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.

Another slight milestone today: reaching one thousand and one hundred entries total in both journals. But I won’t make such a big deal out of it for now.

I was talking about the case of one student – a freshman in fact – who is now ineligible for enrollment for the new school year because of dismally low grades.

The director of the school of communication arts, who knew about the student’s precarious standing and was also his teacher in one of the third term’s subjects, was consulting with the acting dean whether she should still give the student another chance in terms of studying here for one more term.

The student needed a grade point average for the third term of greater than 1.7 to get an accumulative GPA of flat 1.0 for the entire school year. With the grade that the director gave him, he did not reach that requirement.

But despite having adopted a ten percent per day deduction on submission of requirements that I have, the student was able to pass a late paper on the course card distribution day itself, and she was willing to give him “full” credit for the work.

In other words, she was contemplating filing for a change of grade to increase his grade in her subject, but only if it meant it would make him eligible “again”.

Computing how the new grade would affect his GPA, it still came up short at around the 1.5 mark. The director then thought of raising his grade by two steps.

The deterrent was that he only got a grade of 1.0 in one of his subjects because he got an automatic zero in the finals for cheating. The test was in two sets of alternating rows with a strict seating arrangement, and he passed a paper containing exactly the same answers as his seatmate, even though they were supposed to be different sets.

Whether it was because of desperation for his status in school that he did that, the acting dean said that it was not the kind of student we wanted carrying the school’s reputation, so he stays out.

Session 1101 also submitted a duplicate paper during an exam. Class dismissed.