Investigation into Atlanta Public Schools shows 79% of schools frauded parents and children

And you would probably be right if you assumed this kind of business happened in a lot of schools...

Investigation into APS cheating finds unethical behavior across every level

Across Atlanta Public Schools, staff worked feverishly in secret to transform testing failures into successes.

Teachers and principals erased and corrected mistakes on students’ answer sheets.

Area superintendents silenced whistle-blowers and rewarded subordinates who met academic goals by any means possible.

Superintendent Beverly Hall and her top aides ignored, buried, destroyed or altered complaints about misconduct, claimed ignorance of wrongdoing and accused naysayers of failing to believe in poor children’s ability to learn.

For years — as long as a decade — this was how the Atlanta school district produced gains on state curriculum tests. The scores soared so dramatically they brought national acclaim to Hall and the district, according to an investigative report released Tuesday by Gov. Nathan Deal.

In the report, the governor’s special investigators describe an enterprise where unethical — and potentially illegal — behavior pierced every level of the bureaucracy, allowing district staff to reap praise and sometimes bonuses by misleading the children, parents and community they served.

For teachers, a culture of fear ensured the deception would continue.

“APS is run like the mob,” one teacher told investigators, saying she cheated because she feared retaliation if she didn’t.

The voluminous report names 178 educators, including 38 principals, as participants in cheating. More than 80 confessed. The investigators said they confirmed cheating in 44 of 56 schools they examined.

That's insane. 44/56 or 79%... of schools were fraud... I wonder what are the rates in other districts...

And I wouldn't blame it ``ALL`` on the No Child Left Behind program... but I think I will... well that and an overall culture of corruption as a whole...

Under the ``No Child Left Behind`` program... no good results on tests = no money for the school... so of course the teachers are gonna do ``everything`` they can to keep their own jobs and salaries... in their minds, it's for their own survival...and of course, ``for the children``... Because if the kid scores badly, the money get no money, and the kid suffers... therefore, cheating on the test is acceptable... to help the kid... right?

I always thought No Child Left Behind was a total failure as a program, but this just confirms it.

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Saw this story on the news.

What this means is, as many reports that have come out in recent years showing how our educational system is falling behind other developed nations, we are [as a Nation] in fact DUMBER than what was being reported.

and (and... )

No hope.

This is exactly why the government needs to get out of education. Anytime the government is involved with anything, they either screw it up or cheat and steal. Make my children dumber you say, no thanks government.