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It's almost like attempting to traumatize the kid and his peers for no good reason and for what?

That's pretty simple -- their "authority" depends on never, ever, admitting that they were wrong.

The response is pretty simple. If they can never, ever admit they were wrong, we need to deprive them of their "authority".

Who's the we? These administrators are put their by their buddies in city and state positions. They almost never are educators themselves. In order to get competent caring administrators, who know what education is about, we need reform that actually puts educators in the hotseats.

Right thinking people? Of course it only works to the degree we have critical mass. But it seems worth encouraging, that we might more quickly get there in more cases.

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