[Libloather]

Ms. Davis had been so worried about leaving fingerprints while doctoring answering sheets, Mr. Hyde recalled, that she wore gloves.

Amazing.

[blackdog]

"But then, a religious woman with a lot to get off her chest came forward. One cracked"

So in an Obama public sector union world, the problem is religion.............

[kittymyrib]

“Apparently Dr. Hall applied that same rigor to fabricated test data, enabling her to collect $600,000 in performance bonuses over 10 years to supplement her $400,000 annual salary.”

So why hasn’t she been arrested for fraud? Does retiring mean one can keep everything one managed to steal from U. S. taxpayers? Oh, I forgot....she’s one of Eric Holder’s people.

[blueunicorn6]

The article in the NYTs starts off fine, but then takes shots at testing. They just don’t get it.

[Oatka]

Those from schools with top scores were seated on the Dome floor; the better the scores, the closer they sat to Dr. Hall. Those with low scores were relegated to sitting in the stands.

Megalomania at its best. A couple of vignettes come to mind:
1) In "Fahrenheit 451" Captain Beatty gives his picture to Montag (hero) as a reward.
2) William Randolph Hearst used to invite a lot of people to his estate in San Simeon and using a gigantic Medieval-like dining hall with a roaring fireplace to entertain them. As they wore their welcome out, he'd seat them closer and closer to the fire until they finally got the idea.

[The_Reader_David]

This is simply the latest manifestation of the present zeitgeist: the Era of Bad Stewards (or as another FReeper suggest it be typeset, the Era of Bad Stewards).

Everyone with fiduciary responsibility for the good or goods of others (with a few honorable exceptions) seems to think and act as if their position exists for their own benefit, rather than that of those whose interests they are paid to uphold, and many with fiduciary responsibilities are willing to bend or break the law against the interests of their beneficiaries and in favor of their own interests. These school teachers are just Enron, WorldCom, Bernie Madoff, Charlie Rangel, and every CEO who walked off with a fat bonus as shareholder value in his company tanked writ small. Paid to look out for the interests of children and society by educating them, they instead violate the most basic concepts of academic integrity and probably some laws to ensure their own positions, while arguably harming their charges by preventing the trigger of thes school-choice provisions of No Child Left Behind.

[madprof98]

An Atlanta newspaper editorial this a.m. says that the real solution to the problem of student underachievement in our public schools is to expand the school day and pump still more money into the schools.

[blam]

If you can get away with it, it’s okay.

[The Great RJ]

Since the majority of students cheated out of an education are African-American you would think that Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson would be all over this. However, my bet is that those involved are also mostly African-American and union members so they will get a pass.