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SHS Batch 2022 - 2024

    Exquisite! By comparison, you are yet the students I handled as a batch for two consecutive years. Forgive me, knowing that I was going to be omnipresent in your senior high school life, I got excited to do an experiment. After a tiresome rubbish of an experience during the pandemic and your previous batch who were at most still having a hangover of simply passing by shitty compliance of modules (with few esteemed exceptional students), I pushed you into overdrive in a manner that I usually would when I taught in college before. And it worked!

    I was engaged with the expected frustrations. The extreme poles were there, but those who were deserving of pity are not shameful in the sense – just minor outliers and I am leaving up to their gods for their character growth, that is all. A worthy spectacle was seeing how those who were already at some capability struggled to be better under pressure. An even better feast for the eyes were those who outshine their previous selves. Let this experience carry you to further heights.

    You were the batch that I put all comparisons at hand. I smelled what other schools were doing, and I was hearing from those already at the tertiary level. Pride made me want you to be immersed in a reasonably tougher experience because there is no glory when you finished a higher level with a skillset of a casual third grader. Pride pushed me to make you at par with the standards I have known and with the culture I was immersed with. Pride even took me further by making your experience better than those stories I have heard from current college students. Most of you whom I respect are prototypes that I embraced and look at as marvelous work. You have my respect and compliments!

    Sorry for calling you prototypes, but if I could just put you headfirst with others, with what you accomplished and strived for, you are monsters! Monsters in the sense that what you have shown can swallow those pretentious students who hide behind skewed principles of education and those who have yet to experience the forge I put you in. All I wanted for you was to undergo the experience, meet and exceed expectations, and dance with the kind of nerve-wracking activities that I laid down for you. Public presence while handling conversations, be they casual or argumentative, was on the daily menu, and you eventually learned to deliver, even at times, to the amusement of my wits.

    Please, be the monsters, the giants, the towers inside the school that the rest of those who do not even desire to be an inch better will forever live under your shadow. I have lots and lots right now who are lost – they think that senior high school is still a playground. They make me sick. Be it that they challenge me to have an approach for them, but they must learn that the world does not kneel for them according to their whims. Cast your shadows to those who refuse to grow but lift those who know that they can still be more than themselves.

    Thank you for sustaining! Two big documents. Constant meaningful academic conversations. Your improvements with handling public presence while maintaining wit, grit, and spirit. I am happy because I have given most of you grades not from mercy but from your actual work. I am happy for you grew and delivered. You gave the best show worthy for my thrifty applause. How you adapted to my conditions, carry the same feat as you go further. Be flexible yet firm. 

    Servus!


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