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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It was all about the test scores, Rhee used secret mind control and brain washing techniques to turn hundreds and hundreds of honest and upstanding teachers and administrators into her legion of evil minions to do her bidding to fake the results and even now, years after she's gone, she still controls them through threat of Omerta and her roving bands of secret death squads that patrol all the schools.  And, she did all that in just three short years.

Uh huh.[/quote]

No, she used money as an incentive. Powerful enough for you?[/quote]

Nothing wrong with financial incentives in and of themselves.  The problem was the widespread cultural problems, wherein hundreds of teachers and administrators took it upon themselves to immediately leap to cheating rather than actually trying to do it the right way.  The previous posters testimonial makes it clear that the deep-seated culture of corruption throughout DCPS that makes this possible.  And here you are, basically DEFENDING that status quo, which had nothing to do with Rhee.[/quote]

Actually this is what most upsets me.  Rhee, when faced with obvious cases of cheating I.e. test scores more than doubling in one year, basically jumped feet first into the culture if corruption by rewarding and highlighting these schools and principals.  Faced with evidence of high erasure rates SHE set up bogus investigations.  With all of her rhetoric and bluster, her hypocrisy when faced with facts that would make her reforms seem not as great reveals a true coward.  And it is not a victimless kind of hypocrisy.  While those cheating principal, teachers and schools were being celebrated, what do you think the effect was on the people and students working so hard to make smaller, but real, gains. What about the students in all those schools?  [/quote]

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