Kuusama

in Finnish.

I spent the day "fighting the power". 

A while back I had an encounter with one teacher with whom I was trying to get recognition of competence about entrepreneurship.I have an old degree of studying it and I've had my own company for 8 years and then I was a Country Manager for Norwegian company for 5 years, taking care of everything in Finland. 

The teacher in question has a reputation of not acknowledging anything basically. So I talked with my teacher and naturally she could not say much about her co-worker, but gave me this teacher's boss. 

There's more of us in our class with this situation. 

So today I called the Finnish National Agency for Education about the situation. I got the message that we the students are correct and some good arguments from the conversation. The person on the phone was genuinely sorry that the teacher is acting the way that the law and the regulations are not intended. 

So I then called the teachers boss. She was not pleasant on the phone, but had to admit that the way we've been treated was not as it's supposed to be. 

So I compiled a list of everyone and send to the boss. She will not look at our requests with the teacher in question together. 

I then made a case for myself. Stating all the regulations and laws which apply to my case. I explained how my competence is so much more than what the little course requires. The whole scale of my studies is 180 points. This course in question is 1 point. Not so much, right? But it will take up my time about 30-50 hours. Hours which I need for studying or working to get some food and shelter for myself. So doing something that I really do not need to be doing, is not in my best interest. Or my class mates. 

So I made my official request. With all the arguments. Now I wait. 

If they still don't accept my application, I will complain higher up. The person on the phone from the Finnish National Agency for Education said that there should be no problem for the teacher to accept my request. But still...

I used nearly whole day for this. But I'm also fighting for my class mates. It really pisses me off when people do unjust things and use their power wrongly. 

I sent my additional letter to my formal application, to my own teacher. She replied to me firstly thanking me for doing this for everybody and then saying that she'd be really surprised if my application doesn't go through. 

But as I said, at this point it's really hard for me to think that it will pass, as the teacher is a total d i c k.