I agree that colleges need to be destroyed and I loathe that guy, but...story time. 1/https://twitter.com/SonnyBunch/status/993206374342553602 …
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But something nagged at me. I wasn't paying too much attention, but he'd seemed a little unsteady at the time. So about a week after grades posted, I got in touch with him. Turns out he had the flu so bad he could barely stand up. 3/
I went to the chair of my department, talked about the situation, set up an agreement where I changed his grade to an incomplete, on the condition he retake the course over the summer. He did so, and got an A. 4/
Everything got sorted out, but it would have been easier if he'd just talked to me at exam time! 5/5
(I have another story about another student who was failing my class but came to my office hours. Took many hours of work and weeks of meetings, but she raised her grade to a B, and I also persuaded her to get a diagnosis (ADHD). She got a PhD in biology a few years ago.) 6/5
(On the third hand, one school I taught at had a formal procedure for verifying grandparent deaths. Pretty grim.) 7/5
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