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Huge Teacher Arrests!!!!!!!!!!!

Mike

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ATLANTA (CBS ATLANTA) -
All 35 former Atlanta educators, now indicted on charges related to cheating children for their own financial benefit, have surrendered at the Fulton County Jail.

Fulton County District Attorney Paul Howard told the 35 indicted educators to surrender on Tuesday, but four of them surrendered on Wednesday morning.

Some of them hid behind umbrellas as the entered the jail. Former superintendent Beverly Hall walked into jail with a smile on her face.

Willie Davenport (Principal, D.H. Stanton Elementary) attempted to turn herself in Wednesday morning, but was turned away because of wrong information on the warrant. She was told to check back in later in the afternoon.

The educators were charged with false statements and writings, along with racketeering, a charge that each of the 35 educators faces.

Attorney J. Tom Morgan walked with Hall to the jail just after 7 p.m. Tuesday. Hall's bond was set at $200,000. That's down significantly from the grand jury's recommended bond of $7.5 million.

"The 7.5 million? No! I haven't seen that in cases of genocide," Morgan said. "The bond that we have now that the D.A.'s office has agreed to is very reasonable considering there has been no violent crime."

Prosecutors said that Hall ran the school district as a criminal enterprise, condoning cheating by teachers and administrators so that she and others could get bonuses for improved test scores.

Hall bonded out just before midnight Tuesday.

Goodson was the first indicted educator to turn herself into the jail about 12:30 a.m. Tuesday, escorted by her attorney, Raymond Lail.

"She's been anxious about this, of course, since she's heard about this. [She's] very distraught over it," said Lail. "It's the closest she's ever been to a jail in her life."

Most of the 35 have already bonded out of jail.

Defendants with cash bonds were told they had to present the Fulton County Sheriff's Office with a cashier's check for the full amount plus applicable fees.

If the defendant didn't have a cash bond, then they aren't eligible for the 10 percent program, a property bond or a bonding company's services.

Attorneys couldn't petition the superior court judge assigned to the case for a bond modification hearing at the Fulton County Courthouse.

Bond hearings will begin on Friday at 9:30 a.m.
 

Whitewing

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When will you people ever come to accept that these stories are all about the New & Improved Amerika?

Grades? Hah! This is all about everyone feeling good about themselves, everyone feeling they're in the majority (look at the wonders that feeling does for our resident Constitutional scholar, OT) and everyone knowing that no matter how stupid they may be, the gubmint will be there to steal from the rich and give to them, the way it's supposed to be.

Try to keep up peeps.
 

Steve

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personally I feel this is prosecutorial over-reach. criminal enterprise? racketeering?

yes they should be charged.. and punished like any other criminal who breaks the law.. but not any more excessive then any other crime..

this is not much different then the border control officers who sat in jail waiting for Bush to commute their sentences..
(the main difference in that the agents acted in response to an escalating gun fight with a illegal,..and normally the shooting would have been legal,),... (had the prosecutor not over reached and filed excessive charges.. )

While these teachers had time and the ability to see that this is wrong.. they did not intend on furthering criminal activity.. (just ignorance)
 

Mike

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Steve said:
personally I feel this is proprietorial over-reach. criminal enterprise? racketeering?

yes they should be charged.. and punished like any other criminal who breaks the law.. but not any more excessive then any other crime..

this is not much different then the border control officers who sat in jail waiting for bush to commute their sentences..
(the main difference in that the agents acted in response to an escalating gun fight with a illegal,..and normally the shooting would have been legal, had the prosecutor not over reached an filed excessive charges.. )

While these teachers had time and the ability to see that this is wrong.. they did not intend on furthering criminal activity.. (just ignorance)

Steve I respectfully disagree. What these teachers did is just about the worst injustice that can be done to a child in school.

I was reading about the repercussions from the teacher grade changing and the high percentage of the students in the 9th grade that cannot not read on a 5th grade level. So, instead of using their energy to teach them, the teacher's changed grades to gain financially.

I'd give them the "Electric Chair"!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
 

Whitewing

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Steve said:
personally I feel this is prosecutorial over-reach. criminal enterprise? racketeering?

yes they should be charged.. and punished like any other criminal who breaks the law.. but not any more excessive then any other crime..

this is not much different then the border control officers who sat in jail waiting for Bush to commute their sentences..
(the main difference in that the agents acted in response to an escalating gun fight with a illegal,..and normally the shooting would have been legal,),... (had the prosecutor not over reached and filed excessive charges.. )

While these teachers had time and the ability to see that this is wrong.. they did not intend on furthering criminal activity.. (just ignorance)

Two points.

First, we no longer call them illegals. From here forward, they're to be called undocumented democrats.

And secondly, IMHO, any activity on the part of someone who is supposedly in a position to set an example that teaches a youngster that cheating and bribery is the way to get ahead, is indeed sowing the seeds of future criminal activity.
 

Steve

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The charges are still over-reach.. and the whole preceding will just become another costly trial that drags through the appeal process.. when it could have been handled differently..

it was misconduct.. I wouldn't argue that point.. firing and some charges are warranted.. (maybe even jail time and repayment of the funds)

but wasting tax payer money to jail them on excessive over-reaching charges only allows them more reason to fight the charges, and to spend more to fight them until it is finally over turned and sadly they get their jobs back...

Plea it out and as a condition require no future government job or position at any level..

pleas are often not appealable,. and the defendant/criminal only wants to get on with their lives..
 
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