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Culture of Corruption: Report Finds Widespread Teacher Cheating, Intimidation in Atlanta Schools

Culture of Corruption: Report Finds Widespread Teacher Cheating, Intimidation in Atlanta Schools

A year-long investigation first orchestrated by former Georgia Gov. Sonny Perdue (R) and now released by current Gov. Nathan Deal (R) has unearthed cheating and unethical behavior across every level of the 55,000-student Atlanta Public School System. The Atlanta Journal Constitution reports:

“Teachers and principals erased and corrected mistakes on students’ answer sheets.

Area superintendents silenced whistle-blowers and rewarded subordinates who met academic goals by any means possible.

Superintendent Beverly Hall and her top aides ignored, buried, destroyed or altered complaints about misconduct, claimed ignorance of wrongdoing and accused naysayers of failing to believe in poor children’s ability to learn.”

The 800-page report was released to the Associated Press Tuesday through an open records request. Superintendent Hall was awarded the national Superintendent of the Year award in 2009, and through her attorney she “steadfastly denies” that she knew or should have known of any allegedly widespread cheating. The State begs to differ.

“Dr. Hall and her administration emphasized test results and public praise to the exclusion of integrity and ethics,” the report states. “Dr. Hall either knew or should have known cheating and other misconduct was occurring in the APS system.”

The yearlong investigation confirms rumblings for weeks that educators at nearly four dozen Atlanta elementary and middle schools cheated on standardized tests by helping students or changing the answers once exams were handed in. Some teachers held “changing” parties at their homes to fix student answers.

Culture of Corruption: Report Finds Widespread Teacher Cheating, Intimidation in Atlanta SchoolsThe investigators also found a “culture of fear, intimidation and retaliation” in the school district over the cheating allegations, which led to educators lying about the cheating or destroying documents to cover it up, according to the report. School officials had “warnings” as early as 2005 that there was cheating on standardized tests, but those signals were ignored, according to the report.

Gov. Deal emphasized that the biggest losers in the scandal are not political pundits or high-level educators, but the mostly African-American and economically disadvantaged students that make up one of the state’s largest school districts.

“Nothing is more important to the future of our state than ensuring that today’s students receive a first class education and integrity in testing is a necessary piece of that equation,” Deal said. “When educators have failed to uphold the public trust and students are harmed in the process, there will be consequences.”

The 178 teachers and principals determined to have cheated will be referred to the state Professional Standards Commission, which licenses teachers in Georgia, to determine whether they should have their licenses suspended or revoked, Deal said. More than 80 of the accused have already confessed guilt. The district has 6,000 employees, half of them teachers.

NPR reported that the school board’s chairwoman, Brenda Muhammad, appeared stunned and shaken as she left a private meeting with Georgia’s governor just before his public announcement.

Christian Science Monitor reports on the fallout from community leaders:

“It ‘confirms our worst fears,’ says Mayor Kasim Reed. ‘There is no doubt that systemic cheating occurred on a widespread basis in the school system.‘The news is ’absolutely devastating,’ said Brenda Muhammad, chairwoman of the Atlanta school board. ‘It’s our children. You just don’t cheat children.’

Some things that gave the cheating away:

“Investigations by the Atlanta Journal-Constitution (AJC) and state investigators found a pattern consistent with other cheating scandals: a spike in test scores in one critical grade would be followed by an equally dramatic drop the next year. A USA Today investigation in March found that erasure data in six states and the District of Columbia showed these “abnormal patterns,” according to testing expert Thomas Haladyna at Arizona State University.”

So why would the district take such risks and systematically “cook the books” year after year? The AJC gives three key reasons: unrealistic test-score goals set by the district, a culture of pressure and retaliation, and the leadership style of Dr. Hall emphasizing test results and public praise at the expense of ethics.

“’In many ways, the community was duped by Dr. Hall,’ the report said. ‘While the district had rampant cheating, community leaders were unaware of the misconduct in the district. She abused the trust they placed in her.

‘Hall became a subject of adoration and made herself the focus rather than the children,’ the investigators wrote. ‘Her image became more important than reality.’

The ordeal is already being consider as one the biggest education scandals in recent memory. While school’s out, Atlanta educators are in for a hot summer.

The Associated Press contributed to this article.

