Meanwhile...
After Tomonori Mashima accepted the students' 2 million Point transaction to purchase the school rules, he headed to the chairman's office.
The school, funded by the government, aims to cultivate talent and send it into society. This pilot program has proven effective, having already produced five batches of graduates.
Tomonori, a former student who graduated from Class A two years ago, chose to stay and work at the school. Interestingly, the homeroom teachers for the other first-year classes this year are all his former classmates.
The Class B homeroom teacher is Hoshino Chieko, a cute girl with slightly curly hair who appears absentminded. Don't be fooled — despite better prospects elsewhere, she chose to stay at the school as a homeroom teacher.
Kazuma Sakagami, the Class C homeroom teacher, is another former classmate. After graduation, he continued his studies but fell victim to a scam, losing a large sum of money. Still in debt, he returned to Nurturing High School.
Like the students, the teachers are also strength-based. The salaries for classes A, B, C, and D differ significantly: Tomonori earns 1 million Points monthly, Class B 800,000, Class C 300,000, and Class D 200,000.
Despite his background, Kazuma was assigned by the chairman to start teaching Class C.
Sae Chabashira, the Class D homeroom teacher, is a tall, cool, and beautiful woman. Though from the same year as Tomonori, she wasn't in Class A. Starting in Class D, she climbed the ranks with her students, narrowly missing Class A and graduating from Class B.
Sae proved her capability by testing directly into a faculty position at Nurturing High School. However, after a year as Class D's homeroom teacher, she hasn't achieved any notable results. With the class' slim chances of improvement and the low salary and benefits, it's puzzling why she stays when she could fare better elsewhere.
"That's how it is." Tomonori said, not one to gossip. He reported his class's situation to the chairman.
"This is quite extraordinary." said Chie, Class B's homeroom teacher, "This year's Class A is exceptionally outstanding. Starting off by pooling the class's points to buy the rules — this has never happened before, has it?"
"Hmph!" Kazuma snorted.
His income as Class C's homeroom teacher was already considered high compared to the outside world, but he had ambitions to climb higher. If he could ascend to Class B or A, he could clear his remaining debt completely.
At the same time, he wondered why he had to start teaching Class C when he had been a Class A student himself.
Despite his dissatisfaction, he had discovered a few promising students in this year's Class C.
The most outstanding among them was Kakeru Ryūen. During the class meeting, he had already begun to consolidate the class. It probably wouldn't take a week to fully integrate his classmates.
This was quite impressive and gave Kazuma high hopes.
But what was supposed to be good news for him turned out to be Class A cheating en masse. If they knew the school rules on the first day, what was the point of competing?
Class C might as well give up now. With this year's Class A being so formidable, wouldn't his class be suppressed again?
"I called you here for this reason." said Narumori Sakayanagi.
As the Chairman, he and other staff members had already discovered Class A's moves through the classroom cameras.
"They've learned to use points to purchase rules right from the start. This has never happened before — even Manabu Horikita didn't manage this. Moreover, the entire class participated in the purchase and was willing to accept losing half of their points. It might be because they've just enrolled and haven't started treating points as money, so they don't feel the loss too keenly. However, after consideration by the board, we've decided to grant Class 1-A a perfect score in this behavioral norm test. So this time, Class 1-A will be exempt, with no deductions for behavioral norms."
"If that's the case, I think it's inappropriate." Tomonori quickly interjected, "Since they already know the rules, my students will definitely do their best. Even if the board doesn't give any special rewards, we won't lose many points — at most, we'll lose less than 50 points in a month."
As the homeroom teacher of his class, he was trying his best to fight for his students' interests.
As Class A's homeroom teacher, he was also under pressure. He couldn't show favoritism and had to maintain fairness, but he also wanted to do something for his students.
"Yes, we've considered this point as well." Narumori said, folding his hands on the desk, unfazed by Tomonori's objection, "We've decided to reward Class 1-A with an additional 200 Class Points. We're all eager to see how this year's Class A develops."
In other words, even though school has just begun, the board already considers this year's Class A the most promising, doesn't it?
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"It seems my Class B has been underestimated."
The teachers quickly dispersed after the meeting.
Class B's homeroom teacher, Chie, latched onto Class D's homeroom teacher, Sae.
Although they had been assigned to different classes as students, the two were best friends from earlier days. Now, working together as teachers, it was only natural for them to reconnect.
Chie, appearing casual, began to voice her concerns.
While the quality of students in classes A, B, C, and D was divided by levels, Class B was still very close to Class A. She felt that the Chairman's words had directly ignored their Class B students.
After all, she believed this year's Class B students were quite promising. Honami Ichinose, in particular, was like a little angel, capable of uniting the class firmly.
Walking on Sae's left, Chie displayed a cute expression.
"Sae-chan, I noticed your expression changed a bit when the chairman mentioned Class A's exemption. Before the announcement, I watched the camera footage of your class. A student from Class A came to sell information, didn't they? It's a shame — your Class D students also knew the school rules. Otherwise, they could have gotten an exemption too and might have suddenly jumped to Class B." She said teasingly.
Sae, however, sensed that her friend might have been a bit nervous. Was Chie worried about being surpassed by Class D?
Indeed, if the Chairman had granted Class D exemption rights, they couldn't have caught up with Class A's high scores. But Class D had encountered a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.
Houtarou Oreki from Class A had come to Class D to sell information, allowing them to learn the school rules on their first day. According to the board's reward system, they could have been exempted from this behavioral norm test.
Although they lost points today, being exempted for the following month would have meant their score would likely exceed 900 after a month. Other classes like C or B might take much longer to grasp the school's essence and start the behavioral norm test.
Based on past experience, these classes would likely lose over 300 Class Points in a month. Therefore, if Class D had received the exemption and stopped losing points, they would have had a chance to soar.
But it didn't happen.
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