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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Does it extends to administrative pressure to changing grades?  If so, why haven't teachers, students and parents organized?[/quote]

Are you talking about organizing around a union or organizing together to address the problem? If you mean the former, most independent schools in the area do not let their teachers join unions. If you mean the latter, teachers at these schools are on annual contracts and can be fired at will. Trying to organize against the administration is perilous for many reasons.[/quote]

Talking about addressing a fundamental problem in academic integrity which one poster has suggested and other posters seem to imply is true.  If the administration is favoring a few donors and violating academic standards, parents, students and teachers would have reason to reach a consensus to deal with this problem. If these suggestions are true, I have to imagine that the periodic accreditation process, faculty bodies, and reasonable administrators would be appropriate avenues to address the problem.  It does not need to amount to a pay for play fraud on colleges to be a significant issue.  Sidwell is clearly a great school with a great tradition. [/quote]

Come on.  You all know how it works.  To try to pretend any of this is a surprise is what makes you either naive or just stupid.[/quote]

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