people just need to leave their comfort zone occasionally It would be nice if that happened, though. You tell your students, 75 % of whom have no grasp of 8th-

people just need to leave their comfort zone occasionally It would be nice if that happened, though. You tell your students, 75 % of whom have no grasp of 8th-grade math, that they have been cheated out of an education and that consequently they now need to work twice as hard. But instead of knuckling down they all march off to the Dean to complain. Of course the Dean enables the underperformance. You can't frame "easy life" only in terms of money, "easy life" also means coasting through an underperforming school and never having to face reality.