I understand and respect your point of view, but I disagree.<p>&gt; &quot;maybe they have a very legitimately pressing reason in their life to do so today.&quot;<p>From the article:<p>&gt; Here’s why I finally switched from ‘allowed unless by request’ to ‘banned unless required’.<p>If people have more pressing things to do, they can also avoid attending the class. This is what time management is about and it has nothing to do with technology. Maybe the students sitting far in the back of class don&#x27;t learn as effectively as they could as a consequence of your policy.<p>Saying the material should be more engaging is quite perturbing: students are not children anymore and can focus on a material without being given candies. The content of course is generally sufficiently interesting by itself: after all, why study if you have no interest for the subject?