#i've been a pjo girlie since the beginning

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It is fascinating reflecting on Percy Jackson again by watching the show as an adult, comparing Camp Half-Blood and Hogwarts and noticing how different they actually are. On one hand you have a loaded, elitist private school whose mountain of death traps are framed as novelties, whose problems of elitism and classism go even deeper and unacknowledged among the student populace, and the evaluation of students ultimately depends on the whims of the Headmaster who openly plays favouritism. On the other other hand you have an underfunded, understaffed public school, one where the overhead system fails and neglects over and over again, yet the few people in it must try their best in protecting and preparing the kids for life. Kids, whose options basically boil down to: become a child soldier or die.

Not to generalise, but in this case, it is pretty clear which one among these two writers used to be a teacher.