Timeline for Is it unfair to retroactively excuse a student for absences?
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| Jul 1 at 14:30 | comment | added | deee | While I agree that "no retroactive accommodations" probably is an administrative necessity, I would like to point out you're only getting the forms from students who didn't forget to hand them in. "I got some forms" doesn't prove anything about ADHD students who did forget to hand them in... | |
| Jul 1 at 9:06 | comment | added | xLeitix | @JackAidley Unfortunately these things are the norm all across the western world. In Sweden there is a saying "you need to be very healthy to have the energy to be sick" (since dealing with health insurance to get sickness benefits is often just as draining as doing your job). | |
| Jul 1 at 9:03 | comment | added | xLeitix | "No retroactive accommodations" is also often an administrative necessity. In my department accommodations often take the form of adjusted examination rules, and I had cases of people coming to me at the start of the exam requesting to take the exam orally instead, or in a different extra-silent room. Unsurprisingly these requests are all much, much easier handled if you know about them two weeks ahead. | |
| Jun 30 at 21:48 | comment | added | Owen Reynolds | @SvenSlootweg I've only had maybe a dozen of those forms given to me for ADD. Maybe Student Health consults psychologists for advice, or maybe it's that I'm only dealing with independent college students ("high functioning"?) Whatever it is, they seemed to do just fine as far as not forgetting. I have no further insight into why. | |
| Jun 30 at 20:45 | comment | added | Sven Slootweg | @OwenReynolds Speaking as someone with ADHD who also has a lot of experience supporting other ADHD folks: this sort of instruction ("don't forget to do X first thing") is exactly the kind of thing that ADHD folks almost invariably have trouble with, and are often unable to complete - whether it is due to executive dysfunction, simply forgetting, or a number of other factors. This policy punishes disability. "Knowing the rules" is irrelevant if you literally cannot follow them. | |
| Jun 30 at 15:26 | comment | added | Owen Reynolds | @JackAidley I put that there because the vast majority of forms I got were for ADHD (well, ADD -- it was before the name change) and I assumed Student Health tells Fresh-people "now that you've checked-in with me, here's a form, put it with your class stuff, you have to give it to your instructor first thing". I wouldn't say it inhibits remembering to hand over a form. Maybe makes it 5% more likely than a typical college student in the crush of al that newness and independence. | |
| Jun 30 at 10:18 | comment | added | Jack Aidley | Something kind of ironic about picking out ADHD - a condition that specifically inhibits ones ability to comply with this kind of policy - as your example, don't you think? | |
| Jun 30 at 6:22 | history | answered | Owen Reynolds | CC BY-SA 4.0 |