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

A short update about perennial slacker JJ, who one of my co-teachers say is already failing in her mathematics subject because of excessive absences and performance so poor in her exams throughout the term that it will take more than a hundred percent of the share of the finals for him to get a passing grade.

Yesterday he called this teacher again, saying that his father will be coming over to talk to her. Bad move, announcing it like that, because instead of making the teacher flustered or rattled enough to eventually give in to the father’s request (like he must have been thinking), she was able to prepare all of his exams to show the father, as well as steel herself against pleas to mercy.

She, and some other teachers in the faculty room who heard the announcement, were ready to take the opportunity to tell the father just how consistently lacking (and slacking) his son’s performance is in his subjects.

Maybe he had one of those teachers on his side after all, who might have decided to warn him about the reception he and his father will be getting when they arrive, because – in a further demonstration of bad form – they never showed up.

Talk about further wasting the teacher’s time, and eventually if they do show up, the teacher can add that offense (probably phoning ahead without his dad’s knowledge, but from a childish attitude of “I told my father about you!”) to the student’s already long list of bad habits the school wants to correct.

Another anecdote about this guy: the head of our registrar’s office was his guidance counselor in high school, so he thought they were close enough that he even asked her for his recommendation when running for Student Council, and consequently he blamed her when she did not pass it in time so that the polling area announced he did not have any teachers or administrators recommending him, and he thinks (besides this assertion he was cheated) that’s why he lost.

Apparently he thought students who receive excessive absences in class are automatically dropped from the class list by the teacher and the registrar’s office, because several teachers have told him this early in the term (for several terms), and he quit attending those classes. It wasn’t until he got his transcript that he realized he had all these grades of zero for those classes.

He went to her asking that those should all those failing grades be changed to ‘dropped’ in his official record. She wouldn’t allow it though, and I’ll say why next time.

Session 1585 wants others (including his teachers) to do his work for him. Class dismissed.