Act XXII. Early morning at Crescent Academy
Monday morning is the time for the Crescent Academy's regular morning meeting.
At this time, in the slightly old auditorium of the Academy, all the students and teachers of the Crescent Academy were sitting, but even so, there were actually only thirty students and four teachers, including Claire.
"A veritable school abolition crisis."
Reiner sighed beside the rostrum, usually a normal magic academy has at least a hundred or more people, and the teachers are not to say much, there will be one person in each department, but the current situation of the Crescent Academy is that the teachers have to concurrently serve two or three departments, and the number of students is decreasing year by year.
In fact, when Reiner took over the school, several teachers left, and most of these teachers were poached by other schools, after all, at that time, it seemed that the final outcome of continuing to stay was to be dismissed, so it was better to change jobs in advance.
The students are all girls, Crescent Academy has a long history, and some families have sent their daughters here for a long time to study, not only to learn magic knowledge, but also to cultivate their etiquette as a lady, for these families, they don't expect their daughters to become mages, so they are naturally not too picky.
Reiner saw Charlotte in the crowd, who was sitting with her roommate Evanna, whispering something about something.
Claire, as the dean of teaching, spoke first, summarizing the overview of the previous week, and at the same time making arrangements for some work plans for the week, at this time, the teacher seemed quite trustworthy, except for the maid outfit she was wearing, of course.
Claire's attire will last for a week, but it seems that she is gradually coming to terms with this premise, and as for the students, there is some discussion at first, but after getting used to it, there is no opinion.
"Headmaster, it's your turn next."
The student council president, Elimia, said coldly to Reiner, the brown-haired girl with a meticulous poker face, who seemed to despise Reiner's previous actions.
"Thank you."
Reiner didn't care about the other party's attitude, wanting to change the image is not something that can be done overnight, he walked up to the podium and glanced at Claire who stepped down from the stage, the teaching director immediately turned his face away, with a little anger, in any case, it was too shameful to speak on the stage in a maid's costume, it was all Reiner's fault.
Arriving at the stage, Reiner glanced around the stage, most of the students were not interested, only students like Charlotte were looking at him, waiting for Reiner's speech.
Taking a deep breath, Reiner spoke, no script, for he had already drafted everything in his head.
"Dear students and teachers, good morning, first of all, this is my first morning meeting speech since I became the principal of Crescent Academy, but in this speech, I would like to announce a sad and sad report."
The first sentence caught the students' attention, and Reiner paused before continuing.
"This Crescent Academy is about to be abolished."
"Huh?" "What, what, what?" "Isn't it?" "How so?"
Reiner's words caused an uproar among the girls, and the concept of school abolition was too far away for them, but the meaning of the word was well understood.
"As you can see, most of the school's facilities are unmaintained due to lack of funding, the number of students enrolled has plummeted, most of the teachers have left, and more importantly, the school has been at the lowest level for several years, and this year it lacks enough academic points because of the departure of teachers, and if it fails to pass the audit in three months, then the school will be effectively abolished."
"And if the school is gone, where are we going?"
There was a bold girl in the front row who asked directly in a loud voice.
"In the past, you should have been assigned to other schools, but of course, since one school can't accept all the students, you may be scattered into several schools."
Although the number of students in the abandoned school is small, there have been cases in the past where students from abandoned schools have formed small groups in new schools, so this rule has been introduced since the students of the abandoned schools must be assigned to different schools in order to integrate into the new group more quickly.
Reiner's words once again caused everyone to panic a little, if the survival of the school is not intuitive, then the imminent separation with his friends is a looming crisis.
Instead of quieting the auditorium, Reiner chose to let them ferment their emotions.
Uneasiness, sadness, hesitation, such an atmosphere spread among the students, these are still teenage girls after all, sentimental, and not yet become profit-oriented nobles or rational and introverted mages, so after this emotion gradually penetrated everyone's hearts, Reiner spoke, continued.
"But, fellow students, please note that my premise is that if we fail the review after three months, Crescent Academy will be abolished."
Hearing Reiner's words, the disturbing discussion of the girls immediately fell silent, and the thirty girls all stared at Reiner, which made the headmaster smile.
"Teacher Claire and I have a preliminary plan for the measures to save the school, and everyone will see the results after a while, and here I just want to say two things to you."
Everyone pricked up their ears to hear what Reiner had to say.
"First of all, I won't stop you from choosing, I know that some students' families are influential nobles, rather than staying in such a school, it is better to rely on the power of the family to go to a better school, and if you leave now, you may be able to catch the opening ceremonies of some schools."
His words made Claire's face change, and she wondered if this guy was crazy, how could he say such a thing, this was tantamount to making many students abandon Crescent Academy, this kind of self-righteous behavior was really stupid!
Claire resisted the impulse, as if she was going up to force Reiner down the next moment, but an alchemy servant flew slowly and brought her a letter, so that Claire did not have the slightest impulse.
The students were quiet, no one spoke, no one left, and even a few girls who were looking left and right did not speak because of the atmosphere.
"Second, I would like to ask you to write down what you want to do in the future, or what you want to get, on a piece of paper and hand it over."
Reiner's sentence made everyone start to make a noise again, no one understood Reiner's intentions, this kind of propositional essay like "my dream" was not popular as a child, and now facing the crisis of school abandonment, why did Reiner let them write these things.
Reiner didn't have any explanation for this, just smiled mysteriously and then announced.
"So, ladies and gentlemen, please enjoy campus life to the fullest."
At the end of the morning meeting, Reiner slowly walked down the podium, facing Claire with a complicated expression, Reiner shrugged his shoulders and signaled innocence.
Claire sighed, feeling that she couldn't do anything with Reiner, she handed the letter in her hand to Reiner, and then spoke.
"This is the result of the review of the paper, and a lady is waiting for you in the reception room."