What do you think the verdict should be?

[australorpchick]

I vote FAIL. It's one thing to need to reschedule because he needed more time to take the test, it's a completely different thing to want more time than every other student in that class, to study. Life's tough and we don't always get what we want, time to grow up.

I just read the rest of the posts. I agree with Sonoran Silkies, make him take the test in May.

 

[Muggsmagee]

Are you allowed to change the test? Or do you have to give the exact same one that the other students took? When are the grades final? Are you permitted to replace the test with a project for a grade? I truly would like to see him learn a lesson here, but I think this will end up being a bitter pill for you to swallow. I hate when people take advantage of niceties from others.

I was all for the "FAIL" option...but if you find yourself in a corner, do what you have to do. At night you can put your head on your pillow knowing you will sleep well for doing the right thing! It is what it is. I hope you can enjoy your celebration of solstice and get this manboy to step up and take responsibility for his actions and grades. In a perfect world...

Edited for incomplete sentence.

 

[geosheets]

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I agree, I would give him a new test that allows him to fail himself.

 

[pips&peeps]

Fail. It is not reasonable to e-mail 1 hour before a test to declare you need more time. (especially when everyone was given more time to begin with) An attempt the night before would have been late notice; but more reasonable.

 

[annaraven]

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This is what I thought of too. If you moved the test forward a full week, then that's a week less time to prepare.

told them a week in advance and said, "If you think you will need more time, let me know and we will make alternate arrangements." I don't know if I said a specific deadline for when you had to notify me."

Without a specific deadline, you set yourself up. Suck it up, give him the test Monday (or a project he can email you) and next time, be specific about deadlines and dates.​

 

[Chickerdoodle13]

Tell him he can take the test on the date originally set and then send him an email an hour before saying you decided to change the date

In all seriousness, this situation is a tough one. Is there any way someone could proctor the test for you so you don't have to travel into the school to give the test to one person?

 

[CityGirlintheCountry]

I have WHAT in my yard? :

Sadly, citygirl is correct.

I have already told the dept chair what happened and while she is cool with the date change he is playing within the very strictest reading of the rules. He is most definitely playing me. An e-mail from him today stating that he knew I was not following the rules and he believed that this allowed him the chance to take the exam on either date shows me this.
I bent the rules for everyone's benefit and he is taking full advantage.

I still have not figured out exactly what I am going to do, I was up half the night alternating between being furious at him and mad at myself for ever thinking I should bend the rules to meet the needs of the students. And truthfully - I DO celebrate Solstice and want to be home that morning.
He is just a little creep in my mind at this point. And the worst thing is that he will learn the exact same lesson so many on wall street learned - I screw people over and I behave unethically and I win.
I am seriously sick over this at this point. If he had had any serious life event I would have been annoyed and dealt - getting played by a 20 year old who knows that my employment has no protection yanks my chain.

I am so, so sorry. Trust me. I completely understand what you are feeling. Remind me sometime to PM you the tale of the 24 year old that completely FAILED my class fair and square and yet convinced the chair to make me give her an incomplete. That situation drug out for two years. Sigh. Little snot.

He is a little creep. He is an Eddie Haskel and the CEO of Enron all rolled into one. He's the type of student that makes good educators retire early. He is a &%*!@%.

All you can do is smile sweetly and give him the worst test ever. Personally I lean towards making it all discussion with each question worth a lot of points. Or you could be really mean and give him one really hard question. That kind of makes the test pass/fail now doesn't it? Plus it gets you out sooner.

I really do like Sonoran's suggestion though"As for what it takes to remove the incomplete, I see your choices as either giving him a final or a huge project where he basically has to regurgitate everything you taught for the semester. If you choose a final, he must take it next May, along with those who take the course next semester this would not put you to any extra work in creating a test especially for him, and he certainly would get plenty of extra studying time--enough so that he might well forget everything he learned if he is not careful!"
You could always say that a family situation has come up and that you will not be available on that test day. Giving him an incomplete is perfectly legal in that case. It does make his life harder next semester as he will have to study for this test on top of everything else. That is quite fun. And he likely will have forgotten the info anyway. You have a full semester to change an incomplete grade, so you could really drag it on and on and on. Sonoran's suggestion is a very clever way to play the kid right back. Do check with your chair first to make sure she/he will back you, but that could be a really great way to turn the tables.

I'm so sorry to be the bearer of bad news. I would LOVE it if you could tell the little punk off. I just hate to see your job dissolve over this. The kid is not worth it.

 

[noodleroo]

I say fail. Real life is full of consequences. Now is a good time to learn that -as perhaps that may be the best thing that you can teach him...

 

[CityGirlintheCountry]

She can't fail him. That is not an option now. He has played the system.

 

[PineappleMama]

Yup, you have to be prepared for the users to snatch up any advantage... dangit.

Picky school rules.... not sure I get all of it but... You cannot give him the same test right? Since everyone else already took it and thus in theory he could have gotten answers? Is that correct? That at this point you have no choice but to make a different test or alternative project?

If that's the case then I'd do my level best to make the hardest most pain in the arse test/project I could... worth the 3 hours driving to wipe the satisfied smirk off that little dweeb's face.... Ahem... not that I get all wrathy or anything.

Can you assign a 12 page paper... on a subject you just happen to know that there's little information online about... ONLY in books at the library? Or instead of a 20 (or whatever #) question exam that everyone else got can you go through the book and copy down every single (or at least one from each section) practice question... a thorough exam...