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

Third (and hopefully) last day in a row talking about my science lab.

The student I talked about yesterday who only enrolled in the lab subject but not in the lecture was already approached by the registrar's office about the oversight. I don't know what they discussed, but the student was back in the class afterwards.

It's either they said he will have to enroll in the lecture class (hopefully not the one I'm teaching; I have the excuse that my section still has twice the number of students as the other teacher's) and have to catch up on seven weeks (half a term's) of lectures.

I very much doubt that he could pass that if he suddenly went to that class, given his poor study habits, so that could automatically be counted as a failure. That means if he still continues to show up (late most of the time anyway) in both subjects, he would still fail and have to take the classes again.

Is the hope or optimism that they will pass even with their lackluster performance that overflowing? Or do they think it's like their other subjects, major and minor, where the teachers give them more breaks?

I'm hoping that he just didn't leave so as not to lose face with his friends, and that the registrar suggested he drop the subject and take them both in a future trimester. I could see the appeal in that for a student who values less work.

Besides that, one of the bad things that happened in my most recent class was that not only did these underachievers show up late, but they also had no copy of the procedure with them.

So they had to bother another group and borrow their lab manual to photocopy.

That not only meant that one group will have to wait without a copy of the procedure while another group indulges their procrastination, but also that since they started late, they ended late, delaying another group from the second class as well.

Somehow the policy of giving lots of incentives for the students who demonstrate foresight by copying the lab manual early isn't working that good.

Session 1535 believes science subjects have the same lax requirements as literature or history subjects. Class dismissed.