BattleTech: Failings in Teaching (Eridani Light Horse Chronicles, Part Six) by Daniel Isberner
Author:Daniel Isberner
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Publisher: Catalyst Game Labs
Published: 2021-09-10T05:00:00+00:00
LECTURE HALL 22, COLLEGE OF MILITARY SCIENCE
NEW AVALON INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE
NEW AVALON
CRUCIS MARCH, FEDERATED COMMONWEALTH
7 OCTOBER 3052
Parish looked at the cadets in front of him. These were the ones who hadnât passed the exam last semester, and were now trying to make up for it by taking a block course during their summer vacation. The whole semester crammed into four weeks of nonstop lectures and seminars.
Because almost half his students hadnât passed the test and the NAIS was blaming it all on himâWhy is it my fault? If I forget something, they should notice and not just sit thereâso now he had to make up for it.
What the last semester had been missing was a student like Claudia Endris. She had made valedictorian, and was currently pondering which unit she would join. She had gotten quite a few offers from premier regiments, but had not decided on one yet.
He drank his Irish coffee and looked at the cadets in front of him. They were all looking at the papers in front of them, thinking about the problem he had presented them.
To avoid the NAIS putting more pressure on him, Claudia had demanded she prepare his classes and everything he handed to the students. In exchange, he had promised to see a psychiatrist. She had made it clear that she would have been out of the door and out of his life, had he dared to refuse. He had not.
One of the students raised his hand.
âYes?â
âProfessor, Iâ¦â He was clearly afraid to speak up. Parishâs temper had become legend in the NAIS, but he had also promised Claudia heâd ease up on the cadets.
âCome on, I donât have all day.â He tried not to be angry, but it didnât work completely. One of you guys is reporting back to Claudia. I know she has friends in here.
âThe situation in front of us is unsolvable.â
âWhy do you think that?â
The problem on their noteputers presented a basic situation, and depending on what answers the students chose, they would get different situations with different questions as a response to it until the situation was resolved.
âOur patrol lance receives a distress call from civilians within enemy territory. Obviously being attacked by pirates who tried to cash in on the conflict.â
âGo on.â
âWe then have four choices. First, ignore the distress call, because we think it is a trap. Which will get us demoted when we get back to base. Second, we call for help, but that help will be twenty minutes out. When they arrive and we finally engage, the civilians are all dead and the pirates are gone. We wonât get demoted, but we will still get chewed out and have to live with dead civilians on our conscience. Three, we send in a scout to find out whatâs going on. And finally, four, we run in blindly to take out the pirates.â
Parish had put down his mug and was now listening closely. âYou have established the basic situation. Go on.â
âIf we choose option three, the scouts will find a beat-up pirate lance we can take out easily.
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