<div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=257737.msg12759217#msg12759217">Quote from: Saria on 06-11-2016, 08:52:15</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">It may not be as bad an idea as it seems, provided it's presented the right way. For many (most?) abnormals, this would be their first time in a real school, as opposed to the institutions they were in before. It's only natural that there would be challenges for these formerly institutionalized inmates to adapt to normal school life. If this committee was not presented as "we need extra disciplinary muscle to deal with abnormals", but rather as "the new, formerly institutionalized students need special attention and guidance to help them adapt", it might be more palatable. Normal students are just not equipped to deal with abnormals, not (just) because of the lack of power, but because they can't possibly understand what abnormals have gone through, and continue to go through.<br/><br/>For a historical precedent, imagine a recently racially integrated school. It probably won't end well if you take the minority students who have <em>just</em> been victims of oppression by a racial majority (and probably continue to be, in many cases), and force them to submit to discipline doled out by students of that same racial majority. A better strategy might be to let a group of minority students handle the disciplining of the other minority students, and allow them leeway to handle things outside of official channels - to allow them to take into account the special circumstances the minority students face - unless and until things get serious enough that things have to start getting official.<br/><br/>So the official disciplinary committee could decide to create a special subcommittee made up of abnormals specifically for dealing with abnormals, and give them the freedom to handle things their way. The hope would be that they will have a better understanding of what other abnormals are going through, and that they could probably handle misbehaving abnormals more effectively and compassionately, ideally resolving low-level situations, misunderstandings, and "cultural differences" (arising from the fact that abnormals are coming from institutions rather than schools, and need to learn to adapt) without needing to involve the <em>real</em> disciplinary committee. But of course, when there's <em>actually</em> a disciplinary issue that can't simply be hand-waved away as a "cultural misunderstanding", they pass it up the ladder.<br/><br/>In any case, if Natsuki were to have anything to do with such a committee, it would more likely be as a frequent topic of discussion than as a member.<br/></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div>I think the committee does need to be made a thing in game considering we had Sexual Assault, Actual Bodily Harm, and Disturbance of the peace. (All between abnormals I might add.) I had Saya step in because I didn't know how far it was going to go and judging from the discussion in OOC I didn't see it going anywhere good. I figured realistically if things escalated then normal or abnormal students would be even further on edge than they already are. (Seeing as some people haven't done an intro and would have an option of witnessing it or not.)<br/><br/>I am thinking the school already had a disciplinary committee but for equality (plus some members likely left the school) sake, they have decided to have some abnormal students as part of it too. That way no one can complain that they are being unfair.