Editing Schola Progenium (section)

== Campus ==

Schola facilities are NOT like [[Harry Potter|Hogwarts]], they are [[Grimdark|grim]] and unwelcoming places (like Hogwarts in the last two movies), designed to keep students free from frivolous distraction and entirely focused on whatever it is they are learning. This, however, does not seem to be completely effective, given the case of [[Ciaphas Cain]], for example, who did below-average in everything but his combat and sports subjects and has been hinted in his biography to have been a bit of a problem student, although he was never caught to be officially disciplined (probably because he didn't get caught). Below average Commissariat hopefuls get executed by a better one as part of their last testing. So, the Schola probably doesn't honestly give a damn about anything but the combat skill.

They are also under constant surveillance, with recording servo-skulls patrolling constantly to report the whereabouts and behaviour of each student, and a number of hidden passageways for tutors to be able to keep students on their guard.

Scholae are built like fortresses, though with their battlements facing inwards, like prisons, to stop students from escaping (that said, they probably also have external battlements and it would be sensible to place them near a [[Adeptus Arbites|Precinct Fortress]] to make sure that the facility is protected as well).

=== Drill Abbots ===

{{Topquote|No no no! By the Throne, boy, how many times? Depress the loading catch ''before'' removing the drum feed, not ''while'' removing the drum feed! You'll jam the weapon! *smack* Oh stop bawling, child. You're ten years old, you should have learned basic autogun procedures by now. Fifty press ups and fifty Pax Imperiums. And certainly there will be no dinner.|Drill Abbott Kross Vorgt}}

While there are specialist teachers of particular subjects in the Schola Progenium, most of the instructors are Drill Abbots, who are ordained priests of the [[Ecclesiarchy]], but they get excused from all the onerous jobs like leading Friday prayer, taking Sunday mass, performing weddings, and baptising babies.

Instead, their job is to teach the [[Imperial Cult|Imperial Creed]], physical education, weapons training, and also to enforce discipline.

Typical of the 41st millennium, there is no standard of basic human rights, so discipline at school can take a multitude of forms, from branding to sleep deprivation, even battering them on the head with a sledgehammer if they think the student needs a firm hand. Handing "live" weaponry to abuse victims is standard Imperial logic at its best.

Drill Abbots can also come from a variety of backgrounds, despite being priests. Many are transferred over from the [[Imperial Guard]], where a number of desirable skills are transferable to the role, making many of them Drill Instructors as well as Abbots. [[Adepta Sororitas]] are assigned as well, being exemplars of faith they are welcomed. Somehow it is doubtful any members of the Argent Shroud are part of it, though. Those one's are genuine altruists and would probably blam anyone that hit a child.