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Originally Posted by Merecat
In my experience most professors will do something to reflect the late submission of an assignment. Some might grade down a bit, offer more limited feedback (eg this is your grade, no qualitative feedback etc) and, of the lateness hasn't been agreed beforehand I know a good few who won't mark it at all. This is because they are busy, they mark assignments to a schedule and students, particularly post graduate students, are expected to be able to manage their time and work professionally.
In the circumstances I think he was more than fair, I know you don't think so and that's ok but your reaction to his perceived unfairness is way out of proportion and that's an issue if you plan a career working with people, especially vulnerable people. You can't be expected to have everything in place as a student therapist but the basics should be evident and managing yourself and your behaviour is a basic life skill. Others have given good advice about how to approach the disciplinary process, do read it and think about how you might best handle it given its got to where it has and you can't change that.
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I knew something was wrong, and I did tell him it would be late, he said it was ten points per day it was late up to two days- I knew in advance this would put me 1 point under the points required for an A, and I did ask ahead of time for an extra assigment and he said he would think about it and get back to me, but he didnt get back to me, just posted the grade.
As for the paper, when I realized it was the meds I stopped taking the med after the first day when I could not write, so it was turned in the next day- 20 point deduction. Because I had such a high A already, I would still have gotten an A if he had only deducted 19 points, or let me write something extra to get one more point- since it wasnt willful lateness on my part, it was something out of my control. But he refused.
But again, it stopped being about the grade when he said something was wrong with my paper and refused to explain what that was. All I wanted was an explanation, the grade at that point had already been submitted and posted so it wasnt about that.
I wanted to know why he felt the need to be lenient in grading my paper, like I should be grateful he didn't deduct more than 20 points.