Reply #10: Stupid and unethical teacher here responding [View All]

Hi there.

I'm the stupid and unethical teacher to which you are referring.

1. People make mistakes, even on blog posts.
2. The only cheating I was personally involved in was the scrubbing, and I think if you view it from the perspective of someone completely outside the system, you might believe that someone would be naive enough to not think that was cheating. I only realized years later when I read an article talking about how the NYC DOE was attempting to curb the practice of scrubbing that it was wrong.
3. I'm not trying to make other people look bad, although I will admit that I think I succeeded in making our school administration look bad. I mentioned no names, and did not link, at least in this story, to the school in question. I'm trying to point out that the problems with cheating recently found in Atlanta are widespread throughout the US system.
4. I think NCLB is extremely problematic and definitely a huge part of the problem in US education.

BTW before you go bad mouthing people, you might want to remember two words:

"Referrer logs"

Thank you,

David Wees