Emotions running high in Atlanta Public School cheating scandal
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Former Atlanta Mayor Shirely Franiklin weighs in on the Atlanta Public School Cheating Scandal
Emotions are running at a fever pitch in the southern Piedmont area of Georgia. One by one, well-dressed former teachers in the Atlanta Public School district paraded before television cameras two days after Easter, as if they were modeling their new Easter clothes.
Alas, they were not. They were entering and departing the Fulton County Jail where a Georgia judge had ordered them to turn themselves in to face charges of racketeering under Georgia’s RICCO statute.
They are among 35 teachers and school administrators who have been indicted in the largest alleged public school cheating scandal to take place in the United States.
As these teachers submitted to mug shots and finger printing; Atlanta residents attempted to understand this alleged massive cheating scandal. Emotions are spilling over into coffeehouses and blog discussions all over the city.
Former Atlanta Mayor Shirley Franklin blogged this week that she has suffered the ire of bloggers’ verbal bombastic rhetoric following a piece on her blog, “Blogging While Blue,” that took issue with the public’s rush to judge those caught up in the school cheating scandal.
Franklin blogged: “Yes cheating is awful. And so is conviction before a fair trial. I believe every accused person deserves a fair trial under a set of laws that promises to be just