Comments (281)

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  • poster
    Posted on July 6, 2011 at 2:26pm

    What?? No way!! Not Brenda Muhammad!! There MUST be some sort of mistake here. I’ll bet these teachers were set up! I’ll bet there were rascally Republicans involved in this. I‘ll bet George Bush’s fingerprints are all over this. I see the governor of Georgia is a Republican. Ah-hah!! Caught you, you Republican, you. Shame on you for setting up these poor, underpaid, over-worked, under-appreciated, public servants.

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  • Goodgriefgeezlouise
    Posted on July 6, 2011 at 2:25pm

    Instead of buying a new car ever few years I sucked it up and sent my kid to private school for Pre school through 12 and now into college..I wouldn’t trust Public education for nuttin..I am very glad at the results also..I’m broke but my kid is doing great..a small price to pay..jmo

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  • heyjim55
    Posted on July 6, 2011 at 2:24pm

    Teachers care about two things one themselves and two Marxist indoctrination of our children. Reading writing and mathematics are not necessarily important. The more stupid kids are the more dependent on the Government they will be therefore the more useful they will be to advance the Marxist agenda.

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  • ihaveagun
    Posted on July 6, 2011 at 2:21pm

    and when they (Students/Teachers) lose their job due incompetance, who will pay for their welfare?
    You guessed it! The same people who already paid for their (I use the term loosley) education. The hard working, Law abiding citizen like me. That is why I send my kids to Parochial school.

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  • Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
    Posted on July 6, 2011 at 2:20pm

    Amazing it is (sarcastically) that they are just now catching onto things teachers and parents have been stating is going on for many years now…
    http://artinphoenix.com/gallery/grimm

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  • Gypsy123
    Posted on July 6, 2011 at 2:20pm

    These are the people teaching your children to be immoral what surprises you that they themselves would set the pace. Reason I don’t believe in public school

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  • ICEDRAGONNITE
    Posted on July 6, 2011 at 2:19pm

    Get the unions out of the school systems. Fire and jail, fine and remove all pensions and make them pay to reeducated those that were not taught properly. Eliminate the NEA. USE RICO.The RICO Act focuses specifically on racketeering, and it allows for the leaders of a syndicate to be tried for the crimes which they ordered others to do or assisted them, closing a perceived loophole that allowed someone who told a man to, for example, murder, to be exempt from the trial because they did not actually do it.
    RICO is codified as Chapter 96 of Title 18 of the United States Code, 18 U.S.C. § 1961–1968. While its original use was to prosecute the Mafia as well as others who were actively engaged in organized crime, its application has been more widespread.
    It has been speculated that the name and acronym were selected in a sly reference to the movie Little Caesar, which featured a notorious gangster named Rico.
    DON’T YOU DARE LET THESE DEGENERATES OFF WITH A SLAP ON THE WRIST. THIS GARBAGE IS A FORM OF SEDITION, THAT COULD RISE TO HIGH CRIMES AND TREASON.

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    • chcadman
      Posted on July 6, 2011 at 5:26pm

      I agree. This case should reveberate around the country. Those responsible should be held accountable.
      Tried in a court and forced to pay fines and jail time if found guilty. They have stolen from the students the worst kind of theft, just at evil as stealing from older people. Put them behind bars where they belong. It will be interesting to see who comes to their defense and the reasons they find to defend their actions

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  • sWampy
    Posted on July 6, 2011 at 2:13pm

    We need to defund all federal funding of education, the very last person you should want teaching your kids what to think is the federal government.

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    • timbepat
      Posted on July 6, 2011 at 5:39pm

      Exactly!!! if you possibly can….. homeschool your kids!!! Who cares more about the outcome of their education than you do?! Certainly not the government.

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  • Attention2Detail
    Posted on July 6, 2011 at 2:13pm

    I‘ve met very few school administrators who aren’t more concerned with their image than the children’s education. Maybe if we send this one to jail it will be a warning to the rest.

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  • NEAF
    Posted on July 6, 2011 at 2:12pm

    Are they union teachers?

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    • booger71
      Posted on July 6, 2011 at 2:36pm

      Are they union teachers?

      Can’t be a public school in most of the country without paying dues to the NEA

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  • Want our country back
    Posted on July 6, 2011 at 2:11pm

    Cheating teachers vote for obama, I‘ll bet the teachers that don’t have to cheat but actually do a good job are Conservatives…… that’s not a stretch…. it’s just like who are the most charitable…. conservatives…. obama gaver ZERO to charity before running for office, biden gave almost ZERO….. hard to argue with stats…

    Vote Republican 2012

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  • IAMMADDOG
    Posted on July 6, 2011 at 2:11pm

    Public school teachers….keeping them stupid so they continue to vote Democrat.

