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

One the afternoon of the third day of the eighth week of classes, after our meeting on the academic advising, one of my co-teachers, Gen, who is handling some of the Computer Science upperclassmen, stormed back into the faculty room because she said her students had stood her up.

She had assigned them an admittedly difficult bonus assignment, but knowing how that they felt it was a very difficult task, (some had in fact requested for consultation to her earlier which she declined because it would be like handing them the solutions on a silver platter – it was really that intuitive, or directly answerable) she was planning to let them finish it within the period instead of asking them to pass it at the start of the session.

But the students had instead stayed at the gazebo trying to answer the assignment, or copy from each other. Gen even saw them there from the corridor of the fourth floor classrooms, although if they saw her looking at them they decided to ignore her.

And it was obvious that they had even persuaded their overachieving classmates to stay with them (even those the teacher knew already had some idea as to a solution), probably saying that she cannot sanction them all as a class.

Which was what they believed incorrectly: she left the classroom after waiting for twenty-five minutes, and told the secretary that she would not receive any papers from her students if they showed up, or talk to them.

Of course they went to the faculty room after finding out she was not in the classroom.

One of the students even cried out, upon hearing what the secretary had to say, that it was unfair, because they already “used up so much time” on the assignment. They didn’t even consider asking her to extend the deadline, and they expect her to just accept their papers after seeing what apparently looked like a mass boycott without any explanation?

I told them to write a letter of apology. They did, signed by most of them (not even all) but it was handwritten on half a sheet of notebook paper torn off. It also defended their action that they lost track of time solving the assignment.

What was worst was that some of the class jokers even tried to give her flowers obviously uprooted from somewhere in the campus gardens.

She met with them, took the note, then declined the flowers, which she told them she found insulting, yet they still tried to have it placed in her cubicle by other teachers. Talk about clueless.

Session 647 bows out at this point. Class dismissed.