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Investigation into APS cheating finds unethical behavior across every level
The Atlanta Journal Constitution ^ | 7/6/2011 | Heather Vogell

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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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: atlanta; cheating; school; teacher; thosepeople
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To: Terry Mross
I actually thought it was a good idea. 2+2 DOES IN FACT =4, I thought holding the kids to learning expectations was a good thing. I guess I didn't account for cheating. Well stupid me. Yes I know this was taxpayer funded but again I thought teaching kids the basics and requiring them to know the basics was a good thing. Damn, hold up two fingers on one hand and two fingers on the other and ask, How many. I know there is more more to it but cmon isn't this the curriculum. not asking students to fly to the moon just be “educated”. I did not realize it would turn into state sponsored cheating.
21 posted on 07/06/2011 9:02:54 AM PDT by VaRepublican (I would propagate taglines but I don't know how. But bloggers do.)
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To: Sprite518

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.


22 posted on 07/06/2011 9:05:37 AM PDT by PapaBear3625 ("It is only when we've lost everything, that we are free to do anything" -- Fight Club)
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To: chuckee

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.


23 posted on 07/06/2011 9:10:45 AM PDT by Sprite518
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To: Tazlo

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.


24 posted on 07/06/2011 9:12:20 AM PDT by Oatka ("A society of sheep must in time beget a government of wolves." –Bertrand de Jouvenel)
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To: Sprite518
The Government/Union schools are beyond repair.
The only solution to right the Education system is to privatize it.
Giving away a product (Education) for free devalues the product. No one is held accountable in the current system - and it breeds irresponsibility.
25 posted on 07/06/2011 9:12:33 AM PDT by El Cid (Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house...)
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To: Sprite518

I see the PLANTATION owners are doing what they do best...(keeping their charges ON THE PLANTATION!)


26 posted on 07/06/2011 9:14:24 AM PDT by goodnesswins (...both islam and the democrat plantation thrive on poverty)
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To: BattleFlag

Bingo!

Liberalism is a mental disorder...


27 posted on 07/06/2011 9:15:09 AM PDT by Sprite518
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To: Jeff Chandler

Probably all of them... It’s the mentality of the government should take care of me.


28 posted on 07/06/2011 9:20:02 AM PDT by Sprite518
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To: Sprite518

“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.


29 posted on 07/06/2011 9:33:52 AM PDT by BenKenobi (Honkeys for Herman!)
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To: Sprite518; sickoflibs
Please have a mod change the headline to include the words "(Atlanta Teachers)". I looked for this story and missed it under 'APS Cheating'.

It's important - and a great posts... Thanks.

30 posted on 07/06/2011 9:38:29 AM PDT by GOPJ (Black flash mobs: street level reflections of elite liberal hatred for middle class America..)
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To: Sprite518
What these 'teachers' did was criminal.

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.

31 posted on 07/06/2011 9:46:58 AM PDT by GOPJ (Black flash mobs: street level reflections of elite liberal hatred for middle class America..)
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To: Tazlo

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!


32 posted on 07/06/2011 9:54:05 AM PDT by Hop A Long Cassidy
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To: BattleFlag
When these woefully unprepared kids

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!"

33 posted on 07/06/2011 10:08:26 AM PDT by HeartlandOfAmerica (Geithner: Taxes on 'Small Business' Must Rise So Government DoesnÂ’t 'Shrink')
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To: blam

Holder’s People...


34 posted on 07/06/2011 10:24:07 AM PDT by Noumenon ("One man with courage is a majority." - Thomas Jefferson)
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To: Sprite518

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.


35 posted on 07/06/2011 10:56:00 AM PDT by DFG (Can We Bankrupt The Country? YES WE CAN)
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To: Sprite518
I wonder why Beverly Hall wasn't required to have X number of worthless, incompetent Whites on her staff?

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?

36 posted on 07/06/2011 10:57:53 AM PDT by blam
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To: Sprite518

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.


37 posted on 07/06/2011 11:03:53 AM PDT by TruthConquers (.Delendae sunt publicae scholae)
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To: blam

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.


38 posted on 07/06/2011 11:19:26 AM PDT by Sprite518
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To: VaRepublican

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.


39 posted on 07/06/2011 12:39:15 PM PDT by Terry Mross (I'll only vote for a SECOND party.)
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To: Rebelbase
I recall reading about the county south of ATL, I think it was Jones(?) lost is accreditation back in 2006...

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.

40 posted on 07/06/2011 12:44:44 PM PDT by Only1choice____Freedom (FDR had the New Deal. President 0bama has the Raw Deal.)
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