I am with the judge! He really did NOT want to have to sentence ANYONE to prison, he just wanted them to take responsibility for what they had done. He kept the door for a plea to be taken by any and all of the defendants, before (and even during and after they were convicted, which he did NOT have to do), and they REFUSED to do so. Their failure to do so left him with no other choice. The bar to become a lawyer and practice in the state of Georgia must be VERY low as these are some of the worst lawyers I have EVER seen! All of them should have taken a plea, but instead they chose to make light of what they had done. Now they have to reap what they have sown.

I LOVE THIS JUDGE!!! He is a good, compassionate leader. This was no easy task and obvious through the emotion he demonstrated throughout the verdict and sentencing. We need more judges like him!!! Thank you, Judge for having the courage to show up each day and make a difference. The fact that you take responsibility for your actions makes you an outstanding model for everyone who enters your courtroom. God bless you!!!

If the defendant wants the benefit of the plea, then the defendant has to accept responsibility for what he or she has done, NOT the defendant's lawyer on behalf of the defendant!!!! These lawyers and their clients are just too much. I am going to need the lawyers to surrender their law licenses to the State of Georgia!!!!!

Judge "Ok, sounds like you're in great shape for your appeal".

Maybe if the defense lawyers would stop "axing" the judge he would have been softer on them.

How can Bullock help someone with their GED? He can hardly speak himself.

lawyers sound like a bunch of kids

If this is a crime then Police Department should charge Police Chiefs and their officers for the same thing. They should report him to Judicial review board and maybe he will be removed or voted out of office.

What EVERYONE except the the Judge and the Prosecution has forgotten is the damn children.. that includes some of you! TEN years worth of school! My heart is breaking for these children and I don't care if they are black, white, green, pink or purple! As someone who had to struggle to read all the way through school it is just KILLING me to know what these kids have had to go through! It pisses me off beyond belief!! I'd like to open a can of whoop ass on these so called teachers, principles and Admin. I came along right about the time they started using the term/diagnosis dyslexia. So I LIVED the nightmare of constantly struggling! I didn't get to go to college because it would be wasting my parents money, or so I thought. Sure, I've pretty much over come it and I've done ok for myself through the years. But I KNOW that some of these children are out of school and never got the help I did! I'm crying my eyes out writing this because that thought upsets me so bad! What chance do they have this day and age if they don't have "good" reading skills? All the damn protestors worried about those damn teachers when they should be worried about the children that were CHEATED in this system! WHAT ABOUT the CHILDREN?? THEY are the VICTIMS in this whole thing! They didn't get the chance to take a plea or pay a fine! How many THOUSANDS of children got ROBBED??? FOR A LIFETIME! Not seven years, five or one years but for a LIFETIME!! Think about THAT when you close your eyes tonight! So YES in my eyes it was a VERY SERIOUS Crime! SMH grrrrrrrrrrrrr

Worse defense attorney's ever. Each and every last one of them ultimately failed their clients based simply off the fact that none of them was diligent enough to clear up the distorted information represented by the state.

This is called teachers being bullied

This man said he wanted them to get a taste of jail to get them to plea out. Really?

Kudos to the judge who exercised great patience, restraint, and bent over backwards for these educators. I have NO sympathy for these educators, these arrogant and ignorant ingrates! NONE whatsoever! They are a disgrace! And their arrogant and ignorant lawyers are a disgrace to the legal profession!

This is absolutely Disgusting because the officers who beat the Guy up got probation what kind of Garbage is this? Get him off the Bench

What does "on yesterday" mean?

Please stop saying "on yesterday".

I think the ones with one charge should get probation. 2 charges, should get 1 year and community service. The others with 3 or more charges should do less than 5 years, fined, & community service.

These comments exemplify what happens when there is a shortchanging of basic education in grade school particularly in the area of grammar, writing and sentence structure, and its effect on children when they become adults.

Its one thing watching lawyers grandstanding and showboating but to see a judge playing to camera is obscene

Lifetime is already hiring writers for the movie that will be out next summer.

THESE TEACHERS, LAWYERS, JUDGE, PROSECUTOR ALL SOUND LIKE THEY ALSO GOT PASSED WITH FAILING GRADES. THEY TALK LIKE THEY CANT READ WHATSOEVER

The judge was too lenient on the scofflaws.

i believe the teachers they still dont have any proof whatsoever that these educators did any wrong doing. they are treating worst than murderers!!!!

They got off too easy

1:00 woman going shhhhhh is the flattest chested looking woman ever!

This is so so sad passing kids that can't read should be helping them learn not just pass the kids so yous get a good score and more money coming in to the school and bonuses for the teachers for schools with good scores it so dam sad yous all get what u deserve I feel so bad for kids no school should do this it probably is in alot of our schools

33:50 Here come the fireworks!!

Chicken biscuit????

How can they object to first offender if they are first offenders lmao ya couldnt make this up.

That judge don't give a dam,, looks like this shit is back in the 1800

i hear the Georgia prison system is absolute hell. Not a place for elementary school teachers....

Lock em up for 30 yrs, dirty cheaters.

