Also, such a teacher is better usually because he/she is NOT following the directives of their principals and other management and will just earn their ire.From A Nation at Risk, 1983 (THIRTY years ago) <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Nation_at_RiskIf">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Nation_at_RiskIf</a> an unfriendly foreign power had attempted to impose on America the mediocre educational performance that exists today, we might well have viewed i