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Hurricane cancelled classes, now im so far behind I'm panicking?
My family was in the direct path of Hurricane Irma and our power was out from last Friday until today. Before that we spent days and days preparing for the storm. My college administrators said they understand what students are going through, but the teachers obviously don't as they're still assigning all the work we missed instead of cancelling some assignments. For example I now have one teacher who assigned 6 assignments all due in one day. Others are assigning two weeks of work due within five days.
Now I'm so far behind with my homework I can't possibly get it all done and all of it was homework that had to be done online with digital textbooks so without power I couldn't do it. I already have mild anxiety, but at this point I'm only one assignment away from a major break down.
I don't know what to do. My teachers just seem to keep saying that they can't just erase assignments and need to have them in order to properly calculate our grade at the end of the semester.
Please help!
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That fact that you go to school online has me believing you are a college level student. Should I be wrong the same advice I'm giving you needs to be taken by your parents to the school Principal and the Local Board of Education.
First calm down your not the only one with this problem and they cannot fail an entire class. It is my belief that the school just like the brick and mortar schools were just not prepared for the intensity of the storm. Most of the state will have their power back by tomorrow but there are some areas like the keys that may be out for another week. Allowances are going to have to be made.
What you need to do is contact each teacher and explain you were without power from this date until this date. You have his/her assignments and the others all do at the same time it is just not physically possible to complete them all let alone complete them properly.
Send that note to each teacher, the head of the department and the dean of education. Send an email to any of the students in your classes you know and ask them to do the same. I honestly believe this won't be necessary but doing so does two things. It will help you calm down as you have done something proactive. It will alert the administrators of just how many of their students are affected by Irma and what allowance they need to make.
Even is the school is out of state they are aware of the horrific affect of Irma and the need to formulate a plan to accommodate those students. My feeling is If they are an out of stat school they were caught flat footed and are still formulating that plan. If they are an in state school they need tome to get organized and put a plan in place.
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I can understand not 'erasing' assignments. The assignments are not just busy work that can be ignored but a way to show that indeed you did understand and know all of what the class is about, the subject you are studying in the first place.
So thats not going to happen.
However, that means the only other option due to the interruption of the hurricane, is to take this up with the principal of the school, to be allowed more time to get the assigments in. You can't possibly be the only student who didn't have power. Talk to others in your class. It is better if a group of you go talk to the principal. If the principal doesn't attempt to come up with some kind of compromise, take it to the school board to complain. During all of this, being doing as many assigments as you can complete. Do not worry about a final date due for all, as it may come and go. You and others can keep complaining and the school may have to fix things 'after' they have finalized grades.
If you have no help from the school board, I am willing to bet that if you and a couple other students call one of the local tv stations that they will want to follow up your story and that will bring bad publicity to the school for being unreasonable with assignments expected on time even though most had no electricity during Irma. It is possible the school will apologize and make some kind of compromise that all can live with.
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