one of my students turned in her final project a week late & emailed me explaining that BOTH of her parents are battling with the coronavirus & she’s working 2 jobs to take care of the household but also made it clear that she’ll take the late penalty anyway & apologized for— https://twitter.com/heathertday/status/1249503272639107076

the quality of her project????

it hurt me that she felt the need to apologize????? for dealing with life???

i waived the late penalty.

also, this thread is sad af