They also get transferred out and usually "busted down" when test scores and/or grades are too low - high school down to middle school, etc., or transferred to a "troubled" school.
Saw it all the time.
If you give too many low grades, you are called onto the carpet in the principal office - and YOU are held responsible for "not teaching to the kids' learning needs," etc.
Never mind the massive rate of absenteeism, parent non involvement, kids never, ever held accountable for not doing homework, studying or even showing up - I always loved the classic administrative question: "Did you call home?" Hell, I called home to the point where the parents complained about ME to the district office.
Thirty-three years of experience in public schools, here - glad I got out when I did, it's FAR worse than when I started.
> They also get transferred out and usually “busted down” when test scores and/or grades are too low… <
Yep. Here’s a “busted down” story for you. In one of our schools, a student smuggled a knife into class. A vice principal tried to disarm the kid, and got cut for his troubles.
The vice principal got to a phone, and dialed 911. The next year he got transferred to one of the worst schools in the city.
Why? You’re supposed to call the (unarmed) school police, and never the city police. And that’s because central administration can bury school police reports but not city police reports.