That's actually from a comment, not from my original post. If you're upset with principia_coh's comment, you'd have better luck reaching her if you reply to one of her actual comments, as only those would reach her inbox (if she emails comments -- mind you, she may have this discussion tracked, in which case, she would know, but I wouldn't comment based on that assumption, personally). Also, by far the majority of the comments to my post have been about other things, not about Martha's status as a student.

If you're going to give the trips prior to Lazurus an "okay", then it applies to her acceptance after Lazurus as well, because any of those trips to England, New Earth, Manhattan, etc. could've ended with unintentional problems. JUST LIKE ROSE LOSING A YEAR. But I don't see any threads dedicated to criticizing Rose as "abandoning her family and Mickey" because she should have KNOWN there could be problems.

That's like saying that the Gilligan's Island crew has no reason to be any more upset than the Stargate: Atlantis crew, despite the first only signing up for a three-hour tour and the second for an undetermined length of time. Martha's first stint in the TARDIS was as 'passenger', her second as 'fellow traveler'. If you can't see the difference in those choice, then we're at an impasse anyway.

I'm leaving this discusion.

Have a safe trip home!