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Tuesday, August 09, 2011
Cheating Report Confirms Teacher's Suspicions
Last month, 178 teachers and principals at 44 Atlanta public schools were found to be responsible for, or directly involved in, cheating on the state's standardized test ... Eighty-two educators acknowledged involvement. ... and six principals declined to answer investigators' questions. ... The weight put on tests for assessing not only students but teachers, administrators, schools and even whole states is what led to cheating in Atlanta on such a huge scale, Rogers-Martin says ... "There's a whole range of thought processes: making inferences, generating hypotheses, and generalizing and synthesizing and valuing ... that every human being engages in every day, and nobody knows how to test them (with standardized tests)." – CNN
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Refused to answer questions? GUILTY? but smart enough to keep job and lawyer up...
Teachers... Go figure, wonder why we have no morals...
With the varying test scores right here, one would wonder if the same thing is not happening.
So, instead of "manning up" and admitting they cheated and it was wrong, they have already started with the "it ain't my fault" line. The "pressure" made them cheat. I'm going to make an "inference". It was the unmitigated stupidity of the Atlanta students (and I use that term loosely) and their unwillingness to act "white" by actually doing well in school that led them to cheat. If you have to train a lion not to eat people (VERY hard task) and your life depends on it, you may be tempted to slip a little valium in his chow. Cheating? Yes. But you get to live. In this case, they got to keep their jobs. For a while. Teachers can only do so much. Learning must be accepted (not ridiculed as a cultural phenomena) by the students as a GOOD thing. Not as a mark of servitude to "the man". You may not like it, but those are the cold hard facts.
You can rest assured that the cheating doesn't just take place in Atlanta. They just happened to get caught.
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