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.

Just an addition to the sports fest item I posted today in the student version, which I don’t know yet if I will discuss there, since it is again a semi-administrative concern.

The two former college students who already finished all of their subjects and are now working in the school were both part of the dark green team while studying.

I had assumed that they would still be part of the dark green team as employees of the school, for a sense of continuity; after all in some of their games, us teachers had played along with them, so we are teammates.

But the college secretary said they could not join the games yet (particularly the ongoing badminton tournament) because they haven’t been drafted, along with the teachers and staff members who were hired for the third term.

I hope that when the sports committee next meets (soon, to talk about the wrapping up of the sports fest for the school year) they will discuss this.

Because if they don’t discuss this, we will be forced to come to a trade agreement with whichever team they end up being drafted on, just to keep them on our side.

The new team has to agree with this; after all, why hold on to a player who will not be giving his or her all to the team, whose heart is not in it to win for the new team?

This is much like allowing a teacher to leave in the middle of the term if that’s what he or she wants and has formally indicated to the administration.

Even though it forces the administration to look for a replacement teacher hastily, or given no choice but to give an overload to some old teachers, it is better than threatening the leaving teacher with a lawsuit to remain until the end of the term, when he or she just in turn poison the minds of the students against the administration during the rest of the term being confined to the school.

The best the school can do is blacklist the leaving teacher from applying in any other school of the district, which would not matter much anyway if the teacher really is leaving for greener pastures. Although some teachers in this situation really do return to their old lecturing grounds. I know of at least one former co-teacher of mine who has left twice for the industry, and returned twice to the department.

Session 1509 can’t ignore the call of the chalkboard and the open young minds. Class dismissed.