fifteendozentimes | Chatfic: Alternative School Teachers 'Verse

verbosewordsmith and I chatfic a lot. This is one of my favorite 'verses, the one where Panic/Zack/assorted bandom folks/Nicole Anderson/Mika (it's our ridiculous chat 'verse and we'll cross over what we want to, shut up) teach at an awesone artsy alternative elementary/middle school.

I don't capitalize or punctuate properly when I chatfic, which is way more jarring next to verbosewordsmith's actual proper typing skills /o\.

fifteendozentimes: i want all the panic fic set in an elementary/middle school. brendon teaches music and jon teaches art and spencer teaches 8th grade and idk what ryan does.

verbosewordsmith: ryan's an english teacher, of course!

fifteendozentimes: spencer teaches 8th grade science, or math, but probably science, and ryan teaches 8th grade english

verbosewordsmith: science all the way, he introduces the kids of bunsen burners and they do rockets and some fun labs with fire/potassium/generally explodey but not too dangerous things. and they do this whole big long thing on simple machines and plays with legos and make stuff out of straws and toothpicks and rubber bands

fifteendozentimes: everybody fucking loves mr. smith's science class

verbosewordsmith: he collaborates with the social studies teacher and Jon when they do a big unit on the middle ages to make catapults and like, blue prints for a castle (which is sort of math, sort of art) and his kids learn about some science history stuff and it's a whole Thing

verbosewordsmith: (it also involves carboard scale models of their castle blueprints and using the model catapults in the hallway and seeing what stays/measuring how part stuff gets thrown and graphing it)

verbosewordsmith: everyone wants to be in Mr. Smith's classes

fifteendozentimes: i feel like everyone loves jon's art class, too, because he's chill and has rock star friends he tells cool stories about and is totally willing to let the kids who can't draw straight lines do, like, collage or stuff

fifteendozentimes: and yesss

verbosewordsmith: (I think it's a small school, he teaches middle school science and like, pre-algebra)

fifteendozentimes: ooh, yeah

verbosewordsmith: (I am also heavily borrowing from the cooler stuff my school did)

fifteendozentimes: no one likes ryan's english class except the kids who really love books and reading and writing. ryan is okay with this.

verbosewordsmith: as long as his kids come out with the ability to write a basic 5 paragraph essay and know how to expand that into a longer paper, he calls it good

fifteendozentimes: spencer is the cool loved one, sure, but ryan has kids coming back from 11th grade for help writing college application essays

fifteendozentimes: so :P

verbosewordsmith: *nods* and Ryan has the really bookish/writery kids hanging out in his room before/after school/during breaks and he talks to them about their fanfic and random story ideas and like, steals an idea from this art teacher he meets at a conference, Gerard, who does this whole joint comic unit with an english teacher where the kids have to create their own original superhero (or other) kind of comic as a way to teach them about writing stuff and planning and whatever

verbosewordsmith: Ryan's like huh, that's a cool idea and starts doing something along those lines

fifteendozentimes: lol jon's services are in high demand in the eighth grade

verbosewordsmith: *nods*

verbosewordsmith: I think Ryan would go more for graphic novels than comics-like some of the autobiographical and historical ones and he gets pretty excited when he sees like, a graphic novel version of Dracula and designs this whole huge unit where they'll read the original novel and watch some move versions and read the comic one

fifteendozentimes: oh man, yes

verbosewordsmith: Ryan also does a poetry unit where he's like, so songs can also be poems. and then does this whole thing with the beatles and other great songwriters and poets

fifteendozentimes: hahah he would

verbosewordsmith: so like, three times a year, Ryan's English class is the best and the rest of the time, lots of books, lots of essays about the books they read in class (Ryan thinks book reports are pointless) and lots of vocab/grammar worksheets and handouts

verbosewordsmith: (man, middle school with Panic would have been SO MUCH fun)

fifteendozentimes: omg i know

fifteendozentimes: brendon's band class and choir would have been so awesome

verbosewordsmith: *nods* and he would like, show the kids musicals and bring in music they like and music he likes and talk about them and what works and why it works instead of just being like "these are notes. this is a way to remember what order they go in"

verbosewordsmith: he might devote 10 minutes of class a week to talk about Glee and American Idol with his kids because he wants them to be excited about music

fifteendozentimes: they have separate art teachers for the older and younger kids but not separate music, and brendon fucking loves working with the elementary kids

fifteendozentimes: and oooh, yes

verbosewordsmith: Jon totally teaches his kids the basics of photography and will like, talk to them about film a bit. he might do a couple of classes teaching the kids about scanners and photoshop and helps kids who stay interested learn more

verbosewordsmith: (this is an Ideal School where they have art and music more than once a week)

fifteendozentimes: i want to go to this school

verbosewordsmith: me too it would be so great

verbosewordsmith: right now I'm imagining it as a k-8 magnet or alternative school or something

fifteendozentimes: mmm, yeah

verbosewordsmith: possibly connected with a local magnet and alternative high schools? like most kids from Awesome School go on to the arts magnet or the alternative high school

