Since you want the question about the grades answered, I 'll answer. You and the university don’t have an obligation to give the student a grade that he or she didn’t earn. That doesn’t mean you must change the grade- just that the student has no right to demand that he or she receive a grade better than the one earned. There is no difference between the grade and the money.Just like you should have noticed the $900 extra you were paid, the student who deserved a D should have known something was wrong when his grade was reported as an A. I doubt that someone at your university decided that there was a moral obligation to not change the grade- more likely the decision was made to avoid student bitching. An acceptable reason to have such a policy , but it has nothing to do with morality.
I have read this whole thread and don’t see where any student deserved a D not an A; I think the low grade was bringing his average down to a B, which is different. I also am surprised if there are universities which agree to raise a grade but not lower it due to an error. And personally I think the grade should in fact be changed. I’m not sure morality is the word exactly, but I think people should be able to correct errors, period.
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Yeah, about that…
I probably should have posted my mea culpa in this thread, but I feared that people would be so sick of this one that they wouldn’t see it and think I really was an unrepentant douche.
Here is my sincere apology