[Aevery_Freeman]

...in the interest of trying to be helpful to children, a teacher may do something that may not be appropriate."

Cheating - do it for the children.

Sigh

[blaveda]

Wait until the new teacher and principal evaluations take effect in NY state whereby teachers will be evaluated by the test outcomes of their students by as much as 40% of their overall performance. They will collaborate to cheat or the unions will balk and the tests won't even be given. Race to the Top is really a race to the money and a nationalized curriculum. Arne Duncan and “The Won” have purchased the NEA and the AFT; if Bush had proposed this then we would have had massive walkouts similar to that of the whiners in Wisconsin only on a scale that would rival the protest in Libya. Education has sold it's soul at the alter of political expedience to gain more power, maintain the status quo, grab more money to feather the beds of union bosses, and keep the incompetent teachers in the classroom. The children are USED to forward their agenda.