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  • I Hear the Wolves
    Posted on July 6, 2011 at 2:09pm

    Bartle doo!

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  • jokar
    Posted on July 6, 2011 at 2:08pm

    This is what you will get when you base your evaluation of a district based on student test scores. The whole craze for accountability needs to find a more realistic and honest way to see how schools are doing than using a once a year test score. The stakes are too high and this is what you will get. It is happening everywhere. BTW, has this woman been fired and will she be prohibited from taking on another education job? Probably not.

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  • jacobstroubles
    Posted on July 6, 2011 at 2:07pm

    Seriously now… how can anybody suprised at this in any way?
    What a freaking joke…
    There hasnt been a level playing field in American for a really long time.
    If we would stop lowering the bar, so everybody can win a blue ribbon, we’d be much better off.
    OH… no…the bleeding heart, whinney liberal will continue to bleed Americans dry with all sorts of
    no possible way to win programs like that. Why? BECAUSE THEY KNOW IT’S A USELESS PROGRAM THAT WILL NEVER FIX THE OVER ALL PROBLEM. They continue it so that they have jobs. They are drunk on “the need to be adored by those who keep voitng them back in”.
    It’s a corrupt sickness for which there is really no cure.

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  • RockstarRepublic
    Posted on July 6, 2011 at 2:07pm

    This is just the tip of the ice burg as far as I am concerned. Apply this level of scrutiny across all our schools and you will find things that would disgust the country to the core.

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    • OnToppaThat
      Posted on July 6, 2011 at 5:39pm

      Exactly…there’s no way that this is the only place in the country where this is happening. This should be considered a MAJOR scandal in our society. It had better get the press and scrutiny it deserves. C’MON PEOPLE….YELL KICK and SCREAMMMMM

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    • Tankertony
      Posted on July 6, 2011 at 9:14pm

      That would disgust about half the country, unfortunately.

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  • RN MOM
    Posted on July 6, 2011 at 2:06pm

    Teachers all over this country have voiced their disdain for the “No Child Left Behind” act. Unfortunately for our children, the think tanks in Washington came up with a non-solution that further punished poor districts, increased costs all across the board with unfunded mandates. The USDOE needs to be dismantled and the the power needs to be handed back to the individual districts and the parents, and it is a long time overdue for a voucher system where parents can proactively place their children in enriching environments.

    It is not surprising to most of us that corruption is rampant in our schools- I’ve seen it first hand in my district. The overpaid teachers who sit on their azzes and complain about how tough their part-time job is- while children are not taught- sending home homework every night that wasn’t taught in class- expecting parents to pick up their slack. Teachers who are arrogant and disconnected from the children and really shouldn’t have become teachers but went into the field for the plum hours and huge pay and benefits. Get rid of the unions, get rid of the USDOE. It’s unfortunate for the good teachers that the bad apples have spoiled the bunch, but serious moves are long overdue.

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    • tersky
      Posted on July 8, 2011 at 9:19am

      Oh. My. Gosh! How ignorant are you? I have been a teacher, in Atlanta for that matter. Overpaid? Part time? The job quite simply can not be done unless you arrive an hour early and leave two to three hours late. You take a stack of papers home and are still grading them long after your body screams for sleep. You waste valuable teaching time just trying to deal with the ONE kid (every class has at least one) who disrupts everyone else. You deal with parents who think they know everything and you WISH you had a hidden camera so you could show them how clueless they are. You pour every spare nickel, and many that are NOT spare into teaching materials and rewards, things your classroom and students NEED, but can not be written off on your taxes because they aren‘t technically ’required’, and you waste hours and hours and hours dealing with government requirements that have nothing whatsoever to do with how well the kids are actually learning.

      I used to go home every day in tears because the job quite simply can NOT be done without parental support, without real administrative support, and it’s just too rare to get either.

      This story is no surprise. The culture of dishonesty and corruption in ATL, and in other inner-city school districts where I have worked, is deep and rampant. Savannah is so bad the vibe of negativity permeates the whole stinking town.

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  • Conservadorator
    Posted on July 6, 2011 at 2:06pm

    This is disgusting. It is our tax dollars at work promoting cheating. Hall was being paid a bunch of money.

