darthbone comments on What profession was once highly respected, but is now a complete joke?: "The teacher, who is objectively the best judge of a student's academic progress, cannot even hold a student back. When my wife was a teacher, she had children in 4th Grade who could not read at a 2nd grade level, but the parents refused to believe it, and the administrators refused to back up the teacher, so those students would move on to 5th grade, only to have any potential love of literature or education itself beaten out of them by a pervasive sense of incapability.
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