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.

There were some teachers who were complaining about the registrar’s office memo about no exams being allowed during the thirteenth week of classes.

This is because for a lot of them, it has become the habit that they will have their last exam before the finals week, then only those students who need to take the removals will have to show up during the finals week, becoming exemption for the top scorers in the eyes of some of the students.

This is in response to a memo from the Executive Vice President a few weeks ago about some of the high school students (a few of them, but they are the vocal ones) who said that they are discouraging their parents from sending them to college here because there are teachers who don’t give finals anymore.

For me this is a very distorted view of the teaching methods used by the faculty. Because of one or two unorthodox practices, they are judging that all the classes are like that, and so when they tell the administration about it, they also make the assumption that all the teachers they hired are doing that.

Anyway, so there were several teachers in the faculty room complaining about the “sudden” forbiddance.

Some of them muttered under their breath that they are still going to push through with their exams.

This is despite the fact that there are already some teachers who were called to the dean’s office last term for violating this rule. For me, it just shows a lack of preparation for the entire term on their part. Besides, looking at some of the students’ online journal entries, they are already swamped with requirements to submit for the thirteenth week, which is what we are trying to prevent in the first place: teachers not coordinating with their co-faculty, and believing and forcing on the students that only the subject they teach matters.

I will be telling the student council officers about this, so they could watch out for when their teachers are giving exams when they aren’t supposed to.

I guess that’s one of the advantages of students having camera phones all around: during the (note) rare times that their students’ rights are being violated, and they need evidence.

I’m still primarily thinking of the welfare of the students in this matter, more than that of the whining teachers.

Session 1575 believes the administration should cater to the teachers’ wants. Class dismissed.