Stuck with Swine: Excused Absence?
October 16, 2009
Kaity McCullough, Staff Reporter
Filed under Special Features
Currently, a student is allowed to amass six absences for each class that she takes. After six, she is required to complete a makeup unit for that class. The oncoming threat of swine flu makes it obvious that it’s time to alter this rule.
Health experts are recommending that students stay home for at least a week in order to decrease the virus’ spread. In addition, Pres has mandated that a sick student is required to stay home until her fever is completely gone and she is 100 percent better.
That’s reasonable; after all, we don’t want to cause a major flu outbreak here. But given how many students get sick every year, and given this new H1N1 pandemic, wouldn’t it be nice if our current absence policy could be tweaked to allow for sick students to recover without stressing out about having to do make-up units over the holidays?
There would, of course, need to be a doctor’s note in order to decipher between just skipping class and being genuinely sick. But clearly, reform of the current absentee policy is desperately needed.
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