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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm also a professor, but a decade (maybe 15 years) older than the OP. I've mellowed A LOT. Life experience has taught me that sometimes the crazy excuses are real, and, in any case, very little changes if you decide to believe the students.

You ask for documentation of the emergency in the case of requests for an exception to policy (like missing a final exam), and you create classroom grading policies that are fair to those who don't let their personal stuff interfere with class (and lots of students have personal stuff), but still give students a reason to do the work, even if it's late.

I also have a conversation with students who are missing a lot of class early on to try to resolve the issue in a reasonable way. Sometimes that's not possible, because I am not going to reschedule all the tests and all the lectures for my office hours, but often it is possible.

[b]I've started enjoying teaching a lot more since I've started thinking of my more challenging students as people and not inconveniences[/b].

And the writing doesn't get better. The best writing I encountered was at Catholic University in DC, where a lot of the students came from the Catholic School system. But I've encountered bad writing everywhere, even at high-ranked schools.[/quote]

I will never budge on this, PP. College is not compulsory education. This isn't "Teach for America." You're here because you want to be here. Not. my. job. to. hand. hold.[/quote]

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