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verbosewordsmith: oh man, Zack teaches first grade, y/n?

fifteendozentimes: omg omg omg yes

verbosewordsmith: (that poor poor dude)

fifteendozentimes: *_______*

verbosewordsmith: Zack spends more time wrangling the middle school teachers than his first graders

fifteendozentimes: you will find him at recess with several tiny children hanging off his arms

fifteendozentimes: hahah yesss

verbosewordsmith: Zack totally coaches the soccer team

verbosewordsmith: they have never won a game against another school, but no one cares

fifteendozentimes: ooh, yes

fifteendozentimes: he has been known to sit on the ground so they can dump the water cooler on his head. he has not yet bothered to tell them that's supposed to be for when you win

fifteendozentimes: they scored like two whole goals that game! dump away, little dudes

verbosewordsmith: they are there for running around with Zack and like, the water gun fights in May and playing soccer after school where goal post is a valid position. mostly you mark where the goals are and if you feel like it, some times you help out with defense

fifteendozentimes: zack would have been so much better than my middle school soccer coaches

verbosewordsmith: Zack loves his soccer team to bits and gets super defensive when the other local schools mock them

fifteendozentimes: omg zack grumbling like a bear at these tiny little soccer teams hating on his kids

verbosewordsmith: (they are totally the Green Street Human Beings)

fifteendozentimes: ahahahahahahhhaha

verbosewordsmith: *g* I had to do it

fifteendozentimes: at first zack is all THAT IS THE STUPIDEST NAME but it kind of works

fifteendozentimes: naming them after something vicious or triumphant wouldn't really fit

verbosewordsmith: *nods*

verbosewordsmith: I'm trying to figure out who the principal is

verbosewordsmith: who is crazy enough to run this school? the obvious candidates are Pete and Gerard

fifteendozentimes: pete

fifteendozentimes: lol pete and patrick. pete needs someone to turn his big sweeping ideas into logical plausible practices

verbosewordsmith: *nods* Patrick is his assistant principal/main office assistant person/general right hand

verbosewordsmith: Gabe is clearly a guidance counselor/Pete's other right hand

fifteendozentimes: ahahahahahah oh god

verbosewordsmith: and I think Travie should be the other art teacher and he helps Greta in the library

fifteendozentimes: ooooh, yes
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verbosewordsmith: and Ashlee teaches like, 4th grade. with Victoria. they are co-teachers

fifteendozentimes: omgyes

verbosewordsmith: grade 1-5 have two teachers per classroom

verbosewordsmith: and there are like, two core subject teachers for 6-8 so they have enough people to make the different math levels work

verbosewordsmith: (which is also why everyone wants to be in Mr. Smith's science class and not Ian's, even though Ian is pretty cool)

fifteendozentimes: Ian is great, but he's no Mr. Smith

verbosewordsmith: Cassadee teaches with Cash. their classroom tends to be heavy on chaos

fifteendozentimes: ahahha hellion third-graders

verbosewordsmith: and then they go into Ashlee and Victoria's classroom and everyone thinks Ash and Vicky-t will calm the kids down but they don't

fifteendozentimes: haha

verbosewordsmith: Joe and Andy have the pleasure of getting the fifth graders and turning them into saneish people for the middle school teachers

verbosewordsmith: really, any kid coming out of green street is kind of nuts

fifteendozentimes: aww joe with fifth graders *__*

fifteendozentimes: hahah yes

verbosewordsmith: (I'm imagining kids from this school then going into normal public high school)

verbosewordsmith: (or a stuffy private school)

verbosewordsmith: it's kind of hilarious

fifteendozentimes: hahahaha

fifteendozentimes: they're used to a certain level of chaos and awesome teachers and and awesome administration and extracurriculars out the wazoo

verbosewordsmith: and a lot of personal attention from their teachers and being on like, first-name basis with most of the staff (Greta is always Miss Greta to people and it's not that she asked for that, they just call her that)

verbosewordsmith: I wish this school actually existed so I could have gone there

fifteendozentimes: omg, i know

verbosewordsmith: also, how much do I want this fic, seriously

fifteendozentimes: yessss. jon/ryan/brendon/spencer being adorable in their little house (it's a duplex! plausible deniability, they are TOTALLY just two couples living together) grading papers and planning interdisciplinary stuff and navigating around each other in the morning and then being AWESOME TEACHERS in the BEST SCHOOL

verbosewordsmith: best school ever, omg

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verbosewordsmith: okay so. actual plot. Dallon is the new math teacher!

