Our kids shouldn't be a cash crop for school districts

to the point where cheating on standardised tests is seen as acceptable in order to keep federal funding under No Child Left Behind--a law that sounds good on the surface till you realise real learning gets shoved out the window for teaching the test, homogenisation, and money. The idea that teachers erased and corrected bubble sheets on their students test is horrible. The allegation that they purposefully placed students that did not have good skills next to high achievers so they could copy answers, thereby teaching the children to cheat, and then advancing them time after time through the system without having the skills necessary to achieve at the next level is far worse. Those involved had a choice, no matter their cries of pressure and fear. If found to be complicit, they shouldn't be allowed to retire out of the system, they should lose all certification, the cheating should be noted on their record should they try to get a job elsewhere, and their names should be publicly published, as the majority were being paid by tax dollars. Period.

2 Atlanta educators step down; 176 others also face ultimatum

Thanks to YKWIA for making me aware of the story.