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New poster. I certainly don't condone the lying or general jerk behavior you describe from this student/family. But in reading this story, it does seem a little inflexible to force all students to take the exam on a single day and not allow exceptions aside from illness with doctor note.  I understand it is not practical to allow students to just take the exam on any old day, because that would be chaos. But there clearly is a process in place for at least one make up exam day. Yes, I understand that in the real world there are deadlines that people must meet, but in the real world, people are usually pretty flexible about scheduling those deadlines to account for different situations, at least where flexibility is available.

I know it's general policy for college profs to set a single exam day, or at least it was when I was in college. But it does seem like a practice that could stand some revision.

Oh well. That's my view. Now I'll probably get flamed by people saying "darn kids these days need to learn the value of hard work and deadlines!".[/quote]

I think one problem is that the prof has to write a whole second test, to deter cheating. Is the kid's family ski vacation more valuable than this use of the prof's time?

Also, if word gets out that the prof will allow a retake for a non-health or non-emergency reason, then you will have half the class claiming a family vacation (and nothing like a doctor's note to verify) just so they can take the test a week or two later and use the extra time to study. [/quote]

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