I’m sure many of you school-junkies have been closely following Georgia’s ongoing CRCT “cheating scandal”, where many panicked administrators in certain schools systems across the state made many students instantly and suspiciously brilliant with just an eraser and a pencil.

Just this week the AJC released the list of “severe” schools, those where 25% or more of classrooms had a significant number of erasures from wrong to right answers on the CRCT tests.  More than half of the schools labeled “severe” were within the Atlanta Public School system.  Play them off Keyboard Cat!

Closer to home, according to the AJC’s database, none of the City of Decatur’s schools registered above the “clear” category (“0%-5.4% of classrooms in this school flagged with wrong-to-right changes that fell above the state average”), in the CRCT investigation.

Here’s the percentage of classes flagged by CSD school…

• Clairemont Elementary: 0%
• Oakhurst Elementary: 3.7%
• Winnona Park Elementary: 0%
• Glennwood Academy: 5.3%
• Renfroe Middle School: 4.2%

Hey Look!  I got the year right this week!

And now for the obligatory “Please use this post to comment and ask questions about local issues not discussed here in the past week.  Comments close on Monday.”

RMS teacher Kris Thornton-Webb forwards this note from the City Schools of Decatur regarding an early close today…

Families Children in pre-Kindergarten through grade 12 will be dismissed one hour early today, February 12, 2010, in anticipation of adverse weather conditions this afternoon. All buses will run their routes one hour earlier. College Heights birth through age 3 will close at 3 o’clock. YMCA and Decatur Children and Youth Services after school programs that includes Animal Crackers, Whiz Kids, and Project Real, will not be in session today.

Staff Children in pre-Kindergarten through grade 12 will be dismissed hour early today, February 12, 2010, in anticipation of adverse weather conditions this afternoon. All buses will run their routes one hour earlier. Staff members may leave when the students have left their building. Please know YMCA and Decatur Children and Youth Services after school programs that includes Animal Crackers, Whiz Kids, and Project Real, will not be in session today. Talk to your supervisor if you cannot make other arrangements. The central office will close at 3 o’clock.