A young teacher, Winnie, rebels against the school system.
September 6th, 3000
Dear Diary,
OK! It’s day one of my first year of teaching at Social Prepatory Institute. I’ve already been to the school and into my classroom a few times to set up my face ID and fingerprint access, as well as to set up each student’s various learning devices. I’m especially excited to utilize the new Tesla VR headsets. I’ve actually used the model prior before in teacher’s college at York University, so i’m pretty confident i’ll be able to use the new model pretty easily. The VR headsets are meant to encourage experiential learning in the classroom, since we aren’t able to actually travel anywhere since the divide happened. I think it’s really important for the students to learn through doing rather than just learning from an e-book.
I just got to school and the students are definitely dressed to impress. It looks like metallic and chrome garments are all the rage again this year. The students in all of my classes seem very focused on participating and doing well in class, but I worry that some are only doing this to appear smart and climb the social ladder.
Winnie
September 12th, 3000
Diary,
It’s been a few days now and I’ve noticed that there is a lot of pressure from the school board to have the highest test scores possible. A lot of the teachers here do care about teaching with an inquiry-based mindset and really trying to engage the students in the work, but it feels like Tesla really just wants us to push out “distinguished” and intelligent students/members of society.
They warned us about the conflicts between the teachers, the school board and Tesla and how that might make teaching for the better of the students difficult, but I didn’t realize it would already be this hard.
I also wonder a lot about the children of the Greasers. I understand that they are a vile and uncivilized community and that they have done some really awful things to us Socs, but when I look at my students I think about their children too. The children have not done anything wrong yet, right? I remember vaguely when I was younger before the divide, we learned a bit about helping those “less fortunate” than us. Not sure how that worked exactly. I don’t know, maybe we could create a program here at the school to help save some of those children from their vile parents?
I’m going to talk to my principal about some of the concerns I have and i’ll report back.
Winnie
September 13th, 3000
Diary,
I have to write this quickly - I don’t think i’m safe anymore.
I spoke to my principal and she was NOT happy with some of the “radical” ideas I have and I was told to pack up and go home. One of my teacher friends warned me that they’ve heard stories about other “radicals” being thrown to the Greaser side.
I just got home and there is a government Tesla outside of my home. This might be my last entry diary.
Winnie