee for the Disposal of Dangerous Creatures, although the beast escaped, something that the Hogwarts High Inquisitor, that is to say I, am convinced was arranged by Professor Hagrid.
Points for improvement: Professor Hagrid should follow the lesson plans left by Professor Grubbly-Plank while he reassesses his curriculum so that it is in line with Ministry expectations. He should also concentrate on enunciating clearly so that the students can understand him.
Action to be taken: Further inspection is required. Probation may be a necessary measure.
Herbology: While Professor Sprout has a sound knowledge of her subject and so she is able to convey this knowledge to a reasonable standard. However, she allows her pupils to use foul language in her classes, something that the Hogwarts High Inquisitor, that is to say I, find most abhorrent and unnecessary. The amount of group work that is undertaken by Professor Sprout’s classes is also of concern, as they seem at times to almost be teaching each other, rather than receiving instruction from her.
Points for improvement: Professor Sprout would benefit from revisiting and revising some basic teaching skills, including what is acceptable language for the classroom.
Action to be taken: Probation not deemed to be necessary.
Potions:
Professor Snape is a highly competent Professor who had excellent control over his classes. It is clear that he has consistently and throughly educated his students throughout his tenure at Hogwarts. The Hogwarts High Inquisitor, that is to say I, have doubts about some of the potions that are currently on the syllabus, for example Strengthening Solution. However, there are other considerations to take into account which outweigh this. Professor Snape seems to be highly skilled in many areas and seems to be an asset to the school.
Points for improvement: Professor Snape should consider revising which potions are on the syllabus as some of them are too advanced for young children.
Action to be taken: Probation not deemed to be necessary.
Madrigal takes the stack of papers and places it in front of her on the desk. She reads it over very carefully, twice, her brain treating all of the conversations around her as white noise. She taps her wand on her desk absent-mindedly and a self-inking quill seems to slide out of the top. She picks up the quill and begins writing on the reverse side of all of the forms in neat, smallish writing.
SPOILER!!: Maddie's Responses
Charms: While being cheerful and welcoming is certainly something I feel is an asset in a classroom, especially when dealing with students who are hesitant about the use of magic--or are inexperienced with such--if it results in an increased number of mishaps, it may need to be curbed. This is, of course, assuming that the lack of discipline is proven to be the cause of the mistakes. Charms, after all, is often an inexact magical subject and trickier to handle than most. The increased precentage of accidents may merely be a reflection of that fact, rather than a reflection of the professor's teaching tactics. In all, merriment is not an altogether inappropriate atmosphere for a classroom to have, especially if it helps students relax more to gain control of the magics they are performing. This teacher hasn't taken any actions that I find significant fault with to bestow any disciplinary actions.
Divination: Divination is not a gift that may always be called upon on demand. There are actions that may be taken to augment certain divination attempts--which should typically be the sole focus of a Divination class--but it is far beyond an accurate practice. As a practiced Seer, myself, I feel that the fact that the professor is unable to predict on demand is understandable and to expect her to is outrageous, as no Seer may predict on command.
I do, however, find cause for concern when a teacher is unable to control her classroom. I'm also concerned with the methods with which the professor is said to have used in order to control the students. I find the act of making false predictions sickening. I would place this teacher on probation under the grounds that she should learn how to better identify with her students in order to connect with them and help them learn the techniques that can aid in Divination for one who has the Sight. If the overall grades and attitudes of the student didn't improve within one school year, I was ask the professor to sign a resignation.
Care of Magical Creatures: I am unfamiliar with Professor Hagrid and therefore am unable to give the most accurate account of my opinion on the review of this professor. If the review contains only fact, then the professor should certainly be removed from his position.
As it stands, much of this review seems to be a personal opinion of the class and the professor rather than an actual review of the teaching style and its effectiveness or lack thereof. In order to make an accurate assessment of this professor, I would need to know whether the students beleived he was intimidating or not, what the curriculum contained and why it was "inappropriate" for students of a certain age bracket, and the severity and frequency of the injuries that occurred (as magical creatures are often unpredictable and injuries are not uncommon when dealing with them).
I'm also concerned with the final evaluation that very blatantly accuses the professor of ignoring and violating magical laws. That singular statement, unfortunately, causes me to place doubts on the ability of the High Inquisitor to remain impartial in her reports. Much further investigation, by myself or another third party, would be required in order to know for certain what actions should be taken in this situation.
Herbology: The first sentence of this review is the only sentence in the review that I feel is vital. This professor seems competant as an herbologist and a teacher and the students appear to be learning effectively. I have no personal opinion of foul language in classrooms, though I can see both sides of an argument for and against it. Foul language may be distracting to some students, but comfortable to others. In this situation, I can say that, since it is unlikely that students who swear will be made uncomfortable by the absence of cursing, I would certainly ask this professor to require the students to contain themselves.
