What do you think the verdict should be?

[aShMaNv]

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I agree. The more i sit here and think about it, i would say fail. There is no way any of my professors would have made arrangements for me like that today unless i was in a life or death situation. For sure not because i want more time to study.

 

[Whitehouse Quail]

From a halfway student's point of view...

I would let him do the project, just because a couple grand might teach him a lesson, but he's probably a poor college kid and got busy or something... If he got a 0 on the exam would he pass, but very sadly? Or not?

 

[redhen]

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X2.. BIG alternate project on the test subject..

 

[Rozzie]

Sent you a PM...

 

[chicks4kids]

From what you've said, you had given him a sufficient amount of time to make alternate arrangements with you for the test. I do NOT think that you should have to make another 3 hour trip to accommodate someone who may have just decided he didn't want to get out of bed yet, or whatever reason. I think that since the option to postpone the test was there, he took it...had the option not been there, he would have showed up for sure. And he would've studied plenty for it.

An email is NOT proper communication in my opinion for a FINAL EXAM-nor would be a text. I think the boy was careless and did it at the last minute just to say that he "let you know". Sad to say, but I would fail him.

 

[equine623]

I vote fail. I'm a recently graduated college student who lived an hour and a half from my school. I once took my DD to my mom's, which is an hour and a half in the opposite direction, then drove 3 hours to school, then 3 hours back for my DD (then spent the night at mom's because the day was over lol) to take an exam which took me 20 minutes to take. This kid needs to grow up. Better to figure that out now

 

[turney31]

I vote fail, keep the E-mail to show his excuse was more time to study, not more time to take the test. The fact he was the only one, also supports this stance. He is old enough to know better.

 

[boykin2010]

well not saying excuses BUT there is no telling what the child is going through at home. it could be any number of reasons and could be something having to do with family and he doesnt have control over it.

is this student usually a good student? is he quiet and pays attention during class? does he usually make good grades? if the answer to these questions are yes i would give an alternate chance to take it. if the child is rude noisy and fails things anyway i would go ahead and fail him. why waste your time when he isnt gonna get good grades anyway.

 

[I have WHAT in my yard?]

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See this is the kicker the others are talking about - this child is not a child he's 20! He does not live at home he lives in a dorm. Yes, there are huge things that happen to people. I made alternate and generous arrangements for a student who missed the exam to attend an audition in her field! She gave me ample notice and kept in touch with me.

This one is the whole how responsible should he be when he is old enough to be given a gun and sent overseas??

 

[Rusty Hills Farm]

This student is 20 years old.

That's no kid. That is SUPPOSED to be an adult. But he will never become an adult if all the adults around him keep treating him like a kid. Fail him. How else is he going to learn that the rules that apply to everyone else also apply to HIM. It may not seem like it, but you'd be doing him a kindness. If it were a job he was treating this way, he'd get fired. If it was military, he'd be introduced to the brig.


Rusty​