fifteendozentimes: oooh

verbosewordsmith: and he's used to working in public schools in conservative areas and he applied all over the place, but green street is the only one that's actually actively hiring teachers so he ends up there and he's a little unsure, but figure's it'll be a pretty typical private school or something, just with a gsa some of the middle school kids are part of and no uniform

verbosewordsmith: he is so surprised when he meets the rest of the staff and starts meeting the kids

verbosewordsmith: like the english teacher ross' baby cousin he has custody of, Aubergine who's in 6th grade and So Strange. or her sister, Melly

fifteendozentimes: :D

verbosewordsmith: (and WHY did Ryan get custody of two kids? who thought that was an awesome idea?)

verbosewordsmith: or Miss Bandit Lee Way who is the most badass second grader you'll ever meet

verbosewordsmith: she is like Travie and Brendon's shadow, obsessed with music and drawing crazy things

verbosewordsmith: and let's not forget about the principal's son, Bronx, who's in third grade with Cassadee and Cash and raising hell

fifteendozentimes: hahah oh god of course he is

verbosewordsmith: being in his mom's class next year won't help (though they will make a big point of having Victoria do classroom discipline and grading, not Ashlee)

verbosewordsmith: and what's up with Bronx and Patrick having like, these father-son moments and Bronx talking about his mom and his dads

fifteendozentimes: and he thought brendon and spencer were a thing, but this morning when brendon waved to him in the parking lot, he was definitely in jon's car

verbosewordsmith: (Ashlee's next kid is totally going to be a girl they name Pear Sonata and in a couple years, they'll wager a guess that Patrick is her biological dad, but no one really cares)

fifteendozentimes: lol yes

verbosewordsmith: and did he happen to catch Ryan kissing Spencer in the teacher's lounge?

verbosewordsmith: Dallon is so so confused by this school. and the parents!

verbosewordsmith: there are Pete and Ashlee and Ryan and Jon, of course (Jon and Ryan both being legal guardians for Aubrey and Melly)

verbosewordsmith: and there's Alex Greenwald, who has a kid in fifth grade

verbosewordsmith: and Gerard and Lyn-z

fifteendozentimes: by the end of his first month he's decided pete had bronx with ashlee and left her for patrick, or something. and that the eighth grade is full of weirdly blatant-about-it cheaters.

fifteendozentimes: and ooh bb greenwald

verbosewordsmith: and the Iero twins in first grade, so that's Frank and Jamia who own this awesome vegan cafe the school almost always orders from when they need to order food

verbosewordsmith: and yes, Dallon has no idea what's up with the middle school couples, they might be gay swingers? he's not sure

verbosewordsmith: bb Greenwald is surprisingly normal, considering

fifteendozentimes: he cannot even conceive of a community where gay swingers teach the kids without any backlash. like. what.

verbosewordsmith: Dallon is so so so confused

verbosewordsmith: he does like that they school is unionized though, and active about it. and that like, parents specifically send their kids there for that reason (and others)

fifteendozentimes: brendon invites him to a cookout and he's all idk if i can be around the four of them without being weird. but he goes, because he does want to be friends with his coworkers

fifteendozentimes: ooh, yes

verbosewordsmith: they pay well and the co-teacher thing is actually pretty great, it's a better student-teacher ratio and makes things a lot better for the teachers, like, he can collaborate with Nate and it's good, they can work together for their math classes and he knows that Spencer and Ian are also happy to do some math stuff in their classes and he actually thinks it's pretty cool that everyone is so collaborative

verbosewordsmith: Dallon brings Breezy and the kids to the Urie-Smith-Ross-Walker-Williams cookout (Williams=Melly and Aubrey's last name)

verbosewordsmith: and there are a bunch of teachers and a couple parents there as well and it's actually really really fun

fifteendozentimes: he is totally cool with this group of weird gay swingers and their awesome family thing

verbosewordsmith: he's still confused by it, but they seem happy and Aubrey and Melly seem happy and no one else seems to care so he decides that he doesn't care

verbosewordsmith: so okay, the Weekes kids are in school, the public school to be specific and it's fine, but then they start slashing programs left and right for budget reasons and then they cut recess and there's talk about just focusing on state testing and Dallon and Breezy are like fuck that

verbosewordsmith: Dallon wants to send them to regular private school but Breezy's like what about your school? and Dallon's like it's full of crazy people and I'd be their teacher for three years, no!

