#also like. the bloors for sure gave manfred a proper education before he started at the academy

[mossiestpiglet]

THIS THIS THIS

The whole Billy situation just has soooo much going on with it. From an endowed perspective it is fairly well understood and accepted that Bloor’s Academy is basically just the public face of the Bloor Family- it’s just a way to gather endowed (and otherwise talented) children and maintain power. But it is also still a school and has to operate as one! Not ALL of the teachers are there with some Red King-related agenda, some of them are real actual educators who went to school for this, chose this as a career, have spent their adult lives in this profession, and they are also there dealing with the Bloors’ bullshit! And the vast majority of the children there are just talented kids who are having to also deal with a magical war and power struggle they have nothing to do with, and even when their lives aren’t in danger it is still getting in the way of their educations.

The main Bloor Family Business is maintaining their status as a powerful endowed family and that business is frequently at odds with effectively running a school, but they are always willing to let that be someone else’s problem.

Just thinking of @brigwife's reblog of my post with the ages of characters and specifically Billy Raven and his education. In book 4 (Castle of Mirrors) Billy mentions that he's being held in first year at Bloor's despite having already done it something like twice before! That means they took a six year old and put him in the first year Bloor's classes??? They boy barely understands phonics and addition and they're having him learn year 7 history, mathematics, and literature?? Has anyone taught Billy how to do math?? Did anyone teach him to read??? Did they just throw him straight into algebra as a six year old and say tough luck??

Whoever gave Dr. Bloor his doctorate needs to revoke it right now. That man does not understand how education works.