"The Power Academy had the best dormitory conditions. It was in the main building on the west side of the courtyard, at a suitable height with plenty of sunlight. Its only drawback was that it was very far from the classrooms and practice grounds, even requiring students to cross the entire courtyard district and the great garden. You would probably have to get up thirty to forty minutes early to avoid being late."
This time, the discussion erupted among the largest number of students. Many children had wonderful fantasies the moment they heard the word "power," but when they thought of having to wake up half an hour earlier than everyone else every day, some late sleepers immediately pulled bitter faces.
Clearly, this introduction was highly biased. Jim and Madame Xanadu were merely reading lines from the script Schiller had written, with the aim of keeping the three academies as evenly balanced as possible and preventing any academy from receiving no students at all.
Since formal classes had not yet begun, the children could only choose based on first impressions and personal interest. Without guidance, it would be easy for all the children to crowd into a single academy. That would not only affect normal teaching activities, but some children who were not suited to that academy would surely complain bitterly and lose interest.
After the sheets of paper were collected, Jim was surprised to find that it was just as Schiller had said: each academy had roughly the same number of children, though there were still certain tendencies.
For example, local Gotham children generally preferred the Craftsmanship Academy. Not only did words such as "underground" and "enclosed" fail to make them uncomfortable, they instead found them reassuring. Younger children from other cities chose the Theory Academy, curious about things