So basically, former El Paso superintendent, Lorenzo Garcia, was sentenced to prison for a testing scandal. The school, which was never outrightly named in the article, had been keeping "low- performance" students from the classroom, especially on standardized testing days. Many students were asked not to show up on testing days so that the school's overall performance would look better, and Lorenzo Garcia would get bonuses for the school's "success." Many students were even transferred to charter schools so that they wouldn't have to "drag scores down." Lorenzo Garcia was charged with "devising an elaborate
program to inflate test scores to improve the performance of struggling
schools under the federal No Child Left Behind Act and to allow him to collect annual bonuses for meeting district goals."
This whole situation was just so corrupted, just like the world we live in today. Although we may read this stuff and think that it's utterly ridiculous, the reality is, it's happening right underneath our noses. It's sad that many kids had to suffer because of Mr. Garcia's selfishness. I'm glad he's being punished for his deeds. The real underlying problem is WHY were the students "dragging scores down." I'm almost sure it was becasue of bad educators! Instead of putting all his effort into cheating the system, Garcia should have spent more time on getting the education at the level it's supposed to be at so that they wouldn't have to worry about students "dragging scores down." It's ridiculous. That's what the No Child Left Behind Act is supposed to be all about and instead it's just creating more money- hungry monsters. Disgusting. Just what we need. What is our generation to do? We're screwed.
Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/14/education/el-paso-rattled-by-scandal-of-disappeared-students.html?ref=us
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