It's pretty spectacular that in a post where you're accusing me of falsely reading smuggness and condescension into your post, you still can't even be bothered to contain your condescension and smuggness, and feel the need to reiterate to a person you've never met that you still know better than they do. You could have noted, pun intended, that I remained very polite with people on this thread until their complete lack of seriousness lead to me taking my own condescending tone.
So let me take a moment to educate you, NB, on what I actually said, and clarify what I meant since it's transparently clear that you can't be bothered to ask a fellow professional (however younger they are than you) what they specifically meant by what they said, before you read in your own spurious assumptions.
So let's quote what I actually said:
"Honestly, I would give any student who asked for it an extension if they were getting politically involved, so long as they could prove that they were involved in the activism. (Within reason, mind you.) But I accommodate students in general, so long as they give a proper heads up and show that they are attempting to organize their time."
Again, you could have asked me what I meant by this, but that was apparently beneath you and so you didn't. Instead, you felt the need to accuse and lecture me.
Now here's the list of things that you accused me of saying or felt the need to lecture me on:
"Instructors may well be the “arbiters for extensions and grading,” but it’s also true that most departments have grading standards and actual definitions of grades."
We aren't talking about grading rubrics or standards right now, so why did you feel that this was relevant?
"In my state every syllabus for every course offered by a state institution must be uploaded to a database that is available to anybody with access to the Internet."
And? Most universities I know, particularly for lower level courses, this is true. In either case, most universities require an official course description and grading scheme. How is this relevant to a professors judgment for allowing an extension? The professor, in general, chooses the grading scheme for their courses (Yes, sometimes with department input, sometimes with no department input). A professor could literally just institute a policy, if they wanted, that allowed a student to be one day late on a single assignment. This is perfectly allowed. You know this; I know this.
"There are general parameters for grades, and in this era of nearly continual student complaints, department heads and deans are going to know if Professor X doesn’t hew to the established and expected standard."
This is so utterly removed from even attempting to be a response to anything I said, it's difficult to even form a response other than "Yes, obviously, NB. Are you so arrogant you think I don't know this?"
"Any institution with an attendance policy is going to spell out in the student and faculty handbooks what acceptable absences are, and these generally cover school-sponsored activities such as field trips and sporting events."
I clarified this long before you did.
"I haven’t read yet of activist students providing documentation from a legitimate source that would excuse them from taking exams/projects/research papers scheduled all semester long."
This is the most blatantly dishonest thing that you say, and it's the epitome of you not caring at any level about what I said. You could only say this if you had absolute disregard for the principle of charity, debating etiquette, or any concern whatsoever in whether or not you were committing a strawman fallacy and butchering your oppositions claims to fit your own narrative.
NB, where did I say that I would allow students to skip exams, projects, and research papers? Do I need to explain to you the difference between a one-day extension on an out-of-class assignment and skipping assignments or missing exams/class participation altogether? I really shouldn't have to. Do I also need to explain the difference between allowing a student to do something once and "excuse them from taking exams/projects/research papers scheduled all semester long"? I really shouldn't have to explain that to you, either.
So yes, NB, we're done here.
You so very clearly have no interest in an honest discussion.