“... came to light after The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported in 2008 that some test scores were statistically improbable.”
Basically, what they did was admit that with standards and expectations raised...they couldn’t reach the goals without cheating. And there’s some weight to the consequences involved.
If you have forty-odd kids and you’ve gone through seven years of schooling....with marginal efforts and limited teachers in the classroom, then you whip up some enthusiasm for fixing the problem...it’d all be fine if you were starting with first-grade kids. But the kids in the funnel were already a year...maybe even three years behind. The teachers with these marginally inclined kids were stuck with performers who could not reach the goal intended...without cheating.
While I don’t condone cheating...this ‘no-child-left-behind’ deal was a false premise and triggered thousands of teachers to alter the teaching plan in order to just get marginal kids to pass the test phase.
This being Atanta I am sort of impressed the Feds used Rico laws to prosecute them....
Since the vast majority of the people involved are most likely minorities...
No one has claimed racism yet ?
A government union using mob tactics to silence whistleblowers? I don’t believe it for a second.
Kids come out of high school totally inept politically and disinterested in the way our nation operates ... and they have voting power.
I need to do more research, but it seems most everyday people (includuing parents) are locked out of what really happens in a gummint skool classroom, so it is difficult to be activist in making corrections
Our best bet, at the moment, seems to be good and aware kids of activist minded parents, getting information they can respond to
Isn’t Marxism wonderful?
Pray America is waking
The Bill Gates Foundation was funneling some of this bonus money into Atlanta schools. Typical liberal do goodism. Waste of money and bad results. I am hoping whistleblowers come forward in other school systems to expose the liberal fraud and the dishonesty of the public school programs. Time will tell.
~ They’re in the jailhouse now ~
Hands Up Don’t Teach
Oh, those always wacky, fun-loving “educators”. Many of them are represented by these criminals.
Cheating to many/any degree has been going on for years even in very prestigious universities. Years ago I was a student at one of the world renowned universities in a very tough engineering, chemical, curriculum. A number of classmates lived in the same fraternity house as the TA. I and some of other guys lived off campus. I often suspected that the fraternity guys were being given extra tutoring even to the extent of knowing the quiz questions. As far as I knew only the frat boys made it into grad school. Later in life I met up with one of the frat boys in a post grad series of courses he and I were taking. He had gone on to receive his Masters degree. I did as good or better than him in this post grad series of courses. He asked me why I didn’t go to grad school. I told him the entrance was stacked for the fraternity boys.