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.

Another complaint from my slacker co-teacher. He found out that the third year students he will be handling this term have a regular class size of ten, compared to around five for the previous two batches.

He told his older students loudly that that was too many students for him.

Even as a joke it's not funny for the teacher to want less work.

@@ Ephraim found out yesterday that he failed in Introduction to Robotics.

Again he turned on the sad puppy dog face, even though this time it's out of my hands because he has not yet taken up the prerequisite.

Not surprisingly he went straight to the Registrar's Office with his plea, but they called me before they would decide on his case.

Apparently, his grade point average for this term is below 1.2, for which they give a warning letter about the kick out limit.

Now he approached me because he wants Robotics credited, since he doesn't want to repeat the subject, even if the alternative is a refund since it would not be put in his transcript.

That is when I told him about all his behavior in class that I noticed, such as coming in late especially during their competitions, letting his girlfriend eat and throw trash in the lab and especially not having the pictures of one of their demonstrations.

He even had the gall to tell me what I said about his girlfriend was not true, when I saw them myself, and have several witnesses in his classmates. Maybe, I said, next time you want me to scold you in front of the class for that behavior instead of letting you think you're getting away with it.

He didn't have an answer to that one, although he was still full of excuses to the other things I mentioned such as to the long trafficked commute, fixing up for an apartment nearby, and wanting to pass their robot video since the change of grades is until the last day of this week (when I know they have no video to show whatsover, and no step by step deconstruction of their robot). I told him he did not have the right attitude for an engineering student, and that he should shift.

Tearfully he said that was what "they" had agreed upon, assuming he's talking about his mother who otherwise threatened to take him to another school. It's worse off though if he fails term after term and will never graduate, especially since he is technically third year, but the sophomores are right now ahead of him in terms of their major subjects.

Session 1809 has the wrong attitude of not taking a class during a particular term so that it won't bring his average grade down to expulsion level. Class dismissed.