I just wanted to respond again to this:
“C’s are not acceptable, nor a peak for any student, unless the child has a real learning disability”
One of my closest RL friends died in 2012 after a heroic 9 month battle with cancer. She left behind a young adult son who was in college at the time, another young adult son who is special needs (Down syndrome) and a daughter who was in high school at the time. Her husband worked and she was the at-home caretaker of the son with Down, so that was an additional complication at the time of her death – the other 2 children were self-sufficient but not this young man.
Now, I have no idea what specifically happened to the daughter’s grades after her mother died – I didn’t ask and it’s not my business whatsoever, nor did it really matter in any scheme of things – we all just wanted to know that she was handling things and coping with her great loss. I do know that she wound up at a directional state university that you’d probably sneer at. In the grand scheme of anything, does that really matter?