There are real criminals committing rapes and violent crimes that don't get this much time very sad.

A illinois woman got a 3 month shorter sentence for embezzling 53 million dollars.

It's much much worst when public officials like teachers or judges betray the public trust.

My god this is bullshit! imo fire the teachers but DONT THROW THEM IN JAIL!!!! SMFH

Where were those teachers when i was in highschool

The Justice System works after all! Being an educators is a privilege that cannot be taken lightly. These criminals deserve what they got.

How do you convict someone when state officials tell publishing companies to distort the truth? From what we were taught in school, to the legal system as well. Compare older books & resources from 1975 on back to the ones of today. You'll see the difference.

These people, immaterial of how crappy their job is, cheated and thought it was ok. Anyone protecting that or dismissing it missed the point. If my job is crappy, I look for another one and move on - I don't steal, lie, and cheat and then blame it on my job. Get for real here! The judge was highly irritated at the REFUSAL to accept any responsibility for their actions. You should be too, rather than protect them.

This is such a cruel day in the American court justice system. To the people saying they got what they deserve is just as cruel. These are teachers, our heros, our greatest contributors to society. Who should be treated as national gems. Instead REPUBLICANS gut every bit of funding towards school and creates no child left behind that is putting a tremendous amount of pressure on these teachers in order to keep their jobs. Yes they shouldn't have cheated. But due to their circumstances can you blame them? This is so painful to watch I cried. To see these beautiful black men and women who dedicsted their lives to teaching our children who ARE NOT A THREAT TO SOCIETY be wisked away to prison for 20 years for trying to survive a system that was set up to fail them is just so wrong. America what have you become? the people of America how did we get to this point where we allow the system to work entirely against us? I just can't believe this happened. When will we as people rise up against the foolishness and wake up. We need to be fully involved in the political system stay on top of what's going on ESPECIALLY BLACK PEOPLE. TURN OFF LIL WAYNE AND NICKI MINAJ AND ATLANTA HOUSE WIVES!!!!! TURN ON THE NEWS GET INVOLVED WITH WHAT'S GOING ON IN POLITICS. YOUR LIFE DEPENDS ON IT. Eventually they're gonna start taking us to prison for smiling the wrong way and will sneakily vote it into our system. IT'S TIME TO WAKE UP!!!!

all parties involved are to blame. teachers, lawyers and parents but most importantly the system.

they should concentrate and put the drug dealers in prison, for pushing tons of drugs in those poor neighborhoods, but no one said anyting abut that.

Makes me ashamed to be an American. Drug traffickers get lighter sentences. WTF!!!

Sad but unbelievable!

This is very sad for all involved, how are the children going to be made academically whole is the real question?

This is so wrong, this was not justice. These teachers should not go to prison for this. Our legal system is sad

who the heck were the jurors?

Children need to learn. That's all a child has. They should be ashamed of themselves but not thrown in jail.

How sad, it makes you wonder why people choose the education field. The pay is low and the Bulls... Is high

shameful...

Unexpected moment - 15:20

It is easy for all of us to say that they were wrong, and they were; however, not all school districts are equal and lack many resources that some other districts may have. Meaning that you can have multiple schools in one city, yet none of them share they same texts books or have access to the same additional resources. This is where standardized test become harder for the students as well as educators. When a student has not been exposed to such level of curriculum, then it is expected for them not to do well. This is a national problem because it is all over the country, not just in Atlanta. I graduated in 1997 in New England and these test were present then, schools with money succeeded, while low budget schools did not perform as well. Now as an adult, I hear about this case and wonder how can our educators all be on the same page when the pages are being flipped before they can reach it. I'm not saying those educators were right, but racketeering is a hard punishment that does not fit the crime.

They should lose their jobs and forfeit any money they received in the form of performance bonuses. They don't belong in Jail, this is not justice.

I would of ran out the court room and head to Cancun.. Lol.. Will they lose their retirement ?... So sad..

Sad, riveting, and well deserved.

When you try to cheat the system you get cuffed and stuffed.

They really sent them to jail? O my days

Wow, I can't believe this.

lack of morals is horrible....these are the educators setting examples for kids? Teaching them?

