Bay 12 Games Forum

... yeah. When you've got a class of 20+ and an hour, there's only so much a teacher can do, and it's incredibly easy for some or many of the students to just get... left behind. From what I can remember hearing of mi madre picking info up, studies at the time were showing quality of education starts dropping somewhere in the early twenties, and gets progressively worse as class size increases.

In contrast, when there's, say, ten students in the room at any one time, and they're there for 2-3 hours in one go (and then, y'know, maybe go home for lunch or go chill at the library for an hour or something then come back), there's considerably more options available to a teacher in regards to... everything, really. When the student can just stop for 10-15 minutes, maybe read, listen to music, browse the net or go for a walk or something without completely borking up the teacher's jive, things are just... better. And that gets easier to do the smaller the class, from what I've seen -- since instruction is more personalized, less people are inconvenienced if the teacher stops to catch someone back up or whatev'. And so the teacher actually can. They've got time for it, unlike with a normal class.

In the case of the particular school I went to, it was also very easy to, y'know, focus. One day on one subject, instead of six subjects in one day with interspersed interruptions and a great deal of distractions. Stuff like that. It was smaller than many adult schools, even the others in the local area, but from what I picked up you got (could get, anyway) similar deals in the larger local ones and even larger urban ones. It was just very different from high school, and much more pleasing to my, at least, sensibilities.

... on the other hand, having incentive to build workshops out in the middle of nowhere as appeasement to the dark gods sounds... appealing? To me. It's like creating your own little horror stories out in the woods as a meta-strategy of survival.

"Why do you have your pottery industry on the other end of the island?"
"Uh... no reason. It's just... a thing that works, you know? Keeps the population stable, in my experience. Mostly."

Well... I can't say if my experience was representative, or if the school I attended wasn't abnormally good, but my experience with it was very positive. Definitely the best bit of the high school period I experienced. More focused, considerably more flexible schedule, much better actual environment (less students, more comfortable classroom, etc. Admittedly, you've got the chance some of them are more disruptive than normal, but if yours is anything like mine was, the teachers have considerably more leeway in dealing with problem students)... all sorts of good things. I'd definitely say look into it, see what the local school(s) reputation is like and what you'd have to do to get in and get through.

Yeah, naw. Meet the minimum, and then enjoy yourself doing whatever extra you might do. Base performance, then pleasure. Leave perfection or exceptional performance out of it. Much happier, you will be, and I almost absolutely guarantee you performance will increase anyway -- it usually does if you're unworried and having a little fun.

If you've every gotten paint in your hair, you well understand why. If you're going to englitterate your cat, please use proper hair dye and first consult a veterinarian as to health risks.

You don't... you don't open the screen part, Red. Just the glass. The windows... do let you do those separately... right?

You'd think, but I rather imagine there's a few more out there in the realms of fiction that have done the whole flesh dress thing.