In world explanation might be that those two were “read in” on stuff about Selkie that others weren’t, especially Lillian I believe. Stuff like that is more plausible when government secrets are involved. Now that Sarnothi aren’t considered secret anymore (though Echoes are), more workers might be allowed more “direct” interaction where they might have noticed something was weird before. Using a “health condition” as an excuse gets a bit more questionable the more interaction you have and exposure.
Almost 30 caretakers an yet Karen here didn’t notice Selkie was a special case so only two people were involved with? Lady don’t blame a parent because they don’t know people they never met.
Let’s say that my kid is in the third grade. I interact with his teacher. Possibly with the principal. And if I interact with the principal I probably have interacted with the secretary / receptionist at the office.
“But there’s 42 members of staff at this school! And you’ve only interacted with three???”
Yeah. I have had no need to interact with the first grade teacher, or the lunch lady, or the janitor.
Depends on the age. Except for things like gym, art, and music, I only had one teacher until 6th grade (my sister was until 7th). In the US, I believe that it is either junior high school (7th and 8th grade, 12/13 year olds for 7th grade) or middle school (5th through 8th)that they tend to start really dividing the curriculum up by subject with a bunch of teachers. Different schools can vary, but that has been what I have usually seen.
So in general, you would only interact with one kindergarten teacher, one 1st grade teacher, etc. all the way until 5th to 7th grade where you start having the English teacher, the math teacher, the science teacher and the history teacher; excluding the art teacher, the music teacher and the gym teacher of course. If you have more than one kid, you might get to know other teachers from each kid having a different teacher. You also might meet more teachers if there is a problem between your child and another in a different class.
In elementary school I would sometimes have two “main” (not art, music, etc) teachers because some subjects were taught in either Spanish or English and if your homeroom teacher was the language you don’t take then you’d move for those classes. Also I think I might have had two first grade teachers which I think might be somewhat common because of the young age?
But yeah. It’s not like middle or high school where we switched every period (for me started in 6th grade).
You might, but I don’t typically recall any of them being at parent/teacher conferences. You would see the music teacher after school for concerts or performances if you were in band or chorus, but you wouldn’t exactly have one on one with them at that time unless you pulled them to the side and asked. You might have a conversation with the gym or art teacher if there was a major issue during their designated period. Normally though, the main teacher would just cover how your child did in those areas without bringing the other teacher to the conference. In general, most of the workers that are not your kid’s primary teacher, the principal or the front desk (for sick days and check out) you would only interact with if their was an issue directly involving them or you purposefully sought them out. Most people aren’t going to talk to the school librarian, the cafeteria lady, the school nurse, the janitor, etc unless something directly involved that person and their kid. If your child never has sick days and always takes the bus home from school, you might not even deal with the secretaries.
There are parents out there that do want to know people and be actively involved in their child’s school life. They go to the school board meetings or commonly volunteer at the school. Reality is that not every parent has the time or the motivation to get that involved. At best, they trust the teachers to do their job and let them know directly if there arw any problems. At worst, they are severely overworked (so don’t have the time to attend) or could care less about their child’s school life or education. I had a mom that substituted for my school district (and was well liked because she actually followed the lesson plans they left rather than just watching a movie in pajamas like one lady). Because of that, my mom knew pretty much everyone. I also had kids on my bus whose parents couldn’t care less what trouble their kids got up to and probably shouldn’t have had kids. Those parents might at least recognize the poor soul that had to call them up whenever their kid got into trouble, but you wouldn’t expect them to know anyone else since they were the type to keep their kids home from school over going to parent-teacher conferences.
Probably more likely to interact with the school secretary than the principal–while you’d most likely know who the principal is, school secretary (or front office staff under a different title) is often a main contact point between the school and parents.
Your point stands– just want to highlight that because in my experience, these school staff members do so much.
Here, it makes sense that other workers are involved in each child’s care, but if some are the designated main worker for each child (like, if Georgie is assigned to Mary’s caseload), makes sense that’s who you’d see the most.
in my primary school (australia – ages 4/5/6 to 11/12/13) there were 4 classes per hear level- so at least 28 teachers, plus 4 specialty teachers (ict, gym, music and art), plus a whole host of other guys (principal, nurse, vice principal, administration, cleaners, teacher’s aides, assistants for the violent mentally disabled kid, librarians…) even as a kid i only knew a few teachers, so it’s not really that out there, especially as they’re providing 24 hour care to these kids.
it occurs to me. there is probably a *REASON* that only those two people usually handle things involving Selkie. one is probably experience and training, two: that there are feds involved with Selkie and again, there was high-levels of Need-to-know information, 3: if the average faculty member was to suddenly learn that there is a secret society of fishpeople living in the great lakes (before the surprise reveal) that it was probably just easier to just stick to the story that “she’s deformed, needs special handling, let us take care of it…” and now the information is public (by reasons of emperor Dick’bag of douchebags) that things are finally loosening up.
“It’s almost as if the same 2 characters were used repeatedly to make things easier for the artist….”
“The what now?”
In world explanation might be that those two were “read in” on stuff about Selkie that others weren’t, especially Lillian I believe. Stuff like that is more plausible when government secrets are involved. Now that Sarnothi aren’t considered secret anymore (though Echoes are), more workers might be allowed more “direct” interaction where they might have noticed something was weird before. Using a “health condition” as an excuse gets a bit more questionable the more interaction you have and exposure.
