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[quote=Anonymous]Like all college faculty, I have times of day when I prefer to teach, and because we schedule collaboratively in my department, I usually get those slots.  That in turn means that my finals are usually at the same time every semester - first thing in the morning on almost the last day of exams.  It's an algorithm, and we're stuck with it.

OP, exams have to be offered on equal terms to every member of a course, with the only exceptions being dire health emergencies or documented SN accommodations.  If one kid is allowed to take the exam remotely or at a different time, that chance has to be given to everyone - and then you open up all kinds of potential problems:

- New possibilities for academic dishonesty: safeguards for remote exams are different from those for in-person ones and sometimes involve changes in exam format; multiple administrations mean that you have to create multiple but somehow still equivalent versions of the same test.
- Student complaints triggered by the flexibility itself: "X took the early version of this exam on Monday, but I couldn't because I had a different exam scheduled at that time, so now X in my course gets to go home early and I have to stay until Friday.  That's not my fault and it's not fair."
- Violations of school policy: faculty at my school are not actually allowed to administer finals before exam week begins.

As many PPs have noted, don't blame the professor.  They didn't choose this.  Next semester, ask DC in January to email or text you the recorded and publicized dates of all of their final exams if the springtime departure date is a potential issue.[/quote]

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