In “Comptency-Based Education and the NCATE Banana Peel,” Mitchell Langbert makes a distinction between useful and desirable competency-based teaching about interpersonal skills, politics and power (which cannot be assessed objectively and should not be utilized in a punitive way) and NCATE’s espousal of assessment of students’ “social justice dispositions” (used to penalize them for “wrong” ideology). Consider here these subtle differences.