Fast Times at Wawanakwa High

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Welcome to Wawanakwa Boarding School, one of the best schools in Canada. At least that's what its principal ('autocrat') claims.

But he is right in a way. A portion of the students who study at the school are some of the finest ever. Around 40%, to be more precise.

I'm sure many of you are confused by now. (I know you are, don't lie!) Allow me to explain.

There are five types of classrooms at Wawanakwa High. Yep, only five. 5 in numeric, V in Roman numerals, you get the picture. Each one of the classroom types is 'special' in their own way.

Class A is the first one. Although the saying may go 'first the worst', Class A actually has the best. The students are the cream of the crop, and as such, they get to use the finest equipment in the whole school. In this classroom, there is an air conditioner for when it gets hot and a heater for when it gets cold. The children are served the most delicious food which is prepared by the best cooks that the school has to offer. They had large desks and velvet chairs (which were more like sofas) that were comfortable enough to sleep on. As if all of this wasn't enough, they each get their own laptop which they can use for class as well as personal use. Everyone else has to use the computers in the Computer Lab.

Class B is a rung lower on the totem pole, but still pretty damn good. The students of Class B didn't really mind coming in second best, as they were still at the top half of the school. Their equipment was similar to that of Class A, but there were some differences between the two. They had an AC and a heater, and they also had comfy wooden chairs with leather cushions on them. The desks were big and they enjoyed pretty good food. They did not get their own personal laptops, but it didn't really matter too much since they still had it made. It had all the necessities that a good class requires. Classroom B was still an ideal studying environment.

Class C is the most "average" of the lot, being right in the middle of the five. They had an air conditioner, but it malfunctioned sometimes so The Academy had ceiling fans installed as a slight compensation. The heater in Class C always managed to malfunction during the end of the winter season for some reason. Some of the wooden chairs were chipped, but still sturdy. The desks weren't too shabby either. Class C's food was pretty bland and lacked much flavor, but they didn't mind it. After all, a lot of classrooms have problems, and their problems weren't that bad. In fact, looking at the grand scheme of things, the problems faced by Class C were minor. They knew that it could have been worse.

Class D is bad. They didn't even have an air conditioner, much less a malfunctioning one. The heater was busted and no one had bothered to replace it, so the students and staff eventually grew accustomed to the situation. The food that the students were served tasted crappy, and after a while, some of them started to wonder if it was actual food or not. Some of the chairs were broken and needed fixing, even though a complaint had been registered a long while back. The desks were good but had doodles scribbled on them by some of the unruly students. Instead of being angry or depressed that they weren't in a better class, the students in Class D were happy. At least they weren't in the bottom fifth of the pack.

Class F is total crap. It was a hellhole. There was no other way to put it. The children were the worst in the entire school. Their food was specially prepared by Chef John Hatchet, which may seem like a good thing except for the fact that Chef Hatchet's food tasted like garbage. It didn't help that Chef was a former drill sergeant, so the students were cautious to complain about the food. A handful of the chairs were either broken or in the process of being broken. Even some of the desks had collapsed and the students had to put them back together themselves since the rest of the staff were preoccupied with other business. The classroom conditions most likely broke a bunch of laws. The school would have been shut down by the Government except for the fact that Principal Maclean had managed to convince the authorities that every classroom was like that of A's. In simple terms, assuming that Class B was The Good and Class D was The Bad, then Class F would definitely be The Ugly.

Chris may or may not have gotten the idea for classroom division from a certain anime starting with 'b'. [1]

Anyway, after hearing all of this, there is one thing that pops up in everyone's minds: Whatever happened to Class E?

There are a multitude of answers to that question. Chris Maclean must have had something in mind when he created the class system at Wawanakwa High.

Maybe he wanted to base it off of the popular letter grading system used in the United States with 'A' denoting the highest and 'F' denoting the lowest. It could be that Chris wanted to differentiate F from the rest of the classes. It is also possible that when The Academy was first started, there weren't that many students so five classrooms was enough and that Chris never bothered to change it. Or maybe Chris is a dumbass and doesn't know that the letter 'e' comes after the letter 'd' in the alphabet.

Yep. Definitely the last one. Either way, there was no Class E.

There are four classrooms of each type, denoted by a number and a hyphen before the type of class. For example, Class 1-A, Class 2-A, Class 3-A, Class 4-A, Class 1-B, et cetera. Freshmen are in the 1s, sophomores in the 2s, juniors in the 3s and seniors in the 4s.

A student may switch classes provided they meet the necessary criteria to be in that class. So how exactly are students selected to be in a particular class?

The criterion is a combination of academics, athletics, extracurricular activities, track record and popularity. "Why popularity?" some may ask. Chris decided that since popularity was already a dividing factor outside of class; why not make it a dividing factor inside of class as well? Isn't that great?

All of the teachers take a look at the children's records for the past year. Based on the test scores, sports and P.E., clubs and societies, misdeeds, and amount of fans, a child gets placed in one of the five class types.

Some of the categories carried more weight than the others (*cough* Popularity *cough*). Ultimately, the final decision was up to Chris. If he felt that a particular student needed to be placed in a particular class, then that was the way it would work. There would be no ifs, ands, or buts about it.

It was summer time in Ontario. There were no classes, no students running in the halls in order to get to the class on time, no bells signaling the end of one class and the start of another and no exams, projects, or homework.

The students were free to do as they please, be it going to the beach, hanging out at the mall or joining a reality show. But all good things must come to an end, and the summer was fleeting. There were only two days left before the school-year. The students knew that, the parents knew that, the teachers knew that, and Chris Maclean knew that.

Most of his years at Wawanakwa Boarding School were pretty ordinary. There were the occasional misdemeanors, but nothing too much. They hadn't had a big problem in years, and most of the students were well behaved.

"It would be nice if I could just have another normal year as the Principal of Wawanakwa Academy." He thought to himself.

Little did he know that this year's freshmen were anything but normal. Things were going to change at Wawanakwa Academy, for better or for worse. There was a lot in store for both the kids as well as the staff.

Unbeknownst to this, the metrosexual stroked his hair and slept peacefully on his king size bed in the master bedroom of his mansion.

Sleep tight Chris. Sleep while you still can. You'll be tearing that hair out come school-time.

NOTES:

[1] Baka and Test, for anyone who was wondering.

So that's it for the first chapter. Hope you liked it. I was planning to write this a long time back, but just never got around to it. Will update this more frequently once I finish my other story, Total Drama Redemption. Check that out if interested and I'll see you next time.