You have the following excerpt from a commentary on the school’s Annual Report:
“The state of Academics is deplorable. Only 98% of our students passed the Class X exam this year. Last year it was 98.5% and it was 99% in the year before that. This shows that our children are getting worse and worse at passing the Class X exam.
Not only that, the percentage of our topper in 2015 was 98.9%. In 2016, it became 97.5% and this year, it was only 96.9%.
This shows that overall pass percentage and top scores are both dwindling in our school.
The children are not getting dumber, so our teachers are to blame.”
Is the statement above a Fact, Inference, or Judgement? Why?