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

I just found out from the Registrars and Ma’am Lissa (the school director who comes up with the subjects and sections based on the number of passing and failing students in the pre-requisite courses) that one of my students in mechanics, Andrew, whom I failed in Math 1, was able to enroll in mechanics class because he told the Registrars office that he had a removal exam in Math1, when in fact there was only one student (not him) to whom I gave removals.

I think I already mentioned it in a previous entry that when one of his classmates in Trig questioned his being enrolled in mechanics when Math 1 is a prerequisite he said that in his engineering flowchart it was not.

What made his case a little more confusing was that he took both Math1 and Trig in the same term (September to December). Of these two subjects, one is not a prerequisite of the other, and he is one of the rare cases that failed the first but passed the second.

Now, the Registrars told Ma’am Lisa that even though the dropping period is over and students can’t get a full refund from dropped subjects anymore, if the fault is the Registrars they are willing to make a full refund even after the deadline, which will most likely be the case with Andrew, when they remove him from the mechanics class list.

His parents should have no complaint (even if no mention of his deceptions are made) especially since I already returned the results of their first quiz and it’s obvious from his low score he still lacks a grasp of the basic math concepts and techniques which are needed to solve the problems in mechanics.

Back to the lab subject, I think David and I have to clarify again about the individual reports: that even though two or more members in the same group are supposed to make the report, it doesn’t mean that they will only submit one paper. The students are expected to have different analyses and conclusions, and each member will have his or her own report to submit, even though the theory and methodology may be the same.

In fact over the weekend my cousin asked me how he could do the report since his group mate also assigned the report was absent. Besides telling him he can (and should) do the report by himself, I didn’t tell him that that group mate of his (a new enrollee like him) had requested to drop all but one of her subjects this term, and that subject was Analytic Geometry.

I was there when the student passed her dropping form to the secretary to forward to Ma’am Lissa. I’m not sure if it will be approved though, considering she will also not get a full refund for the subjects dropped – almost twelve units.

And speaking of math subjects, my co-teacher Citas who teaches English approached me the other day asking about one of the courses needed for the Communication Arts program, which is Finite Mathematics, different from Algebra. Unfortunately, I could not answer her, and Maila wasn’t there to clarify things for us.

At a little after lunchtime later I will be picked up from the campus for an overnight stargazing session for some eighty grade school and high school science club members in a sister institute down South, which is celebrating its Science Week. I’ll post all about it after I return.