Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I think it is more plausible that any cheating that took place in DC, took place without Rhee's knowledge .I fault the cheaters and not Rhee. I also think Rhee had only just begun reform in DC. It will take years and years to undo the mess of DCPS. She made a good start despite push back with her every move.
I worked in the system then. Keep believing the above and I think that you will believe anything. We knew the cheating was going, but were not allowed to do anything about it.
I recall many allusions to knowledge or suspicions of cheating, but no means to actually make accusations. You'd have to be a fool, not a hero, to make a statement you couldn't prove with first-hand information.
At that point in DCPS history, to say that you didn't think certain kids at certain schools could have possibly improved so much in a year's time was to acknowledge you were a racist loser who thought that "poor black kids can't learn."
So many people in power were ready to believe in a miracle instead of obvious cheating. Why was that?