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		syops on June 20, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Life as a public school teacher in the San Francis... High passing rate and minimal number of student complaints. No one in administration cares if the high passing rate is because standards were lowered. All they care about is that more than x% pass.

Leparamour on June 20, 2021 [–]

Another sad instance of Strahern's adaptation of Goodhart's law[1]:

"When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure"

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodhart%27s_law

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