On Saturday mornings, there are usually self-study sessions, and students voluntarily choose whether to participate. In this respect, Affiliated High School isn't like other schools with mandatory requirements.
However, once this rule came out, hardly anyone chose not to attend. Everyone was afraid that while they were having fun, their hardworking classmates would surpass them.
Rising from the bottom to the top is an honor, but dropping from the top to the bottom is a disgrace.
No one likes disgrace.
Even those in the Dreamers class who didn't love to study were pushed by their parents to attend the self-study sessions.
Although Robert Foster wasn't in the Dreamers class, he received the same treatment.
Early in the morning, he was awakened by Evelyn Thompson and asked to go to school with Chloe Collins.