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Pretend you were a teacher in the Atlanta school district during the time of the cheating scandal from this week's readings. You suspect that your fellow teachers are changing answers to increase their scores. There is extreme pressure from the superintendent for every class to receive exemplary scores or risk getting fired.
- Discuss:
- What actions can you take?
- Is there a way to protect yourself as a whistle blower?
- What are ways you can make a case that the tests your students have to take are biased and do not show a fair representation of their progress and abilities?
- Respond to at least one of your classmates. Pretend you are the state board of education hearing this complaint.
- Are you convinced by this teacher?
- Should you look into changing the tests or investigating the unethical behavior of teachers in the Atlanta school district?
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Hey, there you go. All the best.
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Running Head: ATLANTA CHEATING SCANDAL
Atlanta Cheating Scandal
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ATLANTA CHEATING SCANDAL
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Teachers' primary role entails an informed, passionate and ethical approach to holistic
student development aimed at creating mature and responsible adults endowed with the
potential to solve problems. Cheating undermines the primary objective of learning, and as a
teacher full of integrity, there are two actions that I'd take. One, I'd distance my students and
myself as far from the scandal as possible and make great efforts to shield my students from
any form ...
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