<p>@collegehelp wrote: “It is not as difficult to be flexible as some of you make it out to be. The sky won’t fall if you extend a deadline or give a make-up exam.”</p>
<p>Do you still not get it? Seriously—consider particularly the comments upthread about the fairness issues involved if, for example, a make-up exam gets taken after the answers to the exam have been discussed in class.</p>
<p>Not to mention that some of us teach at places where, either by policy or statute, an ad hoc accommodation on deadlines made to one students must be extended to all students. Sorry, but if we go down that path just because a single student isn’t together enough to get stuff in on time, at that point the whole concept of a “deadline” has disappeared.</p>