Strange Requirements

It is clearance week at last. A time, one really childish and spiteful teacher exclaimed, to get even.

Students who used to terrorize teachers or at least make teacher’s life difficult will now have their comeuppance.

I guess that is sort of , hehe, frightening. Because teachers sort of controls the strings totally.

Anyway, I forgot all about clearance hassles in highschool because when I went to college, our clearances were left to the hands of our chairperson who slaved over it one whole week before the final examinations.

Going back to my old alma mater surprised me about how clearance week has become a sort of doomsweek for the students.

I guess I contributed my own share of trouble this year by requiring them to:
1. submit their students profile
2. submit their notebooks (complete)
3. return their books
4. pay their back accounts

But, I think mine is minor compared to what is usually practiced.

Here are some of the strange requirements that teachers usually require students for their clearances to be signed:

compost/humus
- even non TLE (Technology and Livelihood Ed) classes requires these. I know of some Filipino, science and math teachers who have asked for these
Rocks (or igang)
brooms
P5
- I don’t know what these were for. I just heard one social studies teacher requiring these.
plants (daang buhi guid)
plastic cover
manila paper
file case
basketball ball/volleyball ball (ha?) for those who have no PE books
trowels

atbp.
Yes, definitely atbp.

Teachers have the freedom to request whatever they want from students at this point in time. No one would say no. Kahadluk lang nila.

Students no longer says much at this point as long as mapirmahan lang ang clearances nila.

Teachers, as years pass by, get more creative. During my highschool heydays, the worst things that a teacher would ask you to bring are a compilation of your projects for the school year (that was in our social studies class).

I know of one former classmate who asked his students to buy DVD/CD tapes of several films he required.

One of the teachers of my sisters once asked them to contribute several pesoses for a tape and a player.

Whew.

Right now, I am thinking about a nice requirement from my students in the years to come.

How about…a prospective boyfriend? Or a house and lot maybe?or why not a new cellphone? Or an mp3 player (mp ano dun ya uso subong man?)

What do you think? Feel free to add your requests. Sky’s the limit.