fandomhigh | Defending Yourself [Monday, Period 1]

"Welcome back. Hope you all enjoyed your weekend." Max eyed his students. "And that you took the time to do your homework."

"Today's lesson is actually going to be short because I'm going to try leaving most of our time for some demonstrations, but there is something I'm hoping you all pick up on today: each of you has a set of instinctive reactions when threatened. Everyone has different ones, of course, but the lesson to learn is that most of them are useful. Maybe not all the time, or in all situations, and it's useful to be aware of when to fight your instincts, but it's also important to realize that no matter how new you all are to the concept, each and every one of you has some ideas about how to defend yourself. And not all of those ideas are bad ones."

"For instance," another look around, this time with a grin, "I gave you a homework assignment last week I gave you a homework assignment with very little guidance, and I'm willing to bet that you all managed to do it. And I also suspect that most of you came up with something the others didn't, if only because of the way you think about things."

"So let's see them. Everyone take a moment to show us what you've brought, and explain why you picked it. And feel free to talk ideas with each other."

And then Max's grin turned downright evil, and he nodded toward the door that wasn't part of the usual classroom setup (thank you, Danger Shop!). "While you're doing that, you'll find a list of your names in ~~totally random~~ order by the door. If you're at the top of the list, come on through for a personal evaluation." That totally wasn't going to be an ambush so that Max could evaluate your instinctive reactions to surprise attacks. Unless it was.

Hint: it totally was.

[Continuing my no-sign-in experiment! If it really is a problem for you, feel free to leave an OOC comment, or hit me up via email! Or AIM! Or LJ PM!]

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I generally hate copy/pasting the same answer to multiple comments, but I feel like it applies here:

Thanks for the input! Seriously, don't let the copy/paste nature take away from my appreciation. Based on your, and other peoples' feedback, it's pretty clear that sign-in threads will be making a comeback next week. So I'm seriously glad you spoke up about it. Otherwise, how would I know?

So, again, thanks, and next week we'll have sign-in threads again!

Well, presumably you'd know because the rules of the game have been, from square one, that minimum participation requirements for the game are signing in to classes. Taking that away from people as an experiment is a bit of a dick move- Especially with no warning. They're not your guinea pigs. They deserve more respect than that. They have lives outside your class.

That said, thank you for fixing this for the future.

You know, the copy-paste and the exclamation marks do not fill me with confidence that your apology is sincere. Perhaps there's a lovely career awaiting you at LiveJournal.

Hey. Look. He apologized and said he'd reinstitute a sign in thread. Most of the complaints were from people not even in the class - only one of whom said it could be a problem when we were asked last week.

He oopsed on the homework issue and apologized for that as well - and let me just say he's not the first or only teacher who's done that!

Can we please not make unpleasant comments about his reasoning or the 'sincerity' of his apology?

We're all better than that.

He did oops in the homework assignment, and he did apologize for that. I wasn't pushing that point, and actually figured it was more a reason to validate the need for easier sign-ins than to point a finger and be all, 'J'accuse!' Digging back for more information is difficult, not just for people in the class, and I thought I'd mention it because as the squirrel on the class beat, having to dig back was hard on me, too.

That said, even the points made by people not in the class were valid ones. Them not being in this class doesn't change that it would be difficult, or even impossible, for them to take his classes in the future, had they not spoken up.

I'll admit, the experiment thing bothered me whether I was in his class or not, and I mostly just want to be certain that he understands that there's a reason the sign-in threads (and many other conventions of the game that one might take for granted) were there in the first place, because now I'm that much more wary that something like this will be sprung on me in the future.

Petty comments, we are all better than. But there's a time and a place for experiments like this, and if even one person said last week that this would cause difficulty for people, I think that should have been taken into consideration right off the bat, rather than pressing again to see if it would get hackles up.

I think you're assuming he did this to see if he could bother people and I don't think that's the case at all.

And yes, the people all had valid points and expressed them nicely and he immediately responded that he'd change things.

At which point, to my mind, it should be 'enough said' rather than the additional comments. That's all I was saying.

Actually, I'm mostly assuming he did this to see if he could get more interaction in his class, which, while functional in theory, could have been handled better- Asking people how losing a sign-in thread would affect them would have gotten him the same answer without inconveniencing anyone with no warning, for example.

I'm not accusing him of being spiteful- merely inconsiderate. And, now that he's given his apology, I hope that he'll be more thoughtful in the future.

You're right. I was annoyed and hit the send button before I fully considered whether my snarky opinion was a constructive one to share. I apologize for the rudeness.

Thank you. Sincerely.

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