Reply #32: Several responses. First, the best way to protect NG personnel .. [View All]

[struggle4progress]

.. interests would be statutory restrictions on the improper federalization of NG units to avoid a draft in fighting undeclared wars: if the NG, which (after all) has important state militia duties, is to be federalized and mobilized for war duty, this should be only in the context of a more general mobilization.

Second, if whoa nelly's post is correct, the Federal Treasury (rather than the schools) should reimburse the student for expenses and fees: most schools do not refund these after the first month or so or classes anyway, under most circumstances, since the schools incur non-recoverable costs in allocasting facilities for students.

Third, if whoa nelly's post is correct, there's certainly some political winner of a legislative proposal that can be attached to the observation.

Fourth, whether whoa nelly's post is correct or not, long experience makes me suspicious of student claims about instructors unwilling to work with the student to find a suitable remedy in cases of unavoidable absence. I acknowledge, certainly, that there is the rare jackass who unreasonably ignores the student's plight in awkward circumstances -- but since jackasses are rather evenly spread through the population, and since students considerably outnumber instructors, the odds seem good (when you see a story like this) that the student is at fault: a real jackass of an instructor would regularly generate a large number of student complaints, administration would notice, and the instructor would typically not survive long at the institution.