@Alfonsia <<<
Is it common for the schools to be so hard nosed about say, a death in the family requiring flying overseas? MAybe the emergency family trip wasn’t explained well? That 2 weeks completely totalled his GPA? Was it 2 or was it 3 weeks? He didn’t appeal in any way?
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Schools tend to leave these decisions up to profs.
While it may seem cold and unfeeling for some profs not to be more lenient about “an emergency trip of 2 weeks overseas,” profs tend to be rather hardline about such things. Virtually every students’ family suffers some serious issue (or two!) during the four years of college…loss of grandparents, close friends, siblings, parents, etc. There would be chaos if each time students could be gone for two weeks and then come back and retake tests, quizzes, turn in labs late, etc. My own children weren’t able to attend my mom’s funeral across the country because it would have impacted their grades. Were they sad, sure. But I know that my mom would not have wanted them to ruin their grades over her funeral.