verbosewordsmith: and Breezy's like dude, your school is awesome, we'd get a huge tuition discount and Nate and Suarez could teach the kids math starting in 6th grade, it wouldn't be an issue

verbosewordsmith: and Dallon's still like no! crazy people!

fifteendozentimes: it is going to be a huge shock for them to move to this school where everyone's known each other since kindergarten and the structure is so different

verbosewordsmith: and Breezy's like oh my god, you're being ridiculous, it's a good school and they're friends with Aubrey and Melly and William's kid and bb Greenwald and Bronx, they'll be fine. and it's not like they don't get new students all the time, you just got three brand new kids in your 7th grade math class

verbosewordsmith: Breezy is determined to have her kids go to Green Street-they have two full time art teachers and a full time music teacher. and their kids all get at least a half an hour recess and the older ones get an hour long lunch and they can spend half of it playing touch football or soccer or that crazy game that one kid invented that everyone loves or walking around the school or just hanging out

verbosewordsmith: and there are a million extracurriculars and passionate, dedicated teachers who are happy because they're being paid a living wage (this is due to the school being super expensive, but it's totally worth it and anyways, teacher discount)

verbosewordsmith: she thinks Dallon's just being ridiculous and she's not sure why

verbosewordsmith: obviously, Breezy wins and gets the kids enrolled at Green Street

verbosewordsmith: (their youngest is SUPER excited about Mr. Zack's soccer team)

fifteendozentimes: :D

verbosewordsmith: and eventually she finds out what's bugging Dallon. he's still stupidly concerned about What The Neighbors And Their Friends Will Think and she has to smack him, because all of their good friends are people they met though the school and through Breezy's job working as an office assistant at the arts council. NONE of them will care

verbosewordsmith: and she doesn't care about Dallon's crush on one of the second grade teachers (she can't tell if it's Nicole or Mika who he's crushing on. she doesn't really care, either)

verbosewordsmith: (both of them are welcome to go out for dinner with Dallon and her and she wouldn't kick either of them out of her and Dallon's bed)

verbosewordsmith: and everyone lives happily ever after at this crazy little school

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fifteendozentimes: i just like the idea of bb wrangler zack and bb wrangler nicole awkwardly flirting across the hall and she goes to all the human beings' soccer games

verbosewordsmith: <3

verbosewordsmith: ...did we end up calling the school the greendale school or was it the green street school?

fifteendozentimes: green street

fifteendozentimes: and they have adorable lunch dates in their classrooms with nicole sitting on the desk and zack in the chair so she's taller for once, and once the classroom clock is running slow so when zack leans in to give her a quick kiss before he goes to meet his kids coming back from recess they are met with a chorus of EWWWWs from the returning kids. led by mika who is ewwing the loudest

fifteendozentimes: and idk other such cuteness

verbosewordsmith: oh my god yes. so much yes about mika leading the ewws

verbosewordsmith: (bandom needs to embrace mika so I can have fanon to draw on so I don't have to watch a million interviews so I can write him into stuff)

fifteendozentimes: omg i know

verbosewordsmith: but seriously, mika and nicole being adorable with their tiny kids

fifteendozentimes: mika teasing her about how she probably picked second grade because they're the oldest kids who aren't taller than her

fifteendozentimes: all sorts of collaborations with brendon because this is a musical fucking classroom. also a rule about how nicole is only allowed to participate in sing-alongs if the point is to make the kids laugh.

verbosewordsmith: <3

verbosewordsmith: I'm imagining mika sitting crosslegged in the circle with the kids strumming a guitar and leading sing-alongs while nicole shakes the tambourine because that's all mika trusts her to do

fifteendozentimes: she can totally keep a simple beat for the length of one little song \o/

verbosewordsmith: of course, mika and brendon had to give her some tambourine and shaker lessons, but they got her there eventually

fifteendozentimes: haha poor nicole

verbosewordsmith: she's totally awesome at teaching other stuff

fifteendozentimes: and she is the MOST enthusiastic

fifteendozentimes: actually mika is also probably the most enthusiastic. that is a FUN room omg

verbosewordsmith: so much fun!

Chatfic: Alternative School Teachers 'Verse

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