Reply #28: I'll work on my critical thinking [View All]

[wickerwoman]

when you work on your reading comprehension.

"I'm not scoffing at the idea of make-up work but in some cases it's not practical (often participation in class is how students show mastery of the material and a paper or a test won't accomplish the deal.) I think this student should have gone to her dean (before she went to the newspaper) and asked to retake the class next semester. Any dean I know would have allowed her to retake the class for free without a penalty to her grade (and without the other class appearing on her transcript.)"

I think the student should have been given an reasonable opportunity to make up the work and if they weren't able to do it, they should have taken an incomplete for the semester and retaken the class the next term without any monetary or scholastic penalty. What part of doing that isn't in the student's best interest? And how is it in the student's best interest to give her a grade she didn't earn and potentially put her in a situation where she's expected to know something that she doesn't actually know?