If memory serves, when four or five high school students gathered around a teacher at his desk, it was usually to ask for a favor — like a film be shown on Friday or some kind of open-book test. Extra work never seemed to figure into it. “My reaction was, ‘Well, let’s get to work,’” Aaron Faver said. Faver is in his eighth year at Randall High School, and teaches AP and dual credit U.S.