A college student who asked her professor for an assignment extension after her father died from complications related to COVID-19 was told to 'try to get it done in time' via email, according to a viral post.
"I didn't bother to continue fighting it. I guess she, in her mind, felt like everyone was going through a hard time, as she said, but I had just lost my dad," Kratenstein said."I was definitely kind of shocked and a little taken back by it."
"A lot of them said not to even worry about the rest of the semester and that they could exempt me from everything," Kratenstein said."They told me to focus on my family and were very considerate and understanding. She was the only one I didn't receive a compassionate response from.""I simply asked my prof for a few days extension on a project because MY DAD died as a result of covid19 and THIS is the response I get," Kratenstein wrote."DO. BETTER.
Kratenstein's father, Alan, died on April 13 at 63 years old. The college student said she hadn't been able to see her father since he went to the hospital on March 29.
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