A class is a community too —
and it is not the same community as a family.
A student in an ethnic studies class is doing something structurally similar to what a family does: gathering testimony, arguing about whose version is right, and deciding what gets kept. ECO works for both. It does not work for both at once, and that is deliberate.
A class network has its own members, its own Conductor — usually the instructor — its own coursework and its own lifespan. It ends when the term ends. A family network does not end. Putting them in one container would mean a professor could see a family’s private chapters, or a cousin could read somebody’s coursework. Neither is acceptable, so they are separate networks and a person simply belongs to both.
Everything a student writes for class stays in the class. Everything their family writes stays in the family. The student is the only person who can see both, and nothing is copied between them — not by the platform, not by an instructor, not by a Conductor.
One person can belong to two communities. The communities never meet.
An instructor creates a network for a class, cohort or program. Students collect oral histories, journals and interviews inside it, together, for as long as the course runs.
A student in a class network and their own family network is the only person in both. The professor cannot see a family chapter. The family cannot see coursework. This is enforced in the data, not by convention.
A student who learns the method in a class often starts a network for their own family afterwards. Being a guest in one network never makes anyone a guest in their own.