Defending Yourself [Monday, Period 1]

[furious-maximus.livejournal.com]

"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!]

Comments

Re: OOC

[walkswithcoyote]

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.

Re: OOC

[drinks_coffeezilla]

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.