Posted on 03/03/2005 7:51:53 AM PST by truth49
All week, News4 has shown you online diploma mills hand out degrees for cash, and people all over the country are trying to pass them off as real degrees. Now, News4 has learned several teachers in Washington are among them. Last year, the Olympia-based group Evergreen Freedom Foundation surveyed every school district in the state and found six teachers who were using illegitimate degrees.
(Excerpt) Read more at kxly.com ...
Yet, the NEA says more money is needed for better education...go figure.
..."However, the teachers have been suspended with pay for six months while their cases are under review," said NEA representatives in a written release.
I've sometimes felt that a couple of my daughter's teachers got theirs from a box of cracker jacks.
Those who can't, teach, those who can't teach, still teach.
Ward Churchill: Degree Saurumon U. Oh Wait. That's Sangamon, only he spells it Sangaman on his bio page.
They are just doing what Ward Churchill did, and he got tenure!
Broght to you by the NEA... at your service...this is absurd!
If nothing else, it explains much.
What is needed are teachers who are educated. The student can't learn if the teacher can't teach and too many teachers have no education.
Does this discovery mean they get promoted?
Why doesn't this surprise me? All you have to do is pay attention to their lack of ethics in other areas.
Speaking of which, wouldn't be interesting to investigate the credentials of the female teachers caught in the recent child molestation scandals? Talk about lack of ethics...
I did a search for Sangaman U only to find it's really:
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I will add a couple related points.
If you ever find yourself on a hiring committee, don't stop with checking applicants' references. Contact the registrar at the schools they claim they took their degrees from. The registrar will confirm or deny the award of a degree. This exercise may also reveal the school to be a diploma mill.
Also, follow up on claims of military service. I have it on my resume, and add I will supply a DD214 "upon request", but no one has ever asked me to do so. They should.
To put that more accurately, Those who can.. DO - Those who cannot..Teach - Those who cannot teach.. Administrate.
Diploma mills are not a new phenomenon. Years ago
You found their ads in the back of magazines. They
were particularly popular (and useful) to people who
had started their degrees but for one reason or another
could not finish and get a diploma. These people didn't even feel they were cheating because they had started
their legit education...just didn't finish. Yep...
answer a couple of questons on a few sheets of paper
and the "diploma" was "authenticated" by whatever
"University" had been contacted.
Lots of "Ministers" who dub themselves "Reverends"
"graduated" or bought their titles that way, too.
For example, check out Rev. Jesse Jackson. He never
completed his studies at the Chicago Theological
Univ. He left that school in 1966. But in 1968
some Baptist Church "ordained" him (try to find out
WHICH granted the title!) They obviously calculated
in what some "colleges" do today...giving credit for
"life experiences."
By some people, especially in the south, this was
not considered a serious faux pas. Another example
is found in all those "Colonel" titles that
decorated the Old Home Stead. Ah, yes, we remember
"Colonel" Sanders with much affection!
As for the topic at hand...School Principals leave
the tracking down of documentation to their often
inept secretaries, whose very existence/position
depends on their being accomodating to any and all
they speak to by phone/e-mail. She's usually a
nice Mom whose kids are going through or have gone
through the system locally. She retires about the
same time the kids are through high school/college.
All a "teacher" with false papers has to do is get
one job under his/her belt, and the research stops
at the last school of employment. The secy. never
goes back to the College for verification; she's
more comfortable talking to another school secy.
For the most part, that's what Principals and
Supts. do, too. They stay within their own
bailliwicks.
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