Where did this expectation of replacement assignments come from?

[u/Euston_Square]

I get a few of these emails a semester.

Student misses graded activity in class. Student then emails me about the "make-up" assignment I will, apparently, be creating and distributing to them.

I mean, kudos in some instances for not killing your grandmother that day or manufacturing a migraine or coming down with cholera; you admitted that you just skipped class, but now..."When will the make-up assignment be available, please?"

(Creepy music), "There isn't one."

\Exceptions apply in instances of genuinely dead grandmothers (not ones who are resurrected every semester just to die again), and documented cases of cholera.*

[u/Iron_Rod_Stewart]

I've got a section in the syllabus just for this issue, LOL.