New IDEAS

The peasants gathered today with the new IDEA to meet all of the new peasants. There is now a peasant for every village. (We hope that works out better than a chicken for every pot.) Blue, Sage, turquoise, and Silver were all present and learned a lot of new things. The Duchy will no longer have a fixed number of peasants. If there are more students, the Duchy will find more peasants. (Silver rolled her eyes.) They found out why the the high school libraries got no deseg funds this year. "We didn't know who to ask about the deseg funds." (Silver ground her teeth and muttered "That's because the Black Dot Queen fired everyone who knew anything.") They found out about extra money for next year's magazine order. The White Queen has money for next year's magazine order that will be dispensed either (Option A) according to the size of the schools, which will be unfair to tiny schools or (Option B) some other way that won't be unfair to tiny schools but will probably be unfair to large schools. The IDEA will ask the Black Dot Queen to choose Option A or Option B. This correspondent predicts that her Blackness will pick Option C, invest the money in an account while she makes the decision. The account will of course have a service charge so that by the time the Queen picks either A the B, the money will all be gone (or the magazines gone out of business.) The meeting also had a representative from Curriculum, Learning, And Professional Teaching Refused And Postponed (CLAPTRAP) who talked about training. The CLAPTRAP representative said that the Duchy considered customer services VERY IMPORTANT. (Silver ground her teeth VERY LOUDLY and her neighbor swatted her.) The new IDEA and the Dots prefer the "drive-by" training they have always done. CLAPTRAP prefers that we have long engagements with their professional torturers to drive-by encounters with the Dots. The Dots, they say, don't do sufficient followup. (Silver muttered, "You mean they don't want to throw themselves out the window after we're done with them.")
Silver and Sage also got to talk about their friend Marc. Some of the peasants already hang out with Marc but some of the other are not sure Marc is friendly. The new IDEA and Sage and Silver believe that Marc can help us eliminate funkiness. The new IDEA said "There will be no more of that old funkiness. From now on, we will have new and improved funky." Silver and Sage both agreed strongly.