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From what I read in that guy's article, administration typically doesn't want to deal with the constant stream of freaked out jerk parents any more than the teacher does, so he's saying they put enormous pressure on him, as in job-threatening pressure, to just let pretty much everybody slide. Provable plagiarism, kids who never showed up, etc.

This guy was saying it was so bad that parents would threaten law suits and such, and sometimes even violence seemed imminent. There was neither proportion nor sense of responsibility on the part of the parents for either their kids or themselves. He definitely made it sound like a nightmare, and one which the administration just got angry about if it went past him and got over to them.