I used to work in a university, and had to oversee a system (alone) where I helped students submit convoluted forms and gather evidence for ‘extenuating circumstances’ forms for 20,000+ students with mountains of evidence that were still usually rejectedhttps://twitter.com/HPS_Vanessa/status/1247404953930522624 …
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These included students who missed deadlines because their kids were hospitalised, they were wrongfully arrested, or suddenly evicted. Genuinely stupid, discriminatory bymureacratic system.
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Replying to @DawnHFoster
When I did that job I had a department exams chair ask for a death certificate for someone’s dad
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Replying to @hl_murray
I had one rejected because her partner died but they weren’t married so “it could have been anyone’s death certificate”.
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Replying to @DawnHFoster @hl_murray
Did you see the physical death certificate? Surely the fact that the student was able to get their hands on an important document indicates that they were close to the deceased?
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Replying to @BuildingOrderFC @hl_murray
You’d think. But their decisions were lazy and utterly arbitrary. Particularly strict on single parents. Just awful. Also expelled a student with high grades who was caught sleeping in the library because he was homeless.
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Replying to @DawnHFoster @hl_murray
Wow, that's absolutely evil... Who was making the final call? It sounds like you were gathering the evidence and presenting it to someone else?
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