I think you're right, though it's possible there are a couple of pureblood families who make a point of it as well. Muggle immersion, like French immersion, so the kids will learn how to pass.
Can't see that myself. Look at how even the "good" wizards treat Muggles: Arthur Weasley seems to view them as clever savages, and collecting their technology is a hobby like collecting fossils; and Tonks&151;one witch who really ought to know better—seems to find Privet Drive a curiousity and generalizes her father to the entire Muggle world. Unless the child is a Squib and the parents are fairly enlightened, I don't imagine they'd have any any reason to want their kids to "pass" among Muggles.
Really, it's the day-to-day stuff of the wizarding world that I find most interesting, not the epic Harry vs Voldemort stuff.
That's how we know the world of the books is good; when we really, really care about the small stuff. :-)
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Can't see that myself. Look at how even the "good" wizards treat Muggles: Arthur Weasley seems to view them as clever savages, and collecting their technology is a hobby like collecting fossils; and Tonks&151;one witch who really ought to know better—seems to find Privet Drive a curiousity and generalizes her father to the entire Muggle world. Unless the child is a Squib and the parents are fairly enlightened, I don't imagine they'd have any any reason to want their kids to "pass" among Muggles.
Really, it's the day-to-day stuff of the wizarding world that I find most interesting, not the epic Harry vs Voldemort stuff.
That's how we know the world of the books is good; when we really, really care about the small stuff. :-)