Posted on 04/03/2013 4:56:30 PM PDT by blam
Edited on 04/03/2013 5:09:46 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution has posted mug shots of 35 educators booked for allegedly colluding to raise standardized test scores.
A 73-year-old principal, a middle school secretary, elementary school teachers, and other school workers are accused of being behind the nation's biggest cheating scandal.
Prosecutors are going after them under a racketeering law originally enacted to target the mafia, and they face prison time for allegedly changing students' test scores. Many of the teachers had bonds of $1 million or more that they had to argue to get lowered to six or five figures.
The scathing indictment of mostly black teachers has sparked allegations of racism from the Concerned Black Clergy and a prominent former mayor, The New York Times has reported. Rev. Timothy McDonald, a spokesman for Concerned Black Clergy, called the indictment "overkill" at best.
“Look at the pictures of those 35,” he told the Times. “Show me a white face. Let’s just be for real. You can call it racist, you can call it whatever you want, but this is overkill. We have seen people with much deeper crimes with much less bond set.”
It's clear prosecutors meant to send a strong message by arresting so many teachers after a sting
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Former Atlanta Mayor Shirley Jackson, like the Concerned Black Clergy, has rushed to the teachers' defense and accused the media of unfairly skewering them.
"Yes cheating is awful," she writes on her blog. "And so is conviction before a fair trial. I believe every accused person deserves a fair trial under a set of laws that promises to be just and balanced. I don’t support public hangings. It is barbaric."
Jackson added, "Prosecutors, judges and jurors make mistakes and overreach."
You just cited the Democrat party manifesto.
so, if they are black they can’t be guilty is that it?
After all, that's how Obama became a state senator, a U.S. Senator, and a 2 term president.
Cheat...beat da rules.
I’ve waited years for Beverly Hall to take the perp walk. It finally happened yesterday. She should have been in handcuffs.
http://www.ajc.com/news/news/local/first-aps-cheating-scandal-defendant-surrenders/nW9Zx/
Spot on. They will end up with huge taxpayer funded counter-suit settlements, making them millionaires for life.
These teachers cheated the kids out of pure greed. They have been pocketing huge bonus checks because the kids have “improved so much”. Odumbo even invited one of them to the Whitey House to applaud her.
These trashbag fraudsters should be treated as Bernie Madoff was treated. These teachers are criminals.
If the shoe fits.
What’s the problem? This is nothing more than affirmative action in action.
No white faces???
When they post the mafia mugshots there ain’t no black faces.
someone made the comment the other day, don’t remember who it was.....
95% of blacks give the rest of blacks a bad name
They are mobsters. They’re part of the common, contemporary paradigm of corruption.
BTTT
Yes cheating is awful,” she writes on her blog. “And so is conviction before a fair trial. I believe every accused person deserves a fair trial under a set of laws that promises to be just and balanced. I don’t support public hangings. It is barbaric.”
Jackson added, “Prosecutors, judges and jurors make mistakes and overreach.”
Tell that to George Zimmerman and Travon Martins clan.
it is organized crime.
they are robbing taxpayers of money and children of an education
Yeah, definitely it’s the Amish Influence again!
The results of their grade tampering show up when they come to my school (supposed high school grads) and they can't count, spell, know nothing about grammar, or American History.
I hope the slobs go to prison. Bet they don't!
Bet they get back pay and an apology!
We build a slanted test system where the result is...just get the kid to pass, period. So you teach only stuff geared toward the test, and it might not be the best way of teaching but it’s the only way to get results that fit. However, because you’ve still got kids who are a year or two years behind where they ought to be anyway....the only way to make up for that loss....is to erase answers and put the right ones on the paper, period.
All of this makes the kids look better than what they are, and later helps to progress onto college, where the college says they aren’t ready to enter and need to take a full year of bogus classes (more cash for them) before they become true college students.
And the final result? The teachers look great and get their bonus check and promotion. Fake schools, fake education, fake graduation certificates....it’s the American way now.
Are they all Democrats?
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