Yeah...that really was the beginning of the end, and then Obama went and stuck another knife in the already burnt offering by making it impossible to hold students back or discipline them and implementing Common Core (which is crazy town; nobody can teach it because it makes no sense, therefore nobody can learn it either). A lot of teachers just don't and admin. looks the other way, but it's on the standardized testing (NCLB!) so a segment of learning time (not taken up with students gone wild because can't discipline!) has to be devoted to learning it well enough to take those tests...fml.