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And "educators" (kek, what a joke) wonder why people are pulling their kids out of public school.

It's a big, corrupt trainwreck.

https://www.tampabay.com/blogs/gradebook/2019/06/03/some-test-scores-at-spoto-high-were-too-good-to-be-true-the-answers-were-on-the-wall/

Here's a hint: stop diversity hires.

They've proven that all they do is cheat to give the appearance of success.

Some kids are NOT intellectually capable of academic levels that others can easily achieve.

All kids are NOT equal.

The biggest mistake is to believe that gigantic fallacy.

Pic is the principal of this school, Glennis Perez.

RIVERVIEW — Isaac Anderson didn’t know he was not supposed to leave test answers on the walls of his social studies classroom.

That’s what the 40-year-old teacher told Hillsborough County School District officials when they were called to review his students’ surprisingly high test scores. Shortly before they got his name on a resignation form, he said he thought test security rules were for state exams, not those given by the district.

Anderson’s departure from Spoto High coincides with a larger examination of the school, hailed this past year as a success because of its fast-rising graduation rates.

Investigations into Anderson and former principal Glennis Perez were launched in January and February, not long after superintendent Jeff Eakins staged a Thursday afternoon hot dog party at Spoto to celebrate the latest graduation numbers. All of the district’s principals were invited.

Hillsborough is on its way to achieving Eakins’ goal of a 90 percent graduation rate by 2020, a rapid improvement from rates in the mid-70s just a few years ago. That day at Spoto, Eakins praised school leaders for creating opportunities for students with disabilities and interrupting the cycle of multi-generational poverty. “It’s unprecedented, I hope you know that,” he told the crowd.

To earn a diploma, students must pass state competency tests in math and English or take alternative tests in their place. They must complete a sufficient number of credits. And they must maintain at least a 2.0 grade point average — an area where a teacher who helps students pass their tests can impact a school’s overall performance numbers, including the graduation rate.

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Anderson resigned his teaching position in April. Perez left the school, but not the district, shortly after investigators began focusing on her. She is now an “administrator on special assignment,” according to Yinka Alege, a district deputy director who supervises Spoto and other struggling schools that fall under Hillsborough’s Achievement Schools initiative.

A new principal, Jazrick Haggins, took over at Spoto in May.

Both Anderson and Perez worked together previously at Brandon High, where Perez was an assistant principal.

Their new school had earned C grades from the state for years, and was uncomfortably close to a D.

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The common assessment scores in Anderson’s classes previously had been the lowest in the school, with fewer than half of his students passing. Yet on the semester exam, they had a passing rate of 59.7 percent.

His students were out-scoring their peers at all but three of the district’s high schools. And they were 7 points higher than Miller’s students, even though she had been assigned to help Anderson improve his teaching.

Students began to talk, and four agreed to submit written statements.

Two wrote that Anderson gave out two or three answers during the exam because he had not covered the material. The other two described posters on the wall in plain view, containing test answers. And although one wrote that Anderson collected phones before the exam, that student said Anderson did not appear to make any effort to make sure the kids did not have a second phone, or a smart watch.

Testing supervisors interviewed Anderson on March 12 and found him “very candid,” according to their report. He said that throughout his teaching career he had left posters up for regular tests, taking them down only for state exams. He said this year’s exam was new and he had not been able to cover all the material.

“He was adamant that he did not think the semester exam was as ‘big a deal’ as the state tests that are given,'” the report said. Repeating that he always used posters, he said that “he really didn’t understand why that would be inappropriate on test day.” Nor, he added, did he do any of this for monetary gain.