Student "edition" found at {thoughts dot com slash typed no space out no space loud slash blog}.

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

Because of the new policy that students who want to be accommodated in a class after the term has already started has to approach each teacher and ask for their signature and approval, I've seen all kinds of excuses surface from these late enrollees.

Just because the teachers in other classes and sections allow it doesn't mean everyone has to.

If everyone agreed to it, what's the point of having to go to each teacher and ask?

Besides that, one of the most bizarre requests I've had so far is for a student to enroll in one class, but since he has a conflict with the second session of the week, he will just attend the second session of the second class, during which he is free.

That's double duty on the part of the teacher in ensuring that there will be no overlap in topics on alternate days.

And since there are 30 students in one class and 10 in the other, that seems almost impossible.

But one policy that the registrar's should keep in mind with this new procedure, which of course will now be implemented next term, is that they should check first if the section is already full, then give the student the form to have the teacher sign.

What I noticed is that the students ask the teachers to sign just any piece of paper as proof of approval, which the registrar's office does not accept if it did not come from them.

@@ A certain student is not in my classes for this term (“Thank the Lord for small mercies”) but he is the student of one of my computer science co-teachers for the first time.

And in this class, to encourage the students to bring their own paper for the exams and quizzes, she has implemented a rule of plus-one-minus-one to those who will ask their classmates for paper. That is, plus one to the giver and minus one to the asker/borrower/receiver to their quiz scores. Trust him to exploit this.

After the teacher explained the policy, he brought out his pad, counted the sheets, then counted all of his classmates with this goofy grin on his face, counting his chickens before they hatched, or in this case the points before he got them.

As if his classmates will now or ever ask paper from him, seeing his motivation or accept it from him if he offers, and as if he'll pass the class based solely on those points.

Session 2503 sees that there will always be people who will see the wrong angle in rules. Class dismissed.