If the pubic schools are so great in Atlanta, why did the teachers need to cheat?
“If the pubic schools are so great in Atlanta, why did the teachers need to cheat?”
Exactly.
In Alabama, when they started implementing a graduation exam in the 80’s, it was a breeze, but it got incrementally harder over the next 12 years. Supposedly by the end of those years, the teaching was to have changed so students were better prepared for the test at the desired standards, but the schools really did nothing different. By the end of the 12, a large percentage of the students (white and black) did not pass it and instead of a diplomas, they got a certificates of attendance. I imagine lots of cheating going on there as well, but I’ve not heard of any yet. Testing is not a bad thing, but as a sole measure of what is going on, it is lacking.