Attention seventh years! on Pecari Commons

Headmistress Powell

June 25, 2009 11:06 AM

Attention seventh years! by Headmistress Powell

On the noticeboard in every House commonroom was a new notice. Each was identical, and called the attention of the oldest students in the school. It read:

ATTENTION SEVENTH YEARS

An opportunity has arisen for any interested seventh years to gain teaching experience within this school. Supervised by a staff member, sventh year students may work on their own or in a pair to plan and execute a lesson for the younger students. If you would like to be involved, please sign your name below, along with the classes you would be happy to cover.

If you require more details, please see the Headmistress or your Head of House. Thank you.

Below this short note was ample space for any seventh year students to sign their name.

Subthreads:

I'm not oblivious, I just choose to ignore certain things... by Morgaine Carey

I am oblivious, which makes ignoring things much easier by Saul Pierce

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Morgaine Carey

June 27, 2009 2:15 AM

I'm not oblivious, I just choose to ignore certain things... by Morgaine Carey

There had been a time, as recently as three years ago, when Morgaine Carey would have never even considered going along with something like what the Pecari noticeboard proposed to her. As recently as last Christmas, she would've signed up, but just to mess with people's minds. That had, after all, been her main motive for joining Saul's Concert Act, though she'd only let the family know the part where she had, from the looks of it, at least partially succeeded in making the populace less afraid of her.

Now, however, she was actually considering it seriously. No way was she planning to become a teacher, but it would be a point in her favor when applying to Healer programs; if she couldn't find a way to convince the committees that she did not share Alasdair Carey's tendency toward megalomania (and paranoid sociopathy and dark magic, but she still had a set of standards of what was proper, and calling her father all of that, even if it was only inside her own head, blew past every single one of them), her studies would be over before they even began, and she refused to let it be that way. The best way to do that would be to get the medic to let her be his assistant, but since Morgaine was fairly sure Wolfe and Powell would veto that idea more hastily than they had ever done anything in their lives, managing to work successfully with young children would be the next best thing.

It would also give her even more of an excuse to look after her brother. Since he'd mentioned wanting to challenge Gwen to a duel for insulting her, Morgaine had just been waiting for the day she got called to guidance because he had tried to hex the snot out of Saul's little cousin and the shrinks felt she could offer insight into why he would do that. She did not want to deal with the fallout, and the best way she could see to not have to was to be there to remind him that she was a big girl who could take care of herself and cared very little about the opinions of random first year boys.

The main drawback was that it would make her schedule even more hectic, but that might not be a bad thing. Morgaine's eye for detail wasn't as good as Gwen's, but it was enough to get the job done, and she had noticed that the majority of her massive catch-up sessions resulted not from lack of time, but from procrastination on material she found dull. Not having time to procrastinate might fix the problem.

Of course, the problem was that she was still a Carey. Her family had attended Sonora since there was a Sonora, and a family with a worse reputation at the school would be hard to find. Merlin knew she and Gwen hadn't done much to make amends for the mess her father and Aunt Rosamund had left, just as they'd apparently made no effort to clean up after Grandfather. Powell might have a heart attack upon hearing about this, and O'Leary might assume it was a taunt and be appropriately annoyed. The logical and prudent thing to do would be to set up an appointment with O'Leary and ask him if there was supposed to be a strong implication that this notice was only meant for Saul, but Morgaine just couldn't bring herself to admit to him that she knew what the staff thought of her. It would ruin the moment when she sent the whole lot of them invitations to her med school graduation ceremony, complete with postscripts telling them what they could do with their opinions.

That would be a great moment, but first, she had to get one of the colleges she was looking at to accept her. To do so, she most likely had to prove she wasn't evil. So she signed up on the notice.

Morgaine Carey. Charms, Defense Against the Dart Arts and Potions.

She probably could have handled Transfiguration and History as well, but didn't especially want to. Transfiguration was her hardest class, kept up mostly because she got a thrill out of doing something Geoff Layne couldn't, and though she knew more history than most people ever forgot, she doubted the administration would really approve of her lecturing on the topics she knew best. The great families weren't really an appropriate topic for children who hadn't been born into one.

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Saul Pierce

June 29, 2009 7:28 PM

I am oblivious, which makes ignoring things much easier by Saul Pierce

Saul checked the notice board out of habit, mostly to get the new password, but also to see if anything new and interesting was going on. Spotting the notice for the seventh years, he read it avidly, expecting . . . something else. He wasn't quite sure what he'd been expecting, but an invitation to help teach wasn't it.

He thought about it for a few seconds, because he never dismissed doing anything new out of hand, but eventually decided that it was probably directed at Morgaine, who at least got good grades. She had already signed up, so apparently the teachers hadn't gotten around to taking it down yet.

He was about to walk away when he realized that, as a seventh year, even if he was as likely to fail as he was, he'd still forgotten more than most first years had been taught yet.

Of course, the problem there was that he had forgotten a lot of what little he had picked up.

Still . . . it didn't say he had to do this by himself. He could help someone else teach. Then it wouldn't be his fault when a whole class failed a subject's final exam because he'd made too many things up and passed them off as fact and nobody knew better than to believe him.

Saul Pierce, he wrote out on the line beneath Morgaine's. Charms or Tranzfig - 1st/2nd yeer only, NOT mayn teecher - wil help sumwon els teech.

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