One of my high school friends went to a primary school with only two teachers - one taught Grades Prep-3, her mother taught Grades 4-6. She and her sisters were each taught by their mother for at least three years. She said it was hard because there was no break between "family" and "school" (her mother was their only parent). Obviously, your Hogwarts student would have other teachers as well, but my friend had her mother as a teacher all day, every day. She said her mother was much quicker to discipline her than other students because her mother would just know when she wasn't working or was doing something she shouldn't, but it wasn't really unfair, because her mother recognised the things she did well just as quickly. On the other hand, her mum enforced "private time" when they all got home from school - they all had to go to their rooms, or outside, and not talk to each other for an hour.
My high school was also small, and had a number of teachers who were also students of the parents. As you say, they made every effort to keep students out of their parents' classes, but sometimes a student had a parent as year-level co-ordinator, or in a Year 12 (final year) class when it was a subject with only a few students and a single class. In these cases, they had their homeroom teacher (in Hogwarts I suppose this would be another teacher from their house) to talk to if there were any problems. I can't recall there ever being a problem greater than extreme embarrassment, though. The teachers *never* talked about their kids in the presence of other students (except one teacher, but he had major problems and was forcibly retired).
My high school was also small, and had a number of teachers who were also students of the parents. As you say, they made every effort to keep students out of their parents' classes, but sometimes a student had a parent as year-level co-ordinator, or in a Year 12 (final year) class when it was a subject with only a few students and a single class. In these cases, they had their homeroom teacher (in Hogwarts I suppose this would be another teacher from their house) to talk to if there were any problems. I can't recall there ever being a problem greater than extreme embarrassment, though. The teachers *never* talked about their kids in the presence of other students (except one teacher, but he had major problems and was forcibly retired).
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