http://nypost.com/2016/07/03/school-leaders-allow-cheating-to-boost-the-numbers-staffers/
july 3 2016 Cheating is in the lesson plan at a Brooklyn high school, where grade-fixing is so blatant, even intellectually disabled students pass rigorous state tests, faculty members charge.
At Urban Action Academy in Canarsie, an 18-year-old girl with the reading skills of a kindergartner had a passing grade of 65 on the Regents US history exam, a whistleblower told The Post.
The girl scored a 73 on the algebra exam, despite calculation skills at the level of a second-grader.
Teachers suspect the student’s tests were taken by an educational aide.
When the Regents Global History exam was given at the school on June 14, students stashed review materials in toilet stalls so they could sneak information during bathroom breaks.
Alert teachers tried to thwart the cheating. But Assistant Principal Jordan Barnett slammed their “discriminatory” treatment of students and ordered them to back off, teachers say.
Barnett suggested the teachers themselves would not have gotten anywhere if they didn’t cheat in school.
“You did that when you were young. We need to stop sabotaging our students and sabotaging our school,” one quoted Barnett as saying. Others confirmed the remarks.
During Regents week, Barnett summoned staff to a meeting and ordered them not to check restrooms during the exams.
“We cannot treat students like criminals,” she said, adding that teachers unwilling to “work with this demographic” should leave the school. The student body is 81 percent black and 11 percent Hispanic.
