Principals Removed From Baltimore Elementary Schools
BALTIMORE -- Some staff members at two Baltimore City schools played a role in cheating to help students pass a major state exam, authorities said.
Baltimore City schools CEO Andres Alonso broke the news Thursday morning, saying two of his most prized and once high-performing elementary schools in east Baltimore had been caught cheating on the Maryland School Assessment test.
"We felt that this kind of behavior by adults was a crime toward our kids," Alonso said.
Test answers at Fort Worthington Elementary School were changed and attendance records were altered during the 2009-10 academic year, WBAL-TV 11 News Education Alert reporter Tim Tooten said. Staff members are also accused of giving some students special accommodations in violation of state testing law.
"Students (were) being taken out of classrooms and tested individually or in small groups even though they were not students with disabilities," Alonso said.
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5 comments:
racing to the top, baby
we'll be seeing more of this
:o)
And THAT'S how they think they are smarter. lmao
With the pressure put on schools to "pass the test," it's no wonder. I don't blame the teachers a bit with all that pressure on them.
Gotta love the teachers union.
You don't blame the teachers for not doing their job? You don't blame the teachers for cheating students out of an education? You don't blame the teachers for passing off more uneducated losers onto society?
I think you were one of those students when and if, you went to school. You are lacking just as these students are lacking.
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