A similar thing happened at the college I went to, the Colorado school of Mines. We had a physics prof, I think it was physics 2 that was the real tough one.

A similar thing happened at the college I went to, the Colorado school of Mines. We had a physics prof, I think it was physics 2 that was the real tough one. It was known for being very hard, most folks didn't get good grades despite trying very hard in the class, and they famously never curved it, at all. The semester in which my buddies and I took the class was particularly bad. The class average was in the 50s or 60s, the highest score was in the high 70s, and half of the class or more failed the midterm. There was an uproar, so the prof held a town hall of sorts with the students in the class. In that town hall he didn't back down on the curve, it wasn't going to be curved. It also came out that the prof hadn't actually written the test, nor had he taken the test himself. It was written and graded all by TAs. The students were able to convince him to actually take the test amd report back. He took the test and reported back. He scored a 68 (or so, it's been a while). a bit above the average in the class but still not good. My buddy scored a 78, he did way better than the prof on his own test. In the end the prof agreed to set his own score as 100% and then basically bumped everyone score by 100%-his score. The folks that did better than his score just got 100%. It was considered one of thr weed out classes for all engineering disciplines at Mines. A teacher like this is failing his customers, the students. A educators job is to educate, not to sort or judge. Edited - typo.