However, when it comes to Herbology, I do sincerely agree that a hands-on, team-supported tactic is what is called for and disagree with the finding that students "teaching each other" should a concern when someone as competant as Profession Sprout is watching over them.
Potions: This seems to be a glowing review and I find little fault with it, assuming that all statements contained within it are correct. I do, however, feel that any professor who has successfully taught a single subject long enough to have obtained tenure for it obviously has a grasp on which potions are within the scope of his students' ability and which are too advanced and does not need these dictated to him. Again, I am not personally familiar with Professor Snape--or with any of the professors in these notes--but this review does not seem to be out of the ordinary in any way and the teacher would not be subject to any disciplinary actions were that my decision.
Once finished, she turns all of the papers the correct side up and writes on the front of the first page: My opinion of these reviews are written on the back of each of them. In conclusion, I would not fire any of the professors based upon the reviews alone. There are two professors, however, whom I feel should have been investigated further and one of those placed on probation for the remainder of the school year and then asked to resign should the situation not improve.
However, if the request being put to me is to name one professor, based solely on these reviews, who should be removed immediately, I would recommend that Professor Trelawney be removed from her position as Divination professor, based on the information included in my review on the back of the High Inquisitor's.
She looks up when she's finished and, holding the papers in one hand, asks, "Where should I place these when I'm finished?"
The Announcer
04-22-2010 07:05 PM
Quote:
Originally Posted by Mrs. Weasley
(Post 9288152)
Edward turns in his assignment and waits to be told what to do next. Obviously he was not expecting what happens. An image of Rubeus Hagrid appears before Edward crying no less. Now Edward is used to the odd female recruit crying from time to time. Actually he enjoys consoling them, but male recruits are never allowed to cry under any circumstances. There is no room in the Department of Magical Law Enforcement for cry baby males particularly not a giant cry baby. Edward takes out a handkerchief and wipes Hagrid's tears from his person. "Mr. Hagrid, I'm Edward Lestrange. I am here representing the Department of Magical Education. I'm afraid you have failed your evaluation. It is my duty to inform you that you have been terminated." Now that wasn't too difficult. All you have to do is be direct and get to your point across as quickly as possible. Most of the recruits I had to tell they were not going to be continuing with the program generally took it like a man. Well there was that one who took off his clothes, painted himself to look like a banana, and tried to feed himself to Tucker's hypogriff. Poor boy, mad as a hatter, but I do still get a lovely Christmas card from him. St. Mungo's does have a wonderful arts and crafts program.
The image of Hagrid shimmered and disappeared. The woman's attitude causing him to sob louder as he faded.
Quote:
Originally Posted by Reincarnation Jones
(Post 9289028)
SPOILER!!: High Inquisitor's Excerpts
Charms:
While Professor Flitwick is cheerful and welcoming, the Hogwarts High Inquisitor, that is to say I, feel that this demeanor encourages the wrong sort of learning environment. While the students were focused on their studies, there were more mishaps than one would have expected, all of which resulted in far too much merriment.
Points for improvement: Professor Flitwick should focus on disciplining his classes when they step out of line, and conduct his lessons with a serious manner.
Action to be taken: Probation not deemed to be necessary.
Divination: Professor Trelawney lacks the basic skills of divination and teaching. Her predictions are a mixture of deduction and wild guesses. Her class control is minimal, she resorts to making ghoulish predictions in order to scare or bore her students into submission. She is also unable to make predictions on request.
Points for improvement: Professor Trelawney needs to revisit some tried and tested, ministry approved disciplinary procedures and apply them. She must also become more accurate in her predictions and teaching methods.
Action to be taken: Further inspection is required. Probation may be a necessary measure.
Care of Magical Creatures:Professor Hagrid is difficult to understand, intimidating to the students and seems to take pleasure in the thought of other people being hurt. His curriculum is vastly inappropriate for the age group he is teaching and he refuses to admit this. There have been injuries in his classes, one of which has led to a hypogryff being sentenced to death by the Committee for the Disposal of Dangerous Creatures, although the beast escaped, something that the Hogwarts High Inquisitor, that is to say I, am convinced was arranged by Professor Hagrid.
Points for improvement: Professor Hagrid should follow the lesson plans left by Professor Grubbly-Plank while he reassesses his curriculum so that it is in line with Ministry expectations. He should also concentrate on enunciating clearly so that the students can understand him.
Action to be taken: Further inspection is required. Probation may be a necessary measure.
Herbology: While Professor Sprout has a sound knowledge of her subject and so she is able to convey this knowledge to a reasonable standard. However, she allows her pupils to use foul language in her classes, something that the Hogwarts High Inquisitor, that is to say I, find most abhorrent and unnecessary. The amount of group work that is undertaken by Professor Sprout’s classes is also of concern, as they seem at times to almost be teaching each other, rather than receiving instruction from her.
Points for improvement: Professor Sprout would benefit from revisiting and revising some basic teaching skills, including what is acceptable language for the classroom.
