<p>Hunt - you’re right, a reasonable person, if she read the email, would respond. But if said teacher does not in fact read the email until Sunday night or Monday morning, that does not make her unreasonable. </p>
<p>If anything, it should be the responsibility of the student to ensure that the LOR was submitted to the right place before the end of business on the last day the teacher was working before it was due - in this case the Friday before it was due.</p>
<p>For those professionals who work in an environment where their employer provides the means to check emails, and receive phone calls on the weekend, it is reasonable to expect them to do so. However, assumptions are being made in this thread about teachers, suggesting that their choice not to do so makes them unprofessional. Perhaps 24/7 is expected of teachers in Suburban Chicago, but it is not in many other parts of the country.</p>
<p>Further, there are assumptions about how teachers are paid. It sounds like Chicago area teachers are indeed paid very well, but that’s not the case everywhere. Our kids/parents know we are free to send an email to teachers over the weekend, but we also know we are not entitled to a response until sometime Monday. That’s the way it is done around here. There are many higher paid professionals who also do not make themselves available 24/7 - that’s why they have answering services, or arrange for someone else to be on call to cover for them. </p>
<p>I do hope the OP’s daughter was able to contact the teacher and the scholarship people, to clear this up.</p>