> They had high standards. Like three year olds testing their parents, students will test teachers to see if they can get away with low-quality work or bad beha

> They had high standards. Like three year olds testing their parents, students will test teachers to see if they can get away with low-quality work or bad behavior. They won't respect the teachers who don't call them on it. A related anecdote: I was a TA for a course in which the students were required to write weekly essays. The first ones had grammar so bad that they were excruciating to read. Despite not being allowed to deduct points for such things, I copyedited all of them to fix the worst mistakes and returned them covered in red ink. By the next week, they had all figured out how to write in complete sentences, making my job much easier for the rest of the semester.