Atlanta School Superintendent of the Year Awarded!

[Gary and Alla 3,694]

http://news.yahoo.com/3-dozen-indicted-atlanta-cheating-scandal-214241949.html

Oh, good grief.

Does anyone believe, as I, that this may ultimately have more affect on crime rates than say...the number of cartridges one can put in a detachable magazine?

[himher 634]

The REAL story is buried in the article and it is "the Atlanta public school system managed to educate a 9th grader to read on a 5th grade level" which truly is an outstanding achievement.

A community, any community, that does not value education elects, chooses, and hires representatives who will help them avoid the work that it takes to get one

Edited March 30, 2013 by himher

[Darnell 8,479]

I likes it when the legal system catches up with the bullsh|t.

Sure, it takes time, but scoundrels are rounded up in the end.

Yay !

[Robby999 1,024]

The governor also decided that public interest outweighs political interests of school board members. That seems to be a problem when board positions are filled by elections and leads to many positions being filled by popular people with minimal education and training for the positions they fill. http://brookhaven.pa...rd-of-education

[himher 634]

A 2011 state investigation found cheating by nearly 180 educators in 44 Atlanta schools. Educators gave answers to students or changed answers on tests after they were turned in, investigators said. Teachers who tried to report it faced retaliation, creating a culture of "fear and intimidation," the investigation found.

Groups that impose a culture of "fear and intimidation" for profit are nothing new.

Scottish explorer Mungo Park wrote in 1795:

The slaves in Africa, I suppose, are nearly in the proportion of three to one to the freemen. They claim no reward for their services except food and clothing, and are treated with kindness or severity, according to the good or bad disposition of their masters. Custom, however, has established certain rules with regard to the treatment of slaves, which it is thought dishonourable to violate. Thus the domestic slaves, or such as are born in a man’s own house, are treated with more lenity than those which are purchased with money. ... But these restrictions on the power of the master extend not to the care of prisoners taken in war, nor to that of slaves purchased with money. All these unfortunate beings are considered as strangers and foreigners, who have no right to the protection of the law, and may be treated with severity, or sold to a stranger, according to the pleasure of their owners.[8]

Several nations such as the Ashanti of present-day Ghana and the Yoruba of present-day Nigeria were involved in slave-trading. Groups such as the Imbangala of Angola and the Nyamwezi of Tanzania would serve as intermediaries or roving bands, waging war on African states to capture people for export as slaves. Historians John Thornton and Linda Heywood of Boston University estimate that 90 percent of those shipped to the New World were enslaved by Africans and then sold to European traders. Henry Louis Gates, the Harvard Chair of African and African American Studies, has stated that "without complex business partnerships between African elites and European traders and commercial agents, the slave trade to the New World would have been impossible, at least on the scale it occurred."[17]

It looks like trading people's futures for profits has been imported from the place of origination overseas and is still practiced here. It's high time and past time to drive it out along with the people who perpetuate it by any means necessary.

Edited March 30, 2013 by himher

[Danno 1,228]

To add to Atlanta's Problem, the Norther sectors of the city are in process of Annexing off.

If the State allows it, the White Tax base loss would be devastating.

But how can you blame them?

Would you want to bank-roll city in which you can't even send your kids to their schools?

Atlanta still has a lot of Old-capital to burn before it becomes Detroited but allowing situations to continue which

Chase off your tax base puts you on the road to doom.

[Gary and Alla 3,694]

The REAL story is buried in the article and it is "the Atlanta public school system managed to educate a 9th grader to read on a 5th grade level" which truly is an outstanding achievement.

A community, any community, that does not value education elects, chooses, and hires representatives who will help them avoid the work that it takes to get one

So with improvement there is a chance they will be able to speak English as well as Ukrainian school kids. Nice.

[The Nature Boy 4,224]

To add to Atlanta's Problem, the Norther sectors of the city are in process of Annexing off.

If the State allows it, the White Tax base loss would be devastating.

But how can you blame them?

Would you want to bank-roll city in which you can't even send your kids to their schools?

Atlanta still has a lot of Old-capital to burn before it becomes Detroited but allowing situations to continue which

Chase off your tax base puts you on the road to doom.

If that happens Atlanta will become the shat hole of the world. The have to indict half the government every few years already anyway. The airport is like free candy to many of them