Love the post... I work in a busy school and Foxmoth seems closest in my opinion. It's normally a blissful five / ten minutes of drinking coffee, weeing, reading files, enjoying a break, writing up records, filling in tech logs, quizzing operations, diving into Trevor Thoms to answer previously asked impossible questions and also trying to remove grease / oil / avgas from some obvious part of me.
Also wouldn't dream of doing it with a student who I have never seen check out an aircraft before... and done it thoroughly.
New gag of the summer is turn off the generator in flight (say that you think you can see an easyjet bus behind you so they turn away) and see how long the student takes to notice the GEN failure light even after requesting a FREDAL check. Then ask them what to do and watch the carnage - I reckon 3 out of 5 think it will stop the engine eventually! Sorry - ranting again.