Maybe I shouldn't have started this blog now, not with everything that's been going on.

Continuing my story yesterday about the third of my four possible change-of-grades this term: last Wednesday afternoon she showed up in the faculty room, after about three times that she passed by the house (other than to leave the crabs) where she was looking for me but my mom had to say I was either still asleep or I had already left for the day.

So I asked her where her submission was. She said she was still looking for an installation CD to buy so she could work at it at home, when she could probably have spent only one afternoon on it in the computer lab in the school. I also had to tell her the specific name of the software again.

I told her about the deadline for change of grades being on September 17, but I said she shouldn’t make me rush to process that on the day itself, so I’ll only accept her late requirements until the sixteenth.

I didn’t tell her about needing the license, which Domingo had to work around during the first two days of September when he worked on his remedial exercises. It was part of the ordeal that he had to save his file during the fifteen-minute trial window the software gives them if they don’t have the license for that month.

Later she came back again asking for academic advising on adjustment, despite the fact that David had already taken care of her adjustment either earlier or one of the previous days (when I left early). Besides dropping a minor subject whose schedule David had incorrectly given her, and whose real times were in conflict with her other classes, she also had to drop Graphics Two, which obviously she couldn’t take until she passed Graphics One.

She also said that her dad was downstairs at the Registrar’s office already waiting to pay her tuition for the next term, which was certainly different from what she said before about her mom not letting her study anymore if she had two failures, which she already had even without Graphics One.

The fourth possible change of grade I have, Christian, showed up last Tuesday. He is the cousin of my student in Math 1 and Trigonometry before, who got a four-point-zero in both classes. This was despite the fact that he already took Math 1 in his previous school (he is a transferee) but only got a two-point-five or lower; I don’t remember. I told him it was an opportunity for him to get higher, and he did.

Unfortunately, his cousin doesn’t have the same application. The guy already had a standing below 40% at midterms, and he didn’t show up for the finals either.

According to CJ he was already telling their grandfather about going to an “easier” school, so CJ didn’t bother to tell him he still had a chance to pass Trig if he gave an excuse letter and took the finals.

I had to be the one to tell him that when he went to adjust before assessment last Tuesday. So, just like Leonore, at least their parents still have a say in whether they give up or not.

It’s just a question about whether he tells his parents about the opportunity of not repeating Trig, and if he takes it.

And there goes the bell again. The class may go for now.