oh no, ichi, why are you here

[puzzling]

Hi guys, it's Ichi again, but I'm not in here for another Breeding Centre update. Oh heaven's no, that's way too early for that. So, instead of that, I got something else. This is an ooc discussion about a new school opening and how it will be managed and teachers and all that stuff.

As some of you may know, Layton's a professor back in London and he loves his job with a passion. He loves learning, teaching, classes, all that, so he was pretty disappointed to see that there's only one school in all of Johto. Even worse, they only teach about Pokemon! Oh c'mon, where's all the important things like math, science, language, puzzles? How on Earth did the Nurse Joys here become, well, nurses without proper schooling? This cannot stand!!

So, that's why the Professor has finally decided to set up a school in Goldenrod City.

Now, the thing with this school, you don't have to be in Goldenrod to take classes. Many of the classes will be broadcasting over the network so people who aren't even in the city or the region can tune in and still learn. Also, there's really no age limit at all. Your character could be a young age of ten or all the way to fifty-five. Either way, they can attend classes there with other students of all different age. Along with that, there's more than just your usual subjects; there's other classes like critical thinking (where you just solve puzzles all day), singing, dancing, self-defense, all that. It's just a school of everything for everyone.

For those who want to teach
Anyone is pretty much welcome to do so. Your character just needs to prove that they're pretty knowledgeable in the field, but it's rather easy. However, there is one little catch; you don't get paid. This school relies on all volunteer work and while there might be a chance where teachers do get paid later down the road, there's no money being made in this. Layton has already used a good amount of his own to set up a building and clean it up, along with all this, so he can't offer much, except maybe a free meal now and then. He would greatly appreciate it if anyone can give up a bit of their free time to help teach or clean up the rooms after school or look after any children while their parents/guardians are learning or cook, whatever. Any and all help is completely welcome here.

Also, since there's probably a good amount of people that travel a lot and can't attend in person, the people who can't stay in Goldenrod for long, they can teach over the Pokegear and any students can tune in for their classes that way.

As for the students
Attendance isn't too big of a deal here. You can be here for one day and be completely absent the next two. They're not too fussy about that, due to the way life works in Johto; always moving, always struck with something. Besides, there's no credits or actual degree or whatnot coming out of these classes. The only thing that comes out from this is more knowledge, and maybe homework. Also, students don't have to pay a cent to attend classes here.

Donations are awesome since there's a lot of run this school, but not mandatory.

Classes
They will run seven days a week, meaning it'll be open on the weekends too, for those people who don't have time on the weekdays due to work. Each individual class will normally be held once a week or so, depending on whoever is teaching. If they want to teach this subject every single day, that's totally okay with them. The school will be open starting at 8am to 9pm, so that's thirteen whole hours of education.


Now, the school won't open right away. Due to plot that's going on in May, both the Rocket one and whatever this anniversary event is, it might open either in the middle of the month where things have calmed down or beginning of June. So, what do we do until then?

Well, I'd like to hear your thoughts and concerns and opinions on this! I have gotten mod approval so we don't have to wait on that, but I would really like to hear if you guys have any suggestions. I'm still trying to work out some details. I got most of them but if you guys got some great ideas, comment away!!

I'm going to probably make an actual schedule of what a normal week looks like at this school, with all the classes, times, and students, so this is where I need your help!

How many people here would have characters that would be interested in teaching, learning, or doing volunteer work? How many teaching in-person and over the network? How many students would actually attend? Which classes? In-person or over the network? In the comments, I have will one thread with the subject 'TEACHERS & CLASSES & VOLUNTEERS'. Here, people who have characters that will like to teach, they can comment with their character's name, what they'll teach, and when they'll teach. Something like this:

Hershel Layton
Critical Thinking - Advance ; Mondays ; 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm

Of course, you don't have to put the time in there, unless you really want to. Just the type of class and what day it'll be on is fine, but a time would be amazing. It will help me schedule this out better, but if you don't know, that's okay too!

Now, once a teacher has posted their ooc comment to that thread, people with interested characters can reply to that teacher's original comment of classes. Like so;

Herp Derp
Interested in taking Layton's critical thinking class!!

It'll be a lot easier when you see it in the thread below.

As for volunteers, comment under that exact same thread with the character's name and what they're volunteering for, along with what days they're available.

Le Derp
Looking after the kids ; Saturdays & Sundays

If your character will also be interested in donating something, anything from actual money to food to supplies, just leave it as a little comment at the end! It'll be greatly appreciated!

