Intro to PE, Thursday Period One

[wrongkindofsith]

Today there was a broken window in the gym. But neither teacher was looking at it or addressing it and there might have even been a jersey tossed over the damage like that would cover it up.

"So, tee-ball," Magnus said. "We thought about maybe doing baseball, buuuuut..."

"We'd have to trust someone to have good enough aim to pitch." Clearly they didn't. No reason.

Magnus nodded along with that because it was true. Oh, it was true. "I rolled real bad, guys. Real, real bad." For comedy reasons.

"So instead you're going to hit a ball off a stick it's been balanced on. Try not to mess it up."

"It'll be fun!" Magnus said, tossing jerseys out to the class to pick their teams. It would not, in fact, be fun.

Unless they rolled as badly as Magnus had, then it might be fun for anyone watching.

Multidimensional Economics; Friday, First Period [10/09].

[somethingwithturquoise]

"Good morning, everyone!" Summer greeted the class eagerly as they met in the Danger Shop yet again, although it was the Danger Shop running her Absolutely Normal Classroom sim because that would never not be hilarious to her, even more so when she could have run an actual simulation for what they were doing that day, but decided not to.

Look, sometimes, you just had to make your own entertainment.

"So, today's class is actually inspired by recent events," she gave a small nod to Eleanor assuming she was there, "and we're going to tap a little bit into some creativity, because today we're talking about returns and how to handle them, and while I thought we could run a good sim of some aliens in dead-end customer service jobs who want absolutely nothing to do with your bullshit, that's pretty much what every day life is like, anyway, and I thought it would be way more fun if we each tried to take turns in both roles with each other and do a little role-playing with it."

Because she'd learned very quickly in this class that there was no way even she could program aliens as entertaining as this handful of students bouncing off of each other.

"So here's the deal: take some turns as both customer and customer service rep, and work against each other to figure something out. The customer will approach the rep with a product and complaint of your own imagining and see if you can't convince the rep to process the return. Reps, feel free to be as lenient or as stubborn about it as you'd like. Everywhere has its own policies for this sort of thing, right? So we'll just see where it goes!

"Oh! And one last thing. I am totally going to be that teacher that gives you an assignment for the break week, but it's extremely relevent to the class and it's not really, like, a normal assignment that's actually work. But, for those of you who are going, we'll be going to a different continent next week, so, while it's a little bit smaller potatoes than multidimensional, there's definitely some economic considerations going to be at play here. And my mission to you all, if you choose to accept it, is to make sure to find at least one really interesting or really bizarre or just really different from what you would normally find where you're from souvenier to bring back with you that we'll discuss in next next Friday's class. I will totally even reimburse you for it up to a certain dollar amount." Because, yeah, she had some money she was still trying to burn through from her Chopped win, but she wasn't about to burn through that much. "So basically: buy something weird next week on my dime so we can do a trip-based show-and-tell. Not too bad, right?

"And with that said," she tossed a smile around the fake classroom, "let's tap into some of our inner Karens and try to return some crap for ridiculous reasons."

Ethics, Friday, October 9, 2020

[sith_happened]

"Good morning, class," Anakin said, sweeping into the room. "Next week is Fall Break and so today we'll explore the ethics of interacting with other cultures."

He leaned against his desk. "We will not be out in socially fraught situations--we're a school and we're not going to set you up to fail like that--but standing in lines correctly, noticing how closely people stand together and greet each other, how loudly they speak and then imitating that--it's all part of being a polite guest in someone else's space. So, today we'll talk about what you've noticed tourists or outsiders visiting your homelands get wrong and how you'd prefer them to behave, and then you can think on that when we go to Europe next week."