>> I honestly think that, by investing in statting up the new characters, you also have enough in worldbuilding, talent, and reader interest to have at least a short story arc <<

Thanks for the vote of confidence!

>> focused on the community center. <<

It's actually at the University of Nebraska-Omaha, and I do have further ideas for that setting.

>> I can't possibly be the only adult in America whose response to many years of educational abuse is to gleefully pop popcorn just in anticipation of a story where the wrong "teacher" is shown to be wrong, <<

True, my readers tend to love things like that. I write fantasy, and what people fantasize about is ... justice. Shows what a shithole dimension this one is. 0_o But Terramagne is much better.

>> even without the (wistfully hoped-for) appropriate comeuppance that they have earned many dozen times over.<<

There should be some kind of consequences. Professor Ass-born may be too entrenched to fire easily, but he pissed off some of his coworkers and a walkout makes the college look bad even though it happened in summer with a community workshop class.

>> For your poetry, the popcorn is literal. *G*

Yay! :D That's flattering.