Besides that, you guys can comment below with suggestions, thoughts, questions, and whatnot. Get plotting in there or anything, go wild! I'd love to hear everything you say, so even if it's just a "good luck with everything", it's still a lot and lets me know that people are okay with this.

EDIT: I KNEW I WAS FORGETTING SOMETHING, I ALWAYS DO. But I think most of this will be handwaved, like the actual classes, but what do you guys think? I will most definitely be putting up a log on the first day the school opens so students can find their way to classes, meet with others, teachers chilling out, and all that. Are you guys interested in logs set up once a month or something for classes, or just handwave it?

Thanks for reading through this mess of a tl;dr and for any thoughts you may have! For sticking through the end, here are two gifs as a reward;



Holy Voltorbs, I know. They're not "wtf ichi" gifs anymore. I'd thought I would spare you just this once!!

And well, that's it! Please do comment if you have the time! If you need to contact me for anything, I'm on AIM at sociallinking and on Plurk at lastsummon. Thanks for reading! ♥

Comments

TEACHERS & CLASSES & VOLUNTEERS

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Hershel Layton
Archaeology ; Monday ; 3:00 pm - 4:30 pm
Critical Thinking (puzzle solving) - Beginner ; Monday & Tuesday ; 11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Critical Thinking - Intermediate ; Wednesday ; 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Critical Thinking - Advance ; Friday & Saturday ; 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm

All classes are done in-person at Goldenrod! Times aren't set in stone though, herp

[doitrockapella]

Carmen Sandiego
Earth World Geography ; Monday through Friday at five? /shot MW ; 12:00 pm - 12:30 pm
American History ; MW ; 12:30 pm - 1:00 pm

YOU KNOW YOU WANT TO LEARN HISTORY AND GEOGRAPHY FROM HER, GET IN HERE

ICHI I LOVE YOU

[bamfsecretary]

Nanao Ise
World Mythology; Tuesday & Thursday; 10:00am - 12:00pm
The Art of War (Military Tactics & Theory); Friday; 4:00pm - 7:00pm
Practical Defence (Self-defence/Martial arts); Saturday; 8:00am - 10:30am

World Mythology classes will be held at the Library, whilst The Art of War & Practical Defence will be held at her house!! This also means that they get fed after class C:



help I play an over-achiever

shhh I'm lazy to login into Bartz's account

[hrist]

Bartz Klauser
Sing & Dance; Wednesday, Friday and Saturday; 2:00pm to 3:00pm
Cleaning; After classes

[stolemyfries]

Guitar and Singing Lessons; Monday and Friday 8:00pm - 9:00pm

Re: TEACHERS & CLASSES & VOLUNTEERS

[quickattackjack]

Jack Skellington

ACTING FOR BEGINNERS (all ages); Tuesday afternoons, 5:00pm - whenever he decides you can go home.

SPEECH; Mondays, 9:00am- 11:00am

Jack will not let you leave his class with a shy bone in your body.

might as well! :D

[tensai]

Marui Bunta
Tennis ; Wednesday & Friday ; 15:00 - 17:00

Lessons broadcasted until Marui gets back to Goldenrod. And then the real fun begins.

Re: TEACHERS & CLASSES & VOLUNTEERS

[pianokeys]

Other Father
Singing with a Swing! (How to sing and sing for fun); Tuesday ; 3pm - 5pm

Re: TEACHERS & CLASSES & VOLUNTEERS

[thewhite_symphony]

Lacus Clyne

Music || Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays || 13:00 - 17:00

All classes will be done in Goldenrod. May change from time to time because of idol schedule.

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Major Alex Armstrong

Fitness and body-building - Beginners || Mondays and Wednesdays 7:30am - 9:30am
Fitness and body-building - Intermediate || Tuesdays and Thursdays 7:30am - 9:30am

USING TECHNIQUES PASSED DOWN IN THE ARMSTRONG FAMILY FOR GENERATIONS, YOU TOO CAN ACHIEVE A BODY OF MOST DAZZLING BEAUTY THAT YOU WILL WANT TO EXHIBIT AT EVERY OPPORTUNITY!!!

[usedcharm]

Serah Farron

Cooking/Home Economics: Tuesdays from 5:30pm - Whenever?

Over the gear for now, since she's in Olivine with her sister. The time might change when her location does, but it'll work for now.

Pretend this is the right journal

[derpsaboutfamily]

I had something to say, but the puppies distracted me for a good ten minutes...

