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

[kingofneworleans]

Can't say that I have much in the way of book learning I can help teach. I barely graduated high school myself. But I have some useful skills otherwise.

I can teach a couple different fighting styles. Bōjutsu, savate, general hand to hand. Straight up dirty fighting if that's needed. A little bit with blades, but I'm not as trained with them.

As for other skills? Little bit of hacking. Good bit of lock picking. Might be able to teach how to reproduce building plans from a walk through, though that one's a LOT of practice.

I can also teach cooking, if it comes down to it. Not baking, though. Never had the patience for it.

[tarnishedavenger]

I'm teaching some fighting classes already, but more teachers and styles are always good. Picking locks would be excellent and some hacking wouldn't hurt. We've got a batch of people good with computers already, myself included, but there's only so much time in a day. And I don't want a team screwed because they ran into a computer and all of the tech-literati are off on another job.

Don't know if cooking will be that useful here, no offense, but we could probably use it as a 'fun' class.

[kingofneworleans]

I assume you've been in the cafeteria. I'd say that cooking would be very useful. Also, I'm not bad at camp cooking, which may be something we'll have to deal with eventually. Afraid most of my survival 'know what you can eat and what you can't' only extends to the bayou, though.

Fair enough. How far down the road of technically illegal stuff are we going?

[tarnishedavenger]

You bring up good points. Camp cooking couldn't hurt. I think we've got mostly free reign of the kitchen after hours? I haven't gone.

I'm not a cop anymore. I don't think anyone that's left will worry about breaking the law, especially without having jurisdiction.

[kingofneworleans]

In that case, I can hotwire just about anything. Teaching people to pickpocket would take time, but might be a useful skill. How to walk quietly. The best ways to deal with most security systems. At least, the ones back home. I'd need a bit of study to see how much things have changed here. Probably a few more things I can't think of right now.

For more usual stuff? Appraisal, either art or jewellery. French. And yes, I can teach that without the yat. Pretty good with geometry and algebra, if that's needed.

[tarnishedavenger]

Giving how much breaking and entering we might be doing in the future, and how much faster things would go with stealth, these all sound like good choices for classes to me.

Don't see a need for appraisal. [He'll bring up the possibility of using the appraised goods for bribes later, when they're not on a network monitored by Jorgmund's tech admins.] I think French would be good. It would help if we find ourselves in an area where we need a private language. And algebra and geometry would be a big help.