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In Shota’s opinion UA’s application was deeply flawed. First of all, it was catered to people with flashy, physical quirks which kept tons of students with real potential from making it into the hero course. Meanwhile, those who had nice quirks but no potential had no issue getting in. It wasn’t right in his opinion. Though some could argue he was a little biased in the matter considering he had failed the application and had to basically fight his way into the hero course.
Another flaw was the whole premise of recommendation students. Typically recommendation students where recommended by family or friends of family which made them biased when it came to the child’s potential and skills. After all, in the eyes of their parent every child can be successful. One upside to the recommendation process was that they were still tested, so at least they can gauge their skills themselves.
That was more than he could say for the school board picks. Aw, yes, the school board picks. Probably the biggest flaw in UA’s application process was that the school board could accept student’s into the hero course themselves. This allowed the student to completely skip both the written and practical exams. It wouldn’t be that big of an issue if the school board picked student’s based off past performance or even just through a stupid contest or something, but they didn’t.
No, the school board choose student’s based off of how much money their parents/family donated to the school. Basically, 75% of UA’s money comes from donations. About 20% of this is from small donations from individuals or business. The other 80% of that money comes from sponsors. These people are typically pro heroes, alumni, businesses, and various famous people. They would sign a contract promising to donate large sums of money to the school yearly.
For the most part, people tended to do this because it gets them a nice tax break. It was a little selfish and Shota didn’t exactly agree with it but it wasn’t the worst reason he supposed. No, the worst reason was when the sponsor took a sponsorship with the agreement of getting their child into UA’s hero course when they made it to high school. That was something that Shota had a qualm with.
The worst part was that it wasn’t even hard to do. All a sponsor had to do was pledge an even larger sum of money in exchange for an addition to their contract stating that their child would be excepted into the hero course of UA. That was where Nezu found his loop hole. You see, no matter how much Shota despised the school board he could never hate them as much as Nezu did. Let’s just say that the principle didn’t like being told what to do.
Anyway, Nezu picked up the wording in the sponsorship contracts where it stated that their child would be accepted into the hero course. It said they’d be accepted, it never said that they would stay there. This was why every school board pick was placed in class 1-A, Shota’s class. Shota, who had the highest expulsion rate in UA history.
Basically, after the board signed off on the acceptance letter it meant that the student was now in Nezu’s hands…paws? Whatever. So, Nezu would personally make sure that each student ended up in 1-A. The “better” hero class. This would greatly please both the sponsors and the school boards, but little did they know it was only a logical ruse. Because once they were placed in 1-A, they were at Shota’s mercy and he had very little of that.
So far all eight school board picks have expelled within the first week of class because Shota deemed them lacking in potential. And it wasn’t because he had a vendetta against the board or anything. No, he didn’t think it was right to judge a child based on the actions of the adults in their life, so he judged them the same as the rest of his students. It’s just that they had all failed his test.
They were spoiled brats who believed hero work was all about fame and fortune. They had no clue how dangerous it actually was to be a hero. It was Shota’s job as their teacher to insure that his students didn’t die as soon as they got their licenses. Therefore, he didn’t tolerate stuck up children who thought they were going to school to be famous. He needed every second he had to prepare his students for the real word and he didn’t have any to waste on students with no potential. So, he’d expel them.
Typically he’d always have to do “damage control” afterwards. He hated that part, but he’d rather sit through a million parent-teacher conferences than raise a child for slaughter because that’s where those students without potential where heading, an early death. And Shota would always make a point of explaining that to those irate parents who threw tantrums after their child was expelled.
After he spent a whole hour going over the death rates, suicide rates, injury rates, ect of heroes, they didn’t seem so opposed to the idea of their child changing career paths. Imagine that.