Involuntary Mods. (invol) wrote in invol_ooc, @ 2013-06-09 13:12:00 |
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FYI about some stuff that will be happening tomorrow!
ON MONDAY (tomorrow), students and their families (or emergency contacts) will be notified that, for the safety of students and their families, communications between IVI and the outside world will be shut down, effective immediately. The reasoning is that with the VR in Australia, the IVF has reason to believe that the organization is monitoring communications between the school and the outside world, both to gather intel on the school and to target families that are being contacted back home. It is emphasized that this is meant to be temporary - only until they can figure out how the VR is getting this information, or the VR ceases to be a threat.
There is an off-site number families can use in the case of a major emergency (such as a death in the family) and in the case of an emergency with a student, the families will be contacted as well. It is emphasized that families should only use this number in extreme cases, and they will have to go through an IVI operator. Emails that are sent will get the equivalent of an out of office reply stating that communications at the school are down and that urgent messages should be sent to the emergency line. Phone calls that are made will reach a recording stating the same thing.
The communication that will cease communication includes internet, email, phone, and snail mail. Internal intranet, phones/texts, and email will not be affected. (Neither will the undernet, not that the school knows about it.)
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Additionally, students will be told that, after having listened to numerous concerns about comments about classes and how useful (or not useful) students perceive them to be, and in response to their attentiveness during classes lately, IVI administration has decided to make a change in the daily schedule. Instead of academic courses, students will now be in training with their teams from 9am - 3pm every day (with a break for lunch, of course). The squad will continue to train as a group on Fridays - other days squad members will train with their team. If students want to keep working or doing independent studies, they're welcome to after 3:00 or on weekends. Students who have questions about their progress towards secondary school equivalencies can direct them to the dorm heads/independent studies advisers. For the most part, everyone who was working toward a full year of school credits (to fulfill a year of University, for example) should have gotten it by now, assuming they were actually working at it.
As was true before, missing training results in a fine and the loss of one's pub night privileges that Saturday. New, however, is that not showing up to training will result in a meeting with the assistant dean or the dean that same day.