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.

The associate dean has replied to the teacher asking about the special classes.

Bottom line: all his complaints become moot because he assumed that teachers are forced to accept special classes when they can refuse.

The only exception is students of otherwise good standing (same with transferees) who will not be able to graduate on time or will be delayed by a year just because of one subject.

By good standing this means students who until that point have been regular and only failed one subject that has thrown them off course.

So that means that if it's an irregular student who has been failing several subjects since the start who requested for the special class, and it's not part of his submitted plan of study, the teacher may refuse, and thus the dean will have to look for another teacher. If no teacher agrees, no special class.

The only other exception is on the case of a teacher who is underloaded, such is my case this term (or was until the Graphics One addition).

Maybe this isn't exactly an exception either. To put it another way, if the teacher offered the special class will be overloaded by the new assignment (and even if the class is not special, as slacker co-teacher did when offered the Graphics One split-off) then they can refuse the additional work and compensation.

In a way it's a bit fun to watch because this teacher, even during his first year here, when he was tasked to speak up for his group (I think it was the strengths-weaknesses-opportunities-threats) seemed that he couldn't help but adapt an adversarial tone.

@@ Unfortunately during that pizza meal that I mentioned in the student accessible version, one of the other people that the graduate invited was Slacker Co-Teacher, who drove us to the shop.

He was playing the "Top That" game the whole time like a little kid, trying to beat out any anecdotal story (about a purse snatching or traffic accident) anyone would come up with.

And if the conversation between some of us (usually me and one of the graduates) would become serious (or too technical) he'd wait to grasp upon one remark we made and fly off on a shallow tangent from there, or just go "you know what's worse?" and veer off topic to one he likes altogether.

Session 2235 wonders if non-reaction to a certain person's so-called contributions to the conversation are noticed. Class dismissed.