attendance and grades connected?

[cristinacutino]

Is it legal for a part-time College professor at a Georgia College to fail a student based entirely on their attendance?

 

[Antigone*]

Is it legal for a part-time College professor at a Georgia College to fail a student based entirely on their attendance?

Yep.

It is also legal for a full-time professor to do so.

Heck it is even legal for a professor who is wearing green shoes to fail you for not showing up. (thinking of you patti).

 

[cbg]

It's legal in a Massachusetts university.

And if it's legal in a Massachusetts university, you can be darned sure that it's legal in a Georgia college.

 

[CSO286]

Yep.

It is also legal for a full-time professor to do so.

Heck it is even legal for a professor who is wearing green shoes to fail you for not showing up. (thinking of you patti).

Part of the class requirements may include minimum class attendance. Fail to meet those standards--you fail the course.

 

[Antigone*]

It's legal in a Massachusetts university.

And if it's legal in a Massachusetts university, you can be darned sure that it's legal in a Georgia college.

Did you know that it is even legal at U.C Riverside, in California too. by a professor wearing an ugly hat even!

 

[cbg]

I don't know if he still does it in the class he currently teaches, but at the school where my DH formerly taught he told them right up front on the first day of class that if they missed more than x classes (I don't remember what x was, but I think it was three) over the course of the semester, their grade would be lowered by one-half a letter grade for every absence. And he stuck to it. He still uses that procedure for late papers.

 

[CSO286]

I don't know if he still does it in the class he currently teaches, but at the school where my DH formerly taught he told them right up front on the first day of class that if they missed more than x classes (I don't remember what x was, but I think it was three) over the course of the semester, their grade would be lowered by one-half a letter grade for every absence. And he stuck to it. He still uses that procedure for late papers.

Almost all of my classes had min attendance standards.

And ALLLL of my medical training courses, CNA, EMT, TMA mandated 90% attendance or you retake the course.

 

[ecmst12]

For my nursing program, attendance to lecture is voluntary, but advised. You can skip as many classes as you want as long as you show up for, and pass, the tests. For the clinical portion, you can miss 2 days over the semester before you get an action plan, and if you don't call out, you can be kicked out immediately.

I bet that your professor outlined the attendance requirements in your syllabus on the first day of class...

 

[TheGeekess]

It's legal in a Massachusetts university.

And if it's legal in a Massachusetts university, you can be darned sure that it's legal in a Georgia college.

And I know that several colleges/universities in Alabama have the same policy.