A student of mine needed only my dinky freshman level Intro to Statistics course to graduate. Because it was a summer class, and it's sort of super-accelerated (15 week course in 4 weeks,) 30% of the course is based upon homework which I would return, and allow them to correct and resubmit for FULL CREDIT. I worked my self crazy grading and regrading homework every day ALL summer. All they had to do was get it done. I preached about this every day. There is NO WAY you can make less than a C if you will just work with me on this, and get your homework grade up in the 90s. (Any student with an average of 90 on the homework only needed a 60 average on the exams to pull a C.)
Dude had a 67 test average, but turned in less than 1/3 of the homework; the average homework grade was a 96; his was 24. He missed making a C by 4 points, but then, after grades were submitted, begged me to let him make it up, actually saying in his e-mail "I know I didn't work hard on the homework, but I didn't think I would need to then." Now he's filed a protest with my department head claiming that my "refusal to give him a C in the course is denying him a college degree."
C'mon, guy.