One, I wasn't trying to make your character look dumb. I was simply working with what was there. I don't know how long Lazlo's lived on Syrae. I don't know how much he knows about the school system. Two, it's not like I've been keeping some secret about the planet's background or it's lack of influence from the Federation's control. It's right there in my very first IC post.

[i]"She wasn’t the only one looking for a ride off world either. Quite a bit of Alexandrion’s citizens had interest in getting off world, either to visit their families or to relocate to another planet where prospects might be better. There were really three kinds of citizens in Syrae, those that worked in the mines, those that worked in science and technology, and those that worked for the miners or the scientists. Since Syrae was known to be a Federation safe haven and to have a stable government, well trained refugees were common. What that meant, however, was that current citizens received little upward mobility. Ryen had been fortunate to have her father, one of the planet’s most respected scientific minds, as a mentor. Most of her grade school friends hadn’t been so lucky. It wasn’t that the city didn’t have good schools, it was simply that they couldn’t keep up with the bright, technological minds the Federation churned out."[/i]

or more recently

[i]Sadly, what she knew about the Federation, let alone their strongholds, was at best, lacking. Her school work had only brush on some Federation generalizations (perhaps because most people on Syrae had chosen to move there to get away from the government) and her father’s tutoring hadn’t bothered to add much. Odd, now that she thought about it, that her father had focused on language, history, technology, and major planets of the Federation without actually caring much about covering the governing body itself. [/i]

Three, whether Lazlo has twice the wisdom as the rest of the crew including Ryen is debatable.

And finally, I can't read your mind. If it isn't stated here or throughout the IC, I have no idea what your plans are. You didn't explicitly say where people were rooming so I took the lead and wrote about it in my posts. If I ask for clarification it's because I like things to be seamless and I don't like to overstep my bounds by having your character do something they wouldn't.