It's messed up that this judge is in here joking around with the jury while lives are being changed...

I think all these teachers got released and did no time

Good call judge. This was a rough day for teachers. BUT good teachers would not violate their core principals like these did. This should send a message for responsibility in the education field. It's funny how these attorneys felt that these clients were somehow above getting locked up for a couple days. To all the honest teachers out there keep your heads up and press on we support each and every one of you.

Terrible. I would NEVER encourage a young person to major in Education.

I can't imagine the teachers cheated for the students.......and going to jail... The students will graduate and live their lives and life go on..

This is why America ranks 17 in math and science. We have to bring Chinese and Indians to fill our hollow engineering and medical professions.

Do not pass go / go straight to jail

what did they do exactly?

Sad😢

Wait, so there are shooting going on and that's okay?! But this is not okay?! Wow what has come toooooo

Obama lost a bunch of voters today. Sad day for him.

Not one of them showed any REAL remorse for their crimes!!

Everyone of these people got exactly what he/she deserves. Whatever motive, pride, money, prestige, it was all sought at the expense of our future, our children. Grade changing parties?? These people were truly pious and felt themselves above the law, above integrity, above their whole community. Had they spent as much time and effort trying to mentor and tutor the kids who lagged behind, they may have earned that pride and piousness. Now, they are a band of pathetic losers. Dessa Curb:God's blessings on you for being the only one to stand up in the face of wrong.

I Love when they handcuff and take out the trash!

Soo what did they do?

They deserve every minute in jail

under what jurisdiction was this trial held, what was the corpus delectai? ASAP! I thought RICO was a federal law for Mobsters. Was this a fair trial, can anyone state the Valid Cause of Action. the judge, prosecutor cops and attorneys all officers of the court, Can anyone explain how this trial is in line with Constitutional Law & American Juris Prudence. Trial De Nueavo

Please every person that has the time to comment here take the time to write to the government office in your area and to the local news. Make noise because this is just one more case setting a precedent that makes it available to charge every teacher in the nation for every test correction if it is judged suspicious. Every parent every student made noise in the right manner they would have a flood they could not hold back. How much do we care? We here in Canada suffer many of the same injustice.

Will they be going to a white-collar prison?

WOW you know the prosecutor is trying to make a name when he hits teachers with RICO. I've seen ADA's do this with low level gang members (easy RICO case for the resume), but damn never seen one pull RICO on teachers.

Kudos to Judge Baxter and the Fulton County Prosecutor's Office!

🤔 Pitiful

I have to say I don't agree with the judge at all. However, the teachers have it hard but they also have it easier now than when I was in school. Its a double edge sword. Teachers can ignore or leave a child behind if him or her is disruptive in class. Teachers years ago would come to your home and chat with your parents. Teachers send tons of homework home with a first grader for the parent to teach their child too. As far as pay, I don't agree with a pay increase until the teachers and administrators take more interest in a child's education. Furthermore, if a teacher had confidence in what they've taught their students, they wouldn't worry with cheating on any scores. That judge seems very personal with his decision. They should've asked for another judge...if that was feasible. Just saying...

I like this Judge

why are they glad, sa d day for children. the 54th President of United States is in elementary school somewhere in us truth integrity commitment must be wrote on paper and thrown in trash in atlanta

Owned

I'm all for tough sentences, but even I was shocked at the sentences these people received. You would think you were watching the Nuremberg Trials or something.

Violation of public trust is a crime. They did the crime. They were convicted. They received zero preferential treatment. This is the way it should work. I do not feel sorry for any of them!

This whole situation is just said for the kids and the teachers. I feel sorry for them all. It's like you do your damned if you don't your damned

O this is evil

Teachers are the mentors, the leaders of our generation. What they teach is what we, as students, learn. Should they have cheated? No. That bieng said, thier sentences were harsh and hardly fair. There are bad people in this world that get away with the worst of crimes with a slap on the wrist. We really need to change the way justice works because this was, put simply, messed up. And im not saying that out of bias. Sure im a student, i believe what they did was wrong, but worth bieng ripped out of your life and shoved in prison for years? Not at all. Horrible.

