Tuesday, May 08, 2007

Section D: Qualitative Analysis

A True Scenario

Students in a classroom. Students opened the windows. A window pane fell off its hinges and crashed to the ground 4 floors below.

Students told Lecturer. Lecturer sent in incident report to Head of Department (HOD).

HOD was annoyed and sputtered his first words, "WHO DID IT?!!! If there are any costs involved, tell the students to pay!"



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Question 1.

What are your opinions of this scenario?

Discuss.

16 comments:

Anonymous said...

why the HOD didnt ask if anyone was injuried?

Anonymous said...

obviously, HOD is an administrator. he is so not an educator.

let's just say i don't want him teaching my kids.

but i'd love to have him as a administrator to keep my costs low, earn surplus budget and get a bigger bonus payout.

Little Miss Snooze said...

HE shld be thanking lucky stars that no one got hurt and students' parents are not suing the school. :P

Anonymous said...

did window pane hit anyone?? anything else damaged???

The Health Conscious Shopper said...

u know, i hate to sound so cynical. but i do think that this HOD is so screwed and sounds like so many of the civil servants that i've worked with.
and having taught in secondary sch before - i don't even dare to be too optimistic about finding any more of these 'educator's that rachael talks about.

Anonymous said...

and this is a classic example of why our young ones are instilled with the mentality of shifting blame and not getting blamed when things go wrong.

because they've learnt that blame is the be all.

b.muse said...

I wonder if that HOD's always been this way, or is that the result of the brain getting wired by the system over time.

Or maybe it was trauma from past experiences with students that caused such a warped reaction.

Suzie Wong said...

sounds like my boss!

Anonymous said...

sadly, this sounds really familiar...

Ms Fair Face said...

My first thought would be if anyone was hurt and secondly what should be done to prevent this from happening again.

Cost should be the least thing on my mind, let alone pushing the blame to the kids.

Cavalock said...

You are passing out homework assignments on yr blog!?!? ;)

sinlady said...

Agree with clamshell.
Get rid of the HOD pronto.

TCA Student Council said...

i think it's not a matter of who did it? he should ask how did it happen, shouldn't he?

imp said...

people people, i'm sooo proud of you. you've all got the right head on your shoulders.

love you guys.

to that dude who knows exactly what i'm talking about, see, you're validated.

Anonymous said...

What total crap! The first concern as a teacher is always the student. If anything, the school must do damage control so that the students do not feel unsafe, resulting in an unsafe study environment. Another HOD relic

imp said...

toosh: hehehhee. you hit it right on the nail. he's really VERY RELIC! completely out of touch with his lecturers.