Cheating is never right and not worth risking one's career for, but teachers often--with justification--feel they will lose their jobs or risk harassment if they don't do what their administrators tell them to do.
In Georgia, teachers complained to investigators that some 11-year-olds could only read as well as 6-year-olds. But, they said, principals insisted those students had to pass their standardized tests. Teachers were either ordered to cheat or pressured by administrators until they felt they had no choice, authorities said.
One principal forced a teacher to crawl under a desk during a faculty meeting because her test scores were low. Another principal told teachers that "Walmart is hiring" and "the door swings both ways," the report said.
Principals are invariably protected by school districts although in the Atlanta case, a number of them were forced to resign or were fired as a result of scandal.
That's only because they were caught.
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Georgia is a "right to work" state, which also means the teacher "unions" have no power. Principles pretty much do what they want to in Atlanta, and the district supports it... often to protect each other.
Yep. And they do it in Nevada, as well, when I worked there. My last principal was a total incompetent, and instead of firing her, I was kicked to the curb. My "hearing" was nothing but a kangaroo court, and the "association" conspired with the district to throw me out the door. Teachers have NO rights at all. They just THINK they do.
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