I remember this “time” in my US classroom where we were all punished with if one person damaged classroom property (or worse, school property) but no one was willing to speak up and tell on the offender.
I have similar stories from our local neighborhoods where another parent might yell at you but the tales of your exploits made it home before you did. And there consequences waiting for you.
It’s a matter of timeline, not country.
By the late 1990s, I started to see said teachers pushing kids along as to 1) not deal with them again, and 2) pressure from district/state to not have as many failing students a.k.a. optimizing for the metric.
This just brought back bad memories of websites manipulating the clipboard when copying text. The ones that append the website attribution with full URL is a crime against humanity.
I worked at a college, didnt make much, but it annoyed me endlessly that my pay was forever fixed unless another position opened up, we had to spend the budget on tech worth more than I would have been more than happy to have extra per year, but me getting a meaningful raise was a bridge too far for the accounting department. They even questioned if any students used our lab, which was the only way many of them got through their degree.
Count the number of Americans who would have an ID worth scanning (aka ages 18 or over): 269M [1].
Or the number of Americans with a driver’s license: 212M (2013) [2].
1: https://www2.census.gov/programs-surveys/popest/tables/2020-...
2: https://www.bts.gov/content/licensed-drivers
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