Wednesday, July 06, 2011

A Culture of Fear, Intimidation and Retaliation

"If Johnnie don't know how to read, he had better on test day"


What this investigation uncovered, and what is included in their 800-page report is, that for almost a decade, what began as isolated incidents of teachers cheating on the standardized tests to improve their students test scores became institutionalized, accepted, and practiced, and all who dare to question it quickly found themselves unemployed with their careers in shambles.

Replace educators with the corporate entity of your choice and imagine how much media attention this would be getting, even in light of the fact that this information is coming out at the same time as voyeur society is going nuts over the verdict in a murder case in Florida. A generation of kids lost, I guess, just doesn't have the glitz and glamor of hyperventilating pundits all offering their 2¢ worth on a unwed and unfit mother in the Sunshine State.

5 comments:

roux said...

The education elites move from school system to school system leaving havoc whereever they land. They force those below them to cheat in order to keep their jobs and their pensions.

Get them out of the classrooms with their standardized tests and let the teachers teach.

Mike Florey said...

"I am diappointment in you're grammar."

vanekl said...

That this behavior was condoned for nearly a decade indicates that our society is corrupt to its core.

southernsue said...

we pay teachers how much to teach?

they don't tutor the ones that have a hard time learning?

the teachers have cheating parties?

we have affirmative action teachers, like quotas?

can these teachers even teach or do they even want to teach?

the teachers don't work all year long like we have to?

i should have been a school teacher.

southernsue said...

we pay teachers how much to teach?

they don't tutor the ones that have a hard time learning?

the teachers have cheating parties?

we have affirmative action teachers, like quotas?

can these teachers even teach or do they even want to teach?

the teachers don't work all year long like we have to?

i should have been a school teacher.