West Jerhattan High is a cut above your average school, and a large cut over the standard Teacher modules. No one attending has so much as considered stepping foot in a Linear in their lives, and certainly none of them follow obscure Russian-American pop bands. This means Emma has been blissfully unbothered with gossip about her father's latest Drama, which she is hearing absolutely more than enough about at home. The ticket refunds alone had wiped out his quarterly earnings, and the insurance company was hiding gleefully behind the dismissed precog reports to claim negligence on the part of the company. It was all her father could complain about for the past week, and the new week was shaping up to be no different. So Emma was overall quite pleased to be back at school on Monday; finally, she could think about something else.
She's on her way to French class when the hallway speakers activated for an announcement.
"Attention students. There will be a parapsychic exam in the assembly hall today between the hours of one and four pm. The exam is mandatory for all students. Students with the last names A-F will attend for the first half hour..."
Emma listens long enough to learn she's expected at 2:30, then zones them back out and sighs. She did the test already, when she was six, but she supposes not everyone went to the same elementary school and they've... probably changed the tests since then? Improved them somehow? She's never really bothered learning how any of it works, not when she tested negative and her parents seem to view the parapsychic center as some mix of con men and crazies. It sounds legitimate enough to her- there's certainly enough newscasts about how critical the telekinetics are to the space station construction project- but it's never worth the inevitably doomed argument to try to convince them. It's just a half hour of her time, anyway, during- oh hell, she'll miss half her math quiz-
She hurries off to French, frantically calculating how to make up the quiz, and puts the exam out of her mind.