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You are being downvoted but you are exactly on point. If some fail they may be bad students, but if the majority of my students fail they're not bad students, it is me who is a bad teacher.

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> Of course, the teacher knew this, gave bonus points to the ones who did start in time, and then extended the deadline as he had expected to from the start.

I think what he meant is they 'failed' to get it completed on time and it was meant as a teaching lesson.

That wasn't in the original comment.

Failing is a form of learning. Enabling to fail (preferably in a safe way) is very valuable for learning.

Agreed, and the now edited comment illustrates how the teacher made it a safe lesson. That portion wasn't in the comment when I replied, and it sounded more like the teacher simply failed to prepare their students.

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