Action to be taken: Probation not deemed to be necessary.
Potions:
Professor Snape is a highly competent Professor who had excellent control over his classes. It is clear that he has consistently and throughly educated his students throughout his tenure at Hogwarts. The Hogwarts High Inquisitor, that is to say I, have doubts about some of the potions that are currently on the syllabus, for example Strengthening Solution. However, there are other considerations to take into account which outweigh this. Professor Snape seems to be highly skilled in many areas and seems to be an asset to the school.
Points for improvement: Professor Snape should consider revising which potions are on the syllabus as some of them are too advanced for young children.
Action to be taken: Probation not deemed to be necessary.
Madrigal takes the stack of papers and places it in front of her on the desk. She reads it over very carefully, twice, her brain treating all of the conversations around her as white noise. She taps her wand on her desk absent-mindedly and a self-inking quill seems to slide out of the top. She picks up the quill and begins writing on the reverse side of all of the forms in neat, smallish writing.
SPOILER!!: Maddie's Responses
Charms: While being cheerful and welcoming is certainly something I feel is an asset in a classroom, especially when dealing with students who are hesitant about the use of magic--or are inexperienced with such--if it results in an increased number of mishaps, it may need to be curbed. This is, of course, assuming that the lack of discipline is proven to be the cause of the mistakes. Charms, after all, is often an inexact magical subject and trickier to handle than most. The increased precentage of accidents may merely be a reflection of that fact, rather than a reflection of the professor's teaching tactics. In all, merriment is not an altogether inappropriate atmosphere for a classroom to have, especially if it helps students relax more to gain control of the magics they are performing. This teacher hasn't taken any actions that I find significant fault with to bestow any disciplinary actions.
Divination: Divination is not a gift that may always be called upon on demand. There are actions that may be taken to augment certain divination attempts--which should typically be the sole focus of a Divination class--but it is far beyond an accurate practice. As a practiced Seer, myself, I feel that the fact that the professor is unable to predict on demand is understandable and to expect her to is outrageous, as no Seer may predict on command.
I do, however, find cause for concern when a teacher is unable to control her classroom. I'm also concerned with the methods with which the professor is said to have used in order to control the students. I find the act of making false predictions sickening. I would place this teacher on probation under the grounds that she should learn how to better identify with her students in order to connect with them and help them learn the techniques that can aid in Divination for one who has the Sight. If the overall grades and attitudes of the student didn't improve within one school year, I was ask the professor to sign a resignation.
Care of Magical Creatures: I am unfamiliar with Professor Hagrid and therefore am unable to give the most accurate account of my opinion on the review of this professor. If the review contains only fact, then the professor should certainly be removed from his position.
As it stands, much of this review seems to be a personal opinion of the class and the professor rather than an actual review of the teaching style and its effectiveness or lack thereof. In order to make an accurate assessment of this professor, I would need to know whether the students beleived he was intimidating or not, what the curriculum contained and why it was "inappropriate" for students of a certain age bracket, and the severity and frequency of the injuries that occurred (as magical creatures are often unpredictable and injuries are not uncommon when dealing with them).
I'm also concerned with the final evaluation that very blatantly accuses the professor of ignoring and violating magical laws. That singular statement, unfortunately, causes me to place doubts on the ability of the High Inquisitor to remain impartial in her reports. Much further investigation, by myself or another third party, would be required in order to know for certain what actions should be taken in this situation.
Herbology: The first sentence of this review is the only sentence in the review that I feel is vital. This professor seems competant as an herbologist and a teacher and the students appear to be learning effectively. I have no personal opinion of foul language in classrooms, though I can see both sides of an argument for and against it. Foul language may be distracting to some students, but comfortable to others. In this situation, I can say that, since it is unlikely that students who swear will be made uncomfortable by the absence of cursing, I would certainly ask this professor to require the students to contain themselves.
However, when it comes to Herbology, I do sincerely agree that a hands-on, team-supported tactic is what is called for and disagree with the finding that students "teaching each other" should a concern when someone as competant as Profession Sprout is watching over them.
Potions: This seems to be a glowing review and I find little fault with it, assuming that all statements contained within it are correct. I do, however, feel that any professor who has successfully taught a single subject long enough to have obtained tenure for it obviously has a grasp on which potions are within the scope of his students' ability and which are too advanced and does not need these dictated to him. Again, I am not personally familiar with Professor Snape--or with any of the professors in these notes--but this review does not seem to be out of the ordinary in any way and the teacher would not be subject to any disciplinary actions were that my decision.
Once finished, she turns all of the papers the correct side up and writes on the front of the first page: My opinion of these reviews are written on the back of each of them. In conclusion, I would not fire any of the professors based upon the reviews alone. There are two professors, however, whom I feel should have been investigated further and one of those placed on probation for the remainder of the school year and then asked to resign should the situation not improve.
