I hope these prosecutions spread to other districts; public school “teachers” have been hoodwinking parents for years (and making a ton of money in the process).
Though I agree that the teachers in the Atlanta City school district that cheated should be prosecuted and banned from teaching forever, Your blanket statement about all public school teachers being dishonest and making a "TON" of money is so wrong and should not be allowed to stand.
This cheating took place in the Atlanta city school district. There are multiple other school districts in the metro-Atlanta area who were NOT involved..... Bartow County Schools, Cherokee County Schools, City of Marietta Schools, Cobb County Schools, Dekalb County Schools, Douglas County Schools, Forsyth County Schools, Fulton County Schools ,Gwinnett County Schools. NONE of the these were accused of being involved.
As for your statement that teachers are "making a ton of money"..... well that is just ludicrous. The pay scale median for Georgia teachers is $54K. That is NOT a ton of money. It is not that far above poverty level for some families. At best it is a meager living.
If we paid our teachers a decent living than perhaps we could have better qualified teachers.
It is almost impossible to catch individual students cheating. But catching teachers that might be cheating, not all that hard. And some of it is almost laughable...