to graduate or not to graduate, that is the question at hand. . .

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It's graduation time here in the Philippines and I guess to most parts of the world. I am supposed to be one among the parents eager and proud to see their children graduate in college, but, for some reason or another, it seems the school officials are turning every stones just to make sure my daughter along with her thesis groupmates will not graduate come April 7.It could be rooted down from my daughter being the student council president in the university. Instead of being proud that a promising leader emerged from the IT department, the young school officials instead are trying to pull her down perhaps because my daughter will be a threat to them in the future? It's nonsense really, a clear example of crab mentality. Being a doting mother, I have to rescue my daughter from that traumatic situation, going from the Dean to the Vice President on Academics, but no satisfactory action was ever done. Alibis were invented like "they lack time" for the students to defend their thesis and the thesis adviser was even allowed to resign as adviser on the very day the deadline was set for submission of grades. Having exerted all efforts and noting that we were given a cold shoulder treatment,and worst, the following day the group were given a failing grade instead of an "incomplete", so, we decided to send an appeal letter to the Commission on Higher Education. Upon learning of this, suddenly, the school officials started blaming one another to the extent that they are trying their best to "make-up" for what they did to my daughter and her group to the extent that they promised to do everything like scheduling their defense to enable them graduate this April but, it's too late, the appeal has been received by higher authorities. Did I over reacted as a mother or not? Am I to be blame for initiating the appeal to higher authorities? Perhaps, any mother or parent in her right mind will also do what I've done especially if you know that your daughter worked hard through college and for sure she doesn't deserve such treatment. Of course, you wouldn't want to see your daughter crying endlessly and already showing signs of anguish and depression.