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"Hello, class!" Cecil beamed at them all. "Now that we've covered a few of the immediate things, we thought we'd go back to some of the basics. Like...classes! You've all got classes, right? Otherwise you're really in the wrong place, because - well, this is a class. So, how are your classes? Like, were you home-schooled before and you have a small family, so you've never been in a group like this? Or are you more used to having normal classes like Geology, Marksmanship, and Modified Sumerian?"

"Oh, hey, I learned marksmanship too," Kanan mused. "I mean, I learned it from a Kalleran scoundrel who tried to sell me on more than one occasion, but... important life skills."

That was much easier to discuss than his education at the temple, which he wasn't going to touch on for the life of him, thanks.

"But there, that's another possibility," he added. "No formal classes at all, but practical lessons, possibly apprenticeships or internships, meant to give you hands-on experience instead of stuffing a book in your hands and telling you to read three chapters before the next lesson."

"Not that reading isn't important," Cecil said gravely. "It's just highly dangerous and best taught in a controlled environment."

Kanan side-eyed Cecil for a moment.

...

You do you, Cecil. You do you.

"Anyway," he said, shaking out of that moment and crossing his arms in front of his chest, "school here. Probably different from what you're used to back home. Let's talk about how, and what you're doing here to adjust to that change."

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"This class has been helpful, and my class on the history of this world has been very interesting. However I...er, don't think I would have signed up for Sex Ed. Or class with Mr. Deadpool. He's a little... unique."

The corner of Kanan's mouth twitched a little. Hey, he would've appreciated a Sex Ed class back when he was Khadgar's age. But Jedi, life of celibacy and all that stuff he'd been quite alright with disregarding once 'Jedi' became synonymous with 'death sentence.'

Some things were just better not being approached completely blind. All things he wasn't going to say, here, since the boy was already in the Sex Ed class and Kanan wasn't planning on hitting overshare mode with his students today.

"I don't think I've had the pleasure of meeting Deadpool personally," he noted. "Though his radio broadcasts were always... a bit different. What's he teaching this time around?"

Khadgar probably would have appreciated the Sex Ed class more if he thought he was ever going to have sex. He wasn't holding out a lot of hope on that front at the moment.

"He's teaching us how to avoid our problems, through a great amount of swearing and adult topics," Khadgar said. "It's unlike anything I've experienced before."

Kanan's eyebrows edged upwards on his forehead at that.

"... Sounds a bit like a class he should've considered teaching at the Community Center instead," he noted. Not at all because that was exactly the sort of class he could get behind taking himself. Honest. "But I suppose it isn't exactly the most useful class to take if you're hoping for a well-rounded education."

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"Has he taught you anything interesting yet, at least?"

He asked.

"He taught us how to lie about our feelings," Khadgar offered. "Which doesn't seem like a good way to earn people's trust, but that doesn't seem like something that would bother him."

"Well, I suppose it isn't a class on building trust, at that," Kanan said, after a pause.

Because lying about feelings was another one of those things that he was kind of a pro at, these days.

"I mean, that might have its uses, somewhere down the road. Knowledge is power?"

... He was trying, here.

Khadgar laughed. "If nothing else, if I ever return home and encounter anyone like him, I'll have a better idea of how to handle the person?"

"It sounds a bit like smiling and nodding is your safest bet," Kanan mused. "Or just going along with it. At the very least, that doesn't sound like the sort of class where you're likely to spend a lot of time bored."

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