Yeah; sorta makes you wonder how many other states are doing the same thing but haven’t been caught yet...
“It “confirms our worst fears,” says Mayor Kasim Reed. “There is no doubt that systemic cheating occurred on a widespread basis in the school system.” The news is “absolutely devastating,” said Brenda Muhammad, chairwoman of the Atlanta school board. “It’s our children. You just don’t cheat children.” “
Kasim
Muhammed
Once again important information is being left out, but is still apparant
Who would expect anything less from a government-run educational system? Just follow the money.
Yes, moron, you zeroed in right on the problem. It's the goddamm tests.
You're not a graduate of Atlanta schools, are you Patrik??
37 percent! And that was 2009. The public school system should be dismantled in favor of charter schools.
Look for the Obama administration to cite the Atlanta cheating scandal in his continuing efforts to eliminate standardized testing and teacher accountability at the bequest of the teacher’s union.
Hidden in this following quotation from the news story is the administration/union philosophy that teachers should be rewarded for improving test scores but not penalized for failing test scores.
“Education Secretary Arne Duncan said in June that NCLB “is creating a slow-motion train wreck for children, parents, and teachers.” On the other hand, an Obama administration proposal – to pay bonuses to teachers who improve test scores in their classes – may shift the stakes without lowering them.”
NOTHING will happen to these people.
WE will hear about “healing” and “moving on” and “mistakes were made”
... and no one will go to jail, or lose their job.
... reassigned and resigned will be the worst outcome.
These folks ARE elite members of Atlanta’s protected class.
If I were to defraud my customer; a couple of things would happen almost immediately.
First - before the court case was even typed - I would be fired. No retirement, no health insurance - FIRED on the spot.
Secondly - I would face charges of fraud, and likely would go to jail.
I really wish I could say I was surprised about all this, but, my high school English teacher could seldom use the proper form of there/they’re/their. Even if the teachers were just teaching to the test, at least they’d be teaching to something.
We need something like a federal department to oversee the education system. Yep, that is what we need.
When I took the SATs back around 1966, you were not allowed to have any of your own teachers as monitors. Likewise, the NYS regents exams (standardized final examinations in subjects like History, Algebra I, Chemistry, ...) were administered by teachers other than those who taught you and graded by teachers from other schools. The teachers administering the test did not answer questions or offer any help whatsoever.
If the same people teach and are in anyway involved in the evaluation, there is an obvious conflict of interest.
Response: I heard on Fox this A.M. that the same scandal is being uncovered in Philadelphia, Baltimore, etc. etc.
Comment: I love to watch the "explanations:" i.e. lack of funding, the parents, truancy, the test itself fails to reflect the culture, the Bush administartion, the position of the stars and planets. Anything is blamed as the cause except a reality which must remain unexpressed.
It’s happening all over. Who’s watching the watchers?
If they want to pursue standards they will apparently have to have an independent company do the testing. The teachers have a big vested interest in cheating. They are trying to save their own jobs.
An independent company has no interest in hashing up the results. I suppose they may be vulnerable to bribes, but, bribery is a big crime and I think they’d fear getting “caught on tape.”
If only they had mo money, none of this would have happened.
America’s biggest teacher and Principal cheating scandal..?
But the other thread said Mississippi was the fattest state. ?