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Atlanta Teachers Convicted in Cheating Scandal. Some get 20 Years in Jail.

d2dd2d Member Posts: 3,109
edited April 2015 in Tug Tavern
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Fulton Superior Court Judge Jerry Baxter made two comments today that explain the severity of the sentences he imposed on eight Atlanta Public Schools administrators and teachers.

He sentenced the three highest-level administrators, Tamara Cotman, Sharon Davis Williams and Michael Pitts, to serve seven of 20-year sentences for their roles in the APS cheating scandal. And he imposed $25,000 fines on each of them. Five other educators — Angela Williamson, Diane Buckner-Webb, Tabeeka Jordan, Theresia Copeland and Dana Evans — got five years, with one to two to serve.

Baxter’s wrath stemmed from two issues. The first was what he considered misplaced sympathies. The focus should not be on the harm to lifelong educators who held positions of power, he said, but on the lives of students who were powerless.

“Everyone starts crying about these educators. There were thousands of children harmed in this thing. This is not a victimless crime…The only chance they had was the school. When you are passed and you can’t read, you are passed and passed on, there are victims that are in the jail that I have sentenced, kids.”

His second concern was the failure of defendants to acknowledge they cheated. “All I want for many of these people is to just take some responsibility, but they refuse. They refuse,” he said in court today. In the end, only two of the 10 convicted educators, Donald Bullock and Pam Cleveland, received lesser sentences today because they waived their right to appeal, admitted their guilt and apologized in court.
Should the WEA be worried? Might some teachers in Washington State be having difficulty sleeping tonight? Prosecutors all over America are paying attention to all the good pub the Prosecutor in Atlanta is getting. On the bright side, these teachers will get another long chance to teach some of their students to read.

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  • sarktasticsarktastic Member Posts: 9,208
    It appears women and minorities have once again been targeted in this prosecution.
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  • PurpleJPurpleJ Member Posts: 37,111 Founders Club
    Cheat all you want. The public school system is a money grabbing sham and everyone already knows it.
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  • PurpleThrobberPurpleThrobber Member Posts: 43,787 Standard Supporter
    PurpleJ said:

    Cheat all you want. The public school system is a money grabbing sham and everyone already knows it.

    So much waste of $$ in public education -just the redundant administrative costs and personnel in separate local school districts that could be consolidated is mind boggling.
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  • sarktasticsarktastic Member Posts: 9,208
    Yes, 'let's let Seattle run all the public schools.
    PurpleThrobber said:

    PurpleJ said:

    Cheat all you want. The public school system is a money grabbing sham and everyone already knows it.

    So much waste of $$ in public education -just the redundant administrative costs and personnel in separate local school districts that could be consolidated is mind boggling.
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  • Fire_Marshall_BillFire_Marshall_Bill Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 23,658 Founders Club
    20 yrs for fixing standardized tests and social promotion? There are pedophiles and armed robbers who receive about three years and they get out in 15 months...
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  • HuskyJWHuskyJW Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 14,379 Swaye's Wigwam
    Arent' the standardized tests already fixed?
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  • PurpleThrobberPurpleThrobber Member Posts: 43,787 Standard Supporter
    sarktastic said:

    Yes, 'let's let Seattle run all the public schools.

    PurpleThrobber said:

    PurpleJ said:

    Cheat all you want. The public school system is a money grabbing sham and everyone already knows it.

    So much waste of $$ in public education -just the redundant administrative costs and personnel in separate local school districts that could be consolidated is mind boggling.
    There are things called Educational Service Districts which are quasi-state agencies already in place. The monoliths like Seattle Public Schools, Tacoma Public Schools and Spokane Public Schools shun them because they could easily replace the local bureaucracies with the services they provide without missing a beat.

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  • sarktasticsarktastic Member Posts: 9,208
    thee fuck?

    First page copy and paste(which is symbolic as hell):


    About PSESD


    Success for Each Child & Eliminate the Opportunity Gap by 2020

    (first sentance) Puget Sound Educational Service District (PSESD) is striving to become an AntiRacist MultiCultural Organization.


    ... we need MOAR of this shit???


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  • d2dd2d Member Posts: 3,109
    sarktastic said:

    thee fuck?

    First page copy and paste(which is symbolic as hell):


    About PSESD


    Success for Each Child & Eliminate the Opportunity Gap by 2020

    (first sentance) Puget Sound Educational Service District (PSESD) is striving to become an AntiRacist MultiCultural Organization.


    ... we need MOAR of this shit???


    It's probably ex-WEA employees trying to get their old friends to outsource their work to them.
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