That's exactly why it's an FML.

That's exactly why it isn't. Deans > professors. It doesn't matter if the professor cares.

Yeah, even if the professor says nay, the dean says f*** you, shes in.

The FML is the hassle OP will have to go through in getting the dean to interfere. Even if this does go in her favor, she's going to have a hard time for the rest of the class. It's kind of like a job where you haven't done anything bad enough to be fired, but you pissed off the manager somehow; they start to look for reasons to fire you. 2 minutes late one day? Gone. It might end up the same way, if the teacher really is this big of a douche. She'll start nitpicking the **** out of OP's assignments and make it much more difficult to pass the class. So, coming from a college student who has been there, OP, FYL.

Maybe if the OP hadn't been skipping class so much, this one excused absence would be okay. It's like if you get 3 sick days at your job, and use all 3 to go out with your friends, and then one day you really ARE sick but you've used up all your sick days on stupid stuff. Too bad, so sad. Maybe when you have to retake this course, you'll think twice before skipping class. YDI

How do you know she was skipping classes? Her sick days very well could been used for... I don't know, sickness. Maybe she had some other kind of emergency. There's no way of really knowing since the FML doesn't mention it, but in the mean time, try to avoid saying that someone deserves something based on an assumption.

Hah, I've been in college for six years and I've never had a professor who took attendance. Yay physics.

well maybe you shouldn't have skipped so many classes to begin with.

Go talk to the dean about what the teacher is doing. If that teacher doesnt want to be fired she will change her mind. My older brother had this same thing happen where the teacher didnt care what the dean said but quickly changed her mind when the dead called her into his office. The Dean's best interest will always be the students and not the teachers.

She obviously kept skipping classes. Stop ditching class. YDI

At many schools, profs can do administrative drops, meaning they can drop a student without the student's agreement. If you miss too many classes, the prof can do an administrative drop. Depending on the Dean, complaints may or may not help. Some Deans instantly take the students' side, some instantly take the faculty's side, and a few actually get all the information before making a decision.

so what do you reckon? prof drops student, dean puts student record back on? prof sees student back on, immediately drops student again? the prof has to stop at some point and think "why isn't it working"

I say get that bitch fired if she tries to drop you

yeah, because we all know dropping someone is "totally illegal", we dont know any of the other factors here, how many times has he missed class before, does he even have a chance of passing?

The OP already got the Dean's approval so he/she will take the student's side. College doesnt have mandatory attendance like middle school and high school. They dont care how much you go to class or not.

Yeah that's actually illegal if you're excused

"FIELD EXPERIENCE" "EMAILED HER TWO WEEKS AGO" maybe you should read it again.

If the OP's been completing field experience all semester for her major, then it's reasonable to think she would have talked to her professor and gotten cleared BEFORE the semester was halfway through. Although she got permission from her dean and let her know about this absence, if the OP had been missing classes throughout the semester that weren't excused, then they totally deserve it.

Agreed. This absence may be excusable, but what about all the others that got you into this mess? Do you want the Dean to examine those too? YDI.