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.

The marginalization of a certain student by his own actions continues.

Earlier, while I was in class, his classmates, who were my students last term, were already milling out in the hallway at that time.

They told me that the student was talking to their teacher because the rest of the class had been grouped for a project and none of the groups wanted him to be part of their work.

After about a dozen or so minutes of pleading or convincing he finally went to one of the groups that their teacher had placed him with them.

They answered they would accept him on one condition, but I only stayed for the first few.

First was that he won't interrupt their teacher anymore while he was lecturing.

Next was that he would not ask to go back to a previous slide while discussing.

Third one was that he would not look at two of their female batchmates while in class - then deny it, which apparently he'd been doing.

It's too bad that at that point one of the other members of the group joked, "Just don't open your eyes while in class!" because I think he was taking it seriously up to that point.

It's scary to think though that he is behaving worse in other classes compared to mine, where the teacher doesn't seem to know how to handle him, or is too nice to shoot him down.

@@ That reminds me: for several weeks now, these students in my assembly language class have been faced with the problem of having a teacher in the lab who expects more from them that I do.

Up to the point, in fact, that the highest grader in the class even once came up to me to say that their machine problem is impossible.

Session 2425 will continue on the difficulty of having different teachers in lecture and lab tomorrow. Class dismissed.