- Six Month Update - Part 2

School

The ladies are doing well in school. Wendie is diligent and conscientious and maintains an excellent grade point average. We are proud of her!

Lyn also works hard and studies diligently. Here is an example. Lyn has always hated math, but she is required to take a statistics class, and she was dreading it. But since she studies and applies herself, she not only has the highest average in the class, but she also has a reputation so that the other students often come to her for help! I am so proud of her!

But….

Here’s the problem. Not only do Lyn’s classmates often not take their studies seriously, but often the professors and the school don’t seem to take it as seriously as they should. This is not the case in every school, but it seems to be the case in the school Lyn has been enrolled.

Lyn is majoring in Radiologic Technology. She has one class in her major. More than half the regularly scheduled classes in that subject have been canceled for one reason or another.

On the first day of class the professor said in effect, “Don’t think that when you graduate with your degree you’ll be able to go where you want and get a job in any of the six fields in the course description. You’ll be lucky to find a job doing X-rays here in town. We don’t have the ability or facilities to train you in everything.” As you can imagine, that doesn’t inspire confidence in the class, the professor, or the school.

The same professor, instead of explaining and teaching the course material, assigns various students or groups of students to research topics on their own and then come in to class and teach what they have learned to the other students. He has another job so I guess he doesn’t have time himself to adequately prepare to teach.

Lyn says that of all her professors and instructors, only one can adequately and effectively explain the subject matter.

Another severe problem in this school is widespread cheating that seems to be an accepted part of the culture there. The accepted reasoning is, “If it’s not a class in my major, it’s ok to cheat.”


Moving

   For these reasons we are not staying in Dumaguete long term. We’re already moving to another province, Bohol, to the provincial capital, Tagbilaran. Bohol is another island, about two hours away by OceanJet. They have some good schools there. Wendie will be transferring to the University of Bohol in Tagbilaran.

Wendie will major in Physical Therapy.

Moving from Dumaguete to Tagbilaran