Is this a valid excuse for a later assignment?

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I doubt I had a backup pair of glasses in college (those were the days when my prescription didn’t change as often and I wore glasses til the fell apart and were beyond repair) and I’m useless without my glasses. As a prof, I would have considered this a valid reason for an extension.

Not if the student had a week to do the assignment and chose to do the entire thing the night before. I would ask for what the student had done up until that point. If it was nothing, I would ask for a photo of the broken glasses and give a one-day extension if there was proof.

Realistically you aren't getting new glasses in one day. They'd need to go to the eye doctor if the prescription isn't within a year and then spend a fortune at Lens Crafters, Vision works or somewhere that does it same day to get them same day assuming they have the prescriptions in stock.

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As someone who taught at the college level, I would grant an extension (I also wouldn't have anything due the day after election day!). I personally think it's a reasonable excuse and I also wouldn't want to get a note from the Dean about why I was being a harda** with a student who did not have the medical equipment they needed to succeed in class.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Professor here. If you emailed me I would grant a short extension, but I wouldn't give you more than a couple extra days to take care of it. You could email a photo of the broken glasses to lend credibility to your claim, if you are concerned that the professor won't believe you.

I have an astigmatism in both eyes and am pretty much lost without my contacts or glasses. How do you not have an old pair of glasses somewhere?! If your vision is that bad I imagine you've been wearing glasses for a long time and surely have multiple old pairs laying around somewhere? I can't imagine throwing old glasses away... the lenses are EXPENSIVE when you have an astigmatism. I hope this is a lesson learned that you need to have a backup available at all times. It is dangerous to not be able to see if your vision is that bad.

New poster, not the OP.

To this PP and another who talked so glibly about backup glasses: Depending on the prescription and one's finances, having useable backup eyeglasses is not always as simple as you both seem to think. Though I do have old pairs of glasses, if I had to wear them all day long while working on a computer screen for hours on end as OP is doing, it would be a problem. Some of us couldn't complete work that way. And since my prescription is a tough one and glasses cost me $800 to $1,000 a pair (and we're not talking pricey designer frames here, folks) -- duplicates of the current prescription aren't always in the budget.

For some people, wearing an old prescription can be as problematic as wearing no glasses at all. Please consider that when you toss out easy commentary about just popping on some "backup" glasses. Should we all have ideal backups? Sure. Can we all manage that? Not necessarily. Should the OP have been more careful? Yes, sure. But accidents happen, even to people dependent on just one pair or glasses.

Most people aren't buying $800 glasses. I have and they aren't worth it. I have a really bad prescription but keep my old ones in case of emergency. You can always go somewhere like costco and use 1.67 instead of the super high index. I needed a pair and didn't want to shop so I got a $20 pair off Amazon and just took them to costco to be filled. Under $200. I'd rather have 1.74 lenses but right now I don't care.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I doubt I had a backup pair of glasses in college (those were the days when my prescription didn’t change as often and I wore glasses til the fell apart and were beyond repair) and I’m useless without my glasses. As a prof, I would have considered this a valid reason for an extension.

Not if the student had a week to do the assignment and chose to do the entire thing the night before. I would ask for what the student had done up until that point. If it was nothing, I would ask for a photo of the broken glasses and give a one-day extension if there was proof.

Then you are a jerk and are more concerned with policing time management (when you have no idea what other demands the student is dealing with) than with education or even with assessing what the student has learned/can do. You’re also clearly clueless about the financial and transportation constraints that make a one-day extension unrealistic. In fact, your take is so off base that I’m fairly certain you have never been a prof. (And if I’m wrong, I hope you out yourself quickly to potential students so they seek out faculty of have a different understanding of what their objectives are when they teach.)