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  • joe conservative
    Posted on July 6, 2011 at 2:05pm

    This should come as no shock to anyone who has been paying attention. The ethics of the modern day teacher was on full display during the union battle in Wisconsin. The teachers care about one thing, and one thing only, themselves. Yet all we hear is about the poor struggling teachers What about the kids!!! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UF5CL4gmeOw

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    • Mastermagi
      Posted on July 7, 2011 at 8:41am

      I’ve had teachers lie to me. My son’s first grade teacher boldly told me she had to take her state certification test three times before she passed. My son’s third grade teacher told the class that a metal was “something hard and shiny that comes from the ground.”

      These are just a few of the reasons why I no longer have any respect for teachers. Remember, teachers, as a group, routinely score at the bottom on their SAT’s. For further proof, just look at how poorly our children are doing academically.

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  • Caeleach
    Posted on July 6, 2011 at 2:03pm

    Instead of spending all their time trying to scam the system, why don’t teacher try teaching black kids? The assumption is that they cannot learn, so you must cheat for them.

    Our system has instigated a system of slavery for African-Americans by lowering the bar. If you tell an entire race of people that they are inferior, they will believe it!

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    • jokar
      Posted on July 6, 2011 at 2:10pm

      If you teach your child to disrespect their teachers and education, this is what you will get. Don’t blame the teachers. You can‘t teach those who don’t come to school, sleep through class, leave the classroom or don’t care if they learn.

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    • DetritusScreener
      Posted on July 6, 2011 at 2:19pm

      That is absolutely no excuse for criminal behavior of the teachers and staff. They just taught all those students that you can cheat and get ahead as long as you don’t get caught. In fact, if you are good at cheating you can get a national award, a bonus and heralded as a hero. So, what about all the students who were there and did show up with integrity? They all got cheated!

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    • DeannaRae
      Posted on July 6, 2011 at 3:10pm

      @Jokar

      Don’t blame the teachers for changing the answers on tests? Since they are the ones that were actively cheating I must blame them. The effort to shift guilt makes your screen name seem extremely appropriate.

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    • jhrusky
      Posted on July 6, 2011 at 3:12pm

      Wrong. You CAN and MUST blame the teachers when the teachers cheat. While you need to blame parents of children who don’t love them enough to ensure they are going to school and learning, that cannot be an ‘out’ for a teacher that is merely trying to make themselves look better. Every teacher involved in this should be fired and their license to teach revoked.

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    • Rickfromillinois
      Posted on July 6, 2011 at 4:01pm

      So the teachers cheat because the students “disrespect” them? The bonuses that they collected for higher test scores had nothing to do with it? Cheating on test scores being easier then actually teaching had nothing to do with it? Let’s find excuses for the poor abused teachers cheating. Let me guess, union member? Perhaps even a unionized teacher? Even if you are not, your attempted excuse for this losers is disgusting. I hope that the MINIMUM that happens to them is that they get fired.

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    • brado9505
      Posted on July 6, 2011 at 4:02pm

      bring back punishment then!

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    • beckwill
      Posted on July 6, 2011 at 4:11pm

      You make an excellent point.

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    • jackeric61
      Posted on July 6, 2011 at 5:10pm

      What does that have to do with anything? These teachers and the administration did what they did for their own benefit, not to help the kids. They should all be fired and never be able to teach in the public school system again.

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    • kwatch
      Posted on July 6, 2011 at 5:19pm

      don’t blame the kids- there are always the lazy asses in a class but you are saying all of the kids in these districts are lazy and don’t want to learn? hogwash.

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    • sWampy
      Posted on July 6, 2011 at 2:16pm

      “Our system has instigated a system of slavery for African-Americans by lowering the bar. If you tell an entire race of people that they are inferior, they will believe it!”

      I don’t think the situation we are currently in is that. Liberal leaders tell them they are superior, they should look down on the whites, it’s the whites keeping them down, they should fear and hate whites, while they sit home making babies, watching tv, smoking dope, and waiting for Al Sharpton, and Jessie Jackson to save them.

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    • Snake Plissken
      Posted on July 7, 2011 at 7:01am

      Not only do they hobble the black community by treating them as “challenged” but they cheapen the hard work of ambitious kids who refuse to allow poverty, either monetary or cultural, to hold them back. What are “good grades” worth when the lazy are as “successful” as the studious?

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  • SREGN
    Posted on July 6, 2011 at 2:01pm

    Ahhh sunlight. The best disinfectant.

