Jump Academy Introduction

Jump Academy

 (I am taking creative liberties, but I am also open to suggestions. Next up... Primary bios!)

            Jump Academy; a concentrated force of scum and villainy-… oh, wrong city and school. Jump Academy is a multi-branch school system that is a part of a city with a population of roughly 400,000 that has an odd habit of raising and lowering at random intervals, depending on the economy and current issues. Rather normal, honestly. The academy is the primary reason the city, and it’s outlying communities, exist in the first place and why the city and the surrounding communities function the way that they do.

            The school system is worked into everyday life to some extent to the point that various territories and districts are solely for the students, faculty, and anything else related to the school and, because of this situation and the exact size of the city and the resulting school system, it has been split up into three primary branches that are independent of one another and only listen to the mayor and super intendent of the city and the school that she had constructed; Mrs. JC. No one knows exactly how she manages to successfully run the entirety of the school and the attached city, but most figure that she is simply very, very good at organization and logistical works.

            The three branches are as follows... The original Jump Academy that is located in the center of the city. This establishment is considered to be the middle ground of the three with decent equipment, decent teachers, and is in generally good repair and retains control of the students to an acceptable, relaxed level. The second branch, Rebel Tech, is located in the western portion of the city and is considered to be ill equipped to handle a herd of cattle, let alone students. However, what they lack in funding and skill, they make up for in enthusiasm and their ability to always ride the line of every quota they have ever been given… Corruption may be the main reason for this. The final branch is called “Spark University” and is, of course, considered to be the best equipped, possesses the greatest teachers, and is, for one reason or another, better than the other two branches. Some say it is simply because Mrs. JC provides them with more funding and attention than the other two.

            This has created a rivalry between all of the branches, which isn’t helped by the fact that Mrs. JC seems to encourage this rivalry by setting up various events throughout the year to pit students within each branch against one another and then against each branch. Whoever wins these events is given extra funding, improved facilities, and more students seem to be funneled their way during the recruitment and registration process.

            Each branch of the school system combines everything from kindergarten to graduate school, being mindful to keep hours and locations separate from one another to some extent with high school and college/graduate students rarely, if ever, making contact with students from anything below their level unless they physically live with them, during the weekend, or after school hours as regular citizens and not students, but high school and college/graduate students have regular contact as high school is treated as pre-college level and not the ending of regular, baseline schooling, hence they share classrooms and teachers with some having the same classes within any given day.

            What is weird about the schools, besides what was already stated, is the fact that all students are drawn in from outside the city and every branch has an abnormal number of amnesia cases and each student, and anyone related to them, having weird peculiarities ranging from something as simple as naturally having oddly colored hair to physically appearing out of nowhere one day as a student. However, no one has anything that is considered dangerous or too extreme from what people can tell.

            Students above the age of 14 live independently, but are allowed to room with other students. At age 18, they are required to find a job or else room with another person. On top of this, during school hours students are required to wear a basic uniform consisting of white tennis shoes, navy blue khakis, a white undershirt, and a navy blue, button-up jacket reminiscent of a Japanese student’s uniform, which are provided by the school. However, the rules for the uniform are loosely upheld and variation is known to exist in excess with no two students having the exact same appearance in clothing, hairstyle, or accessories, even if the rules say otherwise.

            If someone passes graduate school, they are almost, if not always, offered employment at the branch where they earned their degree. Hence, rarely do people leave the school system once they arrive, if they stay long/work hard enough.

            Besides what has been stated, anything is really possible and within the terms of the modern universe that this takes place in… Things will be tested, many stories told, and eventually the exact rules of the universe may be bent here and there to allow for the creation of certain things, depending on what the students and faculty do with their time at school. Come to think of it, it is the start of the New Year, so our protagonists/antagonists/and others shall be introduced post haste.