Alabama teachers change grades

I read an article recently on the New York Times website that talked about the fact that teachers were changing the grades of their students in order to boost the level of academic excellence of the district. This irritates me because the whole point of "getting an education" is to actually learn something. By boosting their grades to passing doesn't help the student learn anything and the "education" they are receiving won't help them in the future. There's no point in studying if teachers are going to pass their students regardless of their performance in the classroom. In the beginning, the school may have seemed like a good school but now that the truth has emerged, no one will give credit to the students and teachers who actually deserved the praise. Going forward, everyone will be skeptical of those schools and teachers.