And she has already found amenable elementals that cover the dozen for the reds. Sigh.

"I should concretize the thing where if they, for example, advocate murder, they will be asked to leave; 'for example' isn't good enough," says Maurabel to her orange TAs, "is there some standard I could copy?"

"The school I worked at had a policy against disrupting the classroom environment - saying the reds should be dead wouldn't count but saying one of your classmates should would -"

"It is the policy of their governments to kill red mages, are you planning to enforce a ban on discussing laws currently in place -"

"We would have someone take a student to a separate room to talk if they were making inappropriate comments."

"Yes, I recommend that over sending them home, especially if their parents are at work and there's no one to make sure they get home safely - that's less of a concern here, obviously -"

"In my country elementals are legally forces of nature and enslaving them is encouraged. If someone discussed that currently-in-place law in an approving or even a potentially threatening neutral way I would certainly send them away."

"They should really be getting a non-magical education too - save that kind of discussion for civics class -"

"Oh, I agree there, it's very off-topic -"

"I think having someone take disruptive students aside for a talk should work fine -"

"- depending whether the point is to correct misbehavior or show off to the reds that it's taken seriously -"

"Ewwww. They're here, that's enough of a point made."

"It clearly isn't," Maurabel says to that last orange.

"I'm really not sure what you were expecting. You can't discipline students into liking each other."

"They don't have to like them."

"I'd bet money that the greys and purples at least will just go to whatever session the reds aren't going to, so it won't come up again."

"Unless, as people keep telling me, the reds are slower, which would mean they'd need to go to both."

Sigh.

"They don't have to like them. They have to hold their tongues about reds if they can't be polite. Completely ignoring the reds' presence is fine. I didn't make shaking hands with them an admission requirement. I am not asking for miracles."

"I think it's very reasonable to ask students who can't hold their tongue to leave and calm down, but if you kick them out for the day they outright will not get an education at all, some of them."

"The lectures are online. If they want to use their education to invent red-killing weapons I am fine with that being difficult."

No one has further comment.

She has individual appointments with everyone to figure out and grade their affinities. Should take about ten minutes per.

The kids are so excited!

Oh good. She can test them for the ten affinities she has herself; her Ice translator and a Shadow are necessary for the two she lacks. The procedure does involve touching.

She hasn't done the reds, right?

"I have a group of elementals who jointly cover all the elements who are willing to touch the reds and stay out of places reds aren't allowed, so I don't have to spend five hours in the shower every time something like this comes up."

"...so you have not touched any reds or things they touched."

"Except elementals with material, refreshed halos."

"Okay." Kids will get affinity-tested.

The average is six zeroes, two just-barely, two decent, one good, and one best. She reassures those with fewer that their best is still going to be as good as anyone else's best and they can do anything if they befriend enough elementals.

They are suitably reassured. Is she checking the ones who got sent home?

It is the next day now, so yep, she will check them like everyone else.