Friday, April 15

Why Teachers Cheat on Tests

Ms. Jefferson gave her students answers to the quarterly test. One of her students told on her. When she was confronted about it she said that everyone in the department was doing it. Now it looks like she’s going down. She has to meet with Human Resources.
It’s a bad situation. She got behind because one of her parents (who is former School Board) asked what the city’s policy on evolution is. Ms. Jefferson emailed the city to ask and they couldn’t come up with an answer for two weeks. She got behind because she couldn’t teach evolution. Then, the test came in with a huge number of questions on it from the few things she hadn’t covered. She gave the answers to the questions she hadn’t covered. She shouldn’t have done it. Still, I feel bad for her. It’s her first year in the school and she’s been under constant fire from parents.
Ms. Lupe’s “permanent” sub resigned too. Ever since Ms. Lupe resigned there has been an ever-changing face covering class for her. I don’t think her students are learning much of anything now. It’s a constant battle.

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