Erm. I like this idea! Though, I'm not sure right now any of my characters will be taking part in it. I think maybe handwaving the school stuff in general but letting teachers choose whenever they want to do a log of one of their classes. So they wouldn't have to, but at the same time, it's a way for people to get random new CR they wouldn't otherwise get? /my two cents

But yes, I like this idea! That was really all I was going to say here, haha.

Oh my gosh, every time I scroll back up to remember what I'm trying to say, I get distracted by those puppies...

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Those puppies are just precious, aren't they? Those two are my favourite gifs, I spam them all the time.

Ohh, yeah, I was thinking about letting the teachers themselves put up logs. That's probably a good idea and what I'm leaning towards. /takes your two cents

And thank you! I appreciate the comment and suggestion. c: Here's another gif for you;

[hintcoinplz]

I've always wondered if there would ever be a school in Johto, so it's good to see one popping up! Naturally, Luke will be attending all of Layton's classes :3b

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Yeah, I've been wanting to do this for a while but the Breeding Centre popped up last year. 8( But I got helpers on that now, so bam, here you go, school!!

Of course. Layton would love him there *^* just toss a comment under Layton's thread in the 'TEACHERS & BLAH & BLAH' \o

[chasingstorms]

I'm not sure what yet, but Serah would probably be up for teaching at some point. She's actually a teacher back home, so teaching again would be a nice, familiar thing for her. She's also quite the susie homemaker type too so cooking and that sort of stuff is right up her alley.

Of course I think she's in Olivine at the moment... I'd have to check with Silver.

I should really go to bed, this probably doesn't make any sense. Agh.

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Having a teacher around for those subjects would be amazing. I'm sure that someone would be interested in having those classes. Plus, all the NPCs.

If she does her classes over the Pokegear, she can have her very own cooking show over the network.

She's gonna be a ~*~star~*~

[determinator]

I have a bunch of terrible characters who would have zero interest in this, but I think this is a cute idea! Handwaving the classes entirely might not be the best idea, but I can definitely see how it would be difficult to write up class logs/posts all the time. I'm afraid I don't really have any suggestions there, sorry!

Isaac is currently travelling all over Johto to get all the Gym Badges, but if this picks up, he might try to help out with the self-defense aspect! He's... not really a great teacher at all, but he'd make a good practice dummy!! OKAY I'LL STOP BEING MEAN, he's actually quite skilled there, so he can help somehow! orz

and Archer can totally teach classes about war....... THINGS WE DON'T NEED EVER

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MR ISAAC

YOU CAN BE HIS ASSISTANT IN HIS PHYSICAL EDUCATION CLASS!!! WE WILL GIVE EVERYONE IN JOHTO BEAUTIFUL BODIES!!!!!!!!!!!

[bamfsecretary]

nanao is teaching military tactics & self defence

come be her assistant teacher

[pianokeys]

What's your opinion on occasional classes?

OF's juggling the breeding center and being an Other Daddy and looking after Pokémon. He'd happily do a music class once or twice a week though (they just might not be all that regular).

this totally isn't helping my idea that the Other Father is a music teacher in AU. Nope

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I don't think they should be a problem, considering that this is all volunteer work and Layton's not that picky. Once a month class, every two weeks, as long as the OF gives notice on when his classes will be to Layton + the students, it'll be fine!

[tensai]

Oh man, I want to sign Marui up to teach Tennis, but he's... traveling. I don't know how you can teach tennis that way haha!

[puzzling]

lmao, I don't think so either, but he could always give classes on the rules of tennis, proper positions, history of tennis, exercises students can practise and then he can look over the gear if the students are doing it right or wrong, something like that!

[the_whitequeen]

Music || Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays || 13:00 - 17:00

[whateveryoueatliveitspart]

Hm. Apollo could probably be persuaded to teach about how to find Berries, edible/medicinal plants for humans and Pokémon, and wilderness survival stuff like starting fires. Of course that's assuming someone suggests that to him. If Layton puts out a post I might be able to convince him to tag in and it could be suggested?

orz Sorry this isn't very definite. I always seem to get difficult to work with muses. -_-

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Unfortunately for that, though, is that the school opens today (June 1st), so I don't have much time to toss up a post without backdating a lot. I've mainly held back putting up a post about it since May was pretty full of events and I was on hiatus for a portion of the month.

Perhaps if Apollo is in the area of Goldenrod, he could drop by the opening of the school to look around and then be convinced by someone there? The school is pretty much looking for teachers/students 24/7, so he can always become a teacher then.