Toro School System

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Toro School System

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This is to help structure any school RPs that happen within Toro! Use it as a guide for any of those small details or questions you might have!

First, some ground rules! Attending school in Toro is legally required from the ages of five to eighteen, barring any exceptional circumstances. Homeschooling is acceptable. A school year starts the 8th of Fall every year and goes to the 24th of Spring the next year. Semester changes occur on the 16th of Winter on the year the school year started. Summers are off~ School lasts from 8AM to 3PM every day, and lunch is of course provided! They would get every fourth day off. Pixelmon are not allowed outside of their balls during school hours unless needed in class and/or specified by the teacher. Even then, only reasonably sized Pokemon are allowed out. Nothing too giant.

Now, let’s talk about the schools. Each school is equipped with a Cafeteria, nurse’s office, and Principal’s office. There are NPC students and teachers.

Aurelia Elementary School

The Aurelia school is an elementary school, basically kindergarten through the sixth grade! A kid starts to go to Kindergarten when they are five years old. So, they’re here from ages five to eleven. This school offers electives focusing on Pokemon. Particularly, Pokemon respect, training, and care. This basically means on top of learning all the stuff Elementary school kids normally learn, they’d also know the basics about Pokemon typing and battling. Think of the trainer school~ On top of that, they’d be well-endowed with the following: Pokemon are to be treated with respect. They are not tools. They are not weapons. Mistreating Pokemon is wrong. The students would also be told about Emergency Response Towers, and to use them if the RTMP isn’t around.

Tyrian High School

Kind of hard to see, but yes! This is the while building in the middle of the picture. This is for grades seven through twelve, or ages fifteen through eighteen. Five years of hell, as we all know high school is. The same classes offered in the middle school are also offered in high school! Except, the tech lab is more of an engineering lab. Students enrolled in technical courses can learn about soldering, woodworking, welding, etc. Many of the skills needed to join the workforce right out of high school! They can also do volunteer work for special benefits. Here, they’ll be required to take a Civil responsibilities class to learn about being a good citizen.

Alright, now that we’ve talked about the schools, let’s talk about enrichment classes. These are optional classes offered in high school and middle school.

- Home Economics: Basically, “How to be a stay-at-home parent.” This class teaches kids about cooking, sewing, child care, etc.

- Tech Lab (Middle School): The basics. They’d learn about tools, simple woodworking, soldering, maybe even dissect a Pokeball, or reading blueprints.

- Tech Lab (High School): Now we’re starting to play with the big toys. Welding, woodshop, carving, more advanced soldering. Think of it as an apprenticeship as a mechanic.

- Sports: Since there's only one proper High School in the region teams it has teams and they compete amongst themselves. The teams that do best have been known to go overseas for competitions!

- Civil Responsibilities (High School Only, Mandatory): All the fun stuff every high schooler is dying to know. This is the only required class of all of these. The importance and procedure of being a good citizen, paying taxes, voting, etc.

- Art: Learn about art. Draw, sculpt, draw, paint, draw, make collages, draw. We’ve all been in an art class!

- Band: Play in the band and master an instrument!

- Pokemon Education: Basically, more advanced trainers school for those interested in working with Pokemon.

- Sex/Health Education (High School, Mandatory): They teach classes on the risks of sexual activity as well as the value of nutritional upkeep and physical exercise.

Ferrite Regional University

When you finish high school, you have the option to enroll at the prestigious FRU! Here you can pursue just about any type of study you desire. Medicine? Psychology? Criminology? All doable! If you want to go into a more advanced field of work that would require a diploma, then this is the place to go for it.

Unlike elementary and high school RPs, FRU runs quite differently than that. While RPs can still happen here, you will have to fill out student records during your character’s education here. This will include your average grade per term, with most courses lasting 4 terms (may vary depending on the program). Student records have to be first filled out by Vernon, so message him if you want to enroll a character into FRU. From there, you’ll have to post replies on how your character is doing per semester (Their current average and what they’ve done to earn their grade/ how life may have affected it) in a short little blurb. Other players’ records can be a great reference on what needs to be filled.

Keep in mind that it is entirely your responsibility to keep your student records updated. You could very well fill out all your terms in one post when the time comes to graduate, but failure to keep your records up to date by the end of their program could result in your character flunking out. However, Vern will allow 2 IRL months after your graduation date to fill out your student records, and time is subject to change so long as someone comes and talks to him. Vern is also willing to offer aid in figuring out how to do your student records.

Outside of classes and grades, you can choose to live on campus in the dorms! There is no extra charge for this though rooms are limited and you will be expected to share the space with a roommate. A kitchen, common area, laundry room, and showers are available to all residents in the dorms.

