Governor's Report Details Widespread, Organized Cheating In Atlanta Schools
政府の報告書はアトランタの学校での組織的かつ広範な不正行為を報じている。
Categories: Education
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution has a must-read piece that narrates the cheating that occurred at Parks Middle School. The paper says what happened there was an example of what was going on in the rest of district. In the piece, Principal Christopher Waller is portrayed as a man obsessed with test scores and willing to cheat blatantly to exceed expectations. Waller raised scores so significantly, he was seen as a miracle worker. Here's one scene that portrays how the cheating happened:
ＡＪＣには必読の部分があり、そこではパーク中学校で起こった不正が話されている。同誌はそこで起こったことは、その地域の他の学校でも起こっている一例だと書いている。 そこには、テストの点数に囚われ過ぎて、期待を上回るために大胆にも不正を受け入れる人物として、クリストファー・ウォーラー校長が描かれている。 ウォーラーは点数を著しく上げたので、奇跡の教育者として見られていた。 ここに、いかにして不正がなされたか、その場面が描かれている。
A few weeks later, teacher Damany Lewis told investigators, Waller approached him with an unusual question: "Do you think you could get into something undetected?"
Lewis, who gave investigators an extensive statement admitting his role in the cheating, answered yes. But he did not know what Waller wanted until the principal summoned him a few days afterward. Waller and an aide from a school program called Success-For-All had several CRCT booklets, each shrink-wrapped in plastic. Lewis used a razor blade to slice the plastic around each booklet, slipped out the tests and made copies so teachers could give answers to students. With a lighter, Lewis melted the plastic shut again.
Each year after that, Lewis told investigators, Waller would call him into his office when CRCT booklets arrived.
それから毎年、ウォルターはＣＲＣＴの小冊子が届くたびに彼を校長室に呼び付けた。..
The first year, teachers told investigators, only a few people participated in cheating "parties" that Waller organized. By 2010, Waller's last year at Parks, the numbers grew, and the arrangements became more elaborate. In 2009, for instance, teacher Crystal Draper said two staff members loaded test papers into a blue cooler and delivered them to rooms where teachers were correcting students' mistakes. They returned later with the cooler and hauled the tests away.
The AJC reports that criminal charges could follow the governor's report.
The AJC reports that criminal charges could follow the governor's report.
最初の年は、極めて少数の教師しか、このウォルターが思いついた不正「パーティ」に参加していなかったが、ウォルターの任期がパークス高校での最後の年になる2010年までには、参加者は増え、そしてその手口もより巧妙になっていた。 例えば2009年には、クリスタル・ドレイパー教師によると、二人のスタッフが青いクーラーボックスにテストを入れて、教師が生徒の誤りを正す部屋に運び入れ、彼らは、そのクーラーを返して、テストを持ち去ったという。
ＡＪＣは、この政府レポートは刑事事件に発展すると報じている。