🚀 go-pugleaf

Well said, HOWEVER . . .

        These days the "hard to handle student" isn't one who chains
him/herself to the dean's office door or is - to any significant degree -
distruptive in class.  He (please forgive the generalization; I am not
versed in PC writing) is the student who understands that for every rule
in the red tape of the university buerocracy (sp??), there is some
wondrously effective way to sidestep it.  Just appeal to the right person
with your heart and sole or correctly juggle the scheduling system and
it's truly astounding what can be accomplished.

        And the beauty of it all, is that this student IS "hard to handle,"
because he/she is, for the most part, getting his/her way - BUT, in this
case the powers that be are altogether UNAWARE that the student is a, for
lack of a better word, "problem!"

        In fact, I'm inclined to think that red tape manipulation is one
of the new and valuable additions to a student's education being taught by
the larger schools.  I suspect such insubordination, if kept in check,
could be considerably useful in the "real" world.

-Mitch