"One of these things is not like the..." oh wait... nevermind.
Posted on 04/01/2015 11:43:22 AM PDT by magellan
A jury has reached guilty verdicts in 11 of 12 defendants in the Atlanta Public Schools cheating trial.
Fulton County Superior Court Judge Jerry Baxter read verdicts for 26 counts Wednesday afternoon.
Only one person, Dessa Curb, was found not-guilty on all counts.
The decision comes 7 years after the first investigation by the Atlanta Journal Constitution.
A grand jury indicted 35 educators in March 2013. Twenty-one took plea deals, and another defendant, former APS Superintendent Beverly Hall, died.
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Follow the corruption trail to the top. Every teachers union in the nation should be indicted as well.
As bad as the cheating was, 7 years to trial seems also very very bad.
Imagine that,
Every one of these scum is one of holders people.
Diversity is our strength!!!
So how many millions of $$$ were dispersed to the crooks during the 7 year process ?
My! How strange!
But this scandal was so open and notorious that parents were talking about it. The administrators and teachers thought they were untouchable . . . still not sure why they were prosecuted unless it was just because the cheating was so blatant it could no longer be ignored . . .
Jerry Baxter is a very good judge and hopefully has dotted every "i" and crossed every "t".
I was out in the car a little while ago and the local news had the defense attorneys making their statements. It was stuff like “no teacher should ever be put in jail” Blah, blah, blah. If it was white teachers the blacks would be screaming for the ultimate penalty.
Instead of achieving through studies and hard work,
Cheat.
The obammy and dem way.
Too bad they can’t go after Beverly Hall’s estate and recoup the money she stole from the tax payers.
The bigger story is the scam involved in paying “educators”; people need to take a good hard look not just at performance-based bonuses (which encourage this nonsense), but also the union work rules where teachers get additional pay for nonsense/borderline fictitious advanced degrees from diploma mills. They spend no time in a classroom, do no coursework, and basically buy a degree for a couple of thousand dollars that adds thousands figures to their annual salaries immediately.
Shocked i am.
Reparations?
Fair play to the authorities and the jury.
I distinctly recall when this news broke and I distinctly recall asking here if, educational malpractice aside, they would be charged wth what was a clear case of conspiracy to defraud the beleaguered taxpayer. Responses were understandably skeptical and/or cynical since the culprits had several layers of PC armor: color, occupation, union, public payroll.
These people may be small fry compared to a Lois Lerner but the looks on their faces at the verdict and, of course, at being frog-marched in handcuffs out of the courtroom are still quite delicious. They had been cruising along towards their gold plated pensions and were happy to commit, aid, abet, or ignore sharp practice. I hope this strikes a serious chord of fear throughout the sclerotic (Mark Steyn’s preferred term) school system.
gimmedats....
the education “system” is so warped....the DBM always brings up these sob stories about how poorly our teachers are paid....I know better...I know for every basket weaving class they get MORE MONEY which boost their pensions with MORE MONEY....and they hardly even work 1/2 a year...
They don’t work half the year in NJ - 180 out of 365 days. The Asbury Park Press blew the lid off the “underpaid teachers” myth when it published all of their salaries years ago; it certainly helped elect Chris Christie, the sworn enemy of the teachers and their unions.
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