The Standards Are What They Are, and the Standards Are Fair.

A healthy democracy is contingent upon not just an empowered populace, but a populace that knows how to use power. Foucault: Power is exercised only over free subjects, and only in so far as they are free. If all we're doing is slapping a grade on a student's paper based on our own idiosyncratic determination for which the student has really very little recourse, he says. "I haven't encountered that in years because when the students understand the standards"