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Originally Posted by anamardoll
Well, I find that utterly outrageous. 179 teachers for changing test answers? That can be automated with computers, for crying out loud! What a waste of people-power. 
In all seriousness, I assume this is a results of tying test results to school funding? I've been outraged about that for a long time.  |
From what I've heard it, it's a combination of school funding as well as bonuses. The administrators get bonuses if students do well and test scores increase. What made it worse is that the schools who had consistently done well over the course of time suddenly fell under pressure to compete with schools who showed dramatic improvements. Then
those teachers also started to get pressure to do "better" or "as good as" the teachers who sat around and cheated their students out of an education.
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Among the other findings, the report stated that the changing of answers was often done at weekend gatherings, or so-called erasure parties. The report stated that children were denied special-educational assistance because their falsely reported CRCT scores were too high, and during testing, teachers pointed to the correct answer while standing at students’ desks.
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