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[quote=Anonymous][quote=jsteele][quote=Anonymous]
There is NOTHING about such joking in the specific post that you quoted. That post was obviously pure sarcasm ridiculing "Rhee Conspiracy Theory" that keeps getting posited, that all of the problems were solely Rhee's fault and Rhee's doing - it wasn't about the legitimacy of the tests.[/quote]

It is difficult for me to understand how a post that you acknowledge is "pure sarcasm" and which begins "It was all about the test scores" does not contain joking about the concern some might have about the legitimacy of test scores. But, maybe it's just a question of semantics.

Obviously, nobody believes Rhee led a conspiracy to fake test scores. Rather, she created a system that incentivized cheating on test scores through the carrot of financial reward and stick of job loss. When the rather predictable cheating was revealed, she was slow to investigate it. She went so far as to promote the principal at whose school the greatest number of wrong-to-right erasures took place. Much as she based her original reputation on test score improvements in Baltimore that are largely a product of her imagination, she now bases her current reputation on test score gains in DC that are tarnished by cheating.  That's not a conspiracy theory. It's just fact.
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It didn't incentivize cheating.  It incentivized good results.  The RIGHT way to get those results was to find better ways to educate the students.  The WRONG way, which hundreds of DCPS teachers and administrators chose was to cheat.   It's faulty reasoning to just say "it incentivized cheating".  People got fired for cheating, security went up because of cheating.  Some incentive that is.

Also, as I recall, I believe the promotion happened BEFORE she knew the gains were due to cheating, not the other way around.  Again, faulty reasoning to reverse engineer facts and history.[/quote]

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