If they'll issue "progress" reports for students that aren't even enrolled just to get the funding.... Imagine what they do in "real" government jobs.

I think the real conspiracy here is..: who or what is responsible for the time line shift this time? How did it bleed over into our current? Did CERN successfully create a black hole back in the time line where the boy was actually a student? Was the reality shift a result of the alignment of Jupiter and Saturn in the 'Great Conjunction'? Was there a glitch in the Matrix again? Breadcrumbs.

The “mistake” was they got caught.

How do so many teachers accidentally collude to create a report card with “canned messages”