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[greentea]

Interesting topic. I am aware of the "normalising" tendency here but have not come across this explanation before : "If a professor is either "too excellent" or "too poor" it could suggest, both ways, that the students are undeserving."

Can someone explain further ? I can't understand exactly how it would suggest the students were "undeserving".

Rating a teacher (esp. the foreigner) very highly might cause loss of face to other teachers.

I can see that rating a teacher as "very poor" might reflect badly on the school and therefore the students.

Rating a teacher as "excellent" might seem to make the students somewhat easily impressed and undiscriminating, I suppose ?