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[X]Try and get rid of them by destroying their remains
A kid that killed their teacher (assuming that the teacher wasn't like... a human piece of shit) is likely to be a bit... mean, regardless of them marinating in the Hellmouth effect. I think that they will resist attempts to help them find peace (and the séance may give them an attack vector) and that a cleansing ritual would not impact the situation*. So destroying remains it is.

*unless the shooting was like 80% caused by the Hellmouth-effect
 
I'm reluctant to jump to destroying the remains when we don't know the situation. Encouraging Xander to consider whether individual supernatural entities are evil and/or should be destroyed seems important in the long run. Given that the ghost seems to be attacking couples, that suggests a romantic relationship or emotional-fixation situation between the student and the teacher, but we don't know whether the teacher was a predator or the student had a crush that they wouldn't let go of.

That said, we're on a limited time frame, and I would prefer to have a backup if a seance fails. Could we have the resources for an exorcism on hand in case talking doesn't work?
 
[X]Seance to try and help them find peace

I think this one; largely because of hindsight (meta lore).
But also something like this was somewhat theraputic for Buffy originally. Encountering and understanding another 'tragic romance' will probably help put her on her first steps of recovery.
For the rest of my argument, i look to Mount Elements comments above.
 
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    • Ms Calendar directed Amy in helping her to set up the seance. Everyone except Cordelia turned up for this. Cordelia had made it clear that she felt the situation was handled, and she didn't feel a need to put herself in danger just to add numbers to the group. It was a pretty compelling argument. Unlike Giles and Buffy, if the seance went wrong you couldn't really help. You ended up spending the evening the seance was run hanging out with Oz instead. It was pretty chill. You could both just sit there and not do anything and that was all that was necessary. You'd missed being able to do this after Jesse had died.

    The seance had apparently worked. Willow had quite the story to tell, about how the teacher and her student had been in love, and how the discharge had been an accident. He hadn't been reenacting the argument from having gone mad with a desire to kill. He'd been trying to fix his mistake. There was something more settled about Buffy the day after. And when the dance arrived, Cordelia was very happy to show just how pleased she'd been that this dance hadn't been ruined by stupid supernatural events. You even caught a glimpse of Giles and Ms Calendar dancing together.

    You dream of Angel screaming at you for ruining him before he melts into Jesse that night. It sits heavy. You did the right thing. He had been too far gone. It wouldn't have been fair to pretend otherwise.

    You still feel guilty.

    [ ]Focus on Cordelia, she can help distract you
    [ ]Work out
    [ ]Study with Giles
    [ ]Spend time with your friends
    [ ]Write in
     
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    • [X]Work out

    Been a while since we took an explicit fitness/training action since we had QM confirmation that Xander started doing that in the background.
     
    Glad that worked out! As for what to do, Xander hung out with his friends recently, spent time with Giles before that, and went on a date with Cordy before that. I'll vote for working out this time.

    [X]Work out
     
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