scheme cooked up by head coach of school along with the assistant principle; made over $1M allowing teaching applicants to cheat on their tests

[butters]

Five people have been charged in Texas, accused of organizing and participating in an illegal cheating scheme that certified more than 200 unqualified teachers and saw the plot’s “kingpin” rake in more than $1 million, prosecutors announced.

In the scheme, individuals would typically pay $2,500 to have a proxy take certification tests for them at two testing centers in Houston. The scandal involved bribing a testing proctor to allow test applicants and their proxy to switch places, Harris County District Attorney Kim Ogg announced in a press conference Monday.

The plot was allegedly orchestrated by Vincent Grayson, 57, the head boys basketball coach at Booker T. Washington High School within the Houston Independent School District, prosecutors said

Investigators noticed a pattern: Numerous teacher certification candidates who previously failed certification exams would drive from faraway Texas cities to the Houston area to take an exam. “Suddenly, they were passing the test with flying colors,” Mike Levine, a felony chief in the DA Office’s Public Corruption Division, told reporters.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/o...&cvid=4cd07944b2364d0b9b7bca1ff30f72f8&ei=226


these people who had previously failed (or thought they couldn't pass) their tests (some 350-400 tests overall) would pay Grayson who would then bribe Mason, the certifying official at the Houston Training and Education Center. The applicants would be told by Grayson when and where to show up and they'd arrive, sign in and leave... their seat being filled by the proxy test taker who was the assistant principal at Booker T. Washington High School.

w.t.f!?


ok, i am sure this isn't representative of how Texas normally certifies its educator and was more about a small group of people seeing a way to make easy money from people who weren't above cheating... and these people have been teaching Texan kids.

 

[MajorRewrite]

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton said he admired Grayson’s initiative, and he promised to help Grayson avoid jail in return for a million dollars.

 

[butters]

Ogg said that the cheating teachers included at least “two sexual predators, who once falsely certified, had access through their employment to underage kids on campus and off.” One has been charged with indecency with a child and another with online solicitation, she said.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/o...&cvid=4cd07944b2364d0b9b7bca1ff30f72f8&ei=226

 

[Bn2f]

ok, i am sure this isn't representative of how Texas normally certifies its educator and was more about a small group of people seeing a way to make easy money from people who weren't above cheating... and these people have been teaching Texan kids.

I might take issue with this kind opinion of Texas certifications my dear butters. Texas watered down their malpractice laws allowing incompetent doctors to flock to the state.

5 years after ‘Dr. Death,’ doctors still come to Texas to leave pasts behind​

https://www.kxan.com/investigations...till-come-to-texas-to-leave-pasts-behind/amp/

 

[Bn2f]

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/o...&cvid=4cd07944b2364d0b9b7bca1ff30f72f8&ei=226


these people who had previously failed (or thought they couldn't pass) their tests (some 350-400 tests overall) would pay Grayson who would then bribe Mason, the certifying official at the Houston Training and Education Center. The applicants would be told by Grayson when and where to show up and they'd arrive, sign in and leave... their seat being filled by the proxy test taker who was the assistant principal at Booker T. Washington High School.

w.t.f!?


ok, i am sure this isn't representative of how Texas normally certifies its educator and was more about a small group of people seeing a way to make easy money from people who weren't above cheating... and these people have been teaching Texan kids.

This story really upsets me knowing how strict and specific this state is in regards to certification of health clinics for women who provide abortion access.

 

[HisArpy]

People lie and cheat everywhere. Just because it's Texas, and you don't like Texas because you have political animas, is no reason to not see that PEOPLE lie and cheat everywhere.

It's called fraud and it's illegal in every State. Not just in Texas (or Red States).

Or aren't you aware of the Varsity Blues Scandal that happened here in good old California? You know, a solid BLUE state...

 

[Bn2f]

People lie and cheat everywhere. Just because it's Texas, and you don't like Texas because you have political animas, is no reason to not see that PEOPLE lie and cheat everywhere.

