The document summarizes an article about the excuses students use to justify late assignments. The author describes various excuses like sick grandparents, technology issues, roommate problems, or travel delays. However, the author argues these excuses are lame and not valid reasons to accept late work. Instructors should maintain deadlines and not accept any excuses, as it mocks the rules and shows education is not the students' highest priority. Accepting excuses means prioritizing students' other activities over their coursework.

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The Dog Ate My Homework
The author describes the variety of excuses used by students in trying to justify the
late submissions of their assignments. According to Segal, “The death of a
grandfather/grandmother is the grandmother of all excuses” (354). The students will use the
story about the death of a family member to manipulate the sympathy of the teacher into
accepting late submissions. The excuses range from technology, friends, and family. The
author points out that other students use supposed accidents to explain their absence from
class. However, the student will still show the tutor how “...The course is more important to
me than ever,” as a sign of commitment (Segal 355). The writer tries to show that the
students do not have a limitation towards their sources of excuses in trying to justify their late
submission of assignments or absence from class.
The instructors should not accept late submission of work in class. The excuses used
by the students are lame and not substantial. For example, other students claim that their
roommates are “horrible and like to party” (Segal 354). Therefore, the roommates deny them
the chance to study and complete the assignment. In such cases, the students have the chance
to look for an alternative location to do the assignment. Technological excuses such as the
printer failing to print or the computer failing to save are not substantial.
All the reasons used by the students are a mockery of the rules and regulations placed
by the institution on adherence to the deadlines. Segal describes a student who claimed to be
going for a date in Rome and “…The time of her flight made it impossible to attend class”

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(355). The excuses show the students prioritize other things compared to education.
Therefore, the tutor should not accept any apologies.

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Work Cited
Segal, Carolyn Foster. "The Dog Ate My Disk, and Other Tales of Woe." Chronicle of
Higher Education, no. 46.49, 2000, pp. 354-355.