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

On the first day of the fifth week of classes for the second term, I started on the first experiment in my mechanics laboratory class, Uniform Acceleration.

As usual there were some students who were again late, and have now incurred three tardy marks or one and a half absences. The limit for the class in two and a half, an excess of that meaning the student gets an automatic zero point zero in the course.

That reminds me: one of the things we talked about on the faculty meeting in the last day of the fourth week of classes was that twenty is now the maximum number of units a student with lab or physical education classes can have, and the minimum is fifteen.

There is also a directive laid down by the dean that starting next term, there will be a strict lecture and lab co-requisite rule, the only exception being for those who have failed one or the other in a previous take.

Anyway, back to my lab class. There was one student who had taken the class before, so his group had little difficulty in performing the experiment, which was actually just measuring the distances between dots on a strip of paper.

At the same time he echoed my warning to them about submitting individual reports on schedule, or not delaying too long because of the accumulated percentage deductions for late submissions, which was why he failed, he said.

But on top of this, there were some requests for an extension on their assignment on the Graphs and Equations activity, because they had not finished it. I can already foresee that there will be deductions in their first experiment group report because of incorrect graphs.

I told them it was their choice. Either submit on time and get a low grade for incomplete work, or submit a day or two later, where the maximum score they could get is still eighty to ninety percent, but that would be nearly a cinch if the work is complete.

Two out of the three groups opted for the second.

I also warned them that the same deduction applies to students who ask for the group notebook after it has been submitted, for the data they need in their individual report. This penalty is for them to know beforehand when they are supposed to write a report for the experiment, and pay special attention during the performance and prepare what they need before submitting the notebook.

Session 799 submits the requirement on time, but it is incomplete. Class dismissed.