Rules are meant to be broken

By hospitalflunky - 28/03/2009 06:35 - United States

Today, I got an email from a professor saying he was going to fail me for missing the allotted absences, which is school policy. I pointed out I was in the hospital for two weeks with a life threatening illness and that he even came to visit me. He told me, "Rules are rules." FML
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theatregrl2 0

I've had similar issues (I miss a lot of class due to illness as well). Go to the dean of students or if your school has a Student Disability Center or something. Rules may be rules but you cannot penalize a student for something that's beyond their control, it's illegal.

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UrLifeDoesntSuck 0

Have you tried talking to the dean of students? If anything, you could try to get the class marked as incomplete or dropped (or stricken from the record entirely).

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DickRice 0

Wow what a dick your prof is

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demonkey_fml 4

Same thing, go to the dean of students or registrar with a doctor's note and/or hospital recs. Good luck!

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cartering 0

It doesn't matter whether or not the professor visited him. If its school policy, the professor is required to fail him, unless the OP follows school policy and does an appeal above the professor head. This is beyond the professors control and blaming the professor is ridiculous. Anyone who has been to college should be intelligent enough to realize that professors are bound by university contracts and they'll get fired if they say "oh you were in the hospital, lets ignore the rules that we both agreed to when we contracted with this particular university for the education. Best case scenario if the prof overlooks the uni rules - prof gets Review probation, student gets the class erased from his record and has to take it over again, coupled with several stern lectures about the importance of the uni rules. Worst case, prof, if not tenured, doesn't get hired back next semester, and student is either not permitted back next semester, or suspended from extracurriculars while an indepth review of all of his classes goes on to see how many other times he tried to "bribe" the professors into going against school rules best case scenario if the OP follows uni rules and appeals - the prof might be allowed to bend the rules for him

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crzyazn 0

#43, you're an idiot. Yeah, rules are there for a reason. That doesn't mean everyone's gonna agree with them and follow them. Yeah, OP can solve this problem. He isn't asking anyone to solve it for him, or even asking for insight. But he got it anyways. And if he had a life-threatening illness, then obviously he's gonna need time to RECOVER from it. If he was that sick, then there is no way he could've done any work at all while in the hospital. And FML's are pretty much meant to be that way. So if you're even gonna bother to make an account on this website, don't go around bitching on other people's FML's. OP, feel better! Talk to your dean about this, it wasn't something you could control while it happened. Or ruin your professor's rep, that's what I would do ;). As well as talk to the dean.

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blarghguy 0

I'm sorry, but genital herpes isn't a "life-threatening disease", no matter how much time you want to spend in the hospital for it.

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BOLD_fml 0

SOB ever heard of ******* special circumstances?

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Ashleeduhh 0

I dont really believe this. The professor wouldnt be allowed to do that because theres special cases where abscenses are allowed. And that would def be something excused.

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fylxx 0

Your professor's a douche. #10 and 43 are also douches.

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blargmanus 0

Actually 57, The professor isn't required to do anything. You could not turn an assignment in and still get an A if the professor thinks you deserve it but You could also get a perfect score on everything and still get an F (at least around here anyway). I missed 3 weeks of one class because of a work situation and the prof let my make up the missed assignments even though his syllabus said that if you missed more than 4 classes you would automatically fail. OP, I would recommend talking to the head/dean of that particular department and see if he/she will over rule that professor. If not, then go up the chain from there. Go to dean of academic affairs. If you don't like what happens there, head to the president of the college.

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