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.

Here today I'll discuss some facets of the parents' organization general assembly that I may not report in the student accessible version of this journal.

First of all, from the speeches of school president Bro. Kenneth and the College Dean, one of the things not mentioned that one parent reacted to immediately was the lack of sports and culture in what the administration wanted to cultivate.

I think this was the national artist father who has one son enrolled here excelling in photography (transferred from pre-law somewhere else), as well as, in his own introduction, several other children being proficient in martial arts in other schools.

Another parent, in her introduction, talked about the need for a stricter dress code, especially since there are very impressionable grade school and high school students abounding.

The Dean answered this by citing the relationship between uniforms and creativity, instead of what I believe the real problem to be, which is lack of personnel enforcing discipline.

The Dean did mention that it was the Student Council from two years ago that came up with their own dress code, but the question is how to implement it.

Another parent, when the industry immersion (which is just another term for the practicum or OJT units) was mentioned, asked why it was the student and not the school who was deciding where the fourth year students should apply.

This the Dean answered this by emphasizing that unlike other schools, where the students just have to complete a certain number of hours for five months at the company of choice, here the students have to provide documentation of what they have done, and defend it before a panel at the end of the term to get a passing grades for the equivalent of twelve units of credit.

That is why, from the vice dean (and head of school of IT and Computing)'s tales, when she went to visit two fourth year CS students who are interns at Sun Microsystems, their immediate supervisor was surprised, as well as at the refusal of the students to do clerical jobs, which is what their accepted applicants usually do.

In other words, it is still the school's final approval if a student will go to a company that accepted him, and only if they are willing to give him real responsibilities.

Session 1741 only has trust for the institution where they send their kids up to a certain point, then they have to step in and want to change it, instead of pulling their kids out. Class dismissed.