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

In one of the teaching demonstrations for potential new teachers that I was on with the acting Dean during the last day of last week, one of the things she mentioned to us of the demonstration panel was that the list of students who are ineligible to enroll for the new school year is already out.

These are the students who, at the end of the second term, were already warned that if they did not bring up their grade point average to get a minimum of one for the entire school year, they would not be allowed to study here anymore. This means that from their performance of the first and second terms, they have garnered a GPA of less than one. This can only happen if the student has more failures than passing marks for the subjects taken for the term.

And the last time that I have been privy to this information was during the end of the school year of 2003 to 2004, where one of the students in my trigonometry class was called in with his mother to talk about his standing, which, to me at the time, was promising given that he passed the first exam with high marks. Unfortunately, this meant that he had to show consistent grades in his succeeding exams, which he did not. So – not only because of that but also because of failures in other subjects – he was declined for continued study.

In a way he was already preparing himself (and his classmates) for something like that, even if not truthfully. From several of the students I heard stories of his about their pending migration or his being accepted in a school in New York. Other students though brought out the lies by claiming they had seen him in a nearby mall recently, or that one of his neighbors still glimpses him around the subdivision.

Now, two years later, the director of the school of communication arts was telling the acting dean about one such student given a warning earlier in the school year, who, because of a requirement passed on the day of course card distribution itself, could be given a change of grade by her from one point five to two point zero.
What she wanted to know was if it would be enough to make him eligible again, which he wasn’t otherwise.

I’ll continue this tale tomorrow.

Session 1099 is had a GPA of less than one for the first and second terms. Class dismissed.