@Pyretta My point is you don't have to turn their worldview upside-down at all. There's no need for kids to start out in the mundane world and /then/ go to the Magical Academy.
I get that shifts in context are an important part of a bildungsroman, but I have to wonder why all of these secret magic societies wait until their kids are teenagers (or almost so) before putting them into the Magical Academy. I mean, the "torn between mundane life and school life" thing can make for interesting storytelling, but it doesn't seem like well-thought-out worldbuilding.
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