I think a student is lying, help!

busdriver11
Tue, 15 Jan 2013 12:04:02 +0000

“This is my favorite phrase, “Just make it happen.” I don’t really care to know when, how or where. Only let me know if there is an issue.”

Agreed. You don’t need to know the story, or the circumstance. If the student lost the data, for whatever reason, he needs to deal with it. I think I read there wasn’t a specific deadline? Maybe it’s time to make one.

It is very possible that the excuse is honest. We’ve had a number of hard drives wiped clean, but always backed them up when the data on it was important. Sometimes we’d get told that it costs $100 to back it up…but they probably wouldn’t lose it, so it’s whether we wanted to take the chance. So now we do it ourselves, but my son did have to buy an external hard drive to do it, and you have to be a little tech savvy.

My dog did eat my checkbook, and has eaten all sorts of paper items, so I’d also buy the dog ate my homework excuse.