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

Some extracurricular tidbits before I talk about my classes for the rest of the fifth week: first, in our meeting last week we discussed the campaign period and the elections for the Student Council as February 14 to 23 (sort of like a “show your love for the studentry* and get voted” time) and 25 respectively.

I emphasized the one day rest period to be able to determine who will strictly adhere to the directions of “no more campaigning”.

There is a transferee who is complained that he should be allowed to run for president. But his problem is not only residency (the nominee must be an incoming third year student in the next school year), it is also the grade requirement.

He argues that it discriminates against people with low grades who may otherwise have the drive and the vision for the job.

Our stand (as well as that of other schools long established that have the same policy) is that the minimum acceptable GPA protects the students themselves from being too immersed in student government to neglect their academics, resulting in a not so well rounded leader we want representative of our pupils.

As for the “age” rule, how can he assume to know just as much about the needs of the school as people who have been here longer than he has.

Besides, if he is truly sincere in his vocation, he does not have to start immediately at the top, but can show his programs and charisma by being a batch or course representative first, for which there are no restrictions.

Back to the Innovation Week: it’s all over except for the awarding.

Sir Joel presided the voting for the most popular exhibit, having the pre-school and grade school students drop the same colored balls as the Galton board exhibit in plastic bottles in front of each table.

The award, not surprisingly, went to Mon, he who demonstrated the “egg in a jar” among other things. He got this mini gumball machine donated by Sir Joel, a potential continuous source of revenue for him as well.

The Dean, though, said that it may have been just a matter of having dedicated facilitators, citing his experience having a very late lunch after there was a long line of kids who wanted to try his bicycle wheel-swivel chair “ride”.

For the rest of the participants, instead of certificates we plan to give them plastic cards, which fortunately we have the resources to produce from the Pioneer card we made last year for the Open Campus day.

We are also thinking of more awards, such as the Best Stand Alone, Best Interactive and Best Explanation, among others, that we haven’t ironed out yet.

And that’s it for today. Tomorrow I’ll talk about my Advanced Mathematics class and my mechanics lecture review for their Friday exam. Class dismissed.

*My word processor does not recognize the word, and suggests changing it, strangely enough, to “stud entry”.