Though Elena thought she understood and agreed with the system, the journey she must undertake to find her daughter again will shake her beliefs and foundations to their very core.
When she fails a monthly test and sees her score plummet, she gets sent to a boarding school hundreds of miles away. They have two daughters, but one of them, Freddie, has her Q score teetering on the edge of the abyss. On the surface, it seems like a perfect system: education costs are dropping, the deserving students get the focus they need, and the hopeless ones are still given a role to play.Įnter the Fairchild family, where the husband, Malcolm, is a government worker heavily involved in the management and development of the education system, and his wife, Elena, a teacher in a high-ranking school. The kids with high scores get sent to the top schools in the country with virtually limitless prospects for their future places in society, while the ones who fail go to state boarding schools with very limited career options. The story begins by presenting us with a society where the worth of people is determined by their quotient score (Q), which starts being calculated more or less as soon as they’re able to take tests. While it’s a noble cause, the reality is there are many philosophies as to what exactly would make life better for everyone, and in Master Class by Christina Dalcher we get to see the numerically-based, practical approach taken to an extreme. We are consistently trying to develop ourselves further, to come up with newer and better ways of managing ourselves, in hopes of making everyone’s lives better.
The evolution of our civilization has been largely marked by technological advancements and the development of various systems of government, allowing us to have larger and better-equipped nations across the centuries.
Christina Dalcher Imagines the Practical Future
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