Category Archives: Daily Q&A

Horrible that these people are teaching anyone. No moral compass. System is broken.

I do not know all the details about this current cheating scandal, but having taught in three different districts, I can tell you this:  If more attention is paid to test scores than to students, then something like this is bound to happen.  If teachers are under the impression that they are to teach to…

There is so much pressure on the states, school boards, schools, principals, and teachers to improve students' scores on these standardized tests.  Teaching to the test has become the norm.  The entire system is broken and our children are suffering because of it.  The only way to stop this is to get the federal government…

On many levels this is tragic. First, the message to the children is cheating is okay.  Secondly, it reflects a greater problem in our society when a large group of people turn from doing what is right. Lastly, the cheating covered up the lack of education of these children.

No, state cheating scandals are nothing new largely because of the tremendous pressure exerted on educators to achieve high scores.  As a former teacher, I have witnessed this too many times, grieving at the notion that this somehow makes  kids appear smarter.  Nothing could be further from the truth. Our problems in education cannot be…

When leaders blatantly refuse to follow the rules, it corrupts the entire society .

John Graham called it many years ago and everyone thought he was terrible.  He has since been proven right.  Teacher cheating has gone on for a long time.  That does not mean that everyone does it but there are certainly quite a few who do.  They need for their kids to score higher because their…

Nothing would surprise me.  It used to be that the students were suspect…so now it’s the educators?  Very interesting. If they are found to be guilty then what will the punishment be….detention?

Public education is big business. We thought it was about the kids since we had such a good time when we were there.