Timeline for Failing a student for attendance or grade?
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| Feb 26, 2016 at 17:04 | comment | added | mkingsbu | (In the US) It isn't unheard of for students to use student loans to fund not-school related things. After you fail X classes you loose the ability to withdraw more student loans. So it may not be the more compassionate thing for us taxpayers (if this is in the US) to let a student off with an I or something as they may just be using it to defraud the student loan program. There are two sides to the coin since we don't know the real motive for the student. | |
| Dec 15, 2015 at 13:37 | comment | added | BCLC | perhaps you mean positive or negative punishment rather than negative reinforcement? | |
| Dec 14, 2015 at 20:24 | comment | added | Massimo Ortolano | Because if, for instance, the student couldn't attend for health or other serious reasons, I'd be willing to limit as much as possible the effect on his career (according to the OP, the "system" cleans up attendance failures), but if he just complains (maybe on and on) without offering any reason for not attending when attendance is mandatory (a side note: in general, I'm against requiring attendance and I do not require it), well, I fail to be compassionate. . | |
| Dec 14, 2015 at 19:44 | comment | added | Dan Romik | @Massimo Maybe the student is an unpleasant or annoying person who likes to complain, or is poor at communicating his wishes. Honestly I don't see why that should affect your decision, or why you need a special reason to choose the compassionate option (while still failing the student -- again, not doing any favors or compromising any academic standards). | |
| Dec 14, 2015 at 19:33 | comment | added | Massimo Ortolano | I indeed heard of compassion and I practice it a lot, surely beyond my duties as professor, but from the question it seems that the student just complains, without offering any reason for compassion. Should there be, I'd be obviously withdraw my remark, to lean toward compassion. | |
| Dec 14, 2015 at 19:15 | history | answered | Dan Romik | CC BY-SA 3.0 |