How can you say giving another exam is "fair?" Your students studied for 
the first exam. Now, they'd have to study for a "do-over" because you 
lost the first one. How is that fair to them?

David Opderbeck wrote:

> Last night I gave a mid-term to a class of about 60 students.  I left 
> 20 of the bluebooks on the train on the way home (moron!).  I'm hoping 
> they will turn up in NJ Transit's lost and found today.  If they 
> don't, has anyone had to deal with a situation like this before, and 
> how do you handle it?  I'm thinking that if the missing bluebooks 
> aren't found, the only fair thing to do is to write a new mid-term and 
> give a "do-over."