The Exchange Teacher
F12/100Web serial by shoemilk
Centuries after collapse, humanity is rebuilding. Basque, a renowned hunter-turned-teacher, arrives at a city-state as an ambassador expecting to observe classes for six months. Days before school starts, his mission changes: he must teach — for five years. His class is filled with legally required, unwanted commoners in a school built for nobility. The administration wants him gone, his coworkers find hazing the new teacher more entertaining than actual teaching, and the retention rate is a body count. Balancing his mandate to observe, his directive to teach, and his personal imperative that every student survive puts Basque at odds with a school where the teaching methods leave him horrified. Book 1 examines how an insider and an outsider experience a rigid authoritarian society differently, told through two main points of view, with found-family elements and a romance subplot woven throughout.