Hi yyy: i was to discuss with you. yes, dec 20 is very late this year, but i do not think we can accommodate individual early exams for vacation. it’s not fair for other students. i am not sure whether the student can
justify for deferred exam in spring. thanks. -j
On Thu, 20 Nov 2008, yyy wrote:
> Jian Ping:
>
> Have you had a chance to think about this request – I have had a follow-up message from the student, xxx.
>
> yyy
>
> —–Original Message—–
> From: yyy
> Sent: Monday, November 17, 2008 2:10 PM
> To: ‘Pan@uvic.ca‘
> Cc: zzz
> Subject: FW: final exams
>
> Hi Jian Ping:
>
> I received the following message from xxx, a student in your CSC 361 class.
> He requests special accommodation for his final exam due to a family arrangement for a vacation on a special chartered flight made prior to finding out his final exam schedule. Usually this is the student’s responsibility to not make arrangements before the exam schedule is out, but this year we are finding a number of students in various classes with the same problem. Dec 20 is a lot later than we usually have the exams end.
>
> Are you willing to accommodate him with an earlier exam? He can use the empty office across from mine if this helps?
>
> yyy
>
>
>
>> —–Original Message—–
>> From: xxx [mailto:xxx@uvic.ca]
>> Sent: Monday, November 17, 2008 12:05 AM
>> To: yyy
>> Subject: final exams
>>
>> Hey yyy,
>>
>> I have a problem with my final exam schedule, unfortunately, and I know
>> the university doesn’t usually make changes to the exams but my family is
>> going on vacation at Christmas and the place we’re going to can only be
>> reached by chartered flight. This chartered flight leaves on the 18th and
>> seeing as its chartered there was no other time or arrangement I could
>> have made to get to my destination. Now seeing as it was the 18th I
>> thought I might be clear but now of course I have an exam scheduled for the
>> 20th. Now I have already asked the teacher if it would be possible to take
>> it a couple days earlier but he said that he doesn’t have the ability as
>> the school sets the dates. I know that the school doesn’t like to make
>> changes for travel but there was no other time I could get this flight so
>> would you be able to allow any change or who would I talk to that could
>> help?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> xxx
>>
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