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Originally posted by AXO Alum
{AXO Alum stepping up on the old soap box}}
So when I hear about some slacker who just doesn't bother showing up for class (medical exceptions just require a doctor's note -- work is NOT an excuse for an already scheduled class) and then ends up begging for and GETTING an extension -- that just sucks! What was the point of me busting my buns to get it finished if all it took was some whining on my part to have an extra few days?! I have never agreed with this policy.
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Whining doesn't work, just for clarification. However, if something (illness, death in the family, etc....) unexpected happens, AND CAN BE DOCUMENTED, then I'm willing to consider an exception.
I've had very angry (also non-attendees, slackers, rolled into one) get mad because of a death in the family a day before the due date, where I said NO extension. "Where were you the two weeks before this happened?" If I can't get a reasonable explanation, then I have no pity, and no mercy.
What really gets me are some of the hard-core, no exceptions for any circumstances professors - "they won't get that kind of consideration in the working world" mindsets. Um, yes they do, because I've BEEN in the working world and seen it, whereas the full-time professor, teaching ever since PhD time, has not been in the "real working world." Ugh.
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