Most public school teachers have very little say about what happens in the school or the curriculum. We're just carrying out orders and hope that students will go along.
Student discipline can only be applied with parent and administrator cooperation. If admin doesn't do anything about bullying, fighting, or cheating, then the school is screwed.
Apparently they read his book, the art of the deal. It's like foreign trade for dummies. Wharton taught him wrong as a joke.