Feds: Teachers embroiled in test-taking fraud

Washington Examiner ^ | November 25, 2012 | Washington Examiner

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MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — It was a brazen and surprisingly long-lived scheme, authorities said, to help aspiring public school teachers cheat on the tests they must pass to prove they are qualified to lead their classrooms.

For 15 years, teachers in three Southern states paid Clarence Mumford Sr. — himself a longtime educator — to send someone else to take the tests in their place, authorities said. Each time, Mumford received a fee of between $1,500 and $3,000 to send one of his test ringers with fake identification to the Praxis exam. In return, his customers got a passing grade and began their careers as cheaters, according to federal prosecutors in Memphis.

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His suggestion was to the Christian and religious communities, that they take a greater interest in the schooling of children. After all, they do a lot of missionary work and the establishing of free schools in foreign countries, so why not turn some of that inward, HERE, and actually compete with the public schools by offering free education?....I wish....

Don't hold your breath waiting for the Christian churches to step up and do their duty before God. Why?

Answer:

1) Too many ministers have spouses working in the godless government schools.

2) Too many government indoctrinators ( oops! "teachers") sitting in the pews along with all the vendors to the schools. Few ministers will bite the hand putting money in the collection plate. ,i>