Timeline for How to handle students who try to negotiate away penalties for late submission of coursework?
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| May 10, 2020 at 1:05 | comment | added | JeffE | @ArnoldF I also have a liberal policy of forgiving work in cases of illness, injury, or similar extreme circumstances; childbirth would certainly qualify. To first approximation, if you're too sick to do the work on time, I'm not going to make you do the work at all. | |
| May 9, 2020 at 18:14 | comment | added | ArnoldF | @JeffE - truly any reason? We had a student who is a mother have an emergency with her child (she volunteered documentation) and couldn't submit her assignment until the next day. We waived our usual late penalty (10%/day) in this case. | |
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| Dec 4, 2016 at 19:15 | comment | added | JeffE | I would go with a simple "The course policies clearly state that late work will not be accepted for any reason." And this is why my course policies clearly state that late work will not be accepted for any reason. | |
| Dec 2, 2016 at 14:34 | history | edited | Dirk | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Dec 2, 2016 at 14:31 | comment | added | Dirk | @Nobody Sure - if there is something more concrete, I would replace "your inquiry" with that. Also, if wrote that email under the premise that the f*king reason has been given in a previous email. Finally, if the inquiry has been rock solid, I would for sure have granted some exception in the first place. | |
| Nov 30, 2016 at 19:37 | comment | added | Nobody | What this lacks is the actual reason. Without the actual reason, I would understand this paragraph as "I would tell you to fuck off, but sadly I'm only allowed to use polite words." and would write back a carefully considered answer in the same style, highly polite, with the gist of "I will pester you until you give me a fucking reason" (profanities for illustration). Of course I would also only complain if I thought my reasoning was rock solid and I was willing to defend it. | |
| Nov 30, 2016 at 18:15 | comment | added | Dirk | @user31389 Indeed sounds more nice, but invites follow-ups and I figured that the OP wanted to avoid that. To tone the thing down a bit, one could drop my last sentence, though. | |
| Nov 30, 2016 at 14:13 | comment | added | Dmitry Grigoryev | @TomášZato Which would indeed help the OP with their problem. | |
| Nov 30, 2016 at 14:02 | comment | added | user31389 | How about "Your arguments are not good enough, you should have taken random issues into account and submitted earlier. Please email me only if you have any better arguments. I will only cancel the penalty if the delay is my own or university's fault." to make you sound more like a human. :) | |
| Nov 30, 2016 at 9:03 | comment | added | Tomáš Zato | If I received such a cold reply from a teacher, I'd never dare to email them ever again :) | |
| Nov 29, 2016 at 16:56 | history | answered | Dirk | CC BY-SA 3.0 |