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Students' Bad Habits Compounding Regretful Commissions and Omissions

Student "edition" found at {csi dot journalspace dot com}.

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

I'd like to pause in my continuing narrative for now to talk about a specific student again, but not one that I have mentioned here in quite a while. I'm talking about my previous general science requirement lab student and engineering major, Ephraim.

He has been my student in three different subjects in three consecutive terms, and he has failed in each one, although each was different.

First was Graphics Two, second was the aforementioned lab, and last was Engineering Materials Science, where he was the only sophomore student.

He couldn't say though that he failed because of not having taken the same back subjects as the juniors and the seniors, it was all fundamental.

Anyway, he didn't get his class card from me for that last subject, because he intuited that he failed. Apparently, he does the same thing in other subjects as well, if he fears that he didn't pass.

He did that for his introduction to computer programming class, and he enrolled the subject again. What he didn't know was that the teacher from his first take passed him, so he didn't have to enrolled again. He didn't find out though until after he had failed his second take of the subject with another teacher.

That teacher was a bit more diligent than the first one, and saw his coasting and cheating. What's worse is that that teacher is now handling the intermediate programming subject.

So teacher #2 won't allow him in his class, because the teacher knows he didn't learn anything in the introduction course, and that from his performance, his passing grade in the first take was a fluke, due to cheating or both. He has to pass the course again decisively before he is allowed to take the next subject.

Another point is that he thought he was already ineligible to enroll, if not for that passing grade before, which is now invalidated.

He is still enrolled, but only barely, and now the administration as well as the teachers are up to all of his antics.

Session 1341 also assumes the worst. Class dismissed.


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