That so sad. I’ve had tough teachers myself (see post #28) but you can really learn from them and if you get an A, you, and everyone else, knows that you busted your butt to get it and you deserve it!!
Perhaps I should have added the the teacher was, as Harry Reid would put it, “light skinned”, while the school board and most of the students were Black.
At my school students take the financial aid book money, buy the textbook, then return to the bookstore the next day and pocket the refund. Every time you give them an in-class assignment, they claim to have “forgotten” to bring the book that day and ask to share with a neighbor.
Governments could save millions by paying out financial school aid at the END of the semester, and make class attendance a requirement for the aid. As it exists, the “system” is too easy to scam.