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.

Two more points from the recent student development workshop that seem to be underscored more today now that students are finding out once and for all whether their effort (or lack of it) for the entire term have paid off or not.

One was a complaint about the bonus point culture. Students, instead of just doing the prescribed work that the rest of the students have to make anyway, are relying more and more on bonus points from just attending this or that seminar or joining some extracurricular activity. What's worse about this is that the students, since they don't look at the numbers anyway, believe incorrectly that these pluses are enough to add to their low scores in the first place to make them pass.

So the four achievers who were at the workshop (former and current Student Council president, former student publication editor in chief and former Recognized Student Organization Assembly president) were asking the teachers not to give so many bonuses to compensate for the students' laziness.

The second is the assumption that the teacher will always give removals.

The students should be reminded by the teacher at the start of the term that they are not going to give removals, that their work for the duration of the term, and not just at the end of the term, is what matters to their final grade. That is why constant reminders as to their current standing is key.

That's how the students know whether they should step up their effort or not.

Next is course cards: the registrar's office gives the teachers course cards to ditribute to the students. But there are students who still get course cards even though they don't give them back to the teachers, so they have gotten used to just asking for more cards at the registrar's office.

This has become an overblown expense on their part, so they want the teachers to tell the students that their course cards are only given once, and if they don't return them to the teacher, it's their fault and they will just be given their grades on pieces of paper which their parents may not acknowledge.

Session 1789 doesn't want hard work done for fourteen weeks, just one time. Class dismissed.