Get Schooled: Throwing the book at educators while ignoring financiers and CEOs
At the same time the law aggressively prosecutes educators accused of cheating such as Beverly Hall, it ignores the wrongdoing of CEOS whose misdeeds brought the world economy to its knees, says a guest columnist today.
This is a long piece on the treatment of educators charged with wrongdoing compared to the treatment of titans of industry charged with wrongdoing. Please read the full piece before commenting and please consider the author's argument.
Kim K. Metcalf is director of Institutional Research and Planning at the University of West Georgia and served as dean of the College of Education from 2008 until 2012.
By Kim K. Metcalf
As I often do when life’s ironies present themselves, I first chuckled when I began to notice the conflicting and generally hypocritical approaches taken to the two situations. But then, as I began to hear and think more about it, I found myself becoming first angry and then disturbed by what this particular irony says about our society.
Local, national, and even international news has recently been filled with stories on alleged cheating on standardized tests by educators in several states. Notable among these has been