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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]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.[/quote]

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.[/quote]

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.)[/quote]

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