Teachers have a lot of power over students in the classroom. Typically, we write the syllabus, decide the rules, make rulings on infractions. In turn, we are accountable to our institutions, as instructors and also regarding our many non-teaching obligations. In conversations, I frequently brush up against the reality of The Instructor’s Double Standard, here defined as any instance when an instructor holds students to a standard to which she does not hold herself, or to which she is not held by the institution…