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.

Sometimes a teacher manipulates choices that are given to the students, knowing what most of them would decide to take.

For example, for an exam, the students could be told that they could have it in class or take home. Initially it would seem that the students would decide on the take home part.

But here's where the teacher can tilt the scales towards the option he wants them to take: the in class exam would be good for the two hours allotted. The take home exam would be good for about three times that time - and has to be submitted earlier.

@@ In another front, some students have found a new way to indirectly be mad at a certain student. In one class, at the start of the term, the teacher had an agreement with the students that if they miss one of the exams and they have a valid excuse, they would not have a special exam, but would just be given the same score as the student in the class who got the lowest.

Now this would be a good deal if we are talking about a class of regular students who all have a penchant for exceling.

It's not such a great compromise if it's a class of irregular students, or if it's a regular class with even one person there who is a remnant of (left behind from) the previous batch.

So one student actually had to go through this arrangement, and the lowest scoring one in their class was this certain student.

Not altogether irrationally, she now dislikes him and his carefree ways.

Another option was to just have twice the points of the next exam given to the absentee, but I won't agree to that either.

Session 1935 thought it was bad enough having the lowest score in the class, without anyone else holding it against him. Class dismissed.