[Elementary School Teacher] Ms. Parks admitted to {Georgia state investigator] 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.
In the two and a half years since, the state’s investigation reached from Ms. Parks’s third-grade classroom all the way to the district superintendent at the time, Beverly L. Hall, who was one of 35 Atlanta educators indicted Friday by a Fulton County grand jury.
Dr. Hall, who retired in 2011, was charged with racketeering, theft, influencing witnesses, conspiracy and making false statements. Prosecutors recommended a $7.5 million bond for her; she could face up to 45 years in prison….
Certainly one of the most frightening examples of corporate sin I read about while on break during Lent 2013 from the blog.
“Low score out the door,” my oh my my my, I will remember that for a long time.
Good example of how government schools are being run for the benefit of unions and not the students. The whole system of union-controlled education should be abolished, along with the federal “Department of Education.”