You may have misread it differently to how it was intended but no disrespect was meant. It was well documented last year that most teachers will look for the positives in their students (and rightly so) and so those borderline grade decisions will, in most cases, be rounded up rather than down. If that's repeated across the board then there will indeed be rampant grade inflation compared to a normal exam year where grade boundaries are adjusted to retain a comparable set of results to previous years.
I understand from my sister and brother-in-law - both teachers in a secondary school - that their headteacher is very much driven by grades and the need to have a good headline to stick on their next newspaper advert. He sounds like a horrible boss and will no doubt be putting the pressure on.
All Headteachers are driven by grades these days
But coursework (when it was part of the system) was heavily monitored and moderated. Samples of work were taken up from random students to ensure teachers were not doing as you suggest.
It was only when Gove got in, and he applied his own lack of morality, that his accusations of teachers somehow cheating at course work allowed him scrap it all in favour of exam only assessment. Remember this is the guy who scrapped the Baccalaureate after years of preparation by teachers because he couldn’t just award the contract to his “favoured” exam board/publisher.
Yes teachers want the best for their kids, but the big Tory Lie is that teachers are cheats.
My brother in law came out with a very insightful comment over this.
He said the problem with education is that unlike the Scots and the Welsh who manages education for their children, our Westminster wonders manage education for other people’s kids. The Tories (and some Labour) don’t send their kids to state schools so they aren’t really arsed. Gove, Gibb, Williamson, their kids will be alright.