It's called fraud and it's illegal in every State. Not just in Texas (or Red States).

Or aren't you aware of the Varsity Blues Scandal that happened here in good old California? You know, a solid BLUE state...

STFU
That this can’t happen in any state is not the conversation.

 

[Saint_Ann]

STFU
That this can’t happen in any state is not the conversation.

It's what chipbutty is implying.

 

[HumpDayHoratio]

People lie and cheat everywhere. Just because it's Texas, and you don't like Texas because you have political animas, is no reason to not see that PEOPLE lie and cheat everywhere.

It's called fraud and it's illegal in every State. Not just in Texas (or Red States).

Or aren't you aware of the Varsity Blues Scandal that happened here in good old California? You know, a solid BLUE state...

Yeah, but they were the “good” criminals…they voted how he liked.

 

[HisArpy]

STFU
That this can’t happen in any state is not the conversation.

Sore loser.

 

[Bn2f]

Sore loser.

I support a person who passed the California bar. Who are you?

 

[butters]

i don't care WHERE this happened, or the state's political leanings... what bothers me is that this happened anywhere at all, putting children at risk both physically and in regards to the quality of education they're receiving.

 

[Bn2f]

Sore loser.

Because of fraud, the current Republican candidate has a trustee looking over all his business interests in the state of New York. He had to pay over $25 million in defrauding students, especially those in the military, at his fake university. Don’t come here telling us about fraud.

 

[HisArpy]

i don't care WHERE this happened, or the state's political leanings... what bothers me is that this happened anywhere at all, putting children at risk both physically and in regards to the quality of education they're receiving.

And yet not a peep out of you regarding the scandals in other states.

 

[HisArpy]

Because of fraud, the current Republican candidate has a trustee looking over all his business interests in the state of New York. He had to pay over $25 million in defrauding students, especially those in the military, at his fake university. Don’t come here telling us about fraud.

Kewl pivot to but, but TRUMP!!!!

However, despite your slobbering over the trial court decision, that case is currently on appeal and the appellate court sounded favorable to Trump's basis for the appeal.

If that turns out to be the case (as I suspect it will) then your "fraudster" label will evaporate except as your perennial hate based pejorative against truth and justice. The beauty is that if the trial court decision is overturned, Trump will be able to SUE THE STATE OF NY and Letticia James personally, for the damages caused by the business overseer. Potentially resulting in millions (if not billions) being paid out by the State and James.


Meanwhile, ACADEMIC fraud in other States is overlooked because of your (and butterfatz) bias and hatred against all things conservative.

https://oversight.house.gov/release...misused-to-fund-left-wing-political-agendas/

https://westvirginiawatch.com/2023/...illions-in-covid-19-relief-money-audit-shows/

So, whatever you think you were accomplishing by your deflection to all things Orange, you lose yet again.

 

[Bn2f]

Kewl pivot to but, but TRUMP!!!!

However, despite your slobbering over the trial court decision, that case is currently on appeal and the appellate court sounded favorable to Trump's basis for the appeal.

If that turns out to be the case (as I suspect it will) then your "fraudster" label will evaporate except as your perennial hate based pejorative against truth and justice. The beauty is that if the trial court decision is overturned, Trump will be able to SUE THE STATE OF NY and Letticia James personally, for the damages caused by the business overseer. Potentially resulting in millions (if not billions) being paid out by the State and James.


Meanwhile, ACADEMIC fraud in other States is overlooked because of your (and butterfatz) bias and hatred against all things conservative.

https://oversight.house.gov/release/hearing-wrap-up-billions-of-taxpayer-funds-to-aid-students-through-school-closures-were-misused-to-fund-left-wing-political-agendas/

https://westvirginiawatch.com/2023/...illions-in-covid-19-relief-money-audit-shows/

So, whatever you think you were accomplishing by your deflection to all things Orange, you lose yet again.

Lol I guess I’ve got TDS.
Also, you know I don’t read your legal blah, blah, blah (no one should).
You said what about Hunter?