Where I worked, missing a deadline meant our customer wouldn't hire us for their next project. Which meant we had to lay off some of our guys. Did that always happen? No. But sometimes. No fun for anyone.
That aside, if the assignment is to turn in the problem set or paper on a given date, I think it's just disrespectful to the teacher/professor to turn it in late.
I actually said in the piece (and Berube does in his) that there are people who need deadlines. But there are also people who don't benefit from them so much, or where enforcing a single strict deadline on everyone for the sake of those who need them is harming some other subset of students. What I really don't want to do is use a myth (that the world runs on strict deadlines and that we have to train everyone to follow deadline discipline or they'll fail utterly) to justify whatever policies we all adopt.
Nothing to do with deadlines but I really like these little paragraphs/wrap up before the "subscribe" button... Keep 'em coming!
Where I worked, missing a deadline meant our customer wouldn't hire us for their next project. Which meant we had to lay off some of our guys. Did that always happen? No. But sometimes. No fun for anyone.
That aside, if the assignment is to turn in the problem set or paper on a given date, I think it's just disrespectful to the teacher/professor to turn it in late.
I actually said in the piece (and Berube does in his) that there are people who need deadlines. But there are also people who don't benefit from them so much, or where enforcing a single strict deadline on everyone for the sake of those who need them is harming some other subset of students. What I really don't want to do is use a myth (that the world runs on strict deadlines and that we have to train everyone to follow deadline discipline or they'll fail utterly) to justify whatever policies we all adopt.