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Got to school today and was ambushed by three teachers and about 50 students. The students in the HSC class are on strike. i'm not surprised, in fact i'm sort of happy about it, i just hope we aren't charged as guilty merely by association. i had a delegation from the student union in my office before 8:30 this morning. They presented me with two well prepared documents professionally bound and well written. One was a petition, signed by what appears to be over 90% of the students and one of testimonials about what happened in one of the testing venues. Too bad for W and R, hooray for J, her name wasn't mentioned once.
i do believe the shit is going to hit it. There is a Dean's Advisory Committee meeting tomorrow. i put together a small packet of memos and documentation to send to the Deans telling them the situation. Mainly did it to cover my ass. i didn't expect it to go any further because we have only 6 more weeks with the HSC course, but after the strike i'm not sure that this won't be a topic added to the agenda. i wonder how long the students will strike?
Add to that one teacher coming in and asking that something be done about another teacher. Both teach the same HSC course, is every bad thing in our unit related to HSC?, and is doing things that will make us look bad. She is intentionally not handing in grades on time, coming late for invigoration, arriving late for classes, and leaving early. She may be having emotional problems so i have to suss this all out before i speak to her. i've decided to take the caring tack, but let her know that if she continues to screw up, i won't be able to save her from any repercussions from FoM, if it comes to that. She's an odd woman, aren't most of us who do this for a living, but i believe she is sincere in her feelings for the students. She may just be in over her head. She seems to use her son as an excuse an awful lot of the time. That has to stop. She isn't the first single parent to have to work for a living. That can no longer be an excuse. She has to get her shit together over the summer or there will be consequences that i won't be able to prevent.
Then there is the student who shouldn't have passed 099, but is in the last course we offer. He is a nursing student and highly coddled by the nursing department. i image he is a good nurse, but he still hasn't learned to play the university game. He hasn't learned to play by their rules. He is making his life difficult and ours too. He came in to the office saying S had sent him there to write his essay. The essay he wanted to write is about 2 weeks late. I called her and asked her about this. It was on the up and up, so i let him sit in the conference room and write. He's an older student, married, with children, in the national guard, and working as a nurse. He is trying to get his nursing degree (RN) and the Nursing Department is moving from our university to the vocational college, so the Nursing Dept, is pushing us to pass him through since he's the last. i don't have a problem with that, but damn i hope i don't get sent to a hospital while he's on duty. i'd hate to go in for a sore elbow and come out with a hysterectomy.
Then there is the teacher who is so flustered with her students she can't seem to get a handle on grading their first big writing assignment. This experiment with the HSC sure fucked everybody up. And for what? i spent two hours with P trying to catch where about half of her students plagiarized their papers. And then helped her decide how to deal with it.
J gave me the phone number for an attorney in the Ministry of Information. i have to talk with her about copyright stuff for our books. i have some ideas from the books i wrote in Taiwan, but am not sure if the procedure for licensing is the same here or not. She is supposed to call me back tomorrow to set up an appointment. yippy.
Man oh man am i glad i had already made the appointment for my manicure and pedicure. Those are about the best relaxers i know. i have to sit still, i have to let my mind go slack. i hate forced inactivity, but man is and pedis are life savers sometimes. i also got my hair highlighted, added some red to it. Master hasn't noticed it yet. Wonder when He will?
Thank whoever tomorrow is virtual Friday. i am so looking forward to this weekend. i don't know what He has planned, but even if it involves building a pyramid in the desert it would have to be less stressful than today was.
The worst of it is, i couldn't ride tonight. It got dark before i got home. Maybe this is a good time to start riding in the morning. i'm getting up early enough. But Master said He would ride with me again tomorrow. So? Why can't you ride twice in one day? What? You say! There is getting exercise and then there is being a fanatic. And then there is the thread on women's mags et al.
Got to wonder about soulhuntre. When he gave his description of himself he prefaced it with he is a big man. always was, always will be....or some such thing. Me wonders if he doth protest too much. 6' and 225-50 is pretty good sized. Maybe he is not his ideal, eh?
What time is it? IRON TIME!
i do believe the shit is going to hit it. There is a Dean's Advisory Committee meeting tomorrow. i put together a small packet of memos and documentation to send to the Deans telling them the situation. Mainly did it to cover my ass. i didn't expect it to go any further because we have only 6 more weeks with the HSC course, but after the strike i'm not sure that this won't be a topic added to the agenda. i wonder how long the students will strike?
Add to that one teacher coming in and asking that something be done about another teacher. Both teach the same HSC course, is every bad thing in our unit related to HSC?, and is doing things that will make us look bad. She is intentionally not handing in grades on time, coming late for invigoration, arriving late for classes, and leaving early. She may be having emotional problems so i have to suss this all out before i speak to her. i've decided to take the caring tack, but let her know that if she continues to screw up, i won't be able to save her from any repercussions from FoM, if it comes to that. She's an odd woman, aren't most of us who do this for a living, but i believe she is sincere in her feelings for the students. She may just be in over her head. She seems to use her son as an excuse an awful lot of the time. That has to stop. She isn't the first single parent to have to work for a living. That can no longer be an excuse. She has to get her shit together over the summer or there will be consequences that i won't be able to prevent.
Then there is the student who shouldn't have passed 099, but is in the last course we offer. He is a nursing student and highly coddled by the nursing department. i image he is a good nurse, but he still hasn't learned to play the university game. He hasn't learned to play by their rules. He is making his life difficult and ours too. He came in to the office saying S had sent him there to write his essay. The essay he wanted to write is about 2 weeks late. I called her and asked her about this. It was on the up and up, so i let him sit in the conference room and write. He's an older student, married, with children, in the national guard, and working as a nurse. He is trying to get his nursing degree (RN) and the Nursing Department is moving from our university to the vocational college, so the Nursing Dept, is pushing us to pass him through since he's the last. i don't have a problem with that, but damn i hope i don't get sent to a hospital while he's on duty. i'd hate to go in for a sore elbow and come out with a hysterectomy.
Then there is the teacher who is so flustered with her students she can't seem to get a handle on grading their first big writing assignment. This experiment with the HSC sure fucked everybody up. And for what? i spent two hours with P trying to catch where about half of her students plagiarized their papers. And then helped her decide how to deal with it.
J gave me the phone number for an attorney in the Ministry of Information. i have to talk with her about copyright stuff for our books. i have some ideas from the books i wrote in Taiwan, but am not sure if the procedure for licensing is the same here or not. She is supposed to call me back tomorrow to set up an appointment. yippy.
Man oh man am i glad i had already made the appointment for my manicure and pedicure. Those are about the best relaxers i know. i have to sit still, i have to let my mind go slack. i hate forced inactivity, but man is and pedis are life savers sometimes. i also got my hair highlighted, added some red to it. Master hasn't noticed it yet. Wonder when He will?
Thank whoever tomorrow is virtual Friday. i am so looking forward to this weekend. i don't know what He has planned, but even if it involves building a pyramid in the desert it would have to be less stressful than today was.
The worst of it is, i couldn't ride tonight. It got dark before i got home. Maybe this is a good time to start riding in the morning. i'm getting up early enough. But Master said He would ride with me again tomorrow. So? Why can't you ride twice in one day? What? You say! There is getting exercise and then there is being a fanatic. And then there is the thread on women's mags et al.
Got to wonder about soulhuntre. When he gave his description of himself he prefaced it with he is a big man. always was, always will be....or some such thing. Me wonders if he doth protest too much. 6' and 225-50 is pretty good sized. Maybe he is not his ideal, eh?
What time is it? IRON TIME!