A TV School 3 (Meet the Faculty)

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The faculty room was really more of an eat-in kitchen, and students were in and out of here almost as much as the classrooms. Phil had asked everyone to gather there for a meeting after the last drop-in student had gone home.
Professor Spurgeon arrived first. He seldom become embroiled in long farewells with the students. He settled himself into an armchair with a bowl of chicken salad and crackers. Miss Straight arrived next with a legal pad and a stopwatch. Finally Miss Spry and Susan came giggling down the hall in togas with inexpertly made floral wreaths perched on their hair.
They all listened carefully as Phil explained Blair Productions extraordinary offer, and the current state of the school's finances and enrollment. Miss Straight made a lengthy list of bullet points which she proceeded to sort into pros and cons. Professor Spurgeon munched thoughtfully, but Susan and Joy burst out indignantly against the whole idea.
"Absolutely not! We can't have cameras in here! It would stifle creativity and distract the children."
Susan smoothed her wrinkled toga. "I believe it would introduce an unwelcome self-consiousness that might prohibit healthy exploration and development of the psyche."
Joy forgot all about her toga as she proclaimed "It will be the death of the Sonrise way!"
Phil looked and felt quite alarmed by these responses, but Delia and Frederick kept sorting and chewing respectively.
"Phil, I don't think you have a choice. It will be unpleasant, and it will cause difficulties, but this experiment will most likely be brief. People found school dull the first time they went through it. The certainly won't watch it on TV. We will however become semi-famous and that will draw in new students and faculty. We have to do it. The school is dying." Professor Spurgeon had had his say, so he packed up his chicken salad and said goodbye.
Joy and Susan found this perspective sobering, and the area around their chairs became littered with the remains of their floral crowns. All eyes anxiously turned to Delia who had continued organizing her notes. After a lengthy period of shuffling she checked her stop watch and said, "Fred's right. I don't like it either, Joy and Sue, but he's right. Without something like this the school will close. I can explain the numbers if you'd like."
When Phil indicated she'd like to see Delia's notes, Joy and Susan left in a bit of a huff, but resigned to it. Fred and Delia were seldom wrong, and even when they were Phil didn't seem to notice. Neither woman liked the plan, but it was better than the school closing.

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