I was just thinking this exact thing.
“By the way, Mr. Smith, those are some lovely lampshades you have.”
i look just like karennn aaaaaaaaaaaaa
Almost 30 caretakers an yet Karen here didn’t notice Selkie was a special case so only two people were involved with? Lady don’t blame a parent because they don’t know people they never met.
I did not see the implausibly.
Let’s say that my kid is in the third grade. I interact with his teacher. Possibly with the principal. And if I interact with the principal I probably have interacted with the secretary / receptionist at the office.
“But there’s 42 members of staff at this school! And you’ve only interacted with three???”
Yeah. I have had no need to interact with the first grade teacher, or the lunch lady, or the janitor.
Schools generally have a bunch of different teachers for different subjects, not just different grades.
Depends on the age. Except for things like gym, art, and music, I only had one teacher until 6th grade (my sister was until 7th). In the US, I believe that it is either junior high school (7th and 8th grade, 12/13 year olds for 7th grade) or middle school (5th through 8th)that they tend to start really dividing the curriculum up by subject with a bunch of teachers. Different schools can vary, but that has been what I have usually seen.
So in general, you would only interact with one kindergarten teacher, one 1st grade teacher, etc. all the way until 5th to 7th grade where you start having the English teacher, the math teacher, the science teacher and the history teacher; excluding the art teacher, the music teacher and the gym teacher of course. If you have more than one kid, you might get to know other teachers from each kid having a different teacher. You also might meet more teachers if there is a problem between your child and another in a different class.
In elementary school I would sometimes have two “main” (not art, music, etc) teachers because some subjects were taught in either Spanish or English and if your homeroom teacher was the language you don’t take then you’d move for those classes. Also I think I might have had two first grade teachers which I think might be somewhat common because of the young age?
But yeah. It’s not like middle or high school where we switched every period (for me started in 6th grade).
Gym, art, and music teachers are still teachers, so that’s at least three more people that you might interact with.
You might, but I don’t typically recall any of them being at parent/teacher conferences. You would see the music teacher after school for concerts or performances if you were in band or chorus, but you wouldn’t exactly have one on one with them at that time unless you pulled them to the side and asked. You might have a conversation with the gym or art teacher if there was a major issue during their designated period. Normally though, the main teacher would just cover how your child did in those areas without bringing the other teacher to the conference. In general, most of the workers that are not your kid’s primary teacher, the principal or the front desk (for sick days and check out) you would only interact with if their was an issue directly involving them or you purposefully sought them out. Most people aren’t going to talk to the school librarian, the cafeteria lady, the school nurse, the janitor, etc unless something directly involved that person and their kid. If your child never has sick days and always takes the bus home from school, you might not even deal with the secretaries.
There are parents out there that do want to know people and be actively involved in their child’s school life. They go to the school board meetings or commonly volunteer at the school. Reality is that not every parent has the time or the motivation to get that involved. At best, they trust the teachers to do their job and let them know directly if there arw any problems. At worst, they are severely overworked (so don’t have the time to attend) or could care less about their child’s school life or education. I had a mom that substituted for my school district (and was well liked because she actually followed the lesson plans they left rather than just watching a movie in pajamas like one lady). Because of that, my mom knew pretty much everyone. I also had kids on my bus whose parents couldn’t care less what trouble their kids got up to and probably shouldn’t have had kids. Those parents might at least recognize the poor soul that had to call them up whenever their kid got into trouble, but you wouldn’t expect them to know anyone else since they were the type to keep their kids home from school over going to parent-teacher conferences.
Probably more likely to interact with the school secretary than the principal–while you’d most likely know who the principal is, school secretary (or front office staff under a different title) is often a main contact point between the school and parents.
Your point stands– just want to highlight that because in my experience, these school staff members do so much.
Here, it makes sense that other workers are involved in each child’s care, but if some are the designated main worker for each child (like, if Georgie is assigned to Mary’s caseload), makes sense that’s who you’d see the most.
in my primary school (australia – ages 4/5/6 to 11/12/13) there were 4 classes per hear level- so at least 28 teachers, plus 4 specialty teachers (ict, gym, music and art), plus a whole host of other guys (principal, nurse, vice principal, administration, cleaners, teacher’s aides, assistants for the violent mentally disabled kid, librarians…) even as a kid i only knew a few teachers, so it’s not really that out there, especially as they’re providing 24 hour care to these kids.
Girl it’s been need to know for so long, did your job not inform you of that tidbit??
She didn’t need to know that it’s need-to-know.
I think we did see another caretaker back when Amanda had her freak out at the orphanage.
Also, George isn’t tagged on this page.
In number 38 Wu talks about a married couple who take care of the babies.
https://selkiecomic.com/comic/selkie38/
it occurs to me. there is probably a *REASON* that only those two people usually handle things involving Selkie. one is probably experience and training, two: that there are feds involved with Selkie and again, there was high-levels of Need-to-know information, 3: if the average faculty member was to suddenly learn that there is a secret society of fishpeople living in the great lakes (before the surprise reveal) that it was probably just easier to just stick to the story that “she’s deformed, needs special handling, let us take care of it…” and now the information is public (by reasons of emperor Dick’bag of douchebags) that things are finally loosening up.