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

Today was the first time that I had to make a change of grade form that had to be co-signed by my co-teacher in the lab class.

It was the for the computer systems organization class I had last term.

On the course card distribution day, my co-teacher (who is also my former student) realized that she may have made a mistake in the computation of their lab grades that she gave me.

Even though I had already computed the percentage of the lecture class and the lab class to get their final standings, she still went back to her office (we were in the designated classroom for the course card at that time) and found that for most of her students, their grades had to go up either one notch or two. I had re-entered their grades after that time, but apparently, one might have slipped through.

Or, it really is still the system's fault this time, although now I suspect maybe the registrar's officers don't verify the printout we give them after we've entered the grades.

I'm saying this because this is like a half dozen times already that I've done this in the past five years, when in the ten years before that, it was only due to completion of requirements that I'd change the grade of a student after submitting the grades.

Now because of this I will have to keep my own records of the students grades after I've encoded them, in other words, my own printout of what I submitted to the registrar's before.

I'm just glad that the administration believes that the discrepancies can happen, and it's obvious that we are not doing this out of personal favoritism on the part of the students who find out about the grade discrepancy. Now, how it affects the dean's honor list, that's another matter all together.

Session 2295 has to accept for now what it's clear will take some time to change. Class dismissed.