This Afternoon

[x-dominion.livejournal.com]

Well, we blew the eventfree trip into the city card. This afternoon, while downtown, Angel Jones was at a camera shop waiting for her dad when a nearby building caught fire. She decided to go in to help after hearing that a couple of people were trapped inside, and from the mostly incoherent rambles from my backseat, I've pieced together that she saved a couple of lives doing so.

She's home, and in a bit of shock. Unfortunately, neither myself or DavjaCynedckdi Haller are the most empathetic souls, so someone might want to check up on her and see how she's doing. I think she's mostly just scared that she's somehow in trouble for what she did. Also, freaked out of her mind from running into a burning building, on top of her normal dedicated mainlining of RedBull through an IV drip.

Someone should drop in on her, and maybe give her some time off classes to get her bearings? It seriously looks like she got a couple of people out, which is a lot to deal with for a fifteen year old. I'll give the Fire House a call on Monday, find out what happened and make sure that we know if there are any issues involved.

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[x-legion.livejournal.com]

As a matter of fact I checked on Angel after I gave the professor my report, since being empathetic is actually the definition of my job. When I'm me, that is, which I am again, though a couple more people checking wouldn't hurt. Angel is going to stay with her father for the weekend. I don't think excusing her from classes tomorrow is going to be a huge concern, since it's Friday.

She followed procedure and called Charles first -- he was with her the entire time. She did everything right, and applied her powers to the situation very well; she saved three people today. She requested this one not be shared around with the other students too much, though. She's sort of embarrassed about it. (And also afraid she was going to be expelled for using her powers unsupervised. Except she was, so the professor has talked to her about that already.)

[x-legion.livejournal.com]

All right, possibly I'm not in the greatest of moods about the part where we consented to leave her alone and ended up across town when a fire broke out. So much for trying not to smother the kids. I think a lot of my weekend's going to consist of talking to the professor and trying to figure out how much security is too much. Right now I'm just going to focus on the overwhelming relief that this out-of-mansion disaster turned out a lot better for the student involved than the last few.

[x-dominion.livejournal.com]

And...?

As the Professor said, she did fine. These kids already spend too much time in the mansion and around the same people who are not their parents. And you want to add more security and oversight on top of it? I think it's a win. She did what she was taught to do, and did it right. It was an extraordindary situation that could never have been anticipated. If any thing, she's earned the right to be trusted with more independence, not less.

[x-legion.livejournal.com]

I don't even disagree with you on principle. Angel did well (and she's in RedX, so she's even got additional preparation for situations like this), and the students can't stay at the school all their lives. I'm not the biggest fan of a lot of the security precautions since they create unrealistic and unsustainable standards of safety. And not ones that are socially healthy, either, I agree.

Speaking as a staffmember who's had to deal with the aftermath of a number of really painful student happenings, though -- disappearances and a couple of attacks, Kyle's standing out in recent events -- the simple truth that it's not possible to have both total security and anything like a normal life is frustrating. On the whole I agree; I'd also choose to give them something as close to normal as possible, with less security and paranoia being healthier than "safer." The kids need risk and suffering. It just doesn't make knowing you have to let what will come come any easier.

Oversensitivity is what they pay me for.

[x-cyclops.livejournal.com]

I realize there's a certian visceral reaction to the words "student", "fire", and "life-threatening situation" in combination, but she is okay. I think it might help to focus on the specific situation and how well it turned out, rather than dwelling too much on the broader implications. We do our best to strike a balance between protecting them and giving them the freedom they need - it's all we can really do.

[x-legion.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I know, overreaction moment. This definitely was the best outcome of a worst-case scenario, if that makes sense.

(I'm also still mortified about my previous chaperoning experience having involved yanking the kids into a coma in January, among other things. There's definitely some projection going on. I know that's basically just a right of passage here, but that was just embarrassing.)

[x-polarisstar.livejournal.com]

Perhaps we should work on teaching them that if they are going to run /into/ burning buildings they should...well, not. Though she did fine.

Honestly, this sounds like a case of a student learning too well from the example of her teachers, not a failing of security.

[x-polarisstar.livejournal.com]

Wow, did I just agree with Garrison? My world is so turned upside down.

I think I need to have a little lie down.

[x-cyclops.livejournal.com]

I believe the Professor's speaking or has spoken to her parents this evening.