Life happens.
Car stuck in snowphoto © 2010 Christian Guthier | more info (via: Wylio)
For most of us, school is one piece of a complex life that includes any mix of family, friends, other jobs, hobbies (as well as weather, cars, buses, neighbours, pets, printers, hard drives…you get the idea). Things sometimes do not go according to plans: cars get snowed in, printers run out of ink, people get sick. Students are, after all, people too.

Do you (or does your supervisor) have a policy for granting extensions or makeup tests? Is it part of the classroom contract you set out at the beginning of the semester or do you take each case individually? Do you think it matters what type of class or work has been missed: labs vs. essays vs. midterms?

 

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