Re: Toro's School System K-12

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Re: Toro's School System K-12

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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. Home schooling 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 in. 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 Pixelmon 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.

The Aurelia Elementary School
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The Aurelia school is an elementary school, basically Kindergarten through the Fifth 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 Pixelmon. Particularly, Pixelmon 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 Pixelmon typing and battling. Think of the trainer school~ On top of that, they’d be well-endowed with the following: Pixelmon are to be treated with respect. They are not tools. They are not weapons. Mistreating Pixelmon is wrong. The students would also be told about Emergency Response Towers, and to use them if the RTMP aren’t around.

The Carmine Middle School
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The Carmine school is a middle school, grades six through eight, or ages twelve through fourteen. Sports, Home Economics, basic Tech Lab, Pixelmon Education and art classes are offered~ Of course, those are enrichments, so students can pick whichever they like most. I’ll explain more about those later.

The Tyrian High School
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Kinda hard to see, but yes! This is the sandstone building in the middle of the picture. This is for grades nine through twelve, or ages fifteen through eighteen. Four 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, wood-working, 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 Pixelball, or reading blueprints.
    - Tech Lab (High School): Now we’re starting to play with the big toys. Welding, wood shop, carving, more advanced soldering. Think of it as an apprenticeship as a mechanic.
    - Sports: Right now, it’d be each school breaking off into teams and playing against themselves. However, an international league might form. *looks to Foreign Minister*
    - 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 XD
    - Band: Play in the band and master an instrument!
    - Pixelmon Education: Basically, more advanced trainers school for those interested in working with Pixelmon.
    - Sex/Health Education (High School, Mandatory): Keld Ishiin, the player himself, is teaching classes on the risks of sexual activity as well as the value of nutritional upkeep and physical exercise. Message ItsRia for more information. Good luck with the accent ((Heavy Scottish)).
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 leader of the town! If I am available, I'm happy to plan, coordinate, or help in any way I can~
  • - Aurelia (Mary LeGrand/Rosy): Courthouse, Government Building, RTMP Offices, and PixCo Tower.
    - Adamas (Thomas Bryant/tdf88): Tom’s Farm, Dragon Nests (High School Only)
    - Carmine (Lana Kiesin/Lorna): Power Plant (High School Only)
    - Cobalt (Mimi LeGrand/Popette): History Museum, Ancient Ship Display and Museum
    - Ferrite (-?-/ Ferrite): Ferrite Polytechnic Institute, Ferrite Research Laboratory
    - Tyrian (Kiori Mielke/ItsRia): Tyrian Pixelmon Laboratory, Opera House, Gold Star Refinery (High School Only)
    - Viridis (Benji Charne/Chakurano): Viridis Farms, Soup Kitchen
    - Toro in General: Solrock Clock Tower, Central Pixelmon Rescue Shelter (Lorna)
Okay, and nooooooow… Volunteer hours! So, 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 getting out of class to go to the movies, or getting a free meal or something. 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 FPU. 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. Now, this 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. As this is… nearly impossible to OOCly implement, there won’t be an actual pass, but… >w> YoucanRPthereisonewhoops.

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 XD 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? Well… Honestly, doing it on the server is possible, but previously, TDF, Kittys, and Snow made a Skype group. This let them bring in NPC teachers and students. For example, they made a bully character to drive a story arch. So… If you are wanting school RP, you are certainly welcome to get a group of friends together and make a Skype group to RP out everything. If they don’t have a kid character, why not let them act as DM by controlling some NPC teachers and students? You can 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 server, it still needs to be acceptable on server. Make other students, make teacher characters, make mean cafeteria ladies, and picked on nerds. Don’t have the school attacked by Team Noir, 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.

Alrighty! If you have any questions, comments, or concerns, feel free to ask. If you want advice on school rp, ask as well :3

School Counselor
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 general 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 else-where.
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 classes 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] & [Here]
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