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.

Short update: new slacker student was absent again in my class earlier.

Am less inclined to give him a chance now, knowing he's just stalling.

Then again maybe there's really something he wants from his parents and this is just the only way for him to get them to pay him attention.

I did float to his mother about them giving him a rest from studies first, because it's really just a waste of their money and everyone else's time, but they said they'd rather he didn't lose momentum.

Well, obviously I meant let him take a job first or something to make him see just how difficult it is, or rewarding, to earn on his own especially after having finished a degree.

If they thought that meant letting him bum around at home like a prince, they're missing the point of the threat largely.

But it does seem like they're just coddling him, because otherwise, they would have given him a last warning or such a long time ago, to make him shape up. It's a relief though that the last time I had to talk to a parent like this was four years ago.

That makes me believe there aren't that many of this kind in school, until a certain student and Ephraim, that is, who's confrontation is just waiting to happen, maybe at the end of the term.

Another point, from the way his mother was so eager to hear about what his classmates were saying about him, it's possible he's also using the persecution from them as an excuse, instead of him taking advantage of them, and that it's really all his fault and not because he chooses friends badly.

Session 2063 can't tell if both parent and child have blinders or the son just put one on his mother. Class dismissed.