That's rough! You did a good job developing the bootcamp and sticking to it till the end of the programme. It's sometimes easier to start than to finish.
I honestly understand that blogging on Hive requires a lot of discipline and commitment, and it's good you've the element of discipline in it.
But to be honest, I felt it was too strict. That's if I read very well. So, here's what I got, 9 students were filtered or brought down to 5, and the 5 made it through 4 bootcamp sessions and failed to deliver on the 5th and 6th by the deadline they lost the privilege.
Trust me, you're doing these guys a favour, you and your team are doing an excellent job of trying to raise people off the trenches. They won't understand till they start earning through Hive.
But I feel it was too strict nonetheless, before I conclude on my opinion, I would like to know, have you and your team exercised a level of leniency before now and warned that there may be no second chance? Or was the first default the last? If the later is the case, please, if you can reconsider, it should be nice. I know the value of discipline and the cost of indiscipline. But I also appreciate the need and worth of a second chance!
Before the program started, we stated it clearly. There was even some point of leniency given that I didn't even mention.
On every test question we dropped, we always point out the consequences of not doing the test before the deadline.
After the notification of tests 5 and 6 were sent, every member acknowledged the message was received by reacting to it.
The deadline passed by 4hours before we made our conclusions. They had extra 4 good hours.
All these were enough leniency given. If we haven't done this, the Bootcamp would be taken for granted.
Now, they probably know that we are in for serious business and if truly they were interested from the start, that would reapply again for the next cohort to retake all tests.
Yeah, we care too and understand the transition wouldn't be smooth but at the same time do not want our time to be taken for granted all because the Bootcamp comes at no cost to them.