People would typically pay $2,500 to the scheme's fixer, who would bribe test officials and have proxies take their certification tests, prosecutors said.

People would typically pay $2,500 to the scheme’s fixer, who would bribe test officials and have proxies take their certification tests, prosecutors said.

Five people have been charged in Texas with organizing and participating in an illegal cheating scheme that certified more than 200 unqualified teachers and helped the plot’s “kingpin” rake in more than $1 million, prosecutors said.

In the scheme, people would typically pay $2,500 to have proxies take certification tests for them at two testing centers in Houston. The scandal involved bribing a testing proctor to allow test applicants and their proxies to switch places, Harris County District Attorney Kim Ogg said at a news conference Monday.

  • Flocklesscrow@lemm.eeEnglish
    5·
    16 days ago

    Teacher is a bully.

    I think I would have demanded a Parent-Teacher-Principal meeting in which the teacher would have cried, and the Principal would have made a formal apology to me and child. If they declined my terms, for any reason, I’d go after the school board and get real nasty muck-raking their shit out in the open.

    The one thing a bully understands is a bigger, meaner bully.

    • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
      5·
      16 days ago

      I should have, but I didn’t realize the extent of it. My daughter is not as talkative about this stuff as she should be no matter what happens or how much we try to convince her.