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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]A neighbor whose child graduated from TJ about ten years ago told me that a previous principal was "pushed out" for enforcing consequences for a group of kids who were cheating. At a meeting, she didn't identify the kids but apparently mentioned their ethnic background in passing and ended up retiring early. So, I wonder if that is a reason that the administration hasn't reacted strongly to cheating.

I found these articles that give more background about it:

https://www.washingtonian.com/2006/09/01/thomas-jefferson-high-school-interview-with-principal-elizabeth-lodal/

https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/2006/05/03/va-principal-issues-apology-for-remarks-span-classbankheadlinking-ethnicity-and-cheating-was-wrong-fairfax-leader-saysspan/01cfcf99-d02f-4c11-b68e-e4997cf6d972/?utm_term=.d6ab75351222[/quote]

Clearly, she grew up in another era where a privileged group had it all, and couldn't accept the improvements made by smart minorities, so she tried to lump everyone together for the mistakes done by a few. [/quote]

You completely missed the point here. That is not what she did, she referred to specific students who had cheated and her remarks were taken out of context by some parents. Read the articles again.

It's possible teachers and admins at TJ don't get enough support from parents to end cheating. There's someone on this thread who is trying to blame the teachers for kids cheating. SMH
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Collecting old test papers is not cheating. It is just a collection of sample questions for training purposes, if the same questions repeat then that's not the kids fault. Happens all the time, in every kind of tests everywhere. The same people who are crying now should know their kids have also been exposed to some old questions somewhere along the way and that is why they were able to answer. Copying the answers are cheating, questions should be open in fact. The current method of testing should change, schools are for learning and enhancing knowledge, not for testing with some hard questions no one ever saw before. [/quote]

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