DETENTION Saturday

[prof-cregg.livejournal.com]

ETA: Mun jst got horrible news and will be AFK for a bit. I'm sure you can tell this is a pretty loose detention. Just don't blow anything up. I'll be back later to release you. I'm back. Play this funny for me, ok? I need cheered up.

Visitors are welcome during LUNCH only.


The Danger Room has been programmed to resemble the press briefing room at the White House. On each chair is the student's name on an etched brass plaque. Make sure you only sit in the chair with your name on it.

At the ends of each rows are thick folders rubber banded to a large stack of books. Behind the lectern is a white pull down screen covering the seal of the United States of America.

CJ stands at the lectern, wearing her glasses. She looks up as the students enter the room and checks their name off the list.

Honor System, Gang. If YOU know you have detention, please serve it. Not all the teachers submitted information, or else there were late additions. Thanks.

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Ok. It's Saturday. It's detention. I'm supposed to mention about your wicked, wicked ways...yeah, not going to do that. Work harder. Quit screwing around. In some misguided attempt to keep you all sane and alive I signed up for this gig, so let's make the best of a bad situation, and make CJ happy, ok? [She smiles]

All right gang, this is going to be as painless or as painful as you choose for it to be. I want you in groups of not more than four. You each have a different stack of information. These are reports that are sent to the government so we can decide what to give money to. We had an intern, Winnie, and she's read them all and briefed me on them.

Your detention, since most of you are here for not doing your homework, is to consolidate the information, come up with a coherant presentation, and then get up here and present your findings to the rest of us. If you do it well, single moms and garbagemen get to keep on making a living. If not, you damage the environment, poison the masses, and generally create hell on Earth and destroy our noble Democracy as we know it.

But first, we're going to watch a couple films to help orient you to politics as I know and love them.

[Walks to the back, flips off the lights, and starts an old fashioned reel projector. Footage of the Kennedy-Nixon debates flashes on the screen at the front of the room and the lights dim so they can watch.]

I will post sub threads for different detention activities through the day.

Comments

Group 4

[prof-cregg.livejournal.com]

First 4 to sign up. Your topic is--

Report on use of Pell Grants for the incarcerated: Scholarships for convicts

Re: Group 4

[teen-twin.livejournal.com]

Connor's not sure why this topic appeals to him more than any other, but he signs up to work on this one and waits for others to join him.

Re: Group 4

[marsheadtilt.livejournal.com]

Veronica walks over the boy she thinks also signed up for this topic.

"Hi, I'm Veronica. Are you Connor?"

Re: Group 4

[mparkerceo.livejournal.com]

"Is this Group 4?" Parker asks, sitting down and crossing her arms. "I'm Parker. I think we had a conversation in study hall, a few weeks back."

Re: Group 4

[marsheadtilt.livejournal.com]

"Yeah I think so. Plus I helped with the Crichton/Cam thing a while back, I'm Veronica."

Re: Group 4

[mparkerceo.livejournal.com]

"Right. Wow, that was a while ago." Parker brushes her hair out of her face, yawns, and looks morosely down at their report. "Pell Grants. Yay. Convicts. Less yay."

Re: Group 4

[mparkerceo.livejournal.com]

*Parker pokes Connor in the side, trying to get him to wake up a few minutes later*

Re: Group 4

[teen-twin.livejournal.com]

Connor jumps at being poked and a hand goes up to his face.

"Wha? Where...Oh. Hi."

Re: Group 4

[mparkerceo.livejournal.com]

"Welcome to Detention. I'm your cruise director, Parker. Currently we're cruising at sea level within the confined Detention Space, and about to take a left-hand turn into the Ocean of Statistics. Please buckle up and dig in." She hands him a report. "And you are?"

Re: Group 4

[teen-twin.livejournal.com]

"Connor." Connor answers, sitting up a little straighter. "Pleasure."

Re: Group 4

[marsheadtilt.livejournal.com]

Veronica decides that this topic is something she might actually know something about, so she signs up for it.

Re: Group 4

[mparkerceo.livejournal.com]

Parker walks over to the Pell Grants group, grabbing a report as she goes.

Re: Group 4

[2ls-in-oneill.livejournal.com]

[Quick question. Since you did such a good job with Jack during Zombie Weekend would you mind running him for a little bit today? The Mun has to do family things and won't be on much today. All he needs is a comment here and there so CJ doesn't kill him.

I would be eternally greatful and find some way to make it up. Please?]

Re: Group 4

[mparkerceo.livejournal.com]

_{[ooc: Sure, go tell C.J. :> ]}

Re: Group 4

[2ls-in-oneill.livejournal.com]

[Sweet, thank you so much! I'll poke your voicemail when I return.]

Re: Group 4

[auroryborealis.livejournal.com]

"Can I join too?" Rory asks, sitting down.


[And I'm actually about to leave to see a movie with my sister. Hooray for slowtime!]

Re: Group 4

[marsheadtilt.livejournal.com]

Veronica looks up.

"Hey Rory, Happy Birthday. Sorry I wasn't at the party, I..." she trails off, not sure exactly how to explain that she couldn't handle watching Logan being all attentive to Rory and stuff without sounding like an idiot.

Re: Group 4

[mparkerceo.livejournal.com]

Parker's smile is slow and evil. "Tell her where your boyfriend is," she says to Rory.

Re: Group 4

[marsheadtilt.livejournal.com]

Veronica looks at Parker in horror, wondering if she knows about her history with Logan.

Re: Group 4

[mparkerceo.livejournal.com]

"He's being cuddled by Professor Cregg," Parker goes on when Rory rolls her eyes, pointing up to the front of the room.

Hey, if she turned in the guy for murder, like it said in Inquirer, she'll probably get a kick out of this.

Re: Group 4

[mparkerceo.livejournal.com]

"Grab a chair," Parker says, resigned to being here. "God. Budget meetings as penance. Professor Cregg is a brilliant sadist."


_{[[no worries, have fun!]]}

Re: Group 4

[mparkerceo.livejournal.com]

"So. Presentation." Parker looks like she wants a nap. "Professor Cregg said to do whatever occurred to us from this." She smirks. "What occurs to you with money, education, and convicts?"

Re: Group 4

[marsheadtilt.livejournal.com]

Veronica considers this for a moment.

"What about a game show that teaches convicts right from wrong?"


[ooc: going for the funny to cheer up CJ!mun]

Re: Group 4

[mparkerceo.livejournal.com]

Parker chortled, waking up a little.

"Works for me! Who wants to be Donny Osmond?"

_[*snicker*]

Re: Group 4

[marsheadtilt.livejournal.com]

Veronica chuckles.

"I vote for Connor, since you, me & Rory are about the unlikeliest criminals in the world."