Survived my first day of teaching. English 30 might promise to be an exciting class given that I only have a few freshmen in the class. I have a lot of upperclassmen and by their reactions this afternoon seem to be outspoken and active, just the type of class I want my classes to be. Maybe it’s because of the shorter generation gap between out batches. I even have a former orgmate in my class. I wouldn’t say much about my English 1s but I think they’re filled with shy freshmen. Oh God, please spare me with unreasonable kids.

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Am I that mean or are kids really that unreasonable. Since there’s a really high demand on English courses, all the slots for the GE subjects have been filled and there’s really no way to get a slot in a class other than to get the instructor’s prerogative. Being the dumb bastard that I am who met his classes on the first day even without the class lists, I was a victim of zombie hordes out for “prerog.” Take a zombie movie and re-dub the audio with “prerog” instead of brain and that pretty much illustrates what it’s like to be up front in an English GE class. Every minute there’d be a student barging in the class asking for prerog. Never mind if they’ve been unwelcome nuisances to my effort of explaining class rules and policies.

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Just to be honest, the shifting dates of National Holidays. I never even got to raise the issue in my classes. It doesn’t feel like Independence Day and it’s supposed to be the National Holiday. If Gloria had balls, I think she should be castrated for confusing our children especially if we get kids growing up celebrating June 11 as our Independence Day which will not be an unlikely scenario.

Check out these other posts:

1. First weekend as a teacher
2. Intensive English Classes for Filipinos for Summer 2008
3. Suck ups: a first
4. Attempting a paperless classroom and freshie demographics
5. No more Mr. Nice Guy