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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Here's a counterexample for OP's situation. I am professor who also posts a midnight due date on my final class project. All these years I did not realize that it really was an 11:59pm due time (don't ask how I got confused on that). The only reason I ever realized it is that last year, a student e-mailed me that they had submitted the assignment one minute late, got the notification that it was a late submission, and wanted to make sure I knew it was their fault and not the fault of their other group members. They volunteered to personally take the full grade penalty for the entire team.

Well, little did the students know that I don't care at all if the assignment is a few minutes late, or really even a few hours late. I didn't penalize the student or the group. BUT, I quite admired this student for accepting responsibility, reaching out to me immediately and volunteering to take one for their team without any expectation or request for leniency.

Unfortunately, it's very rare to see people taking personal responsibility anymore. More commonly, we have people like OP[/quote]

Also, maybe this has been said (I didn't read through this entire thread), but does OP really think that "higher ups" can do anything? Did you actually think professors have a boss? We have a department chair and dean that we elect, and there's very little they can do about issues like this. I'd have to go on some kind of insane racist rant in the middle of class or have a complete mental breakdown and fail the entire class for the school to step in and do anything. Professors are, to a large extent, their own bosses. [/quote]

I know this is true.  But, maybe there is an advisor or someone that the student can talk with about this and get some advice.  The professors I know are all very understanding about deadline errors and also about the need for extensions in the time of Covid and racial unrest.  I also know that they want to be asked ahead of time.  But, they don't want to be the cause of additional unnecessary anxiety as their students are trying to adjust to distance learning.  This being said, they have talked about other professors who are not so understanding and their concern about the effect on the students.[/quote]

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