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« Reply #45 on: Yesterday at 04:46:38 PM »

I'm almost certain I've had multiple students fake swine flu this semester.  I just don't care anymore.  My university's policy mandates that they don't need a doctor's note, so I have no way to verify.  All I can do is give them the makeup exam (which, of course, is more difficult than the regular one).

I wonder what they will do when they really get swine flu?

I had one student  in a class on a Friday, then claim he had flu - and no, it was definitely much more serious than a cold - the following Monday (the day an assignment was due). He was back in my class on the Wednesday looking perfectly OK. I have had flu a few times and that recovery period was just not credible. He was completely busted when one of my colleagues told me he had seen scumweasel getting obnoxiously drunk in a bar near the university on the Saturday night, and one of his classmates let slip that he had taken part in a soccer tournament on the Sunday. We passed that case to the disciplinary panel.
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« Reply #46 on: Yesterday at 09:55:03 PM »

I had one student  in a class on a Friday, then claim he had flu - and no, it was definitely much more serious than a cold - the following Monday (the day an assignment was due). He was back in my class on the Wednesday looking perfectly OK. I have had flu a few times and that recovery period was just not credible. He was completely busted when one of my colleagues told me he had seen scumweasel getting obnoxiously drunk in a bar near the university on the Saturday night, and one of his classmates let slip that he had taken part in a soccer tournament on the Sunday. We passed that case to the disciplinary panel.

What if the student didn't lie to *you*?  Your case caught my attention because I just had one of my students lie about swine flu... to another professor.  The story:

Before class started, I was chatting with the student about some of the points I was going to cover in class.  I made a comment about how expensive custom papers are and hu said "Oh, I know! It's like, two hundred per paper!"  After that, I just stared at him for a minute or so while I mulled over the meaning of his statement and he quickly followed up by saying "Oh, oh! No-it was a friend who got one. I'd never be able to afford one! Ha! It's actually a really funny story! This past Monday I got a call from him begging me to get up and go to school to vouch for his having swine flu. His teacher's a hardball about not accepting papers late and he the paper he bought was sent a day late so he needed the excuse.  So I had to drive all the way down here on my day off just for him. Isn't that crazy?"

I didn't respond to hu's story because more students had trickled in and class was starting.  By the time class had ended I'd forgotten all about the conversation. 
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« Reply #47 on: Yesterday at 10:00:08 PM »

I had one student  in a class on a Friday, then claim he had flu - and no, it was definitely much more serious than a cold - the following Monday (the day an assignment was due). He was back in my class on the Wednesday looking perfectly OK. I have had flu a few times and that recovery period was just not credible. He was completely busted when one of my colleagues told me he had seen scumweasel getting obnoxiously drunk in a bar near the university on the Saturday night, and one of his classmates let slip that he had taken part in a soccer tournament on the Sunday. We passed that case to the disciplinary panel.

What if the student didn't lie to *you*?  Your case caught my attention because I just had one of my students lie about swine flu... to another professor.  The story:

Before class started, I was chatting with the student about some of the points I was going to cover in class.  I made a comment about how expensive custom papers are and hu said "Oh, I know! It's like, two hundred per paper!"  After that, I just stared at him for a minute or so while I mulled over the meaning of his statement and he quickly followed up by saying "Oh, oh! No-it was a friend who got one. I'd never be able to afford one! Ha! It's actually a really funny story! This past Monday I got a call from him begging me to get up and go to school to vouch for his having swine flu. His teacher's a hardball about not accepting papers late and he the paper he bought was sent a day late so he needed the excuse.  So I had to drive all the way down here on my day off just for him. Isn't that crazy?"

I didn't respond to hu's story because more students had trickled in and class was starting.  By the time class had ended I'd forgotten all about the conversation. 

I don't know what your honor code says at your school, but at mine the student who told you that story would be accountable for helping the other student by lying to the professor. 
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« Reply #48 on: Yesterday at 10:37:57 PM »

I wonder what they will do when they really get swine flu?

I had one student  in a class on a Friday, then claim he had flu - and no, it was definitely much more serious than a cold - the following Monday (the day an assignment was due). He was back in my class on the Wednesday looking perfectly OK. I have had flu a few times and that recovery period was just not credible. He was completely busted when one of my colleagues told me he had seen scumweasel getting obnoxiously drunk in a bar near the university on the Saturday night, and one of his classmates let slip that he had taken part in a soccer tournament on the Sunday. We passed that case to the disciplinary panel.
This student was certainly faking it, but the flu this season (which isn't limited to H1N1) is actually hitting some people as a very intense but brief illness--so what the student claimed would be unusual, but not impossible.
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