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.

Oh my gosh, big news today, although it has yet to be confirmed - as to the reason that is.

I had the privilege of sitting in on the school directors' meeting today, just so that I could tell them that the resistance to the new curriculum is baseless.

I believe that part of the reason why this is the "marching orders" (I really don't see how that's an exact analogy) of the heads of the district to each campus: because it seems to be the new way that this generation will learn, not through listening to someone talk endlessly in front of the classroom.

So the directors finally relented, and the understanding by backward design will be implemented to all syllabi by the end of the school year, when all courses offered by the school would have been taught already - well, theoretically.

Anyway, the topic now went to slacker co-teacher. Apparently, the directors and the dean are not surprised that he didn't show up for today's workshop.

I thought it was just him resisting shortening his vacation. It turns out he quit, despite being permanent.

That's one way to get around that block of kicking him out. What surprised me was that even though he's been researching online about migration since his first year of teaching here, that it wasn't the main reason the heads are suspecting.

They said it could be disappointment in not being granted his sabbatical for the first term.

Maybe this is his way around it, and that after the term he'll ask to come back, although I hope not.

Because I hope that if he does try to come back in the second term, that they will see how selfish he really is and that he's just in this job for the easy work and easy money.

What's also curious is that the dean suspected that I would know the real reason.

Well, it's been a long time since he would have confided in me, and I never gave him the opportunity to thing I'm a willing ear to listen to his excuses, not after he gave a conclusion about a case he only heard peripherally, and somehow roped me into giving him the details.

Session 2665 doesn't really know how to deal with this happy news. Class dismissed.