However, if the request being put to me is to name one professor, based solely on these reviews, who should be removed immediately, I would recommend that Professor Trelawney be removed from her position as Divination professor, based on the information included in my review on the back of the High Inquisitor's.
She looks up when she's finished and, holding the papers in one hand, asks, "Where should I place these when I'm finished?"
The image of Sybill Trelawney appeared and began to sob. "WHY?!" was all the illusion said while she waited for the woman to fire her.
Reincarnation Jones
04-22-2010 07:27 PM
Quote:
Originally Posted by The Announcer
(Post 9289059)
The image of Hagrid shimmered and disappeared. The woman's attitude causing him to sob louder as he faded.
The image of Sybill Trelawney appeared and began to sob. "WHY?!" was all the illusion said while she waited for the woman to fire her.
Madrigal sits back in her seat and surveys the image of the professor momentarily before replying, her expression softening slightly. "In all honesty, I don't believe in firing a professor on the basis of a single, poor review, which is unfortunately all I've seen in your case. What I would prefer to do is set you to the task of attempting to better identify with your students so that actual teaching methods would have more impact on them. I would recommend things such as creating a comfortable atmosphere in the classroom rather than one in which dreary predictions are common. In doing such things, you can retain the attention of the class as opposed to losing them to hokey or false predictions, which I, by the way, find repulsive on a professional level.
"I would then make another evaluation at the end of the school year and act accordingly based upon it. If there were to be improvement, you would be invited to stay. However, as it is, I'm afraid that your review suggests unprofessional behavior in the classroom and, quite sadly, seems more convincing as an argument for your removal than did Professor Hagrid's, which sounded more like a series of opinionated personal attacks. My apologies, Professor, but I would appreciate your dignified resignation."
Slitherclaw
04-22-2010 11:07 PM
Quote:
Originally Posted by The Announcer
(Post 9288149)
Professor Hagrid shifted uncomfortably and began to name off some of the animals he had taught, "Flobberworms, Blast-ended skrewts, Hippogriffs, Theastrals... a whole lot of 'em" he said. "Why-why do-does that matter much, sir?" asked.
Hmm.....some of them certainly sounded like good lessons, while others, like Flobberworms, were creatures that even Jet didn't like getting his hands dirty with. "Ah...just wondering. I work with magical creatures myself, you know." He said cheerfully. Here was a good conversation.
With an illusion.
Wait...was there a point in this exercise? He thought back to everything he had read. Why were they being confronted with past teachers? Jet sighed. Something told him that he would have to do the inevitable. After all, the illusion had come out asking why he was going to be fired. For some reason, he was being tasked to fire the nice man.
But he didn't WANT to fire the man! He wanted to have a conversation with him, even though it was just an illusion. Obviously it still retained knowledge of his real life. Maybe he could just tell the man his situation. Before he knew it, that's exactly what he was doing.
"Soo...I have a problem, Mr. Hagrid. I believe I have been sent to fire you. I...don't necessarily want to, but this is life. Mr. Hagrid, I believe you may already be dead. I'm sure you being fired isn't going to impact your life, since...well....you have none. What would you say to all of this? Maybe later we can have a conversation about Magical Creatures. I'd love to know you're philosophy on...." Jet went on like this for a little bit. Would this be okay? I mean, really, he didn't work in the Education Department.
The Announcer
04-22-2010 11:19 PM
Quote:
Originally Posted by Reincarnation Jones
(Post 9289122)
Madrigal sits back in her seat and surveys the image of the professor momentarily before replying, her expression softening slightly. "In all honesty, I don't believe in firing a professor on the basis of a single, poor review, which is unfortunately all I've seen in your case. What I would prefer to do is set you to the task of attempting to better identify with your students so that actual teaching methods would have more impact on them. I would recommend things such as creating a comfortable atmosphere in the classroom rather than one in which dreary predictions are common. In doing such things, you can retain the attention of the class as opposed to losing them to hokey or false predictions, which I, by the way, find repulsive on a professional level.
"I would then make another evaluation at the end of the school year and act accordingly based upon it. If there were to be improvement, you would be invited to stay. However, as it is, I'm afraid that your review suggests unprofessional behavior in the classroom and, quite sadly, seems more convincing as an argument for your removal than did Professor Hagrid's, which sounded more like a series of opinionated personal attacks. My apologies, Professor, but I would appreciate your dignified resignation."
The image of Sybill Trelawney shimmered and disappeared.
Quote:
Originally Posted by Slitherclaw
(Post 9289833)
Hmm.....some of them certainly sounded like good lessons, while others, like Flobberworms, were creatures that even Jet didn't like getting his hands dirty with. "Ah...just wondering. I work with magical creatures myself, you know." He said cheerfully. Here was a good conversation.
With an illusion.
Wait...was there a point in this exercise? He thought back to everything he had read. Why were they being confronted with past teachers? Jet sighed. Something told him that he would have to do the inevitable. After all, the illusion had come out asking why he was going to be fired. For some reason, he was being tasked to fire the nice man.
