fandomhigh | Choose Your Own Government, Monday, Class #1

"Hello, my class, and welcome to a new semester and a new class with me, your professor. If you're not supposed to be in Choose Your Own Government with Professor Mal Doran, well, feel free to stay anyway, but you're probably missing valuable naptime. For those of you who chose to remain, you can call me Vala and I won't be offended in the slightest."

"Today's adventure in education will probably be rather minimalist. I'd like to know your name, the kind of government you grew up under and have experienced--please tell me about all of them if you've experienced more than one--and what kind of government you think you'd like to live under, or be a part of. I'd also like to know your thoughts about what a government or leader should do for its people. Then, I'd like you to split into three groups and debate why, and choose one government for the small group--a list of descriptions is here, and there are plenty for everyone. Scenarios will be forthcoming as classes go on, and each of your small governments will be responsible for solving the problems, then evaluating what did or didn't work in your approach. I will then be using these evaluations in my grading criteria."

"Also, I'm looking for a teaching assistant, if you're interested."

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Choose a government, call each other names, learn from each other, whatever

Eve was sitting there, frowning at the list of descriptions and wondering if she could mash a couple of them together. If anybody else would go for that, of course.

Gwynn looked at Eve. "I only know about the monarchy."

"And I know democracy," Eve said. "But I've heard about the others."

"What's democracy?"

"Well, the sheet says 'Rule by a government where the people as a whole hold the power' which basically means that we're the ones who make the decisions. All right, not us specifically, since we're not out there making laws ourselves. But there are people that we elect to the positions and they make the laws and choices and decisions and all that. In theory they're supposed to do this to the benefit of all of us."

Cedric chose a government, read about it, and practiced yelling things about it in his head.

Karal was reading the list. And reading it again.

And reading it again once more. He couldn't quite credit that so many different kinds of government could exist. "It's as bad as Valdemar," he said under his breath.

"What's Valdemar?" Katara asked, looking over the list as well, trying to figure what what it really *meant.*

He smiled as he looked up. "A country in my world. They have a law, 'there is no one true way'. It is intended to apply to worship and religion, but this list," he held it up, "reminds me of it."

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