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[thenormalsquint]

I know we're all preoccupied with Creeper McCreeperson breathing heavily on the network, but we all still have to live here on a daily basis and there's one thing I think we tend to overlook: the kids. What are you little guys doing all day? We grownups have our jobs, but really, I'm hoping none of you are getting into trouble.

Which leads me to ask, why isn't there some type of school or daycare or organized activities for the kids? Heck, not only them, but for the adults who don't work or who'd rather not work in any of the departments and need something to do. Blake has his basketball thing and I can easily teach art and computers, maybe a little science, and I'm sure a handful of others have a bunch of skills that can be useful. Maybe some reading classes? Math? General how to use today's technology if you're from the Middle Ages?

So who's interested? Don't have me talking to the void about idle hands being the Devil's toys.



[ooc: This is me gauging interest on starting some educational type stuff for both kids and adults? Nothing is required or formal. Think of it as a drop-in center when they are bored and looking for things to get into. If there is some people wanting in on this, I'll post something in the OOC comm in a day or so.]

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[rickon]

im big not little
i go where ever i want
i can read
i want to learn about fighting

[thenormalsquint]

Okay, big guy. You don't have to learn how to read if you already know how. I can't teach you fighting, though. I don't know how to fight.

[rickon]

get a fighter and i will think maybe i will go
i wont if there is no fighting

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[parkours]

What kind of science? ( cause peter probably knows it all anyway )

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[thenormalsquint]

[Peter, you can be a teacher then.]

Anything to do with the musculoskeletal system. That's as far as my science knowledge goes.

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[parkours]

[ No, he's a terrible teacher. Angela, teach him to be a teacher por favor. ]

Uh, what about like, physics? Or genetics? I guess that system is always useful for dead bodies, but there aren't any... here, are there?

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[littleduck]

I just woke up here. [So no, no trouble yet. Not that she's really inclined to get into any.]

I think having a school sounds like a wonderful idea, though. I miss going to school.

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[thenormalsquint]

Well, welcome to the Tranquility. I'm Angela.

What was your favorite subject in school?

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[thefuckinhalf]

There a lotta kids without adults here?

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[thenormalsquint]

I've seen a couple without their parents here. They have people looking out for them, but it's not Mom or Dad, you know?

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[sangfroid]

You can teach art easily? ...Will it be easy to learn?

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[thenormalsquint]

I don't see why not. If an elephant can paint, so can you.

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[hostage]

Ain't no teacher, but I can help out with the kids. When I ain't in the lab, I mean.

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[thenormalsquint]

Yeah, we don't want you teaching in the lab. [Good-natured poking from somebody who used try meth herself. No hate, no judgement, just love.] I could use the extra pair of hands if this actually gets off the ground.

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[wolfdreamer]

Just because we have not assigned ourselves tasks does not mean we're idle.

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[rickon]

yes you are right





bran is right

[he adds, as an aside to the original poster.]

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[thenormalsquint]

Then what are you doing?

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[learningfrench]

About how many kids are there?

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[thenormalsquint]

As far as I know... Chase, Bran, Rickon, Primrose, that little guy who's always looking for his father, the other one who was looking for busssomething... at least six. Could be more. It's a big ship.

[deadandred]

A little trouble is healthy for kids to get into. [Says the guy who definitely tried to sneak into Dodgers games when he was tiny.]

[thenormalsquint]

Depends on what kind of trouble we're talking about.

[the_vishual]

I've never been to a school. I'd like to try.

[thenormalsquint]

What would you like to learn the most?

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[cargojet]

Nothing is organised because the guy who was setting the whole thing up vanished - Charles Xavier - and then Blake who was meant to be doing some part of it... Christ only knows.

I can find you the place we discussed it before, cause the kids got involved and explained what they'd be interested in. We got halfway to a classroom being set up too, as I recall. It's all probably still there.

We also discussed semi-apprenticeships to let them experience working on the crew or as support, ghosting people for some part of their day. Some wanted to learn how to fight, too, which while I wouldn't normally recommend it doesn't seem like a bad plan here.

We could be here for years. They could grow up never knowing anything else.

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[thenormalsquint]

Blake... I'll talk to him. Don't worry about him. [Don't even look at him, Nathan. Lord knows what can set him off now.] I have a few that seem to be in for art and one for... thermonuclear physics. I have experience teaching art, but physics is beyond any field I've worked in. A classroom would be nice, or just a room at all.

Rickon is crazy about fighting which, fine, I guess it's a good skill to have here, but shouldn't they learn something else? Something that builds their minds too? Kids should be kids. Swingsets and Barbies and Legos. All that stuff.