But he didn't WANT to fire the man! He wanted to have a conversation with him, even though it was just an illusion. Obviously it still retained knowledge of his real life. Maybe he could just tell the man his situation. Before he knew it, that's exactly what he was doing.
"Soo...I have a problem, Mr. Hagrid. I believe I have been sent to fire you. I...don't necessarily want to, but this is life. Mr. Hagrid, I believe you may already be dead. I'm sure you being fired isn't going to impact your life, since...well....you have none. What would you say to all of this? Maybe later we can have a conversation about Magical Creatures. I'd love to know you're philosophy on...." Jet went on like this for a little bit. Would this be okay? I mean, really, he didn't work in the Education Department.
Professor Hagrid looked at the man in a strange way and said, "You said I was the worst teacher of the lot, sir... You has to fire me..."
Reincarnation Jones
04-23-2010 12:08 AM
Madrigal barely blinks as the illusion of Professor Trelawney fizzles out of existence and stands up once it has. Leaving her packet of papers on her desk, she gets up and walks out of the room without another word to anyone else.
Slitherclaw
04-23-2010 12:39 AM
Quote:
Originally Posted by The Announcer
(Post 9289859)
Professor Hagrid looked at the man in a strange way and said, "You said I was the worst teacher of the lot, sir... You has to fire me..."
Well, that was that, wasn't it. He had to fire the man, and the man knew it.
"Fine. You're fired then. Goodbye, Mr. Illusion, and I hope you have a good time in wherever you're going." Jet leaned back in his chair. Well. Certainly they would let him go now. And hopefully there would be a more dangerous task in the future.
The Announcer
04-23-2010 02:39 AM
Quote:
Originally Posted by Slitherclaw
(Post 9289992)
Well, that was that, wasn't it. He had to fire the man, and the man knew it.
"Fine. You're fired then. Goodbye, Mr. Illusion, and I hope you have a good time in wherever you're going." Jet leaned back in his chair. Well. Certainly they would let him go now. And hopefully there would be a more dangerous task in the future.
The illusion of Hagrid finally shimmered and disappeared
Mrs. Weasley
04-23-2010 03:12 AM
Quote:
Originally Posted by The Announcer
(Post 9289059)
The image of Hagrid shimmered and disappeared. The woman's attitude causing him to sob louder as he faded.
Edward watches as Hagrid disappears leaving a puddle at his feet. He'll never understand sensitive men. They waste so much time being overly emotional. It must be Edward's Lestrange heritage. From an early age he was taught to control his feelings to the point he appears cold and unfeeling. Edward returns to an available seat and waits for further instructions.
Erindipity
04-23-2010 04:29 AM
"If your image disappeared then you are free to move on out of this room toward the next challenge," Antigone said loudly so everyone in the room could hear her. She still sat on her desk, feet swinging to and fro watching the pupils do their task.
SlytherinSistah
04-23-2010 04:47 AM
Oh, dear. It was time to be judgmental. He sighed, nearly inaudibly as his large hands took up a quill and dipped it into some ink and poked the blank parchment before he could even imagine what words he were to write.
He weighed each selection. Turning over which would best be let go. He wasn't sure if it was his own biased adoration for the house of Ravenclaw when he found himself thinking 'Flitwick, definitely not Professor Flitwick', but he couldn't imagine letting the man go for his knowledge and almost infinite volume of patience with the students.
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Professor Flitwick is perhaps, the best suited for his job as the Charms instructor. I couldn't disagree with Madame Umbridge's assessment more on the sort of impact his teaching methods encourage. Speaking as a former student at Hogwarts, on the contrary "merriment" can be a helpful tool for learning, because of the ammount of pressure it relieves from a learning environment.
It was much easier to pick a favourite than it was to pick an unsuitable, Claudian discovered as he mulled between Professor Hagrid and Trelawney. He surprised himself at not being bothered at all by Snape. Drama queen? Definitely. But Snape at least knew his subject backwards and forwards. Guess that's what happens when one doesn't have any friends. Also, he just didn't want to face the image of Snape. Even if it was only an illusion.
Hagrid's mistakes seemed incurrable if he wouldn't be willing to listen to constructive critiques. Trelawney's on the other hand, seem more about keeping the students engaged. Were they both new at the time of this evaluation? He tried to remember anything Professor Lainey may have mentioned about the former professors at Hogwarts during her lessons, but all that came to mind was the Leprechaun hunt and the wasted peppermint candies.
"Those poor lil things." He accidentally said out-loud while shaking his head and staring off into space. He looked around to see who had noticed and quickly bowed his head again, getting back to work. He sure as heck didn't want to have to do all the work with Minister Taylor gone and now, Senior-Under secretary Carlton.
