who deserve failing grades because it makes my wife look like she isn't a competent teacher.

Somewhere in these last 10 or so years these kids have realized they have power. The colleges don't want to deal with the paperwork or negative feedback and more work so they end up bending if a student puts pressure on them.

It sucks. My wife had a nightmare scenario her first year teaching in grad school at Temple. A kid went up the chain of command and that incident has made her record keeping impeccable ever since.

These kids can't remember anything from the class or syllabus but they damn sure know every rule in the college handbook.