doggiedynasty: (Annoyed)
Doggie ([personal profile] doggiedynasty) wrote2011-07-16 05:35 pm

SCHOOL: This is disheartening

LINK: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/07/16/atlanta-schools-created-c_n_900635.html

Atlanta Schools Created Culture Of Cheating, Fear, Intimidation

ATLANTA -- Teachers spent nights huddled in a back room, erasing wrong answers on students' test sheets and filling in the correct bubbles. At another school, struggling students were seated next to higher-performing classmates so they could copy answers...

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Unrelated Note, I'm going to watch the first episode of Mashin Eiyuuden Wataru (魔神英雄伝ワタル), starring Tanaka Mayumi!

[identity profile] ragnarok-08.livejournal.com 2011-07-16 11:19 pm (UTC)(link)
For shame...

[identity profile] doggiedynasty.livejournal.com 2011-07-18 02:57 pm (UTC)(link)
All for "no Child Left Behind", just force people to pass.

Reminds me if this story my aunt told me. I can't recall it guy but this judge told this kid that he wouldn't graduate unless he increased his grades. I believe he did, but not significantly, and he passed.

Is graduating even an honor anymore?