Sick Freshman year resulted in bad grades any recourse

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@compmom

The professors on here who will not go easy on a student who has absolute proof of a hospital stay (and yes, including after the fact) have maybe been hardened a little too much by years of teaching.
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I think it is unreasonable to expect a kid who is in the hospital to make communicating a priority overall. It is easy to understand that a student and family would be focused on the health crisis and leave comparatively trivial matters like grades for afterward. Those dealing with chronic issues know better, but if this is an acute illness, they are less likely to know they need to take care of things even in the midst of crisis in the hospital.

Perhaps you have not done this for a living, compmom. I have bent over backwards for students, but they have to be making it as much of a priority as I am. I would, in fact, be perfectly willing to GO to a hospital and proctor an exam if that were an option. OTOH, if the matter is “comparatively trivial” then they shouldn’t care about whether or not they can make up an exam or pass a course. And if they don’t care, you cannot expect the faculty to care. </p>

<p>Do you think that once this student (mine, not OP’s) has a job that if she disappears for 2-1/2 weeks without a word that she will have a job when she finally shows up? Her bosses hardened a little too much from years of trying to keep a business afloat?</p>