they cheated kids for money... screw 'em.

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casts a big net that catches only little fish. The education reform agenda with its billionaire backed foundations and bought politicians who designed and imposed this corporatist production model of education are still at large and still doing their part to cheat and screw kids for money.

and schools started getting their funding tied to scores this sort of pressure could be brought to bear. i agree that the testing world is out of control... but it is the current world of public education.

this was cheating. cheating to get money. for bonuses and for the school system as a whole and it was cheating the students who would be passed on to the next grade thanks to the 'corrections' on their tests.

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But, they would never have taken the initiative to do this without administrative pressure. Often, when a large urban school system decides to implement a draconian testing regime, tracks lead back to the Eli Broad Superintendents Academy. I've attached a few links for your perusal. It is remarkable how individual billionaires can shape society.

http://www.broadcenter.org/academy/

http://purereform.blogspot.com/2011/07/atlanta-cheating-scandal-broad.html

http://dianeravitch.net/2013/03/30/a-broad-connection-to-the-atlanta-scandal/

https://seattleducation2010.wordpress.com/2011/04/19/how-to-tell-if-your-school-district-is-infected-by-the-broad-virus/

Now give them a little time in the pen and do NOT let them keep the generous state retirement

Yes. Let's destroy the lives of people at the lowest levels and ignore the fucking idiots in the Congress who made the laws that said, "teachers are responsible for all, all of education, and will pay with their lives and careers for a stupid law. It reminds me of the Army. If something goes wrong, there is always an enlisted man who will take the blame. Generals? Nope. They were in some helicopter far far away from Me Lai.

Locking them up in state prison will address the wrong committed?

I'm sorry. Prisons are horrible places and gulags, sending teachers to prison for cheating is cruel and unproductive. There are many other sentences that can attempt to correct the damage as well as rehabilitate the offender.

I would hope my DU friends would reconsider their comments in light of the perspective I have shared.

The U.S. locks up too many people in for-profit prisons. That is not justice, that is big business.

or get a slap on the wrist.
Very wrong.

but they chose not to and failed to convince a single juror of their innocence.

What sentence do you think they should get? Detention for a week and no chance to chaperone at the prom?

it saves the power structure from having to hold the system accountable.

She received huge bonus money for her ''accomplishment" although I think the controversy took her down fast. This all started with NO Child Left Behind bullcrap .. Maybe if we funded our public schools properly and supported our colleges of education, we'd have children that excel in learning.

budget-wise. the high school i went to had one principal, one vice-principal and three counselors. that same school with only 10% more students today than then??? Twelve people with the name 'principal' somewhere in their title. Seven counselors. Three 'resource officers' (we never had one of those). Figuring an average salary of $65,000 a year (for principals and such that seems about right for the county) that adds up to over $1million per year in salary alone for additional people to run a school with effectively the same number of students. Multiply that by 15+ high schools and we're talking real money. Never mind 90 other schools in the county... if they are in the same ballpark we're approaching $90million in salaries that weren't even there 15 years ago...

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and the school ran just peachy with the two principals and counselors we used to have. it is crazy the number of admins in that school now.

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enrollment and the number of administrators changed in the last 15 years?

upper middle class... if anything the school has a higher $$$ demographic than it did when i was there. the football program got good (we sucked) and the baseball program has fallen off (we won a couple of state championships while i was there). heck, some of the same teachers are still there...

it just seems to be a problem with any large organization... they get heavier and heavier at the top and start to neglect what it going on where the rubber meets the road, so to speak. hell, it is even happening in the company i work for... too many chiefs.

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They should have taken a plea.

To all children.

NCLB created tremendous pressure on teachers and school officials to "get their stats up."