fandomtownies | Community Center Class: Making The World A Better Place (Tuesday Evening)

"We're going back to the same near-Earth dimension as last time," Yang said, as she started waving people through the portal. "But this time, to something a little less physically intensive."

On the other side, they'd find themselves in front of a library. "Today, we're going to be reading tutors."

"Statisics show that communities are happier, healhier, and have higher upward mobility in the future with high literacy rates. But not everyone is able to get the help they need at home or at school."

"Many times, kids don't like doing their reading with their families, often because of the stress of expectations from their adults, or perhaps the adult in the room doesn't have the literacy required themselves. So today, we're going to do our best to help out by providing some non-judgemental, one-on-one time with students. Reading Partners, the people who invited us here today, already have outlines for us for what we should accomplish in our time with the kids. We just have to follow their timeline."

"For those of you who prefer not to interact deeply with children, they can use help organizing supplies, making photocopies, and running the sign-in and registration table, where you'll be working mostly with their adults."

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Lost in a good book!

Stark

Nell Ingram

Jonathan Sims

Dwight Hendrickson

It's short and sweet, so that you can get to work!

Mod your npc children as you read, help reshelve books, entertain younger children waiting their turns, make copies, try to hide from the teacup humans...

Stark still looked like he'd been beaten up by someone who knew what they were doing. That was because Stark had been beaten up by someone who knew what they were doing.

He had a lightweight hoodie on, as he usually did when traveling outside of Fandom, which at least partially hid the mask and some of the bruises. But children were observant and children asked questions and he wasn't getting much reading done.

This Nell could get behind. Before long she found herself sitting with the kids who were waiting there turn, or waiting for an older sibling, reading to them from some picture books. By the end of their time there she had several children clinging to her skirts and one in her lap as she read.

Oh, thank Christ. This was something Jon could do! He might have to work his way up to dealing with children, but he could organize and reshelve like a champ.

He'd stay far away from the picture books, just in case, but working one-on-one with an older child made him feel like he was actually making a difference in a good way. It was a nice feeling.

Dwight would have been content to sit and read or entertain the kids all day long. Turns out there was another job for him to that day that was just as important and very much needed.

Soon as the staff saw him walk through the door they got Dwight busy moving boxes and supplies and also had him help the staff with some long-overdue furniture moving and organizing.

And of course the entire time, there was a big smile on his face.

She's here, generally letting small children climb on her as a reward for doing a good job. They think it's REALLY COOL how many of them she can lift on her arms at once.

Happy Tuesday y'all.

Community Center Class: Making The World A Better Place (Tuesday Evening)

Sign-In

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During the Lecture

Reading Partners!

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Talk to Yang

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