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

It’s Teacher’s Day today.

Not that there is a certificate on my desk this year like last year from the Young Educators’ Society.

But then again that time it was Maila who was advising them as faculty, and like an automatic pistol at that.

The Integrated School has it better, with a Eucharistic celebration and a program for the second time this week at the covered court (the first was last Monday during the principal’s birthday).

Three last gripes concerning last Friday’s contest before I proceed to the bright side.

Third to the last hitch is that my students, Daniel (my former co-teacher David’s brother, actually) and Robin, could not answer some very simple questions like “angle”, “tetrahedron”, “intercept” (taken by both in Mathematical Methods 1 and Trigonometric Applications), “dispersion” (which Daniel had taken up in mechanics lab), “absolute zero” (organizers’ gaff, really, it was “What A” instead of “What AZ?” which shows their low level of preparedness) and “half-turn”.

Penultimate on my list is the fact that had they told us the type of game to be played, I would have taught my players some strategy on how to choose blocks advantageous only to them but would not greatly help the other team if they got it.

Finally, I spoke of my suspicion yesterday that the Integrated School was invited and went to the same school for a similar contest. In fact, the high school sent a contingent there the day before and the grade school on the same day as us. The driver confirmed that inkling I had when we returned to the campus and gave expense reports of their respective trips.

It was bad coordination on the part of the person handling the schedules. They should have seen that two parties requested the use of transport to the same venue an hour apart, and just suggested the possibility of making one trip in one vehicle.

The good parts of the contest were that most of the time the opponents also did also not score on the questions my charges were not able to answer. The five-second rule has its use.

Next, they were able to beat a neighboring school towards which we the faculty are antagonistic when we found out that only one of their graduates had enrolled in college with us. They can’t claim better standards are their excuse then.

The same goes for a fly-by-night school that cropped up when certain job opportunities flourished in other countries for graduates of specific courses. They made the mistake of highlighting in their television, radio and print advertisements something MY school has been offering since I was a student.

Because of this we easily rose to the championship round in a knockout system among seven schools, and only lost, as I said last time, to a team that read the questions faster.

We’ll be better prepared next time.