My mom is the hardest-working teacher I've ever seen. Her dumbass, fucktard, students at Chambersburg High wouldn't respond to anything she presented, even if it resulted in less homework in the future. All they wanted to do was get by with the least work as possible. Whenever she failed someone, she received pressure from the parents and the administration to give the student a passing "C".
Lets just face it. This country is on its last legs. The kids are too concerned with bullshit, the populous is too dumbed down, the nation is going to hell. No amount of holding teachers to a "standard" is going to improve a system where there is no incentive for students to care about their own futures.
My mom left that idiocy last year. Good luck to the teachers there now, facing a bunch of clowns whose parents are either jobless or work in the fruit fields.