The news of this cheating is just stunning.
It will be very interesting to hear what the Rev. Reggie Jackson and Al Sharpton will say about it.
Now, here are the details out of Atlanta. Thirty-eight of the 178 accused are school principals. So far, 80 cheaters have confessed. They said they did it. Investigators said that 44 of the 56 schools they looked at were involved, and this organized cheating has been going on for ten years. According to the Atlanta Urinal and Constipation, a local newspaper, investigators believe former Schools Superintendent Beverly Hall -- who just quite -- either knew or should have known what was going on. Incidentally, Ms. Hall was honored as the national superintendent of the year last year, and she's involved here in the cheating scandal. Liberals always elevate their failures. (interruption) Yeah, I think it was to avoid no child's behind left alone. But in addition to that -- well, you know, I guarantee if you run up to any liberal today who knows about the scandal, if they don't know about it, tell 'em about it, run up to any liberal, and you know what their reaction's gonna be? "Well, what do you expect when you have all these testing requirements on the teachers? What do you expect?" That's what they'll say.
Your average liberal, when confronted with these liberal teachers and principals and so forth cheating and cheating the students, "Well, what do you expect? Those damn testing requirement." You say, "Well, okay, I guess next time a bank's robbed I'll blame the banker." How will that fly? Now, the governor, Nathan Deal, and school board members are vowing there will be consequences for the cheaters. The school board chairman, Brenda Muhammad, says the cheating scandal is devastating because you just don't cheat children. Well, Ms. Muhammad, I, El Rushbo, have news for you. American children have been cheated for decades now, not just in Hotlanta. The phony test scores in Atlanta, the real test scores from almost every blue city in America prove how American children are being cheated, and it's just the tip of the iceberg.
Every single institution tribunals control, including education, is in deep decline and plunging fast. We all think cleaning house is necessary. The Atlanta school system is just the starting point. I mean it is a debacle, folks, what has happened there with all this admitted cheating going on. Snerdley, do you think nobody will be fired? You think heads are gonna roll here? You do. You think people are gonna be charged with something? You do. You don't think they're gonna try to sweep this under the rug? I guess they can't now because too much is known. All right.
I have the Atlanta Urinal-Constipation story here. "Investigation Into Cheating Finds Unethical Behavior Across Every Level -- The investigators describe highly organized, coordinated efforts to falsify tests when children could not score high enough to meet the district’s self-imposed goals." Not Bush's. "The cheating cut off struggling students from the extra help they would have received if they’d failed. At Venetian Hills, a group of teachers and administrators who dubbed themselves 'the chosen ones' convened to change answers in the afternoons or during makeup testing days, investigators found. Principal Clarietta Davis, a testing coordinator told investigators, wore gloves while erasing to avoid leaving fingerprints on answer sheets.
"At Kennedy Middle, children who couldn’t read not only passed the state reading test, but scored at the highest level possible. At Perkerson Elementary, a student sat under a desk, then randomly filled in answers and still passed. At East Lake Elementary, the principal and testing coordinator instructed teachers to arrange students’ seats so that the lower-performing children would receive easier versions of the Fifth Grade Writing Tests. Principal Gwendolyn Benton, who has since left, obstructed the investigation, too, the report said, when she threatened teachers by saying she would 'sue them out the ass' if they 'slandered' her to the Georgia Bureau of Investigation." Gwendolyn Benton, say hi to Mark Halperin.
"Across Atlanta Public Schools, staff worked feverishly in secret to transform testing failures into successes. Teachers and principals erased and corrected mistakes on students’ answer sheets. Area superintendents silenced whistle-blowers and rewarded subordinates who met academic goals by any means possible. Superintendent Beverly Hall and her top aides ignored, buried, destroyed or altered complaints about misconduct, claimed ignorance of wrongdoing and accused naysayers of failing to believe in poor children’s ability to learn."
As I said, it's been going on for as long as ten years. This was how the Atlanta school district produced gains, improvements on state curriculum tests. The scores soared so dramatically they brought national acclaim to the superintendent Beverly Hall in the district, and she got an award. "In the report, the governor’s special investigators describe an enterprise where unethical -- and potentially illegal -- behavior pierced every level of the bureaucracy." It's liberals, folks, this is what you get when liberals run institutions.
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