#as well as child cultures/childlore. how children socialize when adults aren’t around.

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What is the Locke Lambert episode pitch?

My working title is “Childlore.”

In the third great and bountiful human empire, “families” have fallen out of fashion. The youth of the upper classes, for their own good, live on school-planets raised by care-droids and only coming into contact with adults once they graduate.

To the students, graduation may as well be the rapture, and failure may as well be death. Nobody knows what happens to those with too high or too low exam scores; only that they are removed from the student body to a bright new future or horrible unknown fate.

Locke Lambert, a too-cool-for-school 18-year-old, is the last of her class not to graduate, with grades just good enough to escape failure but not quite good enough to get her out. When Locke’s partner’s grades suddenly jump high enough to graduate without her and a mysterious “auditor” known as the Doctor and his “early-graduate assistant” visit the planet, she tries to get his help to escape failing her last year of courses.