Board Thread:"I Want to Know"/@comment-3194273-20151005201415/@comment-4934571-20151006163614

Good question! (But this whole Queen's Academy issue is bigger than that.) Well, I was thinking about the same thing a while ago. To be honest, I don't understand the school system of Queen's Academy in the first place. In AoGG, Anne, Gil, Jane, Ruby, Josie, Moody and Charlie (I hope I did not forget anyone) sit the entrance exams and are accepted.

"Anne intended taking up the Second Year work being advised to do so by Miss Stacy; Gilbert Blythe elected to do the same. This meant getting a First Class teacher’s license in one year instead of two, if they were successful; but it also meant much more and harder work. Jane, Ruby, Josie, Charlie, and Moody Spurgeon, not being troubled with the stirrings of ambition, were content to take up the Second Class work."

Anne and Gil decide to get a First Class license - it seems to be a higher level of being a teacher as Jane, Ruby etc. are not that ambitious and want only a Second Class license. This is quite easy to understand. But I don't get the rest.

Anne and Gil had to take up the Second Year work. Apparently, when you want to be a First-Class-Licence-Teacher you have to study at Queen's for two years. But you have the opportunity to go straight to Second Year (and study the First Year work by yourself at home and the Second Year work at school) or you study First-and-Second-Year work during the lessons (two years in one school year, basically). I am not sure which option is the correct one.

Then there are Ruby & co. When I first read the book, I was convinced that they had to study at Queen's for two years (Anne and Gil took two years in one, so it seemed logical). But yet Jane and Ruby are somehow finished with school after one year. I think that to get the Second Class license you just need to study at Queen's for one year. And that should be enough. That's why they were able to teach after one year.

However, Moody, Charlie and Josie stayed there for another year. (It was mentioned in Anne of Avonlea.) Now I think they wanted to get the First Class license. It makes sense - after one year you get SCL, after another year you get FCL. To get FCL you need to study there for two years (what Anne and Gil basically did).

But I still don't know about Stella Maynard and the whole "2-in-1" issue. Well, Stella was Anne's classmate. I thought she did the same thing as Anne and Gil and studied there for one year. But in Anne of Avonlea she is still studying at Queen's. What for? She already had FCL, why should she be there for one more year? That's another thing that concerns me.

Also, I don't know who were Anne and Gil's classmates. Were they all 2-in-1 students? Were there also students like Charlie/Moody/Josie who had finished their first year and decided to continue to get FCL? What about Priscilla and Stella? Were they former first year students or ambitious freshmen like Anne and Gil? That is a lot of questions, I know. But I just don't get the whole point of Queen's.

And to finally answer your question, Klap Trap. Don't believe everything you find here. Biographies desperately need to be updated. Ruby apparently studied at Queen's for one year if it's not said otherwise in AoA or AotI.