Atlanta Cheating Scandal Reverberates

http://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2013/04/04/28atlanta.h32.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%253A+TeacherMagazineStudentsAndCommunity+(Teacher+Magazine+Topic%253A+Students+and+Community) This article is very disturbing because it is about a superintendent, Ms. Hall, whom allegedly cheated and made standardized test scores of students look better than what was actually scored. Schools are anti-cheating and to have such a bad role model in the school district goes against everything schools educate students. I was told by a great teacher "Cheating is stealing and lying." To cheat is terrible because not only are you stealing their work, but you are lying about work you did. Ms. Hall supposedly fired principals that disagreed with the way she ran things because she wanted her district to look like they were making major improvements on their standardized tests. Ms. Hall, along with 34 other educators participated in this scandall. These educators made thousands of dollars in performance bonus, that they did not even deserve to earn. At least Ms. Hall turned herself in though. However, was she threatened to turn herself in or did she do it based on the fact that she felt bad for cheating.