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

Attended my second multisectoral meeting, which, I think I’ve discussed here before, is to discuss the annual tuition fee increase.

This is another first for me in 16 years of teaching. Before, word just came down from the heavens through a memo that an accord has been reached between the faculty, staff, administration, students and parents.

In that past though, the faculty association has not been part of that discussion, because they believed that it should be the administration’s job to ensure that its faculty are well compensated, otherwise (the implied threat goes) they will leave in droves out of dissatisfaction.

This had therefore resulted in the lowest annual tuition fee increase ever in the history of the school, a fact which the then student council credited to themselves in their subsequent bulletins.

Besides finding out that the grade school and high school actually account for a little less than two thirds of the school’s revenues, it’s also only now that I found out that the thirteenth month, the Christmas party, the retreat and recollection expenses, the rice subsidy and the uniform expenses, divided by twelve, are included in the computation of how the administration looks at how much they are shelling out for the employees per month.

And that the employees’ use of the school shuttle is actually being figured in their salary, to the tune of twenty pesos per day.

The student council’s secretary was their representative in the meeting, and since I have known her for 2 years now, I wasn’t surprised that she was – in fact I expected that she would be – late.

What just further cemented my view of her was that for most of the meeting she was just writing in her organizer, reading some notes on legal pad (for an exam) or quietly using her mobile phone.

I even doubt that she will be able to tell anything significant that happened in the meeting to her fellow officers.

@@ Because of the meeting I was late in showing up for my computer systems organization exam, where they don’t have an exam, because of the deal we made, but they were supposed to pass the proposal of their electronic scoreboard project to be funded by the sports development office.

The proposal (just the circuits, the list of materials and projected expenses, and the time table) was supposed to have been submitted last Thursday, since during our discussion on the last lab day (Wednesday) we already talked about that they didn’t have to finish any of their pending experiments because I wanted them to concentrate on the project (should they choose to accept it).

But my co-teacher got the text message wrong and just told the students to pass their lab journals then they could leave.

Session 2487 now has to wait two more days before being able to see if their proposal needs any corrections. Class dismissed.