"Have to test on the rules of the sports she teaches," Alasdair pointed out. "And then there's physical competencies; it's not exactly the most organized school system, but everyone who goes through it has to exhibit a certain degree of physical fitness. That takes a test."

All the things that got drilled into their heads during faculty meetings.

"They're not as complicated as, say, the essays I just graded on the prevailing themes of Transcendentalist poetry in the nineteenth century, but it still has to be done."