A human side of APS scandal | ajc.comThe writer (who also happens to be AJC's editor) is apparently more alarmed by this than the fact that Ms Walker, having resigned, faces no further censure from APS while Vanessa Jackson, the testing coordinator whose hearing this is, faces termination, certificate suspension and criminal charges.
In the most alarming and troubling moment of the tribunal that day, former Slater teacher Nettie Walker, who has resigned, acknowledged that she cheated. The first-grade teacher said she pointed out answers to students, and she corrected answers on student tests.
This, and pointing out that Vanessa Jackson, her husband, and the three members of APS' tribunal all had lunch at the same Subway, is what they consider "putting a human side" to this story. (If you haven't spent much time at the APS CLL building, you may not know that options are severely limited. Do a Google Maps search for "lunch" near 130 Trinity Avenue.)
Does anybody want to talk to the students with questionable test scores? The ones who went to middle school unprepared for its academic demands?
While we're looking for human faces, who got those financial bonuses that these rigged test scores "earned"?
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