Student "edition" found at {csi dot journalspace dot com}.

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

At this point I would like to interrupt my account of my day to day classroom activities to bring up some questions that I could not post about in the student friendly version.

For one thing, I wonder what happened to the students offering a car pool.

Before the term started, there were some students who reside from about twenty five kilometers north who asked the student affairs office for an official seal to post their photocopied announcements they want to put up on the bulletin boards.

I warned them that putting a stamp on it may make some parents and students think that it is officially sanctioned by the school, instead of just approving of the post to be placed on the hallway panel boards.

The last I heard there was a meeting scheduled with the Dean and the EVP about it, and that a suggestion by one of the two students who was offering the service (Joseph who ran for vice president of the student council last school year) to add a blurb to the corner of their posters saying that it is not an official school service.

That is, the school is not responsible for what happens in the car (hmmm, that doesn’t sound right) I mean, what influences the student might be exposed to while riding - just like with the official school buses allowed to enter the campus, drop off and pick up students.

Another suggestion, if the posting gets disapproved, is for the students to just distribute their posters like flyers in the classrooms or the cafeteria.

The school, at the very least, will not waste energy in preventing students from riding the same car to school together.

All I know is that I have not seen any postings about the car pool anytime.

There is also the quietly building controversy about students just hanging out using the computer lab while there are classes going on.

The students have the right to use the computer lab because they paid for the computer fee for the term. But the students enrolled in a particular class being held in the computer lab paid a higher amount for that course, and therefore the teacher has the right to ensure that the student learns as much as possible without any distractions.

So he would not allow someone playing board games into his classroom while he is lecturing, or while the students are having a quiz or performing an experiment. It is the same principle, I believe.

Session 805 has to leave the computer lab. Class dismissed.