Flutterby™! : When science teachers go bad

Sorry for the tracking spew on this link, but I think it's part of an article share. Anyway, high school chemistry teacher goes for "spew back what I wanted you to say on the test, rather than what's correct". And reading this article is giving me flashbacks.

San Francisco Chronicle: A Silicon Valley family wanted their son’s science test graded fairly. It became a battle

The district failed to acknowledge that the teacher’s answer violated scientific fact as well as the publisher’s answer key, which confirmed the correct answer was heat and light, since “combustion is a chemical reaction that typically releases energy in the form of heat and light, which makes it an exothermic process.”