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[QUOTE="jonson, post: 4539730, member: 6034"]
This has been my experience, both as a student (in the 60s) and as someone who taught at two public post-secondary institutions for a little more than 4 decades.

One example:  when I graduated from a private school in New England in the 60s, the highest GPA in my graduating class (about 450 students, I think) was a bit over 3.7 (an A-).  In the institution from which I retired 6 years ago after teaching there for 31 years 20+ students now graduate each year (out of about 4000) with grade point averages north of 4.0.

Believe me:  giving students a (in your view) well-deserved B, or--god forbid--a C, when they have handed in all the work required, is not easy in a context in which those same students, doing the same level of work, are getting mostly A's.  There is more than a little bewilderment and, in many cases, resentment, and it's not difficult to understand why.  In effect, you're (I'm) telling those  students that I'm right and mostly everyone else is wrong.  Depending on how "tough"/stubborn you are it's maybe not an untenable situation, but it sure is difficult and depressing for everyone involved.
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