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Professor Hagrid should be more willing to correct any mistakes he may have made during his time as a Hogwarts Professor, especially after an injury to a student and the death-sentencing of a hypogriff. He need not have taught in the standard, "acceptable" way suggested by Umbridge, but at least taking measure to assure no one is harmed during his classes would've convinced me to NOT cast a vote against him. It is unfortunately not so, and I must chose Professor Hagrid as the least suitable teacher of the choices given.
There. He raised his brows and sighed placed the quill down besides the sheet of parchment.
Mrs. Weasley
04-23-2010 05:16 AM
As soon as Edward sat down a key appeared in his hands. He places it in his pocket, then gets up and leaves the room. There is apparently more to this exercise than learning how to fire professors.
The Announcer
04-23-2010 04:31 PM
Text Cut: SlytherinSistah
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Originally Posted by SlytherinSistah
(Post 9290355)
Oh, dear. It was time to be judgmental. He sighed, nearly inaudibly as his large hands took up a quill and dipped it into some ink and poked the blank parchment before he could even imagine what words he were to write.
He weighed each selection. Turning over which would best be let go. He wasn't sure if it was his own biased adoration for the house of Ravenclaw when he found himself thinking 'Flitwick, definitely not Professor Flitwick', but he couldn't imagine letting the man go for his knowledge and almost infinite volume of patience with the students.
It was much easier to pick a favourite than it was to pick an unsuitable, Claudian discovered as he mulled between Professor Hagrid and Trelawney. He surprised himself at not being bothered at all by Snape. Drama queen? Definitely. But Snape at least knew his subject backwards and forwards. Guess that's what happens when one doesn't have any friends. Also, he just didn't want to face the image of Snape. Even if it was only an illusion.
Hagrid's mistakes seemed incurrable if he wouldn't be willing to listen to constructive critiques. Trelawney's on the other hand, seem more about keeping the students engaged. Were they both new at the time of this evaluation? He tried to remember anything Professor Lainey may have mentioned about the former professors at Hogwarts during her lessons, but all that came to mind was the Leprechaun hunt and the wasted peppermint candies.
"Those poor lil things." He accidentally said out-loud while shaking his head and staring off into space. He looked around to see who had noticed and quickly bowed his head again, getting back to work. He sure as heck didn't want to have to do all the work with Minister Taylor gone and now, Senior-Under secretary Carlton.
There. He raised his brows and sighed placed the quill down besides the sheet of parchment.
The image of Rubeus Hagrid appeared in front of the man and began to shift uncomfortably. "What you wan' fire me fur?" she asked and then sobbed loudly. He dabbed at his eyes with his oversized tie and cried into his shaggy beard.
Rosa Chispa Princessa
04-23-2010 04:48 PM
Lilia walked into the Education level knowing this must be the place and found the room and saw the question. Who was the worst teacher at Hogwarts. Man thats a tough one, it had to be between Umbridge and Treylawny she thought because Treylawny could not teach her ability which begs the question why divination was ever taught at Hogwarts when most people don't have the gift but whatever. However Umbridge hurt students education because DADA could be taught to any wizard and she chose to to teach them from the book and never let them practice. Thats not how you learn anything useful. Not only that her forms of governemnt were barbaric havng students etch into there own hand the what they did wrong and bleed for it, her decission was made.
She stepped up and said, "I wish to fire Professor Umbridge for not allowing the students to practice anything they learned in DADA so they could use it if and when they needed to and for issuing the barbaric punishment of the blood quill where students etched there so called crime on their hand in there own blood. Thats just barbaric and horrible, hurting students like that. These things are what I believe makes Umbridge the worst teacher Hogwarts has ever seen a should be fired.".
SlytherinSistah
04-23-2010 10:49 PM
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Originally Posted by The Announcer
(Post 9290928)
The image of Rubeus Hagrid appeared in front of the man and began to shift uncomfortably. "What you wan' fire me fur?" she asked and then sobbed loudly. He dabbed at his eyes with his oversized tie and cried into his shaggy beard.
This was harder than he thought it was going to be. Claudian felt his marshmallowy heart melt a little at the man's obvious reluctance to being let go despite him being an illusion. Heckuva one, actually. The detail was amazing and he almost swore he could smell the salty scent of tears and feel the warmth from Hagrid's giant form.
"There, there. I'm sorry, mate. But, I had to do what I had to do." He said offering an explanation to the illusion.
J-E-L-L-O
04-24-2010 01:33 AM
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Originally Posted by The Announcer
(Post 9236524)
Extract from the Initial Report of the Hogwarts High Inquisitor
Charms:
While Professor Flitwick is cheerful and welcoming, the Hogwarts High Inquisitor, that is to say I, feel that this demeanor encourages the wrong sort of learning environment. While the students were focused on their studies, there were more mishaps than one would have expected, all of which resulted in far too much merriment.
Points for improvement: Professor Flitwick should focus on disciplining his classes when they step out of line, and conduct his lessons with a serious manner.
Action to be taken: Probation not deemed to be necessary.
