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** I would allow this if it the email was sent at least a half hour before the beginning of class. However, if the student began using this excuse excessively, I would void all of them. | ** I would allow this if it the email was sent at least a half hour before the beginning of class. However, if the student began using this excuse excessively, I would void all of them. | ||
***But then, what prevents students who are not actually sick to use that excuse to miss class? -pm | ***But then, what prevents students who are not actually sick to use that excuse to miss class? -pm | ||
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| + | ** I wouldn't allow this unless there is a proof, if he can't go to the hospital call the doctor to come and visit you and I don't think that flu is that contagious so that it would affect someone on the way to the PUSH. | ||
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Case 3: Possible Flu
Class Absence Excuse Discussion, ECE400, Spring 2012
A student emails you in the morning prior to the lecture. He states that he has a high fever, most likely some type of flu, and would prefer not to come to class and contaminate others. He would also prefer to just stay home and get better, instead of going to the Purdue University Student Health Center (PUSH) merely to prove that he was sick, thus again potentially contaminating others. (Note that PUSH notes do not contain any details about the nature of the visit.)
- Shicheng Guo, response
- I would allow this if it the email was sent at least a half hour before the beginning of class. However, if the student began using this excuse excessively, I would void all of them.
- But then, what prevents students who are not actually sick to use that excuse to miss class? -pm
- I would allow this if it the email was sent at least a half hour before the beginning of class. However, if the student began using this excuse excessively, I would void all of them.
- Artyom Melanich, response
- I wouldn't allow this unless there is a proof, if he can't go to the hospital call the doctor to come and visit you and I don't think that flu is that contagious so that it would affect someone on the way to the PUSH.
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