Yesterday, I left a comment here in which I said that the reason the CRCT scandal happened is that a federal program called "No Child Left Behind" implicitly assumed that the black and white races were equals in intelligence and, hence, the blame for the poor grades of black students in the public schools must belong to environmental factors. The CRCT scandal was one of many signals that the races are generally unequal in intelligence. The Atlanta public school system had a per-pupil funding that was 44% above the state average. Additionally, APS had received in recent years grants from the Gates Foundation and from General Electric, among others, that totaled more than $40 million. Whatever the cause of the poor grades from many of the schools in that district, it wasn't a lack of money. The Atlanta Public Schools had schools that were majority white. None of those schools got into trouble. Why not? Because schools in which most of the students are white LEAD the score gaps, whereas schools in which most of the students are black are on the TRAILING side of those gaps. On all occasions when things have seemed to be otherwise, it has turned out, eventually, that a false appearance of black competence was being hoaxed up by fraudulent means. The 43 schools in the Atlanta district that landed on the state's 2010 "severe" list for CRCT cheating in 2009 were all majority black. Furthermore, of the 28 Georgia public schools on that list that _weren't_ in Atlanta, 1 was majority white, 2 were majority Hispanic, and 25 were majority black. The state investigation by Bowers and Wilson found evidence of cheating against 178 Atlanta school officials, nearly all of them blacks. Eighty of those school officials confessed early, and their only punishment was losing their jobs. The 98 others dug in their heels and, more or less, said _"Ah dinnit doo nuffin!"_ My comment of yesterday was removed, probably because it contained an embarrassing quantity of truth about racial differences. But before it was removed, it was challenged by a black male, who demanded that I give evidence that blacks are inferior to whites in intelligence. I assume he meant scholarly, scientific evidence. 1. "Thirty Years of Research on Race Differences in Cognitive Ability," by J. Philippe Rushton and Arthur R. Jensen, published in _Psychology, Public Policy, and Law_, 2005, Vol. 11, No. 2, pp. 235-294. 2. "Interaction of race with other variables on achievement in school," by John Touliatos, Byron W. Lindholm, and Amy Rich; published in _Psychology in the Schools_, Vol. 14, Issue 3, 2000, pp. 360-363. Abstract: "This study was concerned with academic performance in black and white children and the interactions of race with other variables on school achievement. Subjects were 334 blacks and 637 whites in grades three to six. Data consisted of general background information and grade equivalent scores on the California Achievement Tests. They were analyzed using multiple regression analysis of variance. Results indicate that blacks scored lower than whites and fell farther behind as they progressed from grade to grade... Means for black children were generally less variable than for white children." 3. "How much can we boost IQ and scholastic achievement?" by Arthur R. Jensen, published in _Harvard Educational Review_, 1969, Vol. 39, pp. 1-123. 4. "'No Child Left Behind' and the Racial Achievement Gap's Kryptonite Cause," by Steve Sailer, published in _VDARE_, 28 March 2010. 5. "A normative sample of intelligence and achievement of Negro elementary school children in the Southeastern United States," by W.A. Kennedy, V. Van de Riet, and J.C. White. Published in _Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development_, 1963, Vol. 28, No. 6 (Serial No. 90).

This was a witch hunt trial

These people were found guilty and they seem to not own there part in this scheme ,poor kids that were effective by these peoples actions ,now its time for sentencing and there not owning it,

Black is still the smartist race EVER an these folks only tryun to help the kidz an dont hate an judge this peopel til you knew an so smh

that judge is are monster think he has alzheimer,and the cort cystem are not exsetent in us 7 years for the first time made are crime wout never hapend in my demoktrat state denmark,in the us the police an cort system are courpt an justise are not exc.

Where are the white teachers? They must be being sentenced by the black judge.

Most (43 out of 71) of the Georgia public schools tagged as "severe" on the state's 2010 list for suspected CRCT cheating were part of the Atlanta Public Schools. The Atlanta school district's taxpayer funding per pupil is $13150, which is 44.7% higher than the state average of $9089. Since these schools received more funding than the average Georgia public middle or elementary school does, it's obvious that something other than a lack of money was the problem. Furthermore, look at this. Breakdown By Expenditure (figures are per pupil). Instructional Atlanta School District: 56% ($7364) Georgia State Average: 64% ($5817) Student and staff support Atlanta School District: 14% ($1841) Georgia State Average: 9% ($818) Administration Atlanta School District: 16% ($2104) Georgia State Average: 10% ($909) Other expenditures Atlanta School District: 14% ($1841) Georgia State Average: 16% ($1454) Teacher and administrator compensation consumed an exorbitant part of the education financing in the Atlanta School District. Student and staff support in Atlanta is more than twice as great as in the average Georgia public elementary or middle school. And the same can be said of the Atlanta District school principals and senior administrators, who pocketed a disproportionately large share of the schools' budgets. Nonetheless, despite this grotesque diversion of funds, the per pupil _instructional_ costs in the Atlanta District were being subsidized with about 27% more money than was the case at the average Georgia school, in 2009. The problem, then, wasn't with financing. It was the result of two things: (1) Blacks and whites neither learn at the same rate, nor are they capable of being educated to the same extent, and (2) There is a _moral_ racial gap as well as an intellectual one. The people entrusted with the job of educating black children at a speed or to an extent exceeding their capabilities of learning were (black) people lacking enough integrity to stand up and tell their paymasters: "What you have asked us to do is not possible."