What would you do if you became a school master
Let the students pick their School (assuming they cooperate when it comes to doing the work correctly) and remove the Snow Ball requirements to avoid trouble, and revamp the curriculum, so they don't make stupid decisions later.
Also? Tentatively, get rid of Uglification. Who would want that? If the Nevers actually wanted it, I feel like it could be renamed something like "Horrification" because the point of being ugly isn't to be ugly for its own sake, it's to be scary.
I'd replace the torture with something like exercise or cleaning because torture is unproductive.
I don't think I could do anything about the ranking system without changing the composition of the Woods. Some tales need mogrifs, so I guess... I'm not sure how to change that. It could be a temporary transformation, maybe just for the duration of the tale? Still seems unethical, but who would play roles like those of spies or sidekicks?
It also strikes me as a good idea to remove the concept of dying in a tale entirely, but that's not within my hypothetical control because that would happen post-graduation.
There's finally an issue of: why keep the Evil School at all? And I think, that to keep everyone and the sun alive, according to world-building rules, it just has to stay. Oh well.
