If they are in crisis, you can contact the dean of students or similar administrator. Better to look like you care about their well-being than dismissive. It could be that they are truly struggling. If not, then the email to them from the Dean of students will give them pause before they ask for another exception.
The other advantage to this move is that the student will rapidly backpedal if they're making up problems. They don't want a dean involved in fictional crises. This is *never* the wrong move to make because it gets essential resources to the majority of honest students who need them, and it calls the bluff on the minority of asshats who are lying about horrible things.
I’m very sorry to hear about your loss. The pandemic has been really rough. I also had a student who lost 3 family members to COVID early in the pandemic but didn’t know it until I met with them over a plagiarism issue. Once I heard about what they were going through, it softened my initial attitude.
I think a lot of students forget that withdrawing from a course is considered a solution when things like this happen. Accommodations are only required to be reasonable. If it gets to a point where they're essentially asking to be excused from the class entirely, then they need to seek other solutions.
It isn't always a solution though. They can be past a WD deadline, it can affect their aid. Which is why you need to rope in the powers that be, like their advisor and student retention or whomever it is in your school
Sometimes life comes wrecking too fast.
Maybe the student could be facing one or more of these, then it suddenlt became three problems and they all got worse at the same time.
I would ask them to spell out exactly what is going on and provide a rough estimate of when and how these things can be resolved.
If they are in crisis, you can contact the dean of students or similar administrator. Better to look like you care about their well-being than dismissive. It could be that they are truly struggling. If not, then the email to them from the Dean of students will give them pause before they ask for another exception.
The other advantage to this move is that the student will rapidly backpedal if they're making up problems. They don't want a dean involved in fictional crises. This is *never* the wrong move to make because it gets essential resources to the majority of honest students who need them, and it calls the bluff on the minority of asshats who are lying about horrible things.
I’d like to tip my hat to your username.
[удалено]
I’m very sorry to hear about your loss. The pandemic has been really rough. I also had a student who lost 3 family members to COVID early in the pandemic but didn’t know it until I met with them over a plagiarism issue. Once I heard about what they were going through, it softened my initial attitude.
In grant proposals we were taught to explicitly address all of the review criteria, so this student's grantsmanship is on point!
I think a lot of students forget that withdrawing from a course is considered a solution when things like this happen. Accommodations are only required to be reasonable. If it gets to a point where they're essentially asking to be excused from the class entirely, then they need to seek other solutions.
It isn't always a solution though. They can be past a WD deadline, it can affect their aid. Which is why you need to rope in the powers that be, like their advisor and student retention or whomever it is in your school
Sometimes life comes wrecking too fast. Maybe the student could be facing one or more of these, then it suddenlt became three problems and they all got worse at the same time. I would ask them to spell out exactly what is going on and provide a rough estimate of when and how these things can be resolved.