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

Well, it's open the administrators' eyes time again, as I was given the schedule to visit my co-teachers and evaluate their teaching. I just wish that the students were as vocal as the minority who approach the college dean's office to complain about what some teachers are doing.

It also surprised me that even in this respect, there are again some people who are complaining about how they are being treated unfairly in this only protection the school has against hiring lazy teachers.

What am I talking about? There was a protest given to the college secretary to please not schedule all the evaluators (usually up to four, sometimes three) to go to their rooms at the same time.

This, they say, rattles them. Well, if that case, maybe they aren't fit to teach in the first place.

Having the evaluators show up one by one obviously has an advantage for them because as soon as one shows up, they will step up their “game” and appear more efficient by the time the next ones arrive.

@@ This reminds me of another surprisingly contested topic during our summer workshop, and this was about exempting the students for the final exam. It used to be that some teachers would have an exam on the thirteenth week – the second to the last of the term before finals – then only schedule finals for those who did not pass.

In effect, the final exams week became removals taking week. According to the executive vice president, everyone of the students have to take the finals – no exceptions.

Most of the teachers had a comment about this – especially as a reward to students who have performed well in the first parts of the term. But this is on the assumption that the finals is the wrap up of everything that the students have learned in the term.

If the finals is not comprehensive, but only covers the last few topics of the term, then there can be no exemptions in the finals, because that would mean the student exempted could not be tested on all aspects of the lessons for the class in the term.

The EVP also came from the notion that the students – especially the bright ones – would not like exemptions because as a student, he always loved taking all sorts of exams.

He forgot to take into consideration that there are some students nowadays who put up all that effort at the start so that they could have more time to work on other subjects at the end of the term.

The other issues were considered minor from the small number of reactions.

Session 1669 wants less work at the end of the term not just for the students but also for the teacher. Class dismissed.