Educators Implicated in Atlanta Cheating Scandal

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As a school teacher by education I was appalled altho, not surprised by the current turn of events. Considering how funds are handled and teachers made de facto financiers. Schools are the disseminators of funds to children. This is their initiative to assist the most helpless in their communities first. The problem is that this is an illicit proposition.
Dissemination of funds is a centrist theme that does not have a logical conclusion without a clearly stated set of regulations. School systems need to state their intention of servicing children first by immediate succession before either funds, or other groups involved. Schools are a social point of service to children period, not a conferred upon community bank.
Otherwise, the teachers will continue to be directed, conducted, and purposed to corporal punishment having been made the arbiters of funds with unclear obligations & originations. The responsible parties are those that make these policies, and in the Georgia case the ties can not be refuted to the superintendants office.
Unclarified systemic policies concerning funds and the dissemination of goods used for their purchases are the problem. For example between proprietorial cycle and disbursement conventions there are many dualities. Proprietorial cycles begin on the second convention of dispersement.
This is convoluted. Further disbursements are equivalent to a contraposit by the root words. Contrapositions can not begin about money from the beginning at the first position A negative= I unknown. I negative= A negative, and this makes sense. Plus E negative = A negative too.
Then in order for the conversation about deposits to strictly make sense there is no beginning from the very beginning at the first statement. Some people in the past have used this argument to waive certain deposit fees.
Children receiving assistance first is not clear in any of this, nor is the role of the employee distributing the goods.

Angelica of DE 11:59AM April 03, 2013

I don't think it is ok for teacher's pay to be based on their student's test score.I believe it was inevident that a teacher would raise their student's score just so he/she could get paid more.Some people are just greedy for money. -Gear Moore 1A

Gear Moore of MD 12:04AM September 04, 2011

I believe teachers should not be paid on the score of a student on a test. If teachers were paid based on this students could intentionally fail to give a teacher they don't like a bad pay. Having teachers get paid for the work of a student just is not right because it would get people to cheat for students so they could get the right pay for themselves.If this way of learning continued, entire school systems would become corrupt and the future would be full of cheaters and non educated people. I believe that the future would become a dangerous place if students learned this way.
-Tariq Abdullah 3B

Tariq Abdullah of MD 8:57AM September 02, 2011

I think it's unfair to pay teachers based on how well student perform on tests, but giving them the answers isn't the right answer.

jordan of MD 7:30AM September 02, 2011

After all, our government regularly makes it policy not to prosecute fraud. Remember the financial crisis of 2008 where Goldman Sachs knowingly sold junk derivatives to investors and then had the nerve to bet against them? These CEOs made $100s of millions and the American tax payer was signed on to foot the bill even though 99% of the public was against the TARP bill. And the ratings agencies were also in on the fraud and no-one was prosecuted for it. So why on earth would anyone be prosecuted because some kiddies follow the model of their leaders on a test that has far less consequence than what the predatory ruling class does on a regular basis? Maybe to set an example for the peasantry to 1) make it look as if the government enforces ethical standards sometimes 2) let the low-life teachers and common folks that they aren't bankers and that the law is for commoners, not for the predatory ruling class.

Leslie of IL 3:29AM July 23, 2011

Corruption by people that wanted to raise the money-making potential of people in programs designed to promote minority students. The teachers that cheated by changing test answers and scores wanted to feed the equal-opportunity college and university employees with qualified students(qualified on paper because of the answer and score changes). The cheaters did not care about the students- they were supplying the over all Equal Opportunity people with excuses to make money. Off and on I have watched the Equal Opportunity situation since I was 14 years old(1961) when I was refused admission at USC and UCLA because my grades were too high- the upper range was emptied to make room for a new lower range for Equal Opportunity students.

Bobby Dias of CA 8:32PM July 16, 2011

In arizona 5th graders have wrestling for both boys and GIRLS wow but they can't spell wrestling what a waste and they want more money for education TERRIBLE

jimgranack of AZ 1:15PM July 12, 2011

That's the main reason why we spend so much class time preparing for them, even if they're not hard. The schools who score highest get more money from the state (at least in the state of Texas), which is why things like this are prone to happen. The schools want their money, and they will sacrifice our needs to get it.

Randy of TX 5:29PM July 11, 2011

I do not condone what the district and teachers involved did but, maybe they need to reevaluate and reform State Testing and all the pressures placed on districts, schools, and teachers. That being said, the district and teachers involved not only hurt their students, they hurt other schools in the district and state. The schools that did not cheat would be put under greater pressure if they did not have GREAT scores as well.

jennifer of SC 12:09PM July 11, 2011

We send our children to school to learn and receive a decent education. At least this is what I did, whether it be public or private. Why educators have to be put into the position that it is their fault why the children do not pass the mandated state test. I am a mother, and a grandmother. I constantly stayed on my children to do their homework, do the best that they can, and I constantly stayed in meetings with their teachers asking them how he or she was doing in school. I even went further by asking them if there was anything that I needed to be doing at home for them to excel. Our children are the future of society, no one is going to give them anything for free in the real world. So why should we falsify state tests to meet state guidelines. In retrospect, we as parents, educators, counselors and society should be encouraging our children to work hard, never give up, tell them they can achieve anything that they set their minds to, encourage parents to rally behind their child's educational goals. In this instance, ethics were clearly violated. In my field of counseling, the counselor is never to do harm to the client. School officials counsel on a daily basis, harm has been done. Now we must face how will the children response to the harm done. We don't have time to think about how someone can get off, or who is the blame for the madness. A plausible solution is needed for the children's sake. Adults know right from wrong, cheating is not a means to success, it is a downfall that can have a bottomless pit. The pit has opened wide.

Angela of FL 12:49AM July 10, 2011