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Jun. 29 2009 - 9:39 am | 20 views | 0 recommendations | 0 comments

Look Ma, no bad grades!

So your kid isn’t doing well enough in school to get a free ride to Yale or Harvard? What are you going to do? Well, if you’re a school secretary in Hungtingdon, PA, you break into the school records and change the grades. Simple. Until you’re busted.

Meddling mom Caroline Maria McNeal is charged with altering more than 200 grades and test scores to improve her daughter’s class rank. She not only changed her kid’s records; she lowered the grades of other students so that her child would rise even higher in the standings. This clever mom changed her daughter’s SAT score from 1370 to 1730!

It’s time for dear old mom to get off her helicopter and think about what she’s teaching her child. If mom’s in jail, class rank isn’t going to make a bit of difference in that poor girl’s life.

 
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I spent a good chunk of my adult life as an arts reporter/critic/columnist for the Boston Globe. Among other things, I covered the cultural wars of the early 1990s (remember Mapplethorpe?), reviewed theater, and profiled all sorts of interesting characters. I also wrote an early column about online culture, which led me to become one of the first online war correspondents during the conflict in Kosovo, an odd but exhilarating gig for an arts maven. While I was a fellow in the National Arts Journalism program, a colleague handed me a gloomy article called “Print is Dead.” I eventually got the message and took a buyout from the Globe in 2001. I had vague dreams of saving the world, but instead had three kids in 17 months. Therein lies my newfound interest in public education. I am hoping to create a dialogue about what’s wrong, what’s right, and what’s up in our schools today.

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