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**Yinekol** · 07-17-2011, 10:57 PM

Teachers cheating just for so they don't have to take responsibility. Sure no child left behind was a monumental waste but this isn't just bad to me it is criminal. They are stealing our children's future cause they are lazy.

178 Teachers & Principals Named: Atlanta Schools Created Culture of Cheating & Fear | Breaking news and opinion on The Blaze

ATLANTA (AP) — Teachers spent nights huddled in a back room, erasing wrong answers on students’ test sheets and filling in the correct bubbles. At another school, struggling students were seated next to higher-performing classmates so they could copy answers.

Those and other confessions are contained in a new state report that reveals how far some Atlanta public schools went to raise test scores in the nation’s largest-ever cheating scandal. Investigators concluded that nearly half the city’s schools allowed the cheating to go unchecked for as long as a decade, beginning in 2001.

07-17-2011, 10:57 PM	#1
Yinekol Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 480 Senior Member	178 Teachers & Principals Named: Atlanta Schools Created Culture of Cheating & Fear Teachers cheating just for so they don't have to take responsibility. Sure no child left behind was a monumental waste but this isn't just bad to me it is criminal. They are stealing our children's future cause they are lazy. 178 Teachers & Principals Named: Atlanta Schools Created Culture of Cheating & Fear \| Breaking news and opinion on The Blaze ATLANTA (AP) — Teachers spent nights huddled in a back room, erasing wrong answers on students’ test sheets and filling in the correct bubbles. At another school, struggling students were seated next to higher-performing classmates so they could copy answers. Those and other confessions are contained in a new state report that reveals how far some Atlanta public schools went to raise test scores in the nation’s largest-ever cheating scandal. Investigators concluded that nearly half the city’s schools allowed the cheating to go unchecked for as long as a decade, beginning in 2001.
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