Sneaky Spycraft: Week 15, Period 5

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"One last class," Aly said with a grin at the students.  "Which, I suppose, is supposed to be a final exam, but tests are silly.  The only real way to find out if you learned anything is to throw you out there and see what happens."  She winked.  "But, you know, that's frowned upon."

"So you've all lucked out in the lack of the test - I trust you've taken from the class what you could and I've taught you enough that if you needed to, you'd be capable of keeping yourself alive for long enough."

"Instead of a test, I want you all to answer two questions for me - and you can ask me one - something you were hoping we'd get to and never did.  So, question one:  in last week's scenario - would you actually poison the girl on the dais?  And question two: what are the benefits of spying?  What are the ethical considerations that have arisen over the past fifteen weeks?"

"After that, you're all free to go.  I've enjoyed having all of you in class this semester.  Those who are leaving the school, best of luck to you as you move on, and I hope to see those who stay either in a future class or stopping by my office when you get a chance.  It's been a pleasure, and if you ever need anything, I'll see what I can do."

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Re: Answer the Questions

[ashockingbitch]

"I'm not a big fan of poison, generally speaking," Jenny said, "but if I had good reason, yes, I would. The whole reason I took this class was to learn to be less flash-bang, after all. The benefits of spying would be that you can learn about your enemy without them knowing what you're doing. As far as the ethics of it go, I'd like to say that any time you've got a pack of teenagers sitting around discussing murder in a calm and reasoned fashion, something's gone off the rails somewhere, but I suspect most of us passed that point well before this class. I suppose one consideration would be, how far are you willing to go? And are you willing to be sneaky about it?" Jenny had always been willing to go really, really far, but she wasn't so sure about being sneaky about it.

"My question is, why are you teaching high school students this? Not you, you, but more a general you. Why do you think high school students should be taught this?"