>>>>The teachers aren't being paid to cheat.
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>>>Slight correction: the teachers aren't paid if they are caught.
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>>Sadly, that probably isn't true. Most teachers belong to aggressive, politicized unions. Any action by any teacher that could possibly be construed as a "political protest" or "in the best interests of the children" is probably explicitly protected by the CBA.
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>I wish the union would fight the unnecessary paperwork instead. When I was teaching, I had to just log every class in the class's log book, with a 4x5 cm space for what was I doing then, and a list of absentees, and log the grades given, in the per-student pages of the same book, and in the two occasions when I was a classmaster, the register for the class and their diplomas. Period. And I thought that was a tad cumbersome and a bit too much of paperwork.
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>The amount of paperwork today's schools in the US produce is by several orders of magnitude larger than that. I had to sign one of those (or had to sign that I refuse) every ten days on the average, and that's just what parents receive. The kids can't go to the toilet without a signed piece of paper! If you're a teacher, you can't just send a kid to bring something from outside of your classroom, you have to write a permit. And the list of waivers and rules for the prom runs pages.
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>When do these guys have the time to do their jobs at all?

Unions fighting paperwork? Haha - good one. That would be, by definition, a conflict of interest.