>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.

Sounds about right. We're in education until grades are due. Then we're in customer service.

>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.

I hate that. Sorry. That's pretty much where this story ends for me too. I am ... not great at administrative stuff. But I'm keeping track of *everything* and, unfortunately, have to be way harsher on extended deadlines and stuff because of this.

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

Uh huh. And you sit there asking yourself "how was this LESS effort than just doing the work?" As I've said a couple times here, I'm really, really easy. I can count the number of students who've gotten below a "B" even though they've turned everything in on one hand.