Next, field trips. Basically, there are three optional field trips offered each year. Your student character does not have to go, but they can. Furthermore, every field trip is offered three times a year, so they can pick any of these field trips to go on, as long as they meet the requirements. The field trips are to locations of cultural importance or educational value within Toro. Most field trips are to towns. So, if you want to do a Field Trip RP, feel free to message the appropriate player!

- Aurelia (Elizabeth Ross/Stow): Courthouse, Government Building, RTMP Offices, Hospital, Battle tower, and PixCo Tower.
- Adamas (Clementine Holiday/Rosy): Dragon Nests (High School Only)
- Cobalt (Noelane Santiago/Popette): History Museum, Ancient Ship Display, and Museum
- Ferrite (Dion Ross & Tessa Ashwood/Vernon & Queen Heart): Ferrite Regional University and Paraspace research institute (PRI).
- Tyrian (Ai Knighton & Ray Knighton/Azure & Shadex): Tyrian Pokemon Laboratory, Opera House, Gold Star Refinery (High School Only)
- Viridis (Benji Charne/Chakurano): Viridis Farms, Soup Kitchen
- Galena (Nikko & Riley Brywood/ChaosMarine and Sn0wfa11): Underground waterfall, Residential Greenspace/ stage, Freyalise Cave (High School Only), Ice Skating Rink, and the Galena Museum.
- Toro in General: Solrock Clock Tower (Ask around!), the Pokemon Research and Rehabiliation Center (Aaron Blues & Earnest Young/Azure & That_Alex)

And now: Volunteering! High schoolers will be offered incentives for volunteering at any charity or educational facility like the Viridis Soup Kitchen. Of course, your character will have to have whomever they are working for sign off. They will be offered rewards for volunteering consistently, such as free meals or extra opportunities. Then, if they have volunteered enough, they get a special diploma called the Diploma with Samaritan Honors that will qualify them for special treatment if they go to FRU. Of course, all three hundred hours don't actually have to be RP'd out, but you can basically RP that your character is doing those hours. The volunteering does have to be done with an existing organization that accepts volunteer work ((you can't just say, "My character did volunteer work for X Organization I made up)) because we want to encourage RP.

Lastly, all students will be ICly given a pass to ride the subways for free during certain hours of the day - namely those hours needed for going to or coming from school (with this being extended for students who need it for clubs and such). As this is nearly impossible to OOCly implement, and there's no OOC cost, there won’t be an actual pass, but know that's there ICly!

So! What does all of this mean? Do you have to try to force all of this into your RP? No! Of course not. You don't even have to RP this out; this is the canon, IC Toro school system. So, if you have a child character in school, and you want to do school RP, you can use this as a reference for structuring it. You can use this to get ideas as to what you could RP.

How can you do school RP? Honestly, doing it on the server is possible, but we also have Discord chats which makes it easier to include NPC teachers and students. If you want school RP, you are certainly welcome to get a group of friends together and make a group to RP out everything on Toro’s Discord RP server. If they don’t have a kid character, you could also let others act as DM by controlling some NPC teachers and students. You can also have them go on a field trip or start a story arch with them starting volunteer work!

Of course, keep everything within reason. If your school RP is done off the server, it still needs to be acceptable on the server. Make other students, make teacher characters, make mean cafeteria ladies, and picked on nerds. Don’t have the school attacked by criminals, or have your student capture a Victini that wandered onto school grounds. Treat this like Foreign RP ((rule 1.7)), if it’s too lore changing, then the GMs will have to approve it to be canon. Don’t want to be in a situation where the GMs have to come in and say, “No, that didn’t happen” then enforce a retcon.

If you have any questions, comments, or concerns, feel free to ask someone. If you want advice on school RP, feel free to ask for thatas well!

School Counselor

As a note: every school in Toro has a School Counselor, and it is very likely a student will meet with one at least once in their school life for various normal reasons. Mental health is important in Toro, and there is a generally positive attitude about treating such things as well and keeping an eye on it. Toro's Counselors are trained, but they are not often replacement Therapists, for more specialized cases they refer people or their families elsewhere.
This is all optional, but if you'd like someone to RP a Guidance Counselor, feel free to contact me [ Rosy ] and we can set up a roleplay.

- Dealing with mental, social, and behavioral problems that students may have.
- Help students develop important skills such as time management, good study habits, organizing, healthy social behavior.
- Work with students with their class load-out
- Lead them onto the right path to take for their goals and similar right choices
- Help them figure out what their goals even are

You can see what else they do: [Here] & [url=https://www.goodtherapy.org/learn-about ... elors%20Do?][Here][/u] or wherever else on the internet!
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