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Topic ID: 198
Message ID: 28
#28, RE: From the Department of Borderline-Necromancy:
Posted by zwol on Jun-29-22 at 09:48 PM
In response to message #24
This was a fascinating read, although perhaps not in the way you intended. I should explain that I'm easily old enough to be a teenage girl's dad, and also I've been reading a bunch of Worm lately, and in consequence I have, er, let us say a strong emotional reaction to institutionalized child abuse. So my immediate reaction to this was: given the firepower at the command of the Armorsport Club, why haven't they burned the entire school to the ground already?

And then it occurred to me that this would actually do very little good. In a setting where there is one school that caters to rich parents who want their children molded into compliant little minions, surely there are others. If Cleggers were to burn down under mysterious circumstances, its former students would just be packed off to another such school...

... but if Cleggers continues in operation, then so does the club, and it can continue to be a lifeline for those that need it. And perhaps the alumnae of the club will, as time goes by, get themselves onto the faculty and the board of governors and turn the whole school into that kind of lifeline. Keeping up the appearance of molding rebellious teenagers into compliance, though, in order to keep attracting the students who need this particular kind of help.