A student experiencing grief wouldn't likely get a private room for an exam. Service animals are different from therapy dogs in terms of training and purpose.   Accommodating a disability is a human rights issue. If you have a problem with that bring it up with the highest courts and the medical community what with all its "Sciencey" evidence. Most campuses now talk about the need for resilience amongst students, that failure is a valuable learning experience. Indeed many students fail at the post-secondary level. You might be thinking of the secondary school level where failure is largely unheard of. Many students I see at post-sec level juggle 8 classes , p/t jobs,  and family obligations. Skip the rhetoric Wente and do your research.