School Updates

[nadine_he_loves]

Subject: School Info and Update
Date: Oct 21
Time: Morning
By: 375 – 0319

Hi. It's Nadine again, I posted a bit ago about starting a little school.

I want to say that thanks to a lot of help and donations and hard work, we're getting pretty close to having things ready to go. I can't say thank you enough to everyone who's brought things back from zones, helped find space, helped collect donations, helped build the tent, and offered advice and recommendations. We couldn't do this without all of your help.

But there's one thing it would still be really great if we could get. More people who can donate some time to teach. Just an hour or two a week would be a huge help. I have no idea how many students we're actually going to get, it could just be three, but I'd rather have more volunteer teachers than not enough. I know we all have jobs and responsibilities, but please get in touch if you think you'd like to help out.

We plan to teach the basics, but also things that are important to know living in this world. Stuff about vehicles and vehicle maintenance, road safety, first aide, survival skills. And we're open to anyone who wants to learn, it doesn't matter how old you are.

Nobody's ever too old to learn.

Comments

478-2238 (Charles)

[thetruefocus]

I have some volunteers for you, Nadine. I'll tell them to come talk to you.

[nadine_he_loves]

Thank you, that's amazing.

None of this would be happening without you, you know.

[thetruefocus]

You are the mind behind it, I'm but one of your happy helpers.

[nadine_he_loves]

One hell of a helper.

At least let me buy you a couple slices of pizza or something. To celebrate pulling this off.

[thetruefocus]

I would love that. I'm glad you'll be teaching all the things that I am absolutely no help about, so I can focus on the other aspect. I don't even know how to change a tire.

[nadine_he_loves]

One benefit to living through the end of the world, I learned a whole lot of travel and survival things really quick.

Speaking of, we should probably get together and work out the details of who's teaching what once we know how many teachers we have.

[thetruefocus]

We should do a little tent school get together.

[nadine_he_loves]

We should.

I've had a couple people respond putting themselves forward as volunteers, including at least one you pointed my way.

[thetruefocus]

Two! 707 - 4930 is mine too. I'm just going to be your eternal recruiter. What you're doing is important work, Nadine.

[nadine_he_loves]

I feel like I should toss in a beer to go with that pizza!

What we're doing. This is a group effort, I just got the ball rolling.

[thetruefocus]

It will be nice to see it in action!

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[trailmark]

you still looking for volunteers?

[nadine_he_loves]

Of course. We can always use volunteers. This whole thing is 100% volunteer run.

I've never run a school before, but I was an elementary teacher for almost 20 years.

[trailmark]

what kind of volunteers do you need?

i'm not a teacher but i can show people how to do some stuff. hunting, tracking, shooting, driving. depends on what you need i guess

[nadine_he_loves]

All of those are useful. Like I said, we want to offer necessary life skills for living in this world. I would say those are all necessary skills.

But maybe not shooting for the younger kids.

[trailmark]

pick somethin and i'll see what i can do, then

[nadine_he_loves]

Hunting and tracking is something no one else has offered, and I sure don't know how to teach that.

How does that sound?

[trailmark]

hunting and tracking it is

you found anyone else yet?

[nadine_he_loves]

Thank you.

I have, actually. I think we have enough volunteers to have an actual little 'staff' of teachers.

I really didn't expect this much response.

[trailmark]

you might find some more help. people around here don't seem too bad

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[hexcurse]

I have time to come in once a week.

Mathematics, physics, vehicle maintenance - any of those.

[nadine_he_loves]

That would be great. If you have a preference for any of those subjects, we can use help with all of them.

Once we know how many teachers we have and what subjects we can offer, we can work out a proper schedule.

[hexcurse]

Whatever's needed most. I'd offer my credentials, but I left them back home.

I'm Jayce, by the way.

[nadine_he_loves]

I figure the fact that you're volunteering is credentials enough.

It's good to meet you, Jayce. If you have any questions, I'm happy to answer them.

[hexcurse]

Good to meet you, too.

I guess I should admit I've never taught a class before, but I've done some tutoring.

[nadine_he_loves]

Then you've already got all the foundation you need. Teaching's just like tutoring a bunch of kids at once.

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[windriding]

Hi, Charles Xavier redirected me to you. If you need teachers, I can offer some time. My name is Storm.

[nadine_he_loves]

Charles has been the biggest help. I don't know what we'd do without him.

Thank you, that would be great. I really appreciate it.

[windriding]

Help is what he does best, I think.

I taught history most recently, but I've done a little bit of everything for middle and high school kids. What do you think we'll need the most?

[nadine_he_loves]

That's certainly been my experience with him.

That's a really tough question. There's no formal education here at all, nothing structured, so I have no idea what the priority is going to be. Kids are going to have really uneven starting points.

But survival and car stuff are pretty high up there, considering.

[windriding]

I don't think we'll have trouble finding people willing to help us on survival and car maintenance.

[ There's a lot of folks helping around for that as it is! Teaching, though... ]

Maybe we could help make some assessment tools, see where people are at. Teaching reading is going to be strange and difficult if we can't decide on a particular language, but I think maths should be rather universal.

[nadine_he_loves]

Those do seem to be skills a lot of us have in common.

And that is a really good idea. I can work something up, I haven't been out of the teaching game that long. But I wouldn't mind advice or suggestions, if you have any.

[windriding]

Teaching is what's waiting for me back home. As challenging as students can be, I kind of miss it. It'll be nice to have a taste of it again here.

I don't have much in the way of suggestions right now though. I've never taught in a tent school, so I would probably just follow your lead on that.

[nadine_he_loves]

I understand what you mean, teaching's all I've ever done. I miss it.

But never like this, I was an elementary teacher at a private school. We're all just kind of figuring it out as we go.

[windriding]

Elementary seems like such a tricky age. They must have a lot of questions?

I worked at a pretty private school myself, but for older kids. Their challenges are a little different - I often struggled with their attitudes. But I suppose that between those two ages, we'll cover quite a lot.

[nadine_he_loves]

Nothing but questions, basically. They're still figuring out how to be people, how everything works, so much is new and a mystery to them. It's honestly such an amazing age to teach.

But I was teaching a little bit of a wider age range just before I came here. Really long story, but it was closer to what we're doing now than working at the private school. But not really any teens, though, so your experiences will be really valuable. I can only imagine they have their own set of difficulties.

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[airdnd]

Well met, Miss Nadine.

While I don't have any experience in teaching or a specialized subject to teach, I would be happy to volunteer. I realize there aren't that many younger folks around, but if you'd like some support in teaching foundational things, do let me know! Even if it's just to have a second set of hands to assist.

Sincerely,
Sumina Heartleaf

[ trust that this probably took her two hours to type out because she is a ye olde who would rather write a physical letter ]

[nadine_he_loves]

That's okay if you don't have teaching experience. We can use all kinds of help, and life experience translates pretty well to teaching.

And like I said, it's not just for kids. There are people here from all kinds of different places and circumstances. I've met people who'd never seen a car until coming here. We're open to everybody.

[airdnd]

If I'm honest, I would stand to benefit in exactly that way, as someone who had never seen a car...

But that is all the more reason for me to help, especially if I'm learning from others in turn. Might I ask where this school is going to be located?

[nadine_he_loves]

It's nothing to be embarrassed about, plenty of worlds and times don't have cars.

We have space in the corner of a parking lot. We're a literal tent school, complete with homemade pavilion tent. I can send you directions.