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Not publicly, but teachers know it, or at least those of my acquaintance.
Yeah, I meant that you can't say it outside of the school. If you do, a typical reaction is: "If you don't like children, you are not a good teacher." Because it is assumed that if you like children, you would never say anything with a negative connotation; and if you don't like them, you are a psychopath and should be kept far away from them.
So, either the children are perfect, which means that if they don't get good grades, you are a bad teacher; or you disagree that the children are perfect, which proves that you are a bad teacher. -- The only way to signal that you are a good teacher, is to give best grades to everyone. Some teachers use this strategy, knowingly or not.
Many managers use this strategy during industry performance reviews, as well.
Mine too, and I know quite a few of them. They aren't shy about it -- the PC-ness has been thoroughly beaten out of them by experience.