[Leaning Right]

Bending the rules to accommodate his situation simply lowers the bar.

You certainly make a very good point there. I do not fault Adams for refusing extra credit. I fault him - greatly - for the sarcastic and humiliating way that he did it.

[dfwgator]

"He used.........sarcasm."

[mmichaels1970]

I do not fault Adams for refusing extra credit. I fault him - greatly - for the sarcastic and humiliating way that he did it.

I concur.

[kevkrom]

I fault him - greatly - for the sarcastic and humiliating way that he did it.

Which is why he anonymized the student and assigned a fictitious name. This way he gets to drive the point home and not publicly humiliate the student at the same time.

It will probably also serve to prevent future occurrences of students slacking off all semester and begging for extra credit assignments at the end to make up for it.

[IronJack]

I applaud him for it. Our society needs to start treating its abusers harshly. Adams used one of the oldest and — used wisely — most effective deterrents a society has: shame.