Candy began to write on the back of the paper, In my opinoion I believe that Proffesor Umbridge is wrong about the fact that Flitwick should focus on discipling his class, in reality I believe that he shows the equal amount of fun and discipline in his classroom and that he is well versed in their particular subject and present the material in a manner in which all students can understand it and perform it.
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Originally Posted by The Announcer
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Divination: Professor Trelawney lacks the basic skills of divination and teaching. Her predictions are a mixture of deduction and wild guesses. Her class control is minimal, she resorts to making ghoulish predictions in order to scare or bore her students into submission. She is also unable to make predictions on request.
Points for improvement: Professor Trelawney needs to revisit some tried and tested, ministry approved disciplinary procedures and apply them. She must also become more accurate in her predictions and teaching methods.
Action to be taken: Further inspection is required. Probation may be a necessary measure.
Candy moved onto the next Professor, "Professor Trelawney does not present her subject in a well versed manner and most students have trouble being able to grasp the subject, she wrote, she also needs to appear to look like an authority figure in her class...I would FIRE her.
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Originally Posted by The Announcer
(Post 9236524)
Care of Magical Creatures:Professor Hagrid is difficult to understand, intimidating to the students and seems to take pleasure in the thought of other people being hurt. His curriculum is vastly inappropriate for the age group he is teaching and he refuses to admit this. There have been injuries in his classes, one of which has led to a hypogryff being sentenced to death by the Committee for the Disposal of Dangerous Creatures, although the beast escaped, something that the Hogwarts High Inquisitor, that is to say I, am convinced was arranged by Professor Hagrid.
Points for improvement: Professor Hagrid should follow the lesson plans left by Professor Grubbly-Plank while he reassesses his curriculum so that it is in line with Ministry expectations. He should also concentrate on enunciating clearly so that the students can understand him.
Action to be taken: Further inspection is required. Probation may be a necessary measure.
Candy's ink glistened as she wrote, Professor Hagrid shows favoritism in the classroom, toward many of the students, she wrote, he also needs to learn how to present the subject to the students in a more clear and understandable way, also he needs to stop attempting to be the students friends and become an authority figure, if he were more of an authority students would have listened to him and would not have been injured...I would have him FIRED.
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Originally Posted by The Announcer
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Herbology: While Professor Sprout has a sound knowledge of her subject and so she is able to convey this knowledge to a reasonable standard. However, she allows her pupils to use foul language in her classes, something that the Hogwarts High Inquisitor, that is to say I, find most abhorrent and unnecessary. The amount of group work that is undertaken by Professor Sprout’s classes is also of concern, as they seem at times to almost be teaching each other, rather than receiving instruction from her.
Points for improvement: Professor Sprout would benefit from revisiting and revising some basic teaching skills, including what is acceptable language for the classroom.
Action to be taken: Probation not deemed to be necessary.
Candy read the part about Professor Sprout, In the case I feel the High Inquisitor is extremely wrong, Professor Sprout shows her students she is an authority figure, she does not show favoritism, she is fair and just and is not to hard on the children...I feel that Sprouts teaching style is perfect as it is.
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Originally Posted by The Announcer
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Potions:
Professor Snape is a highly competent Professor who had excellent control over his classes. It is clear that he has consistently and throughly educated his students throughout his tenure at Hogwarts. The Hogwarts High Inquisitor, that is to say I, have doubts about some of the potions that are currently on the syllabus, for example Strengthening Solution. However, there are other considerations to take into account which outweigh this. Professor Snape seems to be highly skilled in many areas and seems to be an asset to the school.
Points for improvement: Professor Snape should consider revising which potions are on the syllabus as some of them are too advanced for young children.
Action to be taken: Probation not deemed to be necessary.
Candy was on the last Professor, she read it and began to write, Professor Snape is an authority figure in his class but I feel that he is too hard on the children, and he has a terrible attitude toward the students, and does not care about them at all I feel he should be FIRED.
The Announcer
04-24-2010 01:52 AM
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Originally Posted by Herminny
(Post 9290965)
Lilia walked into the Education level knowing this must be the place and found the room and saw the question. Who was the worst teacher at Hogwarts. Man thats a tough one, it had to be between Umbridge and Treylawny she thought because Treylawny could not teach her ability which begs the question why divination was ever taught at Hogwarts when most people don't have the gift but whatever. However Umbridge hurt students education because DADA could be taught to any wizard and she chose to to teach them from the book and never let them practice. Thats not how you learn anything useful. Not only that her forms of governemnt were barbaric havng students etch into there own hand the what they did wrong and bleed for it, her decission was made.
She stepped up and said, "I wish to fire Professor Umbridge for not allowing the students to practice anything they learned in DADA so they could use it if and when they needed to and for issuing the barbaric punishment of the blood quill where students etched there so called crime on their hand in there own blood. Thats just barbaric and horrible, hurting students like that. These things are what I believe makes Umbridge the worst teacher Hogwarts has ever seen a should be fired.".
