I taught a ‘computers for business majors’ class for one semester at a private U on the left coast. One student showed up for the first class and then disappeared for the next 16 weeks. I was surprised she did not drop the class. At the end of the semester I failed her - the only failure in the class — and wondered why she wasted the time/money. A week later a friend in the Registrar’s office showed me the OFFICIAL grade sheet for my class (not the one I posted, not the one I turned into that office) which became the permanent record. The young lady in question had a father who was a dean in another school at the University who ‘corrected’ the grade so it would not harm her 4.0 GPA. Apparently daddy dearest did that regularly for her.
So all the students who failed this class have to do is to get their mommy or daddy to be a dean at the school.
You should have notified the dean that if this daddy’s correction was not removed and the lazy student is not given her true grade you would report this blatant academic fraud to the universities accrediting entity.