Bureaucratic PR Destroys Teacher Power and Academic Standards with It.

Kelly, sadly, this is an example of how the politics of education undercut the professional power, there's that power word again, of teachers to set and enforce standards.  Your humble servant here taught English at the start of his career; the powers of the school decreed that 10% would fail and 10% would get A's.  The rest would resemble the classic Bell Curve in statistics.  Your humble servant here knows how it feels to be powerless.  We need to restore professional respect for teachers.  We need to give them power to make decisions and back those decisions, not engage in cheap PR.  Sadly, it only seems to get worse as administrators seek PR advantage, instead of backing teachers.  Dr. Rux