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

During our faculty meeting yesterday, one of the same faculty members who originally thought that the finals week was only reserved for removal exams questioned the practicality of course cards.

Apparently though, the reason for this is that she distributes the course cards to the students at the start of the term, then collects it from them near finals week, at which time some have already told her that they had lost it or forgotten it at home.

I don't know why she doesn't collect them on the same day that she receives them.

After all, can't she tell it's meant primarily for the teacher's use since it contains the student's contact information, and at the back it could be used to check their daily attendance?

Another point that was brought up was that another teacher thought it was unfair that in subjects, students are allowed to drop until the fourth week of classes, when in fact they can accumulate failure due to absences during that period. This guy said it looked bad to the students who did attend since the start.

The point there seems to be (and the registrar's head hit the bullseye with it) he saw those students attend at the start of the term, and they either mouthed off to him about how lousy he teaches or didn't suck up to him within the period.

He wants the satisfaction of failing them hence, but they also don't want to suffer through his class and they stop attending before dropping out completely, at no cost to them, he thinks.

This is wrong though, because even though the dropped subject doesn't show up in their transcript, if they wait until the fourth week before applying for it, they get no refund at all.

In short, though I gave my class other work to attend that meeting, maybe I shouldn't have after all. It was a waste of time, especially when some of the faculty thought it was a session to start badgering the brother president with requests that he foisted off to the school directors bureaucratically.

Session 2227 will use the excuse of having a simultaneous class next time, or at least to show up late. Class dismissed.