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Teacher POLL.

I'm a TA in charge of grading midterms, which were due on Monday.Syllabus explicitly states that late work will not be accepted.I get an e-mail from the professor yesterday saying that someone turned it in late. She's pretty much put all of the assessment responsibility on me.So...Show mercy and just dock points?Go by the syllabus and let him fry?If it matters, there wasn't even an excuse attached to it.
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Re: Teacher POLL.

  • edited December 2011
    I'd go by the syllabus. The rules are there in black in white, it's not like the person didn't know when it was due.
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  • VarunaTTVarunaTT member
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    edited December 2011
    Let him fry.But I come from the George O'Connor philosophy of schooling.  Which was, "I gave you the syllabus for a reason.  Your inability to follow it is not my problem."
  • LnR70707LnR70707 member
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    edited December 2011
    I'd need a good excuse in order to accept it 4 days late.  One day maybe, but not 4.
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  • DG1DG1 member
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    edited December 2011
    everyone sitting down? Because I agree with Varuna 100%.  WTF is a Syllabus for if it gets thrown out the window as soon as it's inconvenient for someone?

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  • L_WoodsL_Woods member
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    edited December 2011
    Barring a reasonable excuse (I was in the hospital, my Grandpa died, swine flu) I'd point to the syllabus. People need to learn the rules won't get bent automatically.
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  • E SquaredE Squared member
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    edited December 2011
    Thank you. In other news, these things read like Knot posts, and I'm grading them with a red pen.It's going to look like my t-shirt by the time I'm done with them.
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  • DG1DG1 member
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    edited December 2011
    On a related note - I think the fairest syllabus I ever had was from a professor in my master's program who said you could have a one week extension on any ONE project/paper during the semester. You had to tell him by the due date, but I thought that was extremely fair.  I ended up using it on the first assignment. I hated to use it so soon, but I had like 3 big things due that week, was working full-time, blah blah.  It really helped take the pressure off.

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  • 6fsn6fsn member
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    edited December 2011
    Do not accept unless they come bearing a hospital bill or funeral program.
  • edited December 2011
    Stick.to.the.syllabus. You give 'em an inch, they'll run all over you.
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  • VarunaTTVarunaTT member
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    edited December 2011
    Dr. Connor wouldn't even take a hospital bill or funeral.  His point was always that the syllabus was handed out at the beginning of the semester and the only way you wouldn't have something done is if you were planning on doing it the night before, which isn't what a good student would do anyway.  He was wicked evil, but he was my favorite prof too.And I happen to know from personal experience when I did have an actual emergency and handed in incomplete work (I had 2 and some pages of a 4 page book analysis), he did have tons of mercy with that grading pen.
  • edited December 2011
    I'd let them fry unless they show you a damn good reason why it was late. And I mean, "I was trapped in a well and waiting for a motherfucking collie to tell two boys I was in there" type sht.
  • edited December 2011
    I dunno V, if it was something they didn't have access to except during a certain period of time I can see allowing it. Was it an online midterm E?
  • 6fsn6fsn member
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    edited December 2011
    That's true V.  I guess I didn't have very many midterm papers.  Come to think of it, I can really only remember writing one- falling film black liquor evaporation.
  • E SquaredE Squared member
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    edited December 2011
    Hard copy, FMB. And she cancelled (screw you, spell check, it looks better to me) class on Friday to give them more time.So far, these tests are Baconsmom aneurysm material.
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  • edited December 2011
    Then no, absolutely not. Let him fry.
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