-----Original Message----- From: Ted Ozolins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2002 08:26:22 -0800 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: problem for non Linux users - Windoze users
[snip of my rant] > > That's where a strong teacher/parent auxhillary makes a big dif. We don't have that here in colleges (at least none that I've attended). In high schools we do though. >Here in Westbank, they have an individual who ensures that you have satisfied all > pre-requ's prior to attending them. At my school(as with most, if not all colleges) you have an academic advisor who would do this for you. The thing is, you are generally not required to meet with you academic advisor. I've only talked to mine twice in 4 years. And once was last week because I needed to talk to him before graduation (which is next term YEAH!!!). So if you follow the guidelines and talk to you advisor before you register each term, the would have you take all prereq's first. But since I never talked to them, and obviously others don't as well, it is a free for all. > All the schools my two have gone to > (Westbank BC, Edmonton Ab and Norman Wells NWT) have strongly enforced the > pre-req per courses. If I were going to your school and lost out on a course > because the seets were taken up by a bunch of lusers would result in a strong > protest in writing to school principal with cc's to every government official > that has anyting to do with education. If you have not done this then you > deserve to miss out on courses that you would like to attend. If you are > waiting for someone else to do it for you it won't happen! If you are put off > on missing out on courses then I would sugest that you have a good look into > a mirror, because there looking back at you is the reason why I would say I have only been minorly inconvienced by this. Any class I've missed because of it I was able to get another term and I never missed any school terms because of it. I was able to get into other classes I needed. Now if it affected my graduation, which it doesn't, then a strongly worded letter to the Dean would result. Although it irks me, it doesn't irk me that much as to write a letter to the Dean with cc's to my government representatives. I don't think the government really has any control over the class situation even from state funded school. I have heard of other students who have brought this up to school officials but I have seen no action (yet) because of their complaints. I have heard that something was going to be done though, just never when it was going to be done. And now I don't really care since I won't be there after next term. -- Tom Wilson -- Get your free email from www.linuxmail.org Powered by Outblaze _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL.
