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Input: I'm a high school teacher.  The class in question is a college-level course.  A few days ago, I gave a brief lecture putting a bow on a topic we'd started the previous class, then assigned a short assignment.  My memory gets a little hazy here about what I said, but someone asked when it was due and I said something to the effect of "Well, I hope you can get it done by the end of class.  It's only X problems."  


Every student but one finishes with time to spare.  With about 10 minutes left of class, suddenly that one student starts asking for help.  The kid, at this point,  even asks another student to take a picture of the lecture notes that are on the board because their phone has been taken away by their parents.  Another kid goes "Or, you know, you could just write it down?"  The first kid does not write anything down.

&amp;#x200B;

At the end of class, I gave everyone who finished credit and gave the kid who didn't a 0.  They had completed zero questions.

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By class the next day, the kid has done the work, but is very upset that I have given them a zero.  I asked for an explanation for why the work hadn't gotten done in class, and there was no explanation beyond some stammering.  I gave lots of help while the other students were working.  The other students helped each other while they were working.  He chose not to work.   I stood by the zero.  Everyone else completed the work with no trouble.  I still do not understand why the kid was able to get the work done at home, but wasn't able to get it done in class.

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Am I the asshole for giving the kid a zero, even though the deadline was unclear?  


PS: Today, after more whining, I just gave in and gave the kid the points.  I've had to have parent conferences with this family before and it was clear that this wasn't going to stop.  I even told the kid "If these 10 points will be the difference in you letter grade at the end of the term, I'll give them to you."  That wasn't good enough.  They wanted the points.  At this point in the term, I just don't have the energy to continue this fight.  

giving a student a zero for not doing work in class