Failing a college class? Why not drop it?

A Georgia college instructor shares an interesting occurrence he sees at his college: Rather than withdrawing from a class they are failing during the drop/add period, students let the deadline go by, stay in the course and take the F.

Why?

Instructor Rick Diguette offers a reason that should interest parents: “If mom and dad are footing the bill, many students would rather fail a class than withdraw. They apparently feel more confident explaining an F as the fault of a professor who made the class way more difficult than it needed to be. And I suspect some parents, given the rather low opinion college and university professors seem to be held in these days, will be inclined to accept such an explanation.”