I work part time as an adjunct Professor. If I give anything other than the highest grade, I am hit questions, insults and arguments for weeks. It is incredible.
Yep, which is why ending teacher tenure is awful idea. Just encourages rampant grade inflation.
The entire premise of education reform is that the kids are wonderful and brimming with enthusiasm to learn. They aren’t. It’s mostly a quasi-thuggish lot demanding “respect”.
Companies can move and hire overseas and will.