From the Front Page Sections, on the forefront of higher-ed, translated…
The writer is taking advantage of the time of mid-terms when the students have a higher chance to stay where they are to prepare for their examinations, taking a survey of those students who lived off-campus.
With the onset of impact from the decline in birthrate, most of the colleges and universities showed that they’d wanted to, “hover over the college level students as if they were elementary school kids”. This sort of careful looking after the students became an alternative method, to help hike up the enrollment rates. And, the instructors in these colleges and universities can only take on the role of nannies during their off-hours.
“Teachers, I’m willing to sign ANY kind of documentation of proof!”, Chiang, who came from a poverty stricken, fishing village, toward his teachers’ kind warnings: the add-on to the top floors, the narrowed stairways, the cramped up spaces for living, and the problems with safety that all of these factors combined can cause, he knew too well of. But, he is on aid to study, he’d needed to make money for his own necessities, and, he could get a place so cheap, with everything that he’d needed, then, safety became, NOWHERE NEAR his primary concerns. So, “the professors did console me, to move out, but, I really don’t want to.”
What can be done? Filing a couple of forms, and, send in the problems, so it’d become the school’s concerns? Nothing bad happened, so, let’s just, keep our eyes on it for now; but, when something DOES occur, it would be, too late then. Do we need to, file our concerns with the schools, ask our managers, to sign on a few lines, so they can report to the authorities, to take down the improperly, unsafe buildings? This sort of rousing everybody up, getting everybody’s attention, as a group, we’d wanted those illegally build edifices to get torn down, everybody becomes the illegally built places paparazzi, if the neighborhoods started ranting on it, not only am I the only one under the “knife”, even the dean would get dragged into this whole mess too, why do I need to give myself the troubles?
“Yeah, we’re living together……”, the pair of male and female classmates were very straight forth about living together. They’re both adults, what, can their instructors do about that? It’s just, that the cohabiting partner that this female student had last term, doesn’t seemed to be this current guy, if there’s a bad breakup, causing physical damages, that, is what I’m mostly afraid of. In the middle of the nights, as we get those calls, we’d feared the most for the drunk driving incidents, and the infatuated with someone cases.
“Professor, I needed to work and go to classes, you’re making home visits, you’re causing me a ton of inconvenience here…”, there was, another student who’d used, an assortment of reasons, to keep me away and out of his place of residence. I’d checked his schedules, told him that I could pick him up after class, and bring him a packed lunch too, that it wouldn’t take too much of his time, and, he’d told me, “You are an unreasonable professor, you show absolutely NO empathy toward me whatsoever!”
nope, not my photograph…
Duty called, but, am I really, making it, difficult, for my students here? So I can only, print out the LINE conversations I had with him, and asked a campus security guard to look in on him from time to time. If he doesn’t want me to visit him, I’m glad, to have the extra spare time to myself, why would I need to, make the interaction between myself and my students tense?
Many years ago, on a conference of professors at the end of the semester, there were colleagues who’d suggested, that the safety in the residential living areas of the students shouldn’t JUST be the responsibilities of the school solely. That the school should post the notices on the bulletin boards, so it’d be available to the students who needed the information to look up. If the parents are not at ease, about whether or not their children are keeping up in their courses, then, it’d solely, relied on the student’s discipline, and things won’t change, just because a professor had, made several house calls. After so many years, why are we still, doing this duty, that nobody wants to handle?
So, you can see, how HARD it is, to be a teacher, can’t you? The professors are now, not just in charge of teaching the courses, they also have to “moonlight” as the students’ babysitters? Why, and, aren’t those college age children supposed to KNOW or at least, have the most basic of knowledge, to care for themselves already??? Or, is this, caused by, the parents too???
Life, the Obstacle Course 