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Faculty Meeting - Friday Morning [04/18]
With the end of the semester on the horizon, there was time for one more faculty meeting. The lounge was set up as usual, with various kinds of pie, as well as juice, coffee, and tea. Happy teachers didn't destroy their students during their finals, after all.
Re: Before the Meeting
"Have you thought of a final for your students?" Ghanima asked, glancing over the rest of the room. "I must admit, I'm not one for standardized testing, but I have my doubts about how much some of them have actually learned."
Re: Before the Meeting
"I'm afraid that I've already used the no-win scenario for their mid-term, so I am still in the process of sorting everything out."
Re: Before the Meeting
"A 'no-win scenario'?" Ghanima smiled in amusement. "There's always a way out, it simply depends on what you consider a 'win'. Unfortunately, there aren't many dead-man-walking scenarios for mythology to drop my students in. I could make them have a mock-trial of some sort, contrasting current celebrity with mythological figures, but I'm afraid the point might go right over the heads of a few of them."
Re: Before the Meeting
"I think most students would consider running over a classmate or crashing a no-win," Bond said. "Especially when the odds have been stacked against them, so that crashing is actually inevitable.."