I had a student who had emailed me the second day of class and "told" me that all of her assignments would be late due to her work schedule and that she only had an afternoon and evening one day a week to do all of the week's homework. She further informed me that she did not expect to lose any points for her late submissions. I responded to her email with a constructive reply about how the class was set up, pointed her to the late submission policy, and asked in that email if there were other times she could participate in the class. I received a "very angry" reply that I did not "dictate" to her how she would do her homework and that I was "disrespecting" her. I responded calmly, but firmly that she was the student in the class and would need to follow the course and institution rules like everyone else. This student dropped the course at the end of the first week and blamed me for "not working with her." My questions: How would you respond to a student like this? Raymond Lombardi