+ Too Cool for School +

[vitaelamorte]

Who: Everyone!
Where: Yasogami High School
When: 6/28-7/1
Rating: Warn if you go higher than PG-13
Summary: Open log for the Persona 4 event! Everyone is spending some time as students and instructors at Yasogami High School in Inaba, Japan.
The Story:
For the weekend, everyone is either a teacher or a student at a Japanese high school. Enjoy Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, and look forward to exams on Monday.

The full event description is located here and the plot post is here, with a Q&A thread where you can ask questions.

Comments

“Studying” in the library

[captain_america]

[ It’s not that he’s a bad student, on the contrary he’s actually very bright, but there’s just something about math that doesn’t always click. He’s doing fine in every other class but if he can’t pass his math exam then he’s going to have to sit out of the next few lacrosse games and well that’s just not an option. They are playing their rivals next weekend and there’s no way he’s sitting on the bench for that game.

So that’s why he’s here. Getting help from Juliet later into Saturday night when most people have left for the day. It also doesn’t help that Juliet is really pretty and it’s sort of distracting. ]

I don’t understand why I’m going to need to know any of this for practical life skills. No one is going to ask me what an integer is.

[holyshihtzu]

[ She's had a crush on Steve since the day she met him. To be entirely fair, she doesn't know anyone in the school who doesn't have some kind of crush on Steve Rogers - not only is he a good looking jock, but he's also genuinely nice to everyone. And even though he sucks at math and clearly would rather be elsewhere, he's managed to never make Juliet feel like a giant, loser nerd for tutoring in her spare time.

That's why she also ends up a little distracted when she's working with him, too, but at least she can kind of pretend she doesn't want to just stare at him the entire time. ]

It's less about practical life skills and more about... context. [ She looks up at him, tapping the eraser end of her pencil against her notebook. ] Let's say you end up getting an amazing lacrosse scholarship at an expensive university. If you want to be responsible about it, you're going to need math to figure out what it will cover and how much you'll need for books and tuition fees, right? Or if you end on a team and you want to invest your money for later. You can hire someone to do that, but you shouldn't be totally clueless about it, either. Maybe when you're thirty, no one is going to ask you specifically what an integer is--you might not even remember the technical word for it--but you're going to balancing the difference between a dollar and a dollar-fifty every day. Knowing how they are different is the point.

[captain_america]

But that’s basic math. I know basic math. That’s easy. This stuff makes no sense.

[ He lets his head flop back in frustration. ]

I probably won’t play lacrosse in college anyway. I’m only applying to art schools.