LOL, I agree @bookworm. That is a great story @jym626.
@romanigypsyeyes, I’d want to be careful in evaluating the kid’s illness before making such a judgment. In fact, at many high schools missing a single day of school is so difficult that kids who really are ill and should stay home miss only that single day but are pretty darned sick. Bookworm’s story illustrates the point. I don’t know what’s what here and I’m not saying that the student should have been excused from handing in the assignment the day he returned to school. I’m only saying that such a blanket policy is unnecessarily harsh and that I don’t rush to applaud the teacher’s reaction.