I have never heard of the doctor’s note excuse used in college. Is this a small college?
@Madison85 I can attest to that. I attended a small college where every class absence could drive your grade down (depending if the professor followed the school’s attendance policy). If the professor was strict about it, you needed a doctor’s note to count the absence as excused. Felt a lot like high school to me.
no it’s not a small college, it’s just a small class that’s a upper division course. it is stated in the policy that a doctor’s note is a viable excuse. when i talked to her after the absences issue she made it seem like she would pass me if i completed the rest of the work, so I did complete the course but she didn’t pass me, so what was the point in letting me finish the course if she wasn’t going to pass me.
Did you turn in the excuses the next class period after the absence?
yes i did give her notes afterwards.
All this is water under the bridge. You failed. She failed you. Whatever. NOW what are you going to do? You have to have this class to graduate, so sign up and take it again. That’s your only choice. Next time, follow the requirements.
In law school I had a teacher who allowed a certain number absences, but not excuses beyond that. Didn’t care if your mother died, the baseball team was in first place, you were sick, or you just didn’t want to come. Class participation was important to him and he wanted you there. Period. There were a number of students who received warning that if they missed another class, they would fail. He played no favorites.
OP - That’s a tough situation. Other than the issue with attendance, how did you do in the class? It’s possible that your work gave the professor an “I don’t care” vibe. However if you had good grades on all of your assignments, you may have an easier time pleading your case.
This is the thread posted by the OP 4 months ago about this very class and professor (yes this is a retread). I leave it to posters to see what’s been said already.
@Erin’s Dad I think that thread is exactly why people are not overly sympathetic to the OP asking for the same advice AGAIN. OP was given good advice the first time and again this time but doesn’t seem to like the advise that is being offered. Hint: not being told what you want to hear is not “disrespectful” people on both threads have given good, solid advice. Ok, maybe on the original thread the comment about “Academic Munchausen” might have been pushing it but, hey. if the shoe fits…
@estara89 you are contradicting yourself…I asked if you gave her the notes in the next class period and you didn’t give a consistent answer.
Since this happened months ago, haven’t you already met with the professor?
My kid called me up yesterday sobbing on the phone because she missed her deadline for submitting her independent study material. I listened to her sobbing, but told her it was her fault she didn’t remember the deadline. She did manage to get her dean to give her a special waiver today. I hope it is going to teach her to keep track of deadlines better.
OP - you’ve had a whole semester to get on your professor’s good side. I highly doubt it that you got a D because of those 2 absences. Most professors do not fail seniors unless they felt very strongly about it. They understand what it means when a senior can’t graduate on time. They also know it could possibly raise some red flags for themselves.
Urgent… ridiculous professor… worst professor ever…
The hyperbole-ridden complaint about an adult to a bunch of adults is not typically going to get the responses you desire.
Hopefully you didnt tell her she would “fail me because of those two absences even though we didn’t really even do anything during those two lectures” because (a) its not a good idea to tell a professor teaching a class that their lectures didnt do anything, and (b) how do you know if you weren’t there.
In situations like this, nobody is blameless.
If its too late to get the grade changed, looks like it will need to be repeated. Bummer, but thats the way it is.
To be honest I’m not sure a high school teacher can give out a D simply for missing two classes. All hell would break lose. At least it would in California. It would be on the news. 
This appears to be a college professor, not a HS teacher, lindy.
@jym626 yeah, I just saw that. College! Holy guacamole, looking over the other thread that Erin’s dad put up, this is the same issue, same professor, just regurgitated again. Of course there were more clues. Teacher saying the OP didn’t seem motivated or interested.
Someone mentioned troll. I’m kind of thinking along those lines.
OP - Clearly you have been stressed by school and medical issues. It probably helps to type out your frustrations here. But please also seek in-person counselling on your campus.
That’s probably for the best. I’m having a hard time understanding the timeline of events here; it sounds like this problem originated four months ago. The OP solicited advice on how to deal it with then too, but we never heard back how it went. Did the OP try the advice given before and fail? Did she take a different approach? Or did she just ignore it and hope the problem would go away on its own? Who knows?
Because we’re not getting a lot of meaningful feedback (this thread is almost identical to the first one to be honest, which doesn’t make sense since almost a whole semester should have passed, right?) it’s hard to really calibrate the advice to the situation except in broad terms. The OP doesn’t seem interested in the advice anyway, which of course is her business, but it does make these repeated threads feel more like diary entries than “urgent” problems seeking solutions. In-person counseling is probably for the best; there are probably a lot of underlying issues that we strangers on the Net won’t know about and as other posters have mentioned it probably goes well beyond this one class.
Op,
I have a fun assignment for you. Are you able to recalculate the grade? Meaning if you take all of the tests, labs, quizzes, participation and multiply them by their weighted amounts, does it come up to a D?
When a professor give you a grade, they give you the grade based on the assignments and points you earned. By getting a D, the professor is stating that you do not have a mastering of the material…either because you were not their to learn it or could not show mastery on a test, lab, or paper.
Lab courses are different…they are much more difficult to make up. Professors don’t really care about doctors notes…it is your responsibility to learn the material. I have never heard of a doctor who didn’t ahve various appointments that you could ask for. And if for some reason the only allowable appt was during your class time, you should have talked to your professor before hand, not after.
If it was so important to pass this class in order to graduate, why didn’t you try harder?
The original poster has started several discussions which all seem to be along the same lines. Well-meaning members take time from their busy days to post thoughtful responses, which the OP chooses to ignore. Since there appears to be a plethora of good advice from which the OP can choose, and since we now appear to be going in circles, I am closing this thread.