Comment by pc86

> > What am I supposed to do? Keep standards high and fail them all?

IMO any professor who doesn't fail a student who deserves it should be fired, tenure or no.

I had a professor who was in a tenure-track role in our math department and he was "brave" enough to fail me (just barely - 59.8 or thereabouts) in his first semester. I retook the class the very next semester and did better than most but it was definitely a wake up call for me about what it takes to actually do well at the collegiate level.

The classes I took in college didn't really help me very much in my career, but the work absolutely did. Whatever your metric of "professional success" is I would almost certainly be worse off if I had just been able to check off a few boxes and get through college without having to put in that effort.

Passing kids who should be failing does them a disservice. Graduating kids who should flunk out entirely does everyone else in society a disservice.