You picked up on that, too. I've noticed it awhile ago.
Or you can get raw with these strings. Either way, the violin is sweet yet lethal.
Do it!
Posted on 07/07/2011 9:32:22 AM PDT by jodiluvshoes
The majority of the nation doesn’t know that investigators have turned up a hatched-scheme in which Union bosses coordinated efforts with public education officials. Further that 44 of 56 school districts in the Atlanta Public Schools system strategically convinced Superintendents, Principals and teachers to cheat–primarily by going back and erasing answers on tests and replacing them with correct ones–in order to have a higher means score for the No Child Left Behind funding qualifications.
The evidence is overwhelming.
2100 Interviews… 178 educators involved… 38 principals involved… 80 confessions to the schemes… 800,000 documents as evidence…
(Excerpt) Read more at hotair.com ...
Conspiring to misappropriate Federal funds!!!
“ROTFL! I wonder what percentage of public school teachers could pass those standardized tests (without cheating, that is).”
In the line of business I am in, we have to certify and take tests every few months, continuing education, etc.
Well, in any event, at the college where they proctor these tests, they created a whole testing center a couple of years ago, equipped with video cameras, and glass windows on all 4 sides, where you are watched while taking the test.
So, on my first visit to this new testing center, I am talking with the administrator, and emptying my pockets, cell phone, etc, I even had to give up my pen and calculator, and put them into a canvas bag, which they locked and gave me the key to.
I notice the woman next to me, is also putting her shoes into the bag, so I asked if I should be doing the same, and the administrator said I didn’t have to, only those taking the teacher certification had to. So the woman with the shoes moved on, and I was still filling out paper work, and I asked why they had to do that, and we didn’t.
She explained that cheating was so bad on the certification test, that the rules were different for those taking that particular exam.
The topic came up later when I was conversing with a friend of mine who heads the mathematics department. He confirmed the same, and offered me a study guide, and examples for the test, jokingly, telling me I would get a kick out of the test.
To say the least, I was flabbergasted. The test was so basic, so rudimentary, it appeared to be no more complicated than the average 8th grade test, which covered many subjects. How an educator, or anyone entering college could not ace this test was beyond me.
He also explained that only 60% was needed to pass, and with certain “under-represented” groups, only a 40% was needed to pass the test, yet still, cheating was rampant on the test. I asked how? If they make you take off your shoes and all that? He said the teachers union fought against a photo ID to take the test, so here in our state, the most common form of cheating is to pay someone to take the test for you.
He said this college has caught the same person taking tests several times under different names, and now, since they don’t require a photo ID, they take your picture and put it on file when you take the test, and associate it with your file.
Astounding.
Here is a story from the Times, dated Feb of this year. It has a good description of how they found the schools that were suspected of cheating.
I have worked for years in educational testing, so I kinda follow this stuff.
And yet...conservatives keep bleating about government school reform, how their schools are “different”, how their children are “excelling (compared to whom is the issue - and it certainly isn’t their international peers), etc. We like our middle-class education welfare program and won’t give it up even though it is destroying our children and our culture. Most “conservatives” here aren’t serious.
In a former life I taught Computer Literacy in a High School, while taking a required computer class at college the instructor asked me to give a young man a who was obviously struggling, a hand. In just a few minutes I discovered what the instructor already knew this young High School Teacher could not read. Yet he had a credential.
> Yet he had a credential.
Probably an “affirmative action” candidate.
There are so many African descendants who are immensely INTELLIGENT, why are colleges required to allow dopes to matriculate and actually graduate?
No crime has been committed, this is just enhanced affirmative action.
> Most “conservatives” here aren’t serious.
Well, that may be true.
Collectivisim is collectivism, whether it’s for schools, farms or factories.
People who believe that everybody should be compelled by threat of force to contribute to the School Collective (euphemistically called “school district”), whether or not they have any children participating therein, are, by definition, COLLECTIVIST-STATISTS!
NAILED IT!! After all, this is Atlanta. Fulton, Dekalb, and Clayton counties should be packaged up and sent off to Somaila, where they belong. When the world’s ready for an enema, guess where the point of insertion will be....
Congratulations, you just graduated from ACORN University ....
The superintendent shown above won over $550k (and “Superintendent of the Year”) in performance bonuses based on those fraudulent test scores.
LOL, hilarious!
Public education destroyed this country. We are beyond redemption, and my children are consigned, if they stay here, to sharing this country with maleducated narcissists who are too stupid to even know how stupid they are. The misery caused by public education is just beginning and will get visibly worse as the products of it wander into adulthood.
Similar case in Houston about 20 years ago. I believe it was in the Kashmere Gardens area, which is currently in Sheila Jackson Lee’s district (at the time Craig Washington, a.k.a Congressman AWOL). One school suddenly went from the bottom to the top on the TAAS test. Turns out the teachers were changing the answers on the computer read bingo forms.
This has been going on for more than 20 years in California, in a slightly different form.
The high school my daughter attended, Capistrano Valley HS in Mission Viejo, used pick 20% of the student body to be marked absent on the test days. Sending some to the library and other to different locations around the school.
The reason was that CA funding was based on test scores.
Georgia Schools Inquiry Finds Signs of Cheating (especially in Atlanta)
Thursday, February 11, 2010
http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/atlantaschools/index?tab=articles
looks like they should have been in prison quite a while ago.
I bet the NAACP will blame racism.
You picked up on that, too. I've noticed it awhile ago.
Or you can get raw with these strings. Either way, the violin is sweet yet lethal.
Do it!
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