When I was a child, tests were often graded on the curve which meant the highest score in class became the benchmark. If you were the one who scored perfectly on the test, you got grief from other classmates for setting the bar so high. Seems like this dynamic also plays out at the national level. Illustration for a Michael Grunwald column in Time about administrators who did an excellent job and were forced to resign. The Japanese metaphor for the nail that stands out gets hammered came to mind. Nai Lee Lum, AD.
