Posted on 08/03/2011 11:40:07 AM PDT by Libloather
Parents defend Atlanta school caught up in scandal
By Ty Tagami
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
9:39 p.m. Tuesday, August 2, 2011
Parents of students at an Atlanta public school where cheating was alleged to have occurred on a statewide test on Tuesday night defended their school and teachers at a town hall meeting.
“We’ve been extremely pleased with the instruction my children have received,” said Quinnie Cook-Richardson, one of several parents at the troubled West Manor Elementary School who spoke at the meeting.
Her son’s teacher had him reading within a year, she said, adding, “They are an example of what is right with Atlanta Public Schools.”
Cook-Richardson was among a parade of parents who defended a school where the principal has been asked to resign because of the scandal surrounding the 2009 Criterion-Referenced Competency Tests.
“This school is in pain,” said Sherida Ragland, the former Parent-Teacher Association president at West Manor. “There are 300 other parents who couldn’t make it [tonight] and they’re feeling the same way.”
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Hey, the future ACORN workers and Democrat ballot box stuffers have to learn their trade somewhere!
“Howard Johnson is right!”
makes me wonder how many parent/teacher conferences they found the time to make it to.
Does anyone know of a another school, one predominately white, where parents have supported massive cheating on the same scale as this school, West Manor Elementary School, in Georgia?
Their hero, Baraq Hussein mohammed 0bama got to the Oval Office through affirmative action policies and forged documents, so why should cheating be wrong?
Take Back AMERICA! Restore The Constitution!
FUBO GTFO 2012 !
Wow.
Where are those missing 300 parents?
Trading Asian futures in the overnight markets?
Working late on a big contract?
Working a second job to support their families?
Playing video games?
You decide.
These people are of a completely alien culture that is downright hostile and often violent toward Western civilization.
Actually, I spoke to all 300 of them, and they all told me that they want the school officials tarred and feathered in public for their support of cheating.
Hey, if we're going to "speak for" the people who are not present, why can't I join the party?
What the story doesn't tell you is that the young lad was 20 years old at the time.
Atlanta City Schools are predominantly black. Their parents believe that whites get by solely by ‘cheating’ so it is okay for their children....racist, maybe....that still doesn’t change things?
Yeah, well, there's always one that slips through the cracks.
If the pubic schools are so great in Atlanta, why did the teachers need to cheat?
“Where are those missing 300 parents?
Trading Asian futures in the overnight markets?
Working late on a big contract?
Working a second job to support their families?
Playing video games?”
You left out the one they are at, sitting at home watching BET and washing down pork rinds with colt 45 malt liquor.
“You decide.”
I’ll take “screwing to produce yet another group of useless bastards” for $1000, Alex.
Hopefully jail.
Gonna get me some of that “Obama” “Stash”...
Well, hey - the kids in these schools might not know jack-all about anything, but they dis come away with huge checks drawn on the bank of phny self-esteem.
Just wait until they try to cash them in the real world.
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