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  • NuffSaid
    Posted on July 6, 2011 at 2:01pm

    Would it be inappropriate to ask for an gender, national origin, ethnic or religious profile of the teachers who were identified? Is it possible that we, as a society, could benefit from understanding what particular groups within our society are more like to use our children like fertilizer for their gardens?

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    • bigbear78
      Posted on July 6, 2011 at 2:05pm

      yes

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    • DetritusScreener
      Posted on July 6, 2011 at 2:13pm

      It certainly wouldn’t be inappropriate to list the demographics of the teachers, staff and students as well as the school districts’. It appears that we have a serious culture problem and it is predominate in specific ethnic groups. The obvious facts should be put out there in black and white. The lack of personal and professional integrity is bleeding our country dry in so many ways. It is time to quit dancing around the facts and start addressing the perpetrators.

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    • Jezcruzen
      Posted on July 6, 2011 at 3:24pm

      I concur. The media always conveniently leave race, especially, to one’s imagination unless the race is caucasian. Of course, I haven’t read of any caucasian gangs barging into stores and stealing en mass. Must just be “a black thin. You wouldn’t unnerstan”.

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    • Dumpster Baby
      Posted on July 6, 2011 at 3:27pm

      Why does JEZCRUZEN hate black people?

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    • uncleherbert
      Posted on July 7, 2011 at 6:07am

      I would think we know what you are saying. Being black is not the answer. Being moral is!

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  • poverty.sucks
    Posted on July 6, 2011 at 2:01pm

    You can’t fix stupid

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    • Mr. Nutt
      Posted on July 6, 2011 at 4:20pm

      I guess it’s not the lead paint.

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    • ihveit
      Posted on July 6, 2011 at 8:01pm

      and to think that some of these students will most likely be old enough to vote next year??????? thats why this country is in the crapper… do away with teachers unions.. do away with tenure… AND ALSO.. have a national test made up and each year have BOTH STUDENTS AND TEACHERS TAKE THE TEST.. any student who fails is held back any teacher who fails goes on unemployment
      that simple

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  • bigbear78
    Posted on July 6, 2011 at 2:00pm

    This is not a surprise. Bureaucracy at its finest, eh?

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    • banjarmon
      Posted on July 6, 2011 at 2:28pm

      Union Teachers training new BO voters…FIRE THEM NOW!!!!

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    • 123abc
      Posted on July 6, 2011 at 4:55pm

      Classic example of the Fox guarding the Hen House. Bureaucrats. Fast becoming a curse word.

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  • Donald
    Posted on July 6, 2011 at 1:58pm

    Now it needs to go NATIONWIDE !!!!!

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    • Marci
      Posted on July 6, 2011 at 2:23pm

      Agree with Donald, let’s expose all of them.

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    • Anonymous T. Irrelevant
      Posted on July 6, 2011 at 2:39pm

      Nationwide, indeed. Wholesale firings from top down on all cheaters. At least we passed a merit-based system here in Ohio, but it looks like the union whiners are going to get it on the ballot, now.

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    • EgoBrain
      Posted on July 6, 2011 at 2:39pm

      Heh. Now let’s look at Savannah.

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    • Ironmaan
      Posted on July 6, 2011 at 2:54pm

      If I hear one more time that we need to provide more money for education, my head is going to explode. Fire all of these low life loosers.
      http://bioterrorsurvival.com

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    • MONICNE
      Posted on July 6, 2011 at 3:00pm

      OK. Let’s see: a Black face, a Teacher scandal, and Georgia! Perfect Category Three Blaze Story.

      I have not even read the story – but am looking forward to seeing predictable Showtime, CheeseWhiz and SnowLeaopard to be All Over this one – with 338 Lapaula sniffing a line right up the “rear.”

      Go Allen West, young buckshots!

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    • boomboom
      Posted on July 6, 2011 at 3:28pm

      YesYesYesYesYes!

      Oh, Yes!

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    • nothingbuthetruth
      Posted on July 6, 2011 at 3:37pm

      Listen up!!! the democrats ran that state for 130 years before sonny Perdue a republican and this current republican forced an investigation. Thank God for Republicans!!!

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    • VoteBushIn12
      Posted on July 6, 2011 at 4:03pm

      Lets all thank Former President Bush for giving us No Child Left behind (the reason schools need to shift grades in order to stay afloat).

