See, when I was a wee lad, if you made an F in a class, your parents looked at you and demanded you explain yourself. They put the onus on you until you could somehow prove that it wasn’t really your fault.

And honestly, good luck with that. It usually was your fault, after all.

What that meant was that you either went to summer school or you repeated the grade. No one blinked about it because that’s just what happened.

Today, we have a problem with grade inflation, where grades are being given well above what the work warrants. We have parents who demand their kid’s grade be changed to something better for any number of reasons but never seem inclined to tell the kid to work harder which also contributes to the problem.