Racketeering Teachers.

[BlueStreak]

Originally Posted by Dondilion

I believe that parents make a substantive difference in the progress of students. I have seen too often where money thrown at the system shows little or no result.

Very true. But, try to suggest to the average American, yes, even ("especially"?) a conservative, that the reason his kid is failing is because his parents are lame and/or the kid is just plain dumb and not the fault of the system............

Watch what happens.

Dave

[Tom Joad]

This article pretty much captures my feelings about this.

Here's an excerpt.

So let’s see how the justice system dealt with these two cases. When mostly African-American educators at poor schools in Atlanta cheat on tests, they get the book thrown at them. Ten of the 11 convicted on Thursday went directly to jail while they awaited sentencing; Superior Court Judge Jerry Baxter only spared the eleventh because of her imminent pregnancy. They each face up to 20 years. With Baxter quoted as saying “they have made their bed and they’re going to have to lie in it,” it’s difficult to expect much leniency. Even higher-ups got drawn into the criminal justice net; the former Atlanta School Superintendent, Beverly Hall, only avoided conviction for looking the other way at obvious fraud because she was too sick to stand trial. She died of breast cancer earlier this year.

As for the entire housing market, top to bottom, you can count the number of people who went to jail on one finger. Lorraine O’Reilly Brown was the CEO of a default services company called DocX, which filed over 1 million false documents in courts and county offices from 2003 to 2009. This was industry practice, but only Brown went to jail for it, with the claim that she committed a conspiracy of one, allegedly defrauding banks by concealing the fraudulent document scheme. Apparently when banks contracted DocX to create documents they should have legally already had in their possession, they never expected them to be fake.

Read it all here.

[Ike Bana]

Not to mention, selective prosecution, Mr. Obama.

[Boreas]

These teachers are pikers compared to the banksters. More importantly, they play into the anti-teacher/anti-public education narrative spouted by the Republicans. This will be used to argue for privatizing primary education in this country.

It'll spawn a whole new industry for Wall Street: student loans for kindergarten!

John

[bobabode]

Privatization of the education system is Dickensian.

[barbara]

When Test scores were falsified to promote No Child Left Behind.... No one got hauled off in handcuffs.
But then, NCLB had the blessing from Bush and company......

[Boreas]

Originally Posted by barbara

When Test scores were falsified to promote No Child Left Behind.... No one got hauled off in handcuffs.
But then, NCLB had the blessing from Bush and company......

With the emphasis on "company".

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/...ion-officials/

John

[bobabode]

Anyone who thinks justice is colorblind in Georgia, needs an eye exam themselves.

[Ike Bana]

Originally Posted by bobabode

Anyone who thinks justice is colorblind in Georgia, needs an eye exam themselves.

I dont know about justice, but I believe most of the drivers in georgia are blind.

[Dondilion]

While I agree with some of the sentiments expressed here re the comparatively
harsh response of the prosecution I am not blinded to the fact that what the teachers did was utterly corrupt.

I might be prejudiced here because of all the groups I regard teachers dearly.

The teachers (it was much more than 11) did great disservice to their students.