Posted on 07/28/2011 10:44:52 PM PDT by Enchante
She said she knows she's a good teacher. But she still helped her students cheat.
"What I did was wrong, but I don’t feel guilty about it," said a veteran Philadelphia English teacher, who shared her story with the Notebook/NewsWorks.
(Excerpt) Read more at newsworks.org ...
some people can rationalize anything
this elemental standardized testing only seems so “stressful” because the fraud artists of the NEA and AFT run such piss poor schools that simple grade level achievement is considered unrealizable fantasy....
Ah, yes. She's a VICTIM. You knew this was coming, n'est ce pas?
But she was adamant that she did not care about boosting test scores. Instead, she described her cheating as an act of self-styled subversion, motivated by loyalty to her students.
Well, she was right about the "subversion" part, but as far as loyalty to students, she (and most of her contemporaries) have it precisely backward.
“I wanted them to succeed, because I believe their continued failure on these terrible tests crushes their spirit,” she said.
Yes, children must never know about that horrible personal responsibility thingie and that everyone must adapt to failures in order to succeed in real, adult life.
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yup, and it’s always someone else’s fault
“What I did was wrong, but I don’t feel guilty about it,”
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In a nutshell, a fundamental encapsulation of the decay in simple integrity that is infesting all of our modern society:
The endpoint of the counterculture’s decades long war on moral clarity.
Yeah and those are the people that call themselves liberals.
She’s still getting a nice big teacher’s paycheck so why should she care? Why should she feel guilty when the cash is still coming in?
Just wait until they get out in the real world; their spirit will really be crushed when they find out that they did not learn the basics and now they are unsuitable for anything other than grunt work.
This is one of the problems with America today - there is no honor anymore. The rule is, “game the system, everyone does it” so it’s OK. Many of the principles that founded this greatest nation have been demonized, trashed and dishonored.
So if she had not cheated to help her students and the students performed poorly on the test, administration officials would be made aware that her students were not receiving the information they needed to succeed in the next grade level and probably would have taken steps to supplement their instruction by providing the teacher with a mentor or coach and possibly providing the students with summer school sessions to try to catch them up so they can succeed in the next year.
But by cheating on the test the students performance problems aren’t flagged and they couldn’t get the help they needed (if they did indeed perform poorly) and maybe she could then pass on the problem to her unsuspecting colleagues teaching at the next grade level who might be more successful teachers and yet the under educated students she promoted into their classes would still perform poorly on the next test - which might falsely indicate that her colleagues were ineffective teachers, under prepared etc. Yes - I begin to see how her reasoning went.
And to top off her student’s education - which certainly the kids must know that ‘teacher cheated and does not feel wrong about it’- I see she has taken the time to set a good example for them.
“Ah, yes. She’s a VICTIM. You knew this was coming, n’est ce pas?”
Oui, bien sur :-)
First, she declares a conscience, then she negates her conscience......completely oxymoronic.
“They’d have a hard time, and I’d break it down for them,”
Enablement, entitlement....etc. In what decade shouldn't an education be challenging? More like enfeeblement....yet another excuse to declare racism later in life....oh, wait, upon graduation. Theyur learnen quick, nowa daze.
The idea of letting TEACHERS administer the exams on which their careers depend is no different than your boss allowing you to determine how much of a raise you deserve.
I’d love to blame the teachers here, but just about anyone would have acted the same, in that situation.
“I’d love to blame the teachers here, but just about anyone would have acted the same, in that situation.”
I’d like to believe that’s not true; I have opportunity to steal at my company, but opt not to. There is no justification for stealing, and that is exactly what this is; it is no different than asking your employer for reimbursement of $200 for something you paid $100 for, and printing a fake receipt to substantiate it.
When Obama declared war on corporate America, there were attempts to “claw back” the earnings of some executives who apparently didn’t merit the compensation based on the performance of the companies for which they worked; I’d like to see a similar recouping of taxpayer dollars from these thieves/con artists who perpetrated this fraud for years.
Oh, and take their licenses/certificates/whatever away, too; usually that only happens when teachers repeatedly sexually assault a child, but that should apply here as well.
Her attitude is not uncommon among classroom bureaucrats in our single payer schooling system.
We need to do away with socialized schooling.
wow Bob, “just about anyone” I know would not lie, cheat, or steal just because the opportunity presents itself. Of that I am quite confident, although of course a particular individual (friend, colleague, family member etc.) can sometimes prove unworthy of such confidence.
Whether schools *should* nowadays repose so much trust in teachers to administer exams (given human frailties deformed by generations of liberal squalor) is a separate issue from whether institutions of our society ought to be able to expect basic levels of integrity.
I’ll agree with you that the state of public education is bad enough that teachers should not be entrusted with overseeing these kinds of standardized benchmark exams for their own students. Some more rigorous forms of supervision must be devised, perhaps with teachers-staff-administrators serving as randomly assigned exam proctors for classes they don’t know, even in different schools than their own.
BUT I will not agree that we as a society ought to regard this as an acceptable, normal, or respectable situation. It is deplorable and contemptible for what it says about too many so-called “educators” in our society.
“Whether schools *should* nowadays repose so much trust in teachers to administer exams (given human frailties deformed by generations of liberal squalor) is a separate issue from whether institutions of our society ought to be able to expect basic levels of integrity.”
I’ve worked in the corporate world for decades and, believe me, integrity exists because the personal consequences of being dishonest outweigh the gains - in most cases. If people know that they can lie and cheat, without fear of getting caught, MANY will. Maybe not you, and certainly not my mom, but many, many, will.
That’s why you take steps to PREVENT the temptation - rather than being IDIOTS and think that people will nut succumb.
Sounds to me like the teacher was trying to make up for the poor teachers who pushed those same kids along. In the old days if the kid couldn’t “cut the mustard” and pass the class, he/she would have to take the class over again. Sounds pretty simple to me.
So, they are helped, excused, ghost-educated and passed on into the real world where they eventually possibly will end up in an important real-world job for which they are incompetent....hmmmm.....where have we all seen this recently, in fact, going on now in our very highest office? Not one report card, not one term paper, test, thesis, article or any other scholastic evidence our dear leader ever passed anything. Yet, sychophantic liberals huzzah our dear leader's 'special genius'.... Well, at least part of that is correct....he is special [short yellow bus special, that is]
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