Lathem College for several years, an elective that would make students swap bodies with one of their classmates for the whole semester. It was intended to give students an insight into alternative perspectives, and thanks to many positive experiences the class numbers continued to grow year after year. On the rare occasion there was an odd number of students either the subject coordinator or one of the tutors would swap as well, becoming a student for the semester.
Over the years of acting as the subject coordinator Margret Farland, a 61-year-old senior lecturer, found herself fiddling with the parameters of the swap. A memory or two exchanged here, an inability to talk about the swap there. Her experiments slowly became known by her fellow teachers, each one suggesting new tests to run each semester and enjoying what they saw as a social experiment.
However, during one of their informal after-hours 'meetings' around how to run the next class a new idea was proposed. This group of underpaid and underappreciated lecturers and tutors wondered "What if we just didn't swap back?"
