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.

In the student version I was talking about the Brother Visitor’s talk to the assembled school yesterday.

One of the things he mentioned in his presentation was about zeal. He said if the teacher does not get up in the morning with a spring in his or her step excited about his classes for that day, then he or she does not have zeal for the job.

It was more clearly emphasized in the afternoon, when one of the older faculty members in the college for the first time in a long time stayed late in school (this being about 530pm) because he was part of a discussion on the changes to the current faculty manual. What was he arguing about? More benefits, of course.

And this is a person who as much as possible will rearrange his schedule, sometimes internally without the knowledge of the dean’s office, so he could have at least two days in the week when he doesn’t have to go to school.

This is also the person who finishes all of his final exams during the thirteenth week of classes, quickly calculates the grades of all his students and gives it to them so he doesn’t have to show up in school at all on the finals week, or on the course card distribution. In fact, during that formation module creation we had in the novitiate, he was specifically mentioned as one of those who needs to be more participative in the students’ activities.

And to think that during our lunch he was already asking about certificates for the in-school trainings he’s received, because he’s already looking forward to his next promotion period and what he has to submit to get a higher salary.

During the workshop excursions, he is always planning to bring his family with him (at the discounted bulk rate of payment that normally would not be available), instead of using the time to bond with his co-workers out of the school.

And he’s also been asking a lot about the dividend we’re going to be getting at the general assembly of our credit cooperative that he only joined two years ago.

That’s one of the things he’s envious of me: that I’ve been saving there as a member for more than ten years, and that my dividend is around ten times what his is.

The same is true with my Catholic Educators Association of the Philippines deductions.

Session 1511 is in the profession of teaching for all the wrong reasons. Class dismissed.