Homeroom

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General Homerooms

Homerooms work as small, tiny, self-governing cells, as we'd mentioned before. Their responsibilities include the following: Attendance, Organization, Schedule dispersion, cleaning the classroom, lunch duties, and small modes of disciplinary action. Usually students within a homeroom watch out for one another - if one's hair is out of dress code, another girl might redo it before the strictest teacher comes in.

For attendance in the morning, the Class Representative (if it's room 1-1, 2-1, and 3-1, this is the Class President) finishes a sheet and will eventually turn it into the faculty office for review. At evening, groups of students called "hons" (for purposes in our games, we'll call them Squads, or cleaning sects), break off and are responsible for cleaning and organizing the room. Then after they are done, the cycle repeats again.

Homerooms are sat by number, (numbers having been determined by the Entrance Exam), 1-20, with 1 being the Class Representative/Class President for rooms 2-1, 2-2, and 2-3, and 20 being the lowest scoring entrant for that classroom. The numbers do not change despite what your test scores during the year may be, which are publically posted after every test. These can be found in the center hallway, ranking all of the classrooms together for each standardized or class-wide test.

The scores are organized by placard due to score you received, but not by classroom, though this may or may not be noted in Japanese schools next to the name. Those who have seen KareKano may remember these scenes with Arima and Tsukino, checking their test scores after every major battle in competition. In any case, these numbers are important - they are how the character will be organized in PE, and how the character will find themselves sat in any formal situation. Though you may not like the numbers you are sat by, they will be the people you sit by in every single class save those that you might find students in other classrooms in (Art, PE, special equipment courses, History).

[As a side for KareKano fans - the reason Arima and Tsukino were chastised for their grades slipping by dating is that teenage dating is often highly discouraged in Japan, due to that very fact! Class Presidents who find their grades slipping face severe consequences - much more severe than any other position!]

Homerooms are responsible for their duties, and those that miss their duties on a certain day by being ill or by being absent are lectured by their classmates along with their teachers. On the same token, it's been known that a homeroom can kick you out if you are sick, due to not wishing to be ill themselves!