Schoolfeeds

Schoolfeeds are mostly digitally provided lessons and the reason Al2rnia is totally linked up to the Internet and every citizen is charitably issued a phone/laptop/tablet. They used to be furnished in large schoolfeeding centers, but they’ve been decentralized and digitized and the phone or laptop (or both) you are given tracks your eye movements to assess learning and retention. They are specific to hemocaste, area, and in secondary schooling, industry.

Chiono set the system up, and she wanted to put The Best Possible Candidates in the post. The solution was to make 'teacher' a very high-paid and cushy role that skims the most capable and charismatic untitled teals and ceruleans off the top. Chiono Malcos' WHOLE THING was taking education Very, Very Seriously.

The fuchsia schoolfeed is Eubala's Personal Pet Project where she monologues at the camera and just says whatever, but other hemostrata have multiple Instructors, faces students might recognize. MOSTLY teals and ceruleans, 'teaching', at least as the Face, is kind of a prestige position.

Depending on where you live, and the demands of your local economy, there’s in person schooling to supplement schoolfeeds, usually, unless you live very off the grid. If there's a specific labor demand in your geographic location, you're likely to get Aggressively Recommended in-person schoolfeed augmentation classes. Like if there's a nurse shortage you're going to get abruptly Pushed towards nursing augmented courses, if there's a vehicular transport demand that's what your schoolfeeds will start trying to nudge you into.

On the other hand, it’s pretty easy to get in for a “practical course” where you have to demonstrate proficiency in, like, sanitation practices.

Primary Schoolfeed
This type of schoolfeed happens from age 3-6 sweeps. These primary schoolfeeds are the basics: reading, writing, math, logic, civics, history. Basically, a 'core curriculum' that everyone, more or less, receives, though with slightly different levels of detail and focus depending on hemostrata.

Secondary Schoolfeed
Secondary schoolfeeds happen from ages 7-9 sweeps. Secondary schoolfeeds are more specific to strata - an auburn troll does not need to learn calculus, but does need to learn about the ergonomics of lifting objects that weigh more than 50kg. Secondary schoolfeeds are also tailored to Labor Needs. While there's a level of base uniformity across strata - EVERY auburn troll learns ergonomic lifting practices and customer service basics! - there's also specific instruction in whatever Field that worker is destined for. Secondary is where algorithms that factor in Local Labor Needs and Student Aptitudes start aggressively recommending additional in-person courses and reshaping course-offerings, like - a troll being shunted into Sanitation work is going to be trained in different specific areas than a troll being shunted into Consumer interface. If you finish secondary schooling at age 9 sweeps, and aren’t looking for further education, you are guaranteed a job.

Higher Education
College isn’t really the socioeconomic mobility tool in Al2rnia that it would be here - for a burgundy it would be like a trade school, if your marks in a specific area were high enough, indicating that you’d be like… A really good chef or whatever. There aren't explicit limitations on the kinds of jobs you can hold, but it’s hard to get schooling for the kinds of jobs that would be particularly cushy or highly paid.

Teal College
Teals go into college with a Target Concentration, take general ed / workplace training stuff in tandem with introductory concentration- designated classes, then spend another sweep honing their target specializations. There's qualifying standardized exams at the end of sweeps one and two and mid-sweep projects/smaller exams in the middle of each sweep, and if you fail a qualification for any of these you're pushed into a 'warmblood-designated' field that needs labor.