That was the headline in large block letters on the front page of Wednesday’s Atlanta Urinal and Constipation. The story detailed the sentencing of the “educators” in the Atlanta Public Schools cheating scandal. After the trial community organizers and civic leaders asked the judge, Jerry Baxter, to be lenient in his sentencing of these dooshbags. The DA even cut a leniency deal that he presented to the judge. All these scumbags had to do was plead guilty and take responsibility for their actions and they would get reduced sentences just like the majority who testified against the rest had already done. Two people took the deal. One of those people got six months of weekends in jail, five years of probation, 1500 hours of community service tutoring inmates and children who had been harmed, and a $5000 fine. The other got one year of a 7 PM to 7 AM confinement at home or by her ailing parents’ side, five years of probation, 1000 hours community service, and a $1000 fine. They both gave up their rights of appeal.
What about the other eight? Tamara Cottman, one of the ringleaders who tried to cover up the cheating by threatening teachers and administration people got seven years in the slammer, thirteen years probation, 2000 hours of community service, and a $25,000 fine. Of course she’s appealing and proclaiming her innocence. Another lowlife, Sharon Davis-Williams, got seven years in prison, 13 years probation, 2000 hours of community service and a $25,000 fine. Michael Pitts got seven years in prison, thirteen years probation, 2000 hours of community service, and a $25,000 fine. Those were the three harshest sentences. The rest got less jail time and smaller fines.
Of course, activists called this episode racist because all of the “educators” were black and claimed that white people would have gotten off. Bullshit! What was left out was the fact that most of the children harmed by the cheating were black. Find a white school district where this happened. Then we’ll talk about racism.
Let’s hear from a black parent, Vernetta Keith Nuriddin who pushed back.
“To those of us who did have children affected by cheating, you come off as misinformed exhibitionists who care more about agitating the system than doing anything to improve it.”
“My son was a victim of the cheating and it has taken years to recover.”
The reported who wrote this story called Nurriden, (from the story)
who said her son was a first-grader struggling in reading when he took a test that said he read at a fifth-grade level. As a mother, she knew it was not true. She said she went to regional director Sharon Davis-Williams with her suspicions.
You know she’s an bitch-deluxe if she’s black and has a hyphenated name. Think Sheila Jackson-Lee.
She said Davis-Williams was rude, downright mean, and unapproachable. She then hung up on her.
Sounds like Davis-Williams deserved the seven years she got.
Nuriddin told her story to the Blue Ribbon Committee put together by Beverley Hall (a team later known as the Whitewash Committee)
Hall was not tried because she had breast cancer when the trial started and died during the proceedings. She used the Sgt Schultz defense and said she knew nothing about the cheating which made her either stupid or a liar or both. She got many awards and cash bonuses from APS for the rise in test scores due to the cheating.
Nothing happened. After about another year, she yanked her three kids from the APS and put them in Atlanta charter schools.
Yannow, those schools that teachers unions and Dimocrats always oppose.
Her first-grader is now a seventh-grader and is thriving.
She also said, in the same article, that Paul Howard, the black DA has been called an Uncle Tom for prosecuting these “educators”. Of course he has, but you can tell just how flimsy this racism charge is because even Al Tawana Brawley Crown Heights Riots Freddie’s Fashion Mart Arson Sharpton isn’t in town leading protests against these “racist” sentences. The judge could have really thrown the book at them because the maximum sentences allowed were twenty years in prison. Cottman, Davis-Williams, and Pitts got off easy with seven years in jail. None of the three have shown any remorse for what they did. They have ruined the lives of children. Even so, they could have gotten off with light sentences if they pleaded guilty and took responsibility for their actions which they refuse to do. One of the reasons Baxter sent them to jail between the guilty verdicts and the sentencing was so they could see what life in jail was like and make them more amenable to pleading guilty in return for less jail time. It worked on two of the guilty ones. Now the others are back out of jail on an appeal bond.
Now, the appeal process starts. This crap will go on for another year, prolly more. They’ll prolly wind up with a judge who will reduce their sentences. I hope not. They never will admit their guilt and deserve to have the book thrown at them, especially Cottman, Davis-Williams, and Pitts.
