MC can't you just tell your students that if they hand in late then it is too late and you won't accept it. Teachers here can do it. They can also decide to accept it, but then the students have to make a deal with the teacher and set a new deadline for handing it in. Isn't such things possible in the US?
Oh, sure, I absolutely can and will. That's the nice thing about putting a homework policy in the syllabus; if anyone complains, then they should have done it on the first day of class, not at the end of the quarter.
And Jackson is busted... MC were you like Jackson, or did you always hand in everything on time like me? (I even have always handed in everything even in courses where you only needed to have a certain amount of them approved to be able to take the exam.)
That was not a comment on Jacksonian's study habits so much as it was a commentary on the typical American high school student; I'd wager Jacksonian gets just about everything in on time.
And no, I never handed in assignments late. My ego wouldn't allow me to have a grade below 90% in any subject back in high school.