005: Knife in the Back (Locked to the Adults.)

[tarnishedavenger]

[Yup. No teenagers allowed in this filter. Mac is only included after a very, very long and intense mental debate. The toys and the Easter Bunny, as odd as they are, are also in on it.]

So, I've been thinking. Jorgmund's doing a... job of getting everyone some sort of physical training, and there's some of us who don't mind getting a little bit of an extra hand. But we're going to be here for longer than I think any one of us anticipated.

One of the things Jorgmund isn't touching on, though, is education for anything that doesn't apply to missions. Some of these kids and, yes, some of the adults, have serious knowledge gaps.

This is going to be an unpopular idea for some of them, but I think they, and we, would benefit from setting up some sort of lesson plan, get some schooling going. Obviously not history or anything tied so closely to our worlds, but universal things like physics, math, computer skills, locksmithing, other things that could serve them later.

Any opinions? I should probably say that I'm not the most experienced when working with and educating young teens, my only experience is a few guest talks and 'field trips' with the kids at the Ravenswood Academy (I don't think Rowan's desire for secrecy there applies when there's no one from my world here) and Generation VIPER.

Comments

[wheyoftheadept]

i like the idea of classes for everyone - swap skills, brainstorm, that sorta thing. but why lock this post only to adults?

[tarnishedavenger]

Because, from what I've seen of the kids here, we're going to have some of them throwing tantrums at the idea of schooling. Like the song goes, "We don't need no education," etc.

I'd rather see if there's any interest in lending a hand with doing something like this without having to take breaks to explain to, say, Dave or Jack why this might be a thing.

[wheyoftheadept]

sure if you approach it as a "we the adults have decided what you need" thing they'll say fuck you. i'd say fuck you, frankly. what you're suggesting isn't schooling, it's swapping skills and information so we can work together better and have redundancies on expertise if something happens.

like are you assuming none of these kids have anything they might be able to teach? cause from the kinda people we got here with us, i'd say that's a pretty unfair assumption.

the kids we got ain't stupid and they all seem to know the score.

[tarnishedavenger]

Maybe I'm old fashioned, I just figure that any time we start teaching STEM stuff, it counts as schooling.

And, while some of the kids have... Honestly very impressive skillsets, they're either very specialized in ways it would be hard to teach/replicate or a lot of the adults seem to have taken things further. Like Jack. Seems to be great with machines, but it sounds like Brainiac and Alia have him beat. But, if I'm brutally honest, I don't think that most of the people here would be able to put the lessons on that he could teach into practice. I know I couldn't. He's just too far ahead of the curve for many of us.

[wheyoftheadept]

i mean have you asked any of them?

they're not looped in on this post so they can't exactly speak for themselves, can they?

[tarnishedavenger]

Like I said earlier, my experience with training teenagers isn't what it could be. I wanted to see if I'd have any dissenting opinions or any other possible teachers, rather than come up with the idea and have it shot down out of hand.

It's one thing when one man's got an idea that hasn't been talked over. It's another thing when multiple people are united and offering options at once.

[wheyoftheadept]

consider this a dissenting opinion, then. i think the people you're categorizing as 'kids' deserve to be looped in on this conversation before it goes further. this isn't like a normal thing, we can't assume anyone has any shared context, we don't even know if they want to be trained and it's not like we have any natural authority over them even if you believe that's a thing.