In high school I took AP biology and my teacher at the time didn't have a late penalty policy. You would assume he would since it is an AP class but he was more concerned about how many other AP classes other students were taking and if he rather have well-done work or a rushed one. The teacher would request all work to be done the week before the quarter would end and to my surprise, he would correct it all and even give us an extra day to fix whatever we have gotten wrong. Not ever teacher and professor is like this so it depends whether you could handle it or not. This article pretty much expanded my understanding in it because I never liked the idea of getting points off because I needed extra time especially since I take other classes, I have to work and even give myself time mentally. The punishment for students itself is having work accumulating, so why give extra punishment by taking points off?