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

Today I'm going to be talking about my new slacker student who I've mentioned here before.

I returned their test papers today, for the class in which he has taken the test.

There's another class for which he hasn't taken either of the two exams we've already had, and there has been no indication from him about giving an excuse letter to take the make up.

Not that I'll allow him for the first exam anymore, since the deadline for that has passed, and for the second one, his deadline is Saturday.

If he doesn't know about that policy and approaches me about taking the make up exams at the end of the term, I'll tell him he's not a freshman that I have to coddle, and he should be responsible enough to know about the requirements either by asking me or his classmates, and not wait to be told.

Anyway, as I was saying, I called his name when distributing the test papers, and he didn't bother to get it from my desk.

I guess there is a level of awareness about his performance there.

In fact it was surprising that he was still attending, but again, I'm not the kind of teacher who has to tell the students about what they should already know, whether they have reached the point of no return in terms of being able to pass the course.

But I wouldn't be surprised if he belongs to the school of thought that as long as the teacher isn't telling him to get out of the room due to his excessive absences, he still has a chance to pass.

A slim chance that relies on sympathy and not academic ability.

That I'm not going to give him, because it's all on the class performance.

Session 2037 is like watching a car wreck on the side of the road about these students misplaced hope. Class dismissed.