Bruised

I feel so emotionally bruised right now, but I really needed to be firm. What do you when a student who has not been submitting any requirements whatsoever throughout the entire semester [in a class that uses the process approach], someone who you keep reminding again and again about these requirements [eliciting only vague promises], someone whom you have told that they can approach you during consultation hours for any problems they need advise for [and never did], someone who has been absent constantly ... suddenly approaches you at the eve of the class’ big presentation day, equipped with a sob story? I had to say no. His classmates worked hard to submit things on flexible time, and bending to his sob story would be highly unfair to them. I think there’s a lesson to be learned here about work and accountability. To [mis]quote the film director Jun Robles Lana, “You can be the most talented person in the world, but if you cannot submit things on time, you’re useless.”