fandomhigh | A Tale of Two Lions, Monday, Period 2

"The vote was split last week, so I get the tiebreaker," Tyrion announced, once the students were all in their seats. "And the tiebreaker goes to power through bureaucracy."

"Bureaucracy, in the noun form, refers to the non-elected officials who do the work of an elected, appointed or hereditary head of state. While technically it applies to everyone from the king's hand down to the lowliest clerk, we're talking today about the power wielded by the ones in the middle. No king or counsel rules alone. The people who actually write and enforce the rules have enormous discretion for good or ill. As an example, look to your last interaction with your government -- how well or poorly it went is probably down to some bureaucrat. The power to make smallfolk either ecstatic or miserable is all the power many of us can dream about.

"For today's assignment, this half of the room" -- he gestured -- "will play the bureaucrats. You have candy. The students on the other side of the room want the candy. Your job is to decide what the application process is. We'll switch places in 20 minutes. Begin now."

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Team A or Team B

Listen, goof off, think about bureaucrats you have known...

For this part of class, the A team is bureaucrats with small bags of (real)candy, and the B team is citizens who want something. Work alone or in small groups to figure out the bureaucratic process for requesting sweets. Bonus points if you make an actual form to fill out in triplicate in blue or black ink.

Same thing as the above, only now the Bs are the bureaucrats and the As are the citizens.

Once we ping in!

Paddra Nsu-Yeul, Team A

Yeul fiddled with her bag of candy and tried to figure out how this was supposed to work. She would be a rather poor bureaucrat if she just let a citizen have a candy but...

Well, it was tempting to do just that, if only because she didn't want any arguments.

... Yeul was probably not going to be a very successful bureaucrat.

Peter Wiggin, Team B

Tyrion was there, and idly munching on some of the extra candy.

Natalie Adams, Team A

Bucky Katt, Team B

Bucky was hard at work with a Sharpie and paper.

ReKWIZISHeN fORM
name:
# of candys U waNt:
signachr:
ProFexr TeRyiN's Sigachur:
COST: $   ,   .00 ($2 per kandi)
TAX: $   ,   .00 ($1 per kandi)
FEES: $   ,   .00 (3$ per kandy)
sHipiNG & HANdlg: $   ,   .00 ($7.50 per candi)
BRIBE: $   ,   .00
totL: $   ,   .00

Evan Sabahnur, Team A

Lex Luthor, Team B

Karla, Team A

Marasiah Fel, Team B

Chaz Villette, Team A

Shira, Team B

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