Problem

UCF has made it so professors cannot cancel class the day before Thanksgiving, a national holiday. This is simply unethical and un-American. UCF is the second largest school in the nation, students from all over the country attend. When we have to choose over spending Thanksgiving with our dying grandmother or arriving there a day late because we would get points deducted for missing class the day prior (which is needed for travel time), there is a problem. Shame on UCF, we are better than this. I am proud to be a UCF student, but it is times like this when my pride falls short. The time for change is long overdue, make this change now so nobody will ever have to go through this again.



Solution

The solution is simple. Either let teachers cancel classes (I have spoken with professors who also want to see this happen) or make attendance not mandatory for this day. Easy. Not hard. Very simple.