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    • mikem1969
      Posted on July 6, 2011 at 4:21pm

      Ahh, the wonderous education that teachers unions provide NOT!!!

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    • GREENDOG
      Posted on July 6, 2011 at 4:28pm

      It’s Atlanta-what would you expect!

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    • rangerrebew
      Posted on July 6, 2011 at 4:38pm

      I’ll bet the cheating IS nationwide in virtually almost every large city. Oh, you were talking about the investigation!

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    • getalong
      Posted on July 6, 2011 at 4:39pm

      No doubt this is happening in public schools across the nation. Teachers are so busy politically and socially educating kids to be “community organizers” that the 3 R’s are secondary to what they want the kids to learn. Remember, Progressives don’t like knowledgable people, they want the younger generation to be easily duped and misguided. Poor reading skills, math skills, and critical thinking skills among young people help to maintain a progressive/.socialist society. Also the mindset planted into our students that rich people are inherently bad selfish people allows the elitist to continue to entrap people into living mediocre lifestyles. Progressives spew their hateful message that workiing towards a better life, a better home, nicer things are all inherently selfish and goes against the “common good” of the country. A good example is when a young man I know told me that he had paid off his car, and thought about buying a new one, but then thought that he didn’t really need a new car. I asked him why not. He said, “Well, ya know alot of people can’t even afford a car, so it wouldn’t be right for me to want a nicer car”. Socialist thinking….I answered him by saying that it is true that poor people don’t even have a car, but it is because of their own bad decisions that they do not have a car for the most part. In a progressive society their is no accountability for irresponsible behavior.

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    • JRook
      Posted on July 6, 2011 at 4:55pm

      What is the surprise we just keep throwing band aid after band aid on the inner city school problems across the country. They are so woefully inadequate and laughable when combined to the suburban schools. School funding needs to be equal as every child deserves the same opportunity to succeed. Not guaranteed success but same investment and opportunity. Most other spending should come second to this.

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    • drphil69
      Posted on July 6, 2011 at 5:00pm

      This is how the unions show that test scores are improving. ANYONE that thinks teachers unions have the student’s best interest in mind is a MORON.

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    • cruzinbill
      Posted on July 6, 2011 at 5:24pm

      agree

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    • VoteBushIn12
      Posted on July 6, 2011 at 5:16pm

      Destroying teacher unions is not the answer! Unions are necessary. If you remove them you will only repeat the mistakes of the past (has history taught us nothing).

      FDR – the greatest president the greatest generation ever knew – knew the importance Unions. Had he not passed during the war he would have passed these second bill of rights:
      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Bill_of_Rights

      The right to a liveable wage should be a right of all people. You bust the Unions and you give all the power to the monopolies to oppress you for personal profit.

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    • cmabillm12
      Posted on July 6, 2011 at 5:51pm

      FDR was also against unionizing public employees, as was George Meany, Founder of the AFLO.

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    • Professional Infidel
      Posted on July 6, 2011 at 6:50pm

      she looks like that cat in “Alice in wonderland” Sh$t eating grin, or Smile? is this the only way blacks can pass?? is pretty sorry there being ROBBED of feeling like Equals.

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    • 1proudAmerican
      Posted on July 6, 2011 at 7:57pm

      Doesn’t surprise me one bit. I‘ve witnessed false grading in the classroom along with preferential treatment to certain students and discrimination toward students a teacher didn’t like. I spoke up, but got no where.

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    • Eliasim
      Posted on July 6, 2011 at 8:19pm

      It’s been happening nation-wide for at least twenty years.

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    • Eliasim
      Posted on July 6, 2011 at 8:22pm

      This is only news to people who have had their heads in their rear for twenty plus years.

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    • smithclar3nc3
      Posted on July 7, 2011 at 7:25am

      Isn’t this essentially stealing from the tax payers? And can’t these teacher be brought up on Federal charges for defrauding the tax payers and stealing from the federal government.

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    • Jacque
      Posted on July 7, 2011 at 9:30am

      When the WI teachers were all lying saying they were sick because the world does not owe them a living…did anyone catch the stats on 8th grade reading in WI? TWO-THIRDS OF 8TH GRADERS COUND NOT PASS A READING PROFICENCY TEST. AND WE ARE PAYING THESE LEECHES FOR WHAT???

      I AM A COLLEGE PROFESSOR. I NEVER WOULD BE A MEMBER OF SEIU.

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