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

Today I'll talk about the standard phrases "charge it to experience" and "let them make their own mistakes". These are things that some teachers say when they are caught not having done anything to help a student with a task and a failure resulted.

And by help I do not mean actual hands on, but at least steering the student in the right direction with words, or motivating by providing deadlines.

Rather, what happens is that this teacher now says they wanted the students to learn from scratch. Well, then why go to school?

Why else are teachers in school if not to be able to warn the students not to repeat the mistakes of the past? It's just laziness.

And what's worse is if these same teachers criticize other teachers for criticizing what they laud to be the students' "initiative", despite all the negative results of their actions.

It's tough to toe the middle line of letting people make their own decisions and giving unsolicited advice that sounds superior.

It's also the line between doing one's job as a teacher, spoonfeeding, and doing nothing. Oh, wait, that's three areas, so does that mean there are two lines? Or the line is the precarious perch a teacher has to remain on to be doing a good job.

@@ Speaking of which, slacker co-teacher continues to be inside jokey, not realizing when it's gotten too old. One instance is peppering his lectures with teasings about this or that student's crush, or when someone was given a secret gift of cupcakes.

He even brought up about a guy's attraction for this girl in freshman year, when the guy was asking for a graduation clearance!

Session 2239 doesn't know when cool crosses into corny. Class dismissed.