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

Today is Small Snippets of News Day, since I have several report.

First, Ephraim is my student again, in general science requirement lecture and lab. Last time he was just my student in the lab subject and he failed both, when his lecture teacher and I were in agreement as to his failure to meet requirements.

He showed up on the second lecture day (which is technically the third meeting). In the most recent lecture meeting, when I demonstrated how in uniform acceleration in one dimension each point has a different value of time, displacement and instantaneous velocity but the initial velocity is still the same for each. I showed this by making a table instead of writing a word problem on the board.

Afterwards he asked me if that was one of the things they had to do in the exam, which just shows how eager he is for the easy things.

Next, I have five students that moved from my first lab class to the second one, which means that the first class now has twenty students while my second class has thirty students.

But I did ask all the students for their schedules, so if there's a way for me to move five students from the later class to the earlier class because of free time, I will force them.

My ideal scenario is that I will divide them into three classes though, which even if resulting in three more hours a week for me, gives me less worry time that most students are not learning much because only few are working in a group.

In a related bit, I did shift all the slacking seniors into their own group now because most of those students that moved were part of one group leaving one member behind.

Session 1491 cannot relate need to pass with increase of effort. Class dismissed.