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.

There is a forum tomorrow in the main campus for presidential candidates. A letter was sent to our campus saying that we can send ten students to attend. This was quickly filled up, with even some contention and grudge-holding when more wanted to go and some had to be dropped from the list.

But what they forgot to consider was that there is also a faculty adviser who has to be present.

Checking with the organizers though, there really were only ten seats reserved for them, none for an adviser.

The students are adamant that the letter said quote ten students unquote not ten representatives of the community.

The school could insist that they will not be allowed to go without a faculty adviser, but in the second place, there are no faculty members available because of a personal financial management seminar.

So guess who ended up being caught in the middle, looking for a faculty member that will let the students still go? Yup, it was me.

I could not find a faculty member who had no classes, so instead I asked one who did have classes, but lived halfway between here and there.

First of all I assured him that the dean will approve of his make-up class because of the circumstances.

Second, I told him he did not have to go to school at such an early time but could go straight to the venue.

This is one loophole of the faculty accompaniment rule that the students can leave the school with only the shuttle driver, as long as they are met at the venue (or along the way) by their faculty companion.

I told the teacher (young one, second year teaching, part of our first batch of board passers and graduates) that if there is no seat for him at the venue, then he can just leave. We have satisfied the requirements needing him there.

But it would be inhumane to ask him to wait for them to finish, or to even show up just to see them get back on the shuttle.

I would have said his presence really is unnecessary because it is just a campus to campus trip.

If there was any trouble on the way, it would not be due to the students being unruly but due to driver negligence, which is what we have insurance for. In the other campus, there are discipline officers to keep them in line.

If they do cause trouble when they are there, then that means that the students chose wrong in whom to bring with them.

Either way, it is a no loss situation for the school the way I see it. Sadly that is not how the higher-ups see it.

Also, I tried to get in contact with the former executive vice president of the campus, now an assistant to the chancellor there, to help us out, but he did not reply to my text, although that does not mean he is not working on it.

Session 2933 sees how sometimes being overcautious is a hassle. Class dismissed.