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US History, Thursday November 1st
Again, as kids were entering the room, there was no Mr. Noblet. But a few seconds before the bell, he elbowed his way through the last-minute students and rushed into the classroom. The bell rang just as he tossed his briefcase to the desk. He pumped his fist in triumph.
“Take that, bell system! You thought you could make me late to class. But it looks like you’re the loser today.”
He turned around to face the class, suddenly the picture of a teacher.
“The Industrial Revolution.”
He moved to the board and wrote it down. “This might not seem important, in the grand scheme of things. Was it a war? No. But it instituted great legal and scientific changes. The most important change will effect you directly in our to eight years. That change?” He wrote the answer on the board.
“Workplace regulations. Your employers can give you next to nothing for salary, they can abuse you mentally, but the working man is protected by certain laws. You think that work is awful today? Well, you’d be right. But you remember that little break you had last week? (I say you, because I don’t really get time off from getting lessons ready.) Well, before the industrial revolution, you’d have been working longer hours at that time. Instead of breaks, some farms and factories had weeks where they’d speed up production, just to kill off the weaker employees and keep the job market up. It was a great way of fine-tuning the work force.
But all that’s changed. Bosses can no longer savagely push you into deadly pots of boiling metal. They have to do it gently. Most people agree that this has made all the difference.” He gave the kids a look. “Nowadays, it’s all politics, and knowing the loopholes. Play your union against your company, and your company against your union, and even if you have the worst job in the world, oh, I don’t know…high school teaching, let’s say, you can still figure out a work situation where you’ll end up okay.
Now, a quick word about World War One. We won’t be studying it. It’s just not important. None of you really want to be learning about it, anyway. Everyone just wants to get to World War Two and be done with it. The sequel had a more gripping conflict, horribly evil villains, heroic…er…heroes, and you don’t need to know too much from the first one to follow the plot of the second one. All you need to know about World War One?
The Germans lost, and were rightfully shafted with the peace treaty. Not only did they have to pay for the war, they had to cover the tip, too! This got them very angry, and that’s basically the foreboding music that leads into a “to be continued…”’
He smiled. “But I won’t be continuing it, yet. So the suspense will have a couple weeks to build. We’re talking about something totally different next week. Any questions?”
[OOC: Good to go!]
“Take that, bell system! You thought you could make me late to class. But it looks like you’re the loser today.”
He turned around to face the class, suddenly the picture of a teacher.
“The Industrial Revolution.”
He moved to the board and wrote it down. “This might not seem important, in the grand scheme of things. Was it a war? No. But it instituted great legal and scientific changes. The most important change will effect you directly in our to eight years. That change?” He wrote the answer on the board.
“Workplace regulations. Your employers can give you next to nothing for salary, they can abuse you mentally, but the working man is protected by certain laws. You think that work is awful today? Well, you’d be right. But you remember that little break you had last week? (I say you, because I don’t really get time off from getting lessons ready.) Well, before the industrial revolution, you’d have been working longer hours at that time. Instead of breaks, some farms and factories had weeks where they’d speed up production, just to kill off the weaker employees and keep the job market up. It was a great way of fine-tuning the work force.
But all that’s changed. Bosses can no longer savagely push you into deadly pots of boiling metal. They have to do it gently. Most people agree that this has made all the difference.” He gave the kids a look. “Nowadays, it’s all politics, and knowing the loopholes. Play your union against your company, and your company against your union, and even if you have the worst job in the world, oh, I don’t know…high school teaching, let’s say, you can still figure out a work situation where you’ll end up okay.
Now, a quick word about World War One. We won’t be studying it. It’s just not important. None of you really want to be learning about it, anyway. Everyone just wants to get to World War Two and be done with it. The sequel had a more gripping conflict, horribly evil villains, heroic…er…heroes, and you don’t need to know too much from the first one to follow the plot of the second one. All you need to know about World War One?
The Germans lost, and were rightfully shafted with the peace treaty. Not only did they have to pay for the war, they had to cover the tip, too! This got them very angry, and that’s basically the foreboding music that leads into a “to be continued…”’
He smiled. “But I won’t be continuing it, yet. So the suspense will have a couple weeks to build. We’re talking about something totally different next week. Any questions?”
[OOC: Good to go!]
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