We planned as best we could for them too. They were the future once, just a slightly more immediate one. Unless you think we should have been planning for the pandemic last September, that's really not something I can see how we could have changed.
No I don't think that. You're being ridiculous. I get you didn't know this was going to happen. What I don't get is that, particularly final year students, had a matter of weeks left so no time for people to figure it out, get up to speed etc and yet very little leeway or allowance has been given to these students. My dd is doing a modular course. Because of the strikes, that immediately preceded lockdown, she has had no teaching or input on her modules that started after reading week in February and for the module that was meant to run from January to March she only had four weeks of tuition from mid Jan to mid Feb. She has still and to complete all of ten essays from these modules though and yet no attempt was made to catch them up or to.provide any replacement teaching. Yes, they've implemented a no detriment policy but given her limited work from this year I'm not sure that her average grade, on unaffected work, is broad enough to be a fair reflection.
My nephew, is due to sit final exams. They petitioned for subjects that they haven't covered to be excluded from the exams but we're told no. The exams are already written and so it will stand.
So, yes, I understand that you were all trying to rush things through and no one was prepared but that doesn't excuse not being completely fair and reasonable to students for whom time was running out. Particularly when it was on the back of a second wave of industrial action.