Absence policies should be more lenient

Absence policies should be more lenient

Not long ago, society lived and breathed the regulations of COVID-19. People stood 6 feet apart, wore masks and if they felt sick, they stayed at home. Department chairs and professors at App State seem to have, potentially inadvertently, abandoned these principles through harsh and unforgiving attendance policies coupled with conflicting policy information. Aside from illness, there are certain events in people’s lives that don’t follow textboo…