Tribunal dismisses teacher who gave students ‘look' when they erred on tests | ajc.comWhat have I been saying all along? They don't think they've done anything wrong.
Throughout teacher Sabrina Luckie’s tribunal hearing Monday, everyone kept talking about the "look."
Luckie, 28, admitted giving her students a look that expressed disappointment when they blackened the wrong ovals on a statewide test. She maintained, though, that she wasn't trying to get her first-graders at Fain Elementary School in Atlanta to change their answers.
...Following the tribunal's ruling, Luckie saw herself as a victim of a redistricting plan that includes closing a number of APS' low-income schools. "I just think they had an agenda of getting rid of the teachers without considering what really happened," she said.
...She said she knew that then-principal Marcus Stallworth had urged teachers to help students find the correct answers using "voice inflections" but that she declined to cheat.
I don't want to single out Ms Luckie when there are dozens of teachers at APS who feel the same way. Not all of them were caught in the investigation, because many schools weren't investigated at all: Only the ones with truly outrageous levels of unlikely test score improvement. I wonder how many modest liars are going undetected.
..."It wasn't like I was looking at the children or trying to get their attention to make them change their answers," Luckie said.
Well, then, what is the point of sighing or eye-rolling or "the look" if you don't expect them to change their answers?
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