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It is a nightmare.

Teachers will fight call to resign | ajc.com

Some of the 178 Atlanta Public Schools employees implicated in the district's ongoing cheating scandal say they will fight for their jobs despite calls to resign or face termination.

Interim Superintendent Erroll Davis sent letters home Friday to employees who confessed to cheating or who were named by state investigators, giving them until Wednesday to quit. School officials said they would start termination proceedings against those who stay, in keeping with Davis' promise that educators found to have cheated "are not going to be put in front of children again." The Georgia Association of Educators, which is providing legal assistance to members implicated in the report, said it is also hearing complaints of inaccuracies and inconsistencies and that it is advising members not to resign.

The group and other professional organizations are encouraging the district to investigate each case fairly and make individual determinations. Educators contractually are entitled to due process, meaning officials must issue a "charge" with details about the cause for termination and submit the recommendation to the school board. The losing party has the right to appeal. There is now dispute over actually owning up to this, with conflicting reports over the accuracy of the findings on who participated in the cheating. Some appear to be going with the "was not me" defense. While others probably very guilty are being offered the chance to resign first. It is becoming a fiasco here in ATL trying to determine who did what, when, and who all knew about it.

A few more local articles on this mess. You'll like the last one, ex-Superintendent Beverly Hall is refusing to give back bonuses that are tied to test scores, these fraud filled test scores. Something north of a half million.

APS to teachers in scandal: Resign or be fired | ajc.com

APS board member wants Hall to pay back bonuses | ajc.com