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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I can't believe that you feel that you know what it is like to have a heavy period.  Mine is horrible.  I have to accommodate it in some way.  I work from home and hide as much as possible.  The pain is unbearable to the point that I moan frequently.  I double up, and still have to change at least once an hour.  Luckily, the bad part only lasts about 12 hours, so it doesn't hit on a work day every month, but when it does, there is absolutely no way that I could work. Then again, I think a doctor's note would be necessary to miss an exam.

Don't tell women to go on the pill!!!!!  That is not your decision.  There are many reasons why someone may not want to, including that the hormones make some people crazy, and some people actually want to have children.[/quote]

Look lady, if this student had been a model citizen okay. But when you've got a kid that constantly blows off class, doesn't turn in assignments, then e-mails 20 minutes before an exam starts saying a period is too heavy to take the exam... color me skeptical. [/quote]

NP here but also a professor (and a women). I'm on the OP's side here. He's not talking about a student who comes to him at the beginning of the semester and says she has a medical condition that will mean she misses class on certain days and has an accompanying doctor's note. I've had those students and I always work with them (and don't really ask what the medical condition is because it's none of my business if they have a doctor's note). He's talking about the kid who emails before a test (and often after a test) with some vague excuse and no doctor's note. I've had many more of them. I usually let them make up the test but I make the make up version harder (since the students have longer to prepare) so they are creating their own penalty as I see it. I also realize that the real world will kick them in the butt soon enough and their boss isn't going to hear too many vague excuses before they get fired. [/quote]

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