I had forgotten about Laurence J. Peter. The quotation brought it all back, "The Peter Principle." "In a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence." Or in simpler terms, The Peter Principle - employees attain their highest level of incompetence within a bureaucracy (and stay) A large part of his illustrations in the book come from the field of education and as a retired teacher, they were right on!

ha ha ha Socrat!