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Civics - Art of Civil Disobedience Monday 4th Period - FINAL EXAM

Jack was still not in the best of moods but it was more under control this morning than it had been last Monday. She waited for the kids to file in and then said, "Welcome to your final exam. Like I told you last week, you're expected to give some sort of presentation."

She shrugged and asked, "Who wants to go first? If someone doesn't step forward, I'll pick someone at random."

[Open. OCD is up!]

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Like it's your last day!

Vette

Astrid Magnussen

Mae Borowski

Yang Xiao Long

Who goes first? Who goes next? Who forgot to do this and is gonna fail the class?

If you partnered up, list all partners in the subject.

Vette shrugged. Sure. She stood up.

"I'm a Twi'lek," she said, simply. "I was raised a slave, liberated from slavery, and I've had to make my way since. I've been living this assignment already, when I'm not here. If you want some great game plan for changing the galaxy, I'm not the one to ask. I raid private collections for artifacts stolen from my people, to return them to Ryloth. I get in close to anyone who's been committing crimes against us, and either I rob them blind or I kill them."

And she had no regrets about either. No remorse in the least.

"I get caught, I get out. If I don't get out, I'll get collared again or I'll be executed, those are my options. Where I'm from, there aren't resources for people like us. None that we don't make for ourselves, not in a galaxy with an Empire that spits on filthy aliens and a Republic that claims to care about slaves while turning away refugees at their doorstep. We don't need either of them."

And that was that. She shrugged, and then she sat.

Jack shrugged, "So tell me what you got out of this class. Was there anything you learned that you're going to take back with you when you get home and back to it? That's the point of the exam, to show what you learned here."

Vette hesitated a moment.

"Is it totally missing the point of the class if I end up using any of it in order to annoy Imperial authorities as much as I possibly can?"

Important questions, people.

"If those are the dicks who'd put a collar on you, then no. I'd say that's using the knowledge you gained in this class to good purpose," Jack told her.

"Well, then they're gonna love it when I ask for a lawyer," Vette mused. "Assuming they can get me to say anything at all."

She put on a perfectly innocent expression.

"But officer, have I committed a crime?"

The answer would always be yes, of course, but that was hardly going to stop her.

While it felt a little bit kitchy to be presenting this project when there were people in the class talking about, you know, real life experience with being slaves and things like that, Astrid and Mae had had fun putting it together, and she was going to latch onto that as the main take-away here, as she took the charge in presenting it.

"This," she said, holding out a stack of papers stapled together along one edge, bearing a very interesting cover of two very different art styles blended together to somehow work, the main characters of it featuring the scribbly but evocative style of Mae's art against the moody plays of light and darkness in the backgrounds by Astrid's hand, "is what Mae and I came up with for our final project. It's a comic book, that tells the story of a little sleepy town where everything was fine until the authorities started to slowly infringe on and take away rights. It starts out small...curfews, censorship, banning kids from certain areas, but then it starts getting more serious, and the kids of the town realize that they have to do something to stop it before they have nothing left."

She grinned a little. "I don't want to spoil how they do it," she said, "because you should really just read it to find out, but I will say that it involves a lot of spray paint, trains, and assault weapons."

Which didn't really leave much left, actually: it was literally just the kids graffiting up the town, then taking over the trainyards, weaponizing the trains, and riding them in to take back their town.

It was a masterpiece, really.

Just please don't mind the flavor residue from the multitude of snacks involved smeared on the edges of a few pages.

It added charm?

Jack smiled and nodded, "Good. Want to pass it around so everyone can flip through it before the end of class?"

Mae eyed the masterpiece, then looked around at the class.

". . . We probably should have made copies, huh."

"Might've been a good idea but you did the one," Jack said, "Unless one of you wants to run down to the Moose's office and get copies before class ends."

Once the energy of actually presenting it had dissipated a little, Astrid now felt that weird awkwardness she had when she actually felt proud of something she did (and she'd only done half of it, really), especially if someone else even slightly acknowledged it. So she shrugged a little, smile going sheepish, and she foisted it over to the nearest other person. "Yeah," she said, "sure."

And then a little grateful smile over toward Mae. Yaaaaaay They did it!

Mae offered a little smile in return.

She'd actually done a school work! On time!

Astrid was clearly a good influence on her.

Yang stood up and sheepishly produced a very, very thick binder from her bag.

"Yeah, so, I decided to look at what might happen if the Anti-Faunus attitudes and laws from Atlas started becoming more predominant in Patch or Vale, where I'm from. Right now it's on the level of bullying, which, still not cool, but I outlined some scenarios where escalation could happen."

"Then I researched some of the successful civil-disobedience-type tactics used by the White Fang during the original Faunus uprisings, and put in about how and why they worked, and there's some pictures in there too that I got my uncle to send me. No videos since I can't really embed those in paper the way I could an electronic report. Sorry. Some stuff about the more forceful tactics too, but I chose to focus on the civil disobedience since it's things we could also start now, rather than wait for things to get worse."

"The last third is stuff we could do now to prevent discrimination or criminalization from occurring, including stuff like better labor laws in general, which are easy to sell because they benefit everyone, and working out from there."

Was she embarrassed because she'd kind of given away the fact she wasn't as dumb and blonde as people always assumed she was? Kinda. Yang used those misconceptions as a very effective weapon, and showing off that yes, actually, she was pretty smart (though not as genius as her sister) felt really uncomfortable.

But it had been a really good way to try and focus last week, to keep from jumping Prompto constantly.

"No, pollen week does not excuse you from this project so if that's your excuse, take the fail and sit down. Anyone else with an actual excuse, like you lost both your arms and had laryngitis or something for a week, bring it."

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This being awake at 2:30am thing can stooooooooooooooooooooooop any tiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiime now. :(

Also welcome to the last class I have for now. I don't know what to do with Jack for the summer or for next semester, so if anyone has good ideas or wants to see her as a teacher again.. ping me.

Edited 2019-04-15 07:25 (UTC)

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