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Perez added that “a teacher’s determination of a student’s grade is final unless there is evidence of a clerical or mechanical error, fraud, bad faith, or incompetence. Disagreement with a teacher’s professional judgment alone does not meet these criteria.”

Fine, then it's incompetence!

“In regards to the exam question, the students observed a demonstration lab during class, accompanied by a lecture that clearly explained that combustion does not always produce light,” Paine said in an email to the Chronicle. “Our staff affirm that combustion does not always produce light.”

This is the most infuriating part: that all the school officials involved kept myopically obsessing over trying to explain why answer choice B wasn't right, while ignoring that the real issue was their failure to refute the student's correct assertion that answer choice C was wrong.

The salient issue was that cellulose and oxygen are reactants, not products, and the question of "light" had fuck-all to do with it!