You know, I don't have the heart to haunt every teacher who found herself helpless in the grip of APS "culture of fear and intimidation". I'm honestly not interested in watching their humiliation. Yes, they are guilty of fraud, but they were under duress. Yes, they should pay a price, but they should not see their careers and lives wrecked.
I have no sympathy for the architects of this sad situation, and I have even less now that I know that as we watch individual teachers undergo their Public Walks of Shame, nothing much is happening to many of those who were the source of brutal pressure to cheat or be fired.
Robin Hall, a former principal and area superintendent, works for the Washington-based Council of the Great City Schools as its director of language arts and literacy. Hall joined the organization on Oct. 6 and soon after retired from the school district.
Former area superintendents Sharon Davis-Williams, Michael Pitts and Tamara ["tell the GBI to go to hell"] Cotman are still on the payroll. They earn six-figure salaries, and according to their attorney, George Lawson, each was issued an intent-to-fire letter months ago, but no hearing has been scheduled. They deny any wrongdoing.
Former Deputy Superintendent Kathy Augustine left APS and was fired in August as superintendent of a suburban Dallas district because of her alleged involvement in the case.
Millicent Few, former chief of human resources, was ousted in February from a consulting job in Connecticut after district leaders there learned that she's accused of trying to cover up cheating. Few resigned from APS in July.You missed one, AJC. Where is ex-superintendent Beverly Hall today? She retired before the lid blew off the CRCT fraud, with "more than $580,000 in bonuses above her annual pay in the 12 years she worked for the district" [ajc]. She's been keeping a low profile since.
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