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Probe finds widespread cheating in Atlanta schools
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| 7/5/11
| Dorie Turner, Associated Press
Posted on 07/05/2011 5:04:50 PM PDT by Jean S
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posted on
07/05/2011 5:04:52 PM PDT
by
Jean S
To: Jean S
Unions.
Figures.
Public schools?
Waste.
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posted on
07/05/2011 5:06:33 PM PDT
by
Da Coyote
To: Jean S
This is an unexpected and shocking development.
Amish kids was it?
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posted on
07/05/2011 5:08:01 PM PDT
by
AFreeBird
To: Jean S
"...teachers and school administrators particularly those in low-income districts bow to the pressure of the federal No Child Left Behind requirements and see cheating as the only way to avoid sanctions. Another facet of Affirmative Action?
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posted on
07/05/2011 5:10:39 PM PDT
by
Iron Munro
(The more effeminate & debauched the people, the more they are fitted for a tyrannical government.)
To: AFreeBird
>>Amish kids was it?<<
Them radical Mennonites!
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posted on
07/05/2011 5:13:33 PM PDT
by
freedumb2003
(Herman Cain 2012)
To: Jean S
I would like to see a list of the schools as I had godchildren who were in school there during this time period.
I will just say that their schools did NOT serve them well.
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posted on
07/05/2011 5:14:35 PM PDT
by
kalee
(The offenses we give, we write in the dust; Those we take, we engrave in marble. J Huett 1658)
Comment #7 Removed by Moderator
To: Jean S
“OutCome based Education”...Shoveling out ‘self-esteem’ by the bucket loads.
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posted on
07/05/2011 5:19:07 PM PDT
by
Tainan
(Cogito Ergo Conservitus.)
To: Jean S
This could be racist. Break it down by race and clear any questions. Which races cheated?
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posted on
07/05/2011 5:32:11 PM PDT
by
RC2
To: Jean S
Just think, some day my boss will be my boss because he is a cheat.
Oh, wait a minute, POTUS has been taken by a cheat.
Well, I don't work for the government so....
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posted on
07/05/2011 5:33:37 PM PDT
by
EGPWS
(Trust in God, question everyone else)
To: Jean S
My guess is all the cases will be thrown out because of racial profiling...ahem.
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posted on
07/05/2011 5:39:46 PM PDT
by
blam
To: AFreeBird
Those darned Amish kids - and probably the Asian kids, too; after all, everyone “knows” they couldn’t do as well as they do just with studying and doing homework.
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posted on
07/05/2011 5:42:50 PM PDT
by
Oceander
(The phrase "good enough for government work" is not meant as a compliment)
To: Jean S
Problems have mounted, some experts say, as teachers and school administrators particularly those in low-income districts bow to the pressure of the federal No Child Left Behind requirements and see cheating as the only way to avoid sanctions.
I guess it's just too tough to try
teaching as a way to avoid sanctions.
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posted on
07/05/2011 5:45:38 PM PDT
by
Bob
To: Jean S
"Problems have mounted, some experts say, as teachers and school administrators particularly those in low-income districts bow to the pressure of the federal No Child Left Behind requirements and see cheating as the only way to avoid sanctions. Under the law, failing schools must offer extra tutoring, allow parents to transfer their children to higher performing schools and fire teachers and administrators who don't pass muster. "Cheating was the ONLY solution?
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posted on
07/05/2011 5:48:10 PM PDT
by
blam
To: Jean S
FIRE every last person involved in this; OH,,,,,,but wait,,, they were doing it for the children.
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posted on
07/05/2011 5:50:48 PM PDT
by
joelt
To: Jean S
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posted on
07/05/2011 5:55:14 PM PDT
by
Atlantan
To: Jean S
The investigators also found a "culture of fear, intimidation and retaliation" in the school district over the cheating allegations, which lead to educators lying about the cheating or destroying documents to cover it up,Yea, blame it on the pressure from Da Man to actually teach the children.
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posted on
07/05/2011 6:03:38 PM PDT
by
Blood of Tyrants
(Islam is the religion of Satan and Mohammed was his minion.)
To: Jean S
America is turning into Corruption Land. Yeah, living up to standards is hard.
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posted on
07/05/2011 6:16:28 PM PDT
by
popdonnelly
(Democrats = authoritarian socialists)
To: Atlantan
Exactly Atlantan...this was all about greed. Hall negotiated herself a VERY nice contract after getting that award (Supe of the Year - nationwide), based almost entirely on widespread cheating. This was apparently going on for a decade and was VERY widespread and bonuses were handed out on down the line. Total corruption.
How many parents wer stunned when their kids’ SAT/ACT scores came in well below what they expected due to what they had been seeing for years on the CRTCs. It was all about money.
They knew they couldn’t make the silk purses out of the sows’ ears so they just cheated. Heck, they got away with it for a decade and if not for some surprising investigative reporting from the AJC, they would have continued to do it for another decade. Pumping out HS graduates with 5th grade reading/math skills.
To: AFreeBird
And the top administrator, and almost certainly almost all fo those involved.
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posted on
07/05/2011 6:33:56 PM PDT
by
FreedomPoster
(Islam delenda est)
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