 The game is set in a private high school in Ontario , in <unk> . The player follows a new 11th @-@ grade literature teacher at the school , John Rook , who has recently had his second divorce and is undergoing , in his words , a " bizarre <unk> crisis " that has led him to quit his career in computers and become a teacher . The students in his class are Arianna Belle @-@ <unk> , Kendall Flowers , Taylor Gibson , Charlotte <unk> , Isabella Hart , Nolan <unk> , and Akira Yamazaki . Rook and all of the students have school @-@ issued computers , which the students use to communicate between each other in private and public messages . Rook , and therefore the player , can see all of the messages that the students send , even the private ones ; the school administration has told Rook that it is for monitoring online bullying , and that he is not to let anyone know that he can see students ' private messages . 
