Comment by crazygringo
Comment by crazygringo 18 hours ago
They literally are customers. They pay money in exchange for an education and a degree.
You start failing too many students, it becomes a risky place to enroll, enrollment drops, they can't cover their expenses, and they close.
Edit: I'm not defending this, just explaining it. It's inevitable under a private education system, unless you literally legislate and enforce grading on a curve within all private institutions, which doesn't seem to be a popular idea among voters in free democracies either.
They are paying for the education, but not for the degree, and they’re not paying to get a passing grade even if they do poorly.
I wouldn’t necessarily agree that we should just fail the students, clearly something is going on if the professor has to use a curve unexpectedly, but we shouldn’t just accept this as okay simply because they are paying.