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Middle School Concept

I am using the parti/concept of a solar system/galaxy. My concept is derived from the sun being the central source of energy, similar to the teacher, surrounded with the students, being the planets.
The sun radiates its energy out to all the planets revolving around it and influencing them, much like the teacher and the student.

Moving on to the bigger picture, my solar system parti evolves into a galaxy parti as a school consists of a number of classrooms. All of these solar systems in the galaxy are different and have different qualities, much like the different classrooms in a school - every class has something different going on and has its own identity.