Posted on 07/06/2011 8:31:50 AM PDT by Sprite518
Across Atlanta Public Schools, staff worked feverishly in secret to transform testing failures into successes.
Teachers and principals erased and corrected mistakes on students’ answer sheets.
Area superintendents silenced whistle-blowers and rewarded subordinates who met academic goals by any means possible.
Superintendent Beverly Hall and her top aides ignored, buried, destroyed or altered complaints about misconduct, claimed ignorance of wrongdoing and accused naysayers of failing to believe in poor children’s ability to learn
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The mistake was in allowing Atlanta teachers to proctor tests that would determine their own job security. The solution would be to bus in proctors from outside Atlanta on test day. You don’t need to be a teacher to proctor a test. You just need to be able to observe students, keep order, and check IDs.
LOL! Nice analogy! Yeah that is just piss poor excuse.
How can you know if you really “educate” a child if they can’t pass a test? The test tells everyone when a majority of the district fails that the teacher failed to prepare the students for life.
It’s obvious that deadbeat cheats such as the Atlanta Public School system don’t ever want to be held accountable. It’s because most of them should not even be there in the first place. Yes they are unqualified and it’s why the students are failing.
Thanks - I suspected as much but was going to search any way. Of course, they’ll wrap the “Racism!” flag around them and Whitey will assume the fetal position.
I see the PLANTATION owners are doing what they do best...(keeping their charges ON THE PLANTATION!)
Bingo!
Liberalism is a mental disorder...
Probably all of them... It’s the mentality of the government should take care of me.
“Freakonomics had a chapter on this very issue, and how to detect it.”
It’s not even that hard.
Fire ‘em. Hire folks like me with a real degree. I don’t mind flunking folks.
It's important - and a great posts... Thanks.
Their cheating resulted in the successful theft of funds from Georgia. If found guilty of stealing from the State, they should be jailed.
This isn't a joke.
Re: the picture:
Looks like the same people I saw here in the newspapers near Houston, Texas. They were caught on the same issue of cheating and changing scores a few years back.
Adam Smith was right: follow the incentives (bonuses) and disincentives (getting fired or demoted) of the invisible hand of economics.
A statistics program run by the state caught those teachers and administrators trying to keep “no child [from being] left behind.” Math uber alles!
Worse than that, can you imagine the laughing that these "teachers" did at the expense of these kids at their "parties"?
"Yeah, sure. Anybody would believe that stupid little LaToya scores an A+ in reading and math! HAHAHAHAHA!"
Holder’s People...
Michael Hinojosa is the new Cobb County School District Superintendent. His 6 years as Dallas ISD Superintendent (2005-2011) were marked by one scandal after another. The incompetent, corrupt, and dishonest Hinojosa is a good match to be the head of a school district in Atlanta.
Is she racist?
Wouldn't a White superintendent in the same circumstances be called racist?
This looks like a conspiracy...how about enforcing the RICO Act?
MORE than ten years ago, a friend of my husband was telling us how this was happening in Dallas schools.
Lots of schools have been doing this for years.
Because that only applies to white people. Case in point, what happen to the Black Panthers in Philadelphia that were intimidating White Voters at the Polls? Now if that was the KKK doing the same thing to black voters, then you can bet Eric Holder would not have dropped the case.
Yes we do have absolute hypocrisy, but we should not let it divide our races. The government playing sides instead of treating everyone fair is the issue.
Tell a teacher a certain percentage of her students must make a certain grade or she’s out of a job and watch her cheat. Not saying they all would but if that’s the only way to keep her job....that’s basically what NO CHILD LEFT BEHIND does. The truth of the matter is some of them SHOULD be left behind.
Actually it was Clayton county schools. They lost the accreditation due to internal squabbles among the board. After losing several members and many changes, they gained it back again.
Atlanta was about to lose it this year but the governor stepped in and got a bill passed that gave him the authority to fire board members and only after that did they resign on their own.
ATL schools are a disaster and if there were vouchers, the schools would be empty.
Deal is working on this issue among others. This may put it back to the forefront and since he has authority, he may do some good if the unions can be defeated.
Bad news is I don't see the political will to take them on just yet.
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