GO TO JAIL announced the judge. The teachers had shown up in their Lexus', BMW's and Escalade's, naively parking in the court parking lot and knowing they were going to get a slap on the wrist. They sauntered into the court in a cheery mood, laboring under the delusion the union had continually repeated to them all.........it'll be ok, a slap on the wrist. By the end of the day the court bailiff needed to call extra tow trucks to haul the fleet of new cars away. The teachers were going to prison, not home in their luxury cars. Sadly they got time. Hard time. Three of the ringleaders got 20 years. Judge Jerry Baxter was clearly tired of the lies, the excuses', the lapses' in memory, the shrugs and gave out jail time inside. The teachers had fudged scores, erasing what the students entered and correcting with the correct answer. Why would they do that you ask??????? Money. The teachers got better money for better marks, so they manufactured their own marks when the students exam scores couldn't match the bonus pool. A(nother) sad, sad day for the US education system. Hopefully Judge Baxter's stern sentence will be a beacon for all the good teachers out there to put an end to these scams. Hopefully.
Maybe.. just maybe if they would invest more money on failing schools instead of giving money to schools who are already doing well. This wouldn't have happened.
The starting point is to follow the best education systems in the world and eliminate the asinine standardized testing system, including standardized curriculum. Then, you make teaching a difficult job to get, instead of allowing people to take the easy road into it through garbage like Teach for America. Finally, you stop ranking teachers/schools and distribute money equally. Those simple steps will fix a myriad of problems and remove the temptation for teachers to game the system the way the ones in Atlanta did.
They earn extra cash by runing shell games after work, preying on the sort of low-functioning organisms who take The Shelts' posts seriously. Even today, most secondary teachers are female. If (IF) the bulk of them are driving more expensive cars than yours, it's maybe because their husbands help pay for them?
The ones where parents do enough to make the job worthwhile are already difficult to get. Plenty of us have been hired to help "save" a bunch of students who didn't want to be saved, tho. That won't happen. Every family moving into a town wants to know where the "good" schools are, and every realtor is willing to tell them, so they can sell them a more expensive house.
what Shelts forgot to tell us: http://www.cnn.com/2015/04/30/us/atlanta-schools-cheating-scandal/ A judge, declaring he wasn't "comfortable" with seven-year prison terms given earlier to three educators in the Atlanta Public Schools cheating scandal, on Thursday reduced their sentences to three years in prison. attorney, Teresa Mann, added, "We are happy. We are elated that judge Baxter took the opportunity to reflect." Cotman, Davis-Williams and Pitts, all school reform team executive directors, got the harshest sentences during an April 14 hearing: Seven years in prison, 13 years of probation and $25,000 fines. All defendants sentenced to prison have appealed and are out on bond. The lower prison sentences given to other defendants -- ranging from one to two years -- have not been reduced.