Nothing happened as the woman spoke to... someone about wanting to fire Umbridge.
OOC: Umbridge is NOT an option.
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Originally Posted by SlytherinSistah
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This was harder than he thought it was going to be. Claudian felt his marshmallowy heart melt a little at the man's obvious reluctance to being let go despite him being an illusion. Heckuva one, actually. The detail was amazing and he almost swore he could smell the salty scent of tears and feel the warmth from Hagrid's giant form.
"There, there. I'm sorry, mate. But, I had to do what I had to do." He said offering an explanation to the illusion.
The image of Hagrid shimmered and disappeared
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Originally Posted by lathelawyer0218
(Post 9292082)
Candy began to write on the back of the paper, In my opinoion I believe that Proffesor Umbridge is wrong about the fact that Flitwick should focus on discipling his class, in reality I believe that he shows the equal amount of fun and discipline in his classroom and that he is well versed in their particular subject and present the material in a manner in which all students can understand it and perform it.
Candy moved onto the next Professor, "Professor Trelawney does not present her subject in a well versed manner and most students have trouble being able to grasp the subject, she wrote, she also needs to appear to look like an authority figure in her class...I would FIRE her.
Candy's ink glistened as she wrote, Professor Hagrid shows favoritism in the classroom, toward many of the students, she wrote, he also needs to learn how to present the subject to the students in a more clear and understandable way, also he needs to stop attempting to be the students friends and become an authority figure, if he were more of an authority students would have listened to him and would not have been injured...I would have him FIRED.
Candy read the part about Professor Sprout, In the case I feel the High Inquisitor is extremely wrong, Professor Sprout shows her students she is an authority figure, she does not show favoritism, she is fair and just and is not to hard on the children...I feel that Sprouts teaching style is perfect as it is.
Candy was on the last Professor, she read it and began to write, Professor Snape is an authority figure in his class but I feel that he is too hard on the children, and he has a terrible attitude toward the students, and does not care about them at all I feel he should be FIRED.
The snarling image of Severus Snape appeared and said, "Well, let's hear it then."
J-E-L-L-O
04-24-2010 02:01 AM
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Originally Posted by The Announcer
(Post 9292103)
The snarling image of Severus Snape appeared and said, "Well, let's hear it then."
Candy looked up as Severus Snape appeared in front of her eyes, she swallowed, and spoke, "You show favoritism to Slytherins, while the other students are left to have to deal with your insufferable and unfair attitude," she looked him straight in the eyes, "if you can not at least be a little less strict, you could at least treat all the students fairly and if you can't do that then you are not fit to teach."
Rosa Chispa Princessa
04-24-2010 02:02 AM
OOC: Dang I'm sorry, I'll go with my seccond choice then
Lilia spoke as others have before but nothing happened, others got criticism so she suspected maybe Umbridge was not a part and decided to go with her seccond choice and spoke up and said:
"Okay, then I wish to fire Sybil Treylawny because she can't teach her craft to anyone because she cannot even control her powers herself. And also because she has the gall to belittle students she believes do not possess the gift of divination when I personally believe she does not have the ability to even no that for reall".
The Announcer
04-24-2010 02:10 AM
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Originally Posted by lathelawyer0218
(Post 9292120)
Candy looked up as Severus Snape appeared in front of her eyes, she swallowed, and spoke, "You show favoritism to Slytherins, while the other students are left to have to deal with your insufferable and unfair attitude," she looked him straight in the eyes, "if you can not at least be a little less strict, you could at least treat all the students fairly and if you can't do that then you are not fit to teach."
THe image of Severus Snape shimmered and disappeared.
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Originally Posted by Herminny
(Post 9292122)
OOC: Dang I'm sorry, I'll go with my seccond choice then
Lilia spoke as others have before but nothing happened, others got criticism so she suspected maybe Umbridge was not a part and decided to go with her seccond choice and spoke up and said:
"Okay, then I wish to fire Sybil Treylawny because she can't teach her craft to anyone because she cannot even control her powers herself. And also because she has the gall to belittle students she believes do not possess the gift of divination when I personally believe she does not have the ability to even no that for reall".
The image of Sybill Trelawney appeared and began to sob. "WHY CHILD, WHY?"
Rosa Chispa Princessa
04-24-2010 02:21 AM
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Originally Posted by The Announcer
(Post 9292132)
The image of Sybill Trelawney appeared and began to sob. "WHY CHILD, WHY?"
Lilia felt a trinkle of remorse but she knew she had to do this and responded, "I'm sorry mam, you may have the gift of divnation but you're not even in control it and thus you certainly can't teach it. And I don't think it's nice that you belittled you're students you felt did not possess the gift of divvination when quite frankly I don't think you have the ability to even know that. Sorry, thats just my opinion", Lilia replied to image of Trelawny with a sigh. This was certainly no easy task but it had to be done.
