one teacher curves, the others don't

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Are there many teachers (HS or college) that use a curve to force grades down (or fit a bell curve)?

Not in my personal experience, but this was until recently the directive at Princeton.

From fall term 2004-05 through spring term 2013-14, the University faculty had a common grading expectation for every department and program: A-range grades (A+, A, A-) were to account for less than 35 percent of the grades given in undergraduate courses and less than 55 percent of the grades given in junior and senior independent work

http://odoc.princeton.edu/faculty-staff/grading-princeton