My question is why is grade inflation out of your control? ... Are you saying that you are pressured by the college to artificially inflate a student's grade?
Hi Cap't Jack,
The short answer is YES! I have been "advised" many times by the administration that my GPA of 2.2 (equivalent to a letter grade of just above C) is too low for the course taken by the student I mentioned in my original post; that students will not register in our general-education physics courses, and that these courses will not be populated enough to justify offering multiple sections of them, meaning that we would have to decrease the number of the employees of the department. Now the GPA of my course is 2.6, with the result that those who ought to fail the course are getting a low B!
The meaning of the "average" seems to have been lost in education! Our College of Education, for example, has a GPA "average" of 3.8 out of 4. So all their graduates are excellent teachers!
Sam