NO CHILD LEFT BEHIND LIKELY BEHIND THE ATLANTA CHEATING SCANDLE

[rsmith6621]

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/30/us/former-school-chief-in-atlanta-indicted-in-cheating-scandal.html?emc=na&_r=1&

In the fall of 2010, Ms. Parks, a third-grade teacher at Venetian Hills Elementary School in southwest Atlanta, agreed to become Witness No. 1 for Mr. Hyde, in what would develop into the most widespread public school cheating scandal in memory.

Ms. Parks admitted to Mr. Hyde that she was one of seven teachers — nicknamed “the chosen” — who sat in a locked windowless room every afternoon during the week of state testing, raising students’ scores by erasing wrong answers and making them right. She then agreed to wear a hidden electronic wire to school, and for weeks she secretly recorded the conversations of her fellow teachers for Mr. Hyde.

[frazzled]

1. The devil made them do it?

That's never an excuse for cheating (and in this case stealing: Dr. Hall "earned more than $500,000 in performance bonuses while superintendent.&quot Others did not do that. So the assertion that No Child Left Behind is the reason for people in the district falsifying records is not a sufficient reason.

[Sharpie]

2. I think it was teachers and administrators...

... with faulty ethics.

Fuck em...

[RiffRandell]

3. Doesn't excuse what they did.

The students were the ones that were screwed the most, and will be for years to come. It's a nightmare.

[Whisp]

4. Arne Duncan forced them to be filthy, liar cheaters. n/t