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.

There was a teacher hired for introduction to mechanics (lecture and lab) and introduction to electricity and magnetism lecture at the start of the present term, who returned to teaching after a few years of working in the industry.

Unfortunately, the hospital that had delayed all this time to hire her full time (thus forcing her to seek part time employment elsewhere – including here) had their full-time medical instrumentation graduate resign on them for greener pastures abroad soon after the term started, forcing them to hire her full time or risk being closed down with no experts in instrumentation.

The teacher’s choices were now either to ask the hospital to wait until the end of the term in December before she could commit to full time work, or drop the part time teaching altogether (and risk being blacklisted all throughout the district - preventing her from ever being hired in any of the campuses again), or to just stay mum about both employments, risking being sanctioned by the Department of Health.

She chose the second option, which left our school up in the air without a teacher for three subjects. Not that the students complained.

In fact, they complained about her teaching methods, which were a little rusty - or because students are just whinier now than they were a few years ago, being coddled by society.

And because the Executive Vice President doesn't want teachers to accept overload units just for the extra pay if their capacity to handle classes excellently has the potential of suffering, then new teachers have to be hired to take up the slack.

One such applicant showed up this morning, who as luck would have it, comes from a semestral school who hasn't started their second term yet.

Of course she was surprised when she was asked to start immediately, as in on the same afternoon. She was flattered, but it was too sudden for her, and unlike the teaching demo that she had prepared well for (although it was something she had taught several times before) she believed she was psychologically unprepared to face the students at that point, and risk a very bad first impression at that.

Session 1393 eats teachers who fumble in class for breakfast. Class dismissed.