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

One thing I wanted to talk about last time but ran out of space for was that co-faculty of mine who is always not in school during Wednesdays and Fridays except if he knows that the dean or the Executive Vice President will be meeting with us.

It was engineering week, probably the only time in the entire school year that the students need him to be present for support on their activities, and he can’t even be bothered to show up. If he was forced to, there could have probably been a lot more events that could have been organized, but since he knew they were going to happen on the two days of the week that he has gotten used to not being in school, he didn’t set up anything.

Thankfully the director of the school of engineering was there for most of the events, so he himself can see just how much dedication this teacher has for the students, even if it is not explicitly spelled out in his contract that he has to do this.

That’s why it’s called extra curricular activities in the first place. He wasn’t even in the Christmas party for faculty and staff just because it was on a Friday.

In other news, it’s nice to see that the EVP still thinks about playing fair in his decisions.

One of the college teachers last December wanted to leave the country during the last week of the term because her parents bought her a plane ticket to visit them overseas.

She was also going to be back after the start of classes for the third term last January.

The EVP received her letter explaining the situation, but asked her not to push through with it because it wasn’t official business or a family emergency, and he didn’t want to just give her a warning and be more strict on that unwritten rule with succeeding requests because he knew there would be complaints and comparisons asking, “Why was SHE permitted and not me?”

So she was told that if she pushed through with the trip, she risked not being renewed on her contract at the end of the school year. On top of this there was also a complaint against her by some of the students in a business class where she was asked her students whether they wanted to work in the classroom or just work off hours on their project for the end of the term.

Of course the students chose not to come to class, but did they learn from her three hours a week? No.

Session 1563 isn’t pro-student. Class dismissed.