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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]^^ No you don't.  It's not high school.  College kids who skip class shouldn't expect to have the material re-taught to them.  Please let me know where you teach so that I can not send my kid there.  I don't even agree with my middle school getting to take "re-tests" when their grades are low.  What the heck? [/quote]

I'm not going to get into why I make decisions after evaluating students' travel schedules or tell you what I teach and why it's important that students are in-class to see demos and learn material (I don't teach in a textbook-based traditionally academic department). But I will reiterate that as the professor I get the make the call when I want to whether that means moving ahead, a cancellation, a make-up, or something else: I'm the expert about how to run my class, I'm the boss here. If you want to micromanage your child's collegiate career based on how professors run their schedules and how that may affect you in a small way, by all means, do that. But you are doing your adult child zero favors by doing so. [/quote]

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