since i'm waiting for miss ripley to load, i figure i can do some blogging!
can't believe special semester is gonna be over soon. lab has been awfully fun these few weeks and honestly, had it not been for the fact that i need to go for attachment next month, i would have opt to take special semester 2 too. and i cannot make up my mind if i want to do four or five modules next sem.. probably four bah. 3 chem mods and 1 math mod? ahhh. shall decide again next month.
a bit worried about starting the attachment. i will privatize my twitter and blog by then cause it's not very nice to have students digging up bits and pieces of my private life, particularly my immature and vulgar past hahaha. not that i'm not like that now..hey, i'm not like that now!
recently, i chanced upon the facebook statuses of two individuals. they are in my facebook friends list and they are well, educators. i'm not sure how social networking sites affect the tolerance level of people but it seems to me that educators now are incapable of tolerance and do not hide their emotions. thing is, they accept students as facebook friends, yet do not hesitate to speak their minds with regards to some issues about their students. i'm not sure if you guys feel the way i feel but i find it quite unacceptable for educators to post their opinions of their students online. my teachers never do that and i don't see why any educator should. unhappy with their grades? unhappy with their assignments? unhappy with their lack of willingness to learn? keep it to yourself. what's the point of sharing them on facebook and inviting comments from friends who are non-educators? comments that may unknowingly hurt students who read them? i am not the student, and i can feel this way. what about students who read them?
i don't believe in using degrading words on students' work. "Rubbish" is never a word to describe students' work. it buries all the effort put in by the students. ever looked at it from another angle? students write nonsensical answers because of educators who told them "no matter what you do, just do not leave blanks at all. writing something is better than writing nothing." students write nonsensical answers because they are at their wits' end and are just struggling to grab hold of any piece of information that may give them a bit of credit. that is rubbish..?
i didn't want to talk about this today but because i was mentioning it to a friend today. sort of got me a little worked up. i can't respect people who disregard efforts of students. no matter how smart you are as an individual or an educator, your way of handling issues is really not what an educator should do.