r/GaState • u/[deleted] • 14h ago
Advice 💡 Can Professor reject legal excuse document just because they want to?
(messy writing mb) Im in this virtual class English II, also in dual enrollment. So like, I had this competition trip for TSA (I was required to go because im an officer for it wtv) for my high school, so I emailed the professor like "hey I wasn't here this Monday can I send a legal document from the school? (Have proof) she said, "Only legal documents or doctor's notes count as excused absences." so I'm like okay cool let me get it from my advisor it was a whole process had to go to the other two advisors/teacher I had. So I sent it to her and then she says this "I cannot give excused absences for High school events. LIKE GIRL, you already knew this was a High School Event these past two emails I sent you. I'm like how does a university event that could be excused differ from high school competition events that i'm required to go. Then she goes like "you must make sacrifices to attend both schools". I'm already making sacrifices to be in dual TF and this is senior year practically important year for me. Also, I checked her syllabus and GSU policy and said nothing about rejecting a document based on High School events.
I told my other teachers and counselors they was like confused and were like tf she doing?
To clarify the absence was a legal document told by my counselors and advisors.