First Atlanta Crct Cheating Punishments Will Come Thursday

First Atlanta CRCT cheating punishments will come Thursday

Eric Orr

BCOM/275

January 16, 2012

Ray Fernandez

First Atlanta CRCT cheating punishments will come Thursday

I disagree with the Associated Press and Governor Nathan Deal of Georgia about the Georgia CRCT cheating scandal. The rights to fire those teachers because they were told by there superior cleans up the test and make corrections to the test as well is wrong. I fought the administration of the schools for hiring teacher that could not handle the class room setting. The administration should take the hit for the cheating scandal because they order the teachers and paraprofessional to change the answers. CRCT results help determine whether a school makes Annual Yearly Progress which is call AYP that is required by the federal No Child Left Behind Act. All elementary and middle schools within a district must administer the CRCT at the same time and in the same manner, during a nine-day window.

Teachers receive training on test administration using procedures that specifically set forth how the test must be given. Any deviation from the test protocols is prohibited. Okay, that is some of the rules for the teachers must follow but if the administration step outside the guidelines they should be held accountable for their actions. The teachers are under the gun to make sure that the students meet Annual Yearly Progress but if no help from the parents. The teachers are doing that job by following orders just like any other job. The teachers should not take all the hit for what happen and the administration and parents should be held accountable. What got me is that a teacher said that her principal had a school policy which was a teacher could not give a student any grade lower than a 60 on their report card. The teacher had three third-grade students who could not read, and when she put grades lower than 60 on their report cards, the principal changed each grade to a 60. The teacher said all...