The Starboard Particle Interference Dampeners

It is the year 3000 in the city of Toronto. Elon Musk is alive! and has purchased Canada.

Education

The Socials (Socs): In the high class society of the Socs, there is an emphasis on good quality organized education. Children of the Socs spend most of their day in clean, high-tech learning facilities and are provided the best tools for education. They learn distinguished subjects such as science, math, fine art, english, history, and politics. High test scores and academic achievement is high priority in order to output intelligent members of society. Socs learn about the history of the divide between themselves and the Greasers, but this teaching very strongly favours the story of the Socs and focuses on the negative attributes of the Greasers.

Instructors in Socs schools focus on helping students create and develop knowledge through inquiry-based learning. Inquiry-based learning focuses on student-lead learning where students are encouraged to come to develop their own knowledge and conclusions with the support of the instructor. Instructors make sure they first assess what the students already know through Assessment As learning and assess how they are learning during the lesson through Assessment For learning.

The Greasers: In the low class society of the Greasers there is zero formal education. At best, basic education is facilitated in the home where standard subjects such as science, math, and fine art are not focused on. Instead, young Greasers learn trades and home steading skills such as farming, cooking, tailoring, butchering, hunting, farming, building, and other important skills necessary for survival. These skills are passed on from generation to generation and are necessary for survival because of the Greasers’ lack of access to the luxuries of the higher class Soc world. The Greasers learn about the history of the divide between themselves and the Socs mainly through folklore and storytelling practices.

If there is the time and knowledge within the household, some parents may choose to teach their children whatever knowledge of distinguished subjects such as science, math, and fine art that they may have left over from the old world. These parents, though, are not skilled enough to establish inquiry-based learning practices and instead utilize a more traditional banking concept of education. The banking concept of education focuses more on teachers filling students with predetermined knowledge and less on students building knowledge on their own.

Culture and Cuisine

High-class socials (Socs) eating habits are a world apart from their lower-class neighbours (Greasers). Elite specialists carefully prepare high-class cuisine using the freshest premium ingredients, such as tropical fruits and vegetables out of season or rare spices that are no longer typical or common. Only those who can afford it can indulge in the exotic, varied flavours delivered to your doorstep. Dining out is quite common as hundreds of local restaurants serve only the finest fare that compliments thrilling live entertainment. Even clean drinking water is considered a rare delicacy.

All Socs food scraps are dumped in a refuge well that Greasers rely on to survive during winter when hunting, fishing, and farming are scarce.

While the Socs eats out for the enjoyment of it and have premium cooking delivered to their doorsteps, the Greasers struggle to stock pantries and food cellars with canned and dried goods, root vegetables as well as cured and frozen meats they find from scavenging. They prepare meals from scratch out of necessity and do not have the luxury of nearby restaurants or doorstep delivery. Recipes, skills, stories, and knowledge are passed down from generation to generation. Cooking takes time, love, effort, and a sense of reward from hard work. These skills create trade and craft opportunities for gardeners, farmers, butchers, hunters and more. Community gardens allow locals to harvest their fruit and vegetables, although conditions are challenging to grow, resulting in a poor yield. Many harvests meat, eggs and fish by raising chickens and farm animals and hunting or fishing.