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Date Posted: 10:45:15 12/30/06 Sat
Author: Grizz
Subject: Re: Ignorant lawmakers are very annoying
In reply to: Larry 's message, "Ignorant lawmakers are very annoying" on 08:23:18 12/30/06 Sat


>Chip Rodgers is either (a) ignorant of current Georgia
>Code or (b) wasting legislative time with a political
>stunt designed to pick up a few votes over a public
>hot topic.
>
>Not only is this exact concept already part of Georgia
>law, its authors obviously gave the topic far more
>thought than did Senator Rodgers (which isn’t saying
>much) because it applies to teachers AND
>administrators.
>
>Specifically:
>
>PSC rule 505-6-.01 Standard 4 paragraph 3 covers
>falsifying grades

Are you saying that Rogers' bill would allow a teacher to falsify a student's grade and walk away? I gotta believe that's a bit of a stretch.


>OCGA 20-2-984.1 makes PSC standards equivalent to
>Georgia Code – and –
>
>OCGA 20-2-984.4 puts some real teeth into it. This
>code gives the PSC legal authority to administer
>oaths, issue subpoenas, compel the attendance of
>witnesses and compel the production of documents and
>any other evidence. PSC legal mandates are just as
>enforceable as court orders and ignoring them will
>land you in criminal court facing jail time, very much
>like a contempt of court charge.

I just don't see this law invalidating violations, blatant or otherwise, by teachers when they post a grade. And I would also have to believe that there are other sections of the code that would come into play.



>Not only does this proposal ignore the validity of a
>grade, it would have repealed any existing law which
>conflicts with it. Somewhere during the Neace
>incident, the public lost sight of the fact that most
>invalid grades are the result of teachers, not school
>administrators. While current law mandates the
>validity of student assessment, this monster code
>would have made a teacher’s grade nearly impossible to
>correct. It would have been an ethics violation for
>school administrators to take action against the
>teacher who failed your daughter because she wouldn’t
>put out.

Perhaps the proposal needs a bit of a tweak?
>That’s not my idea of integrity, Senator Rodgers.

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