School is not for everybody

Buenos diasI A mi no me da ninguna lastima de gente que son un equipo de profesorados/as que han estudiado una carrera para enseñar a los alumnos/as y que se dediquen a crear una red pirata "podemos decir", que se inventen las calificaciones de las notas de los alumnos/as del centro que puede ser o pueda estar pasando. Sinceramente no siento lastima, por que el daño lo hacen ellos a los niños/as que son estudiantes, que pueden o no gustar estudiar, pero son personas, son víctimas cómo podíamos ser cualquier persona que léa esta situación. ¿Me explico? Por supuesto que un centro escolar donde se enseña educación, a crear sus propios logros y tirar con la ayuda de los equipos profesorados/as que realmente son sus guías y que les guían su día a día y tengan que crear una red para hacer ilusiones que luego en la vida real se crea una investigación. Si en una clase hay: 15 alumnos o mas y los 15 aprueban algo pasa. A sí que se considera delito de usurpación de información, penal por supuesto y administrativo. Yo soy de España Barcelona, y cada país tiene su método de ley, sus veredictos y su forma de enseñar, pero jamas se puede jugar con los demás y crear una ilusión que al día de mañana les pueden afectar. Si es cierto en escuelas privadas, que hay casos de centros que pagas una cantidad de dinero y es como que les estas pagando a la dirección y profesores para que te pasen de curso. Escuelas que te hacen ir en verano pagando una cantidad alta económica por 1 mes, en la cual esa cantidad es lo pagas mensual durante el curso. Por desgracia a mi me paso, no se agrava como algo grave, pero si paso el caso de: ir 1 mes de verano pagando el mismo presupuesto mensual que se pagaba durante 12 meses del curso mensual y te hacían ir 30 días de verano de: JULIO y resulta que yo descubrí que fui en verano, cuando la diploma ya estaba firmado desde Junio y firmado por Juan Carlos en este caso de España. Y lo descubrí gracias a que en el centro privado que iba no veía cosas muy normales, la actitud de los profesores etc. Gracias por su atención y saludos (Nicolae Mateo)

Sad- but will the Wealthy in the college cheating scandal suffer the same? Some of the ladies are so beautiful. Their children will suffer from this.

This is bullshit. They've got to have some appealable issues to take up with the state court of appeals. The worse that should have happened is getting fired of course, and blackballed. That should've been it. Not prison.

Bad teachers DESTROY their OWN children while smiling at everyone else. Have the natural children of these "people" come forward and defended them as just parents that first excelled them as straight-A students from elementary school to healthy adult career success?

the short bailiff was kinda hot!!!!

Some more serious FELONS off the streets!

This example of poor judgement, bad leadership and the abandonment of the most basic principles is shameful, however we will only do more harm if we react to these events rather than make good plans for our future. Our children deserve our best, they deserve a future of their choosing and an education to compliment that freedom for their choices. Let's not react, let's think deliberately about what works and what will work the very best for everyone. Look at the work Geoffrey Canada has done in the freedom schools. We can make schools good for our children if we choose to do so.

Whites love it

Police committee criminal acts no trouble but send teachers to prison ' really want to leave America

I commend this Judge for treating them just like any other criminal! Maybe they can start classes in prison to teach other inmates! That would be a great thing to do and make up for what they did to these children. Shame on them! I hope it takes them a few days to bond out before sentencing. If it were me I would be very worried about what this Judge was going to sentence me to. Because the way he spoke he is just SICK over what they did. Give them the MAX Judge!

I’m sure the racist comments are going to come up but somehow they got treated unfairly

Sometimes the educated are often the most uneducated. The travesty here is the fact that the government places poor educational curriculum in African-American communities which has no value for their lives and certain doesn't help to further their chances of getting into college.....the system is set up for them to become the laborers for minimum wage. Plato once held that education was a matter to be controlled by the state, so it's no surprise that the state and judge was harsh on these suspects. White students and teachers have cheated the system for years, but no one has addressed this issue............because they are still trying to justify that bullsh......"Bell Curve" theory in an attempt to ignore the "Law of Polarity" which says that everything has its polar opposite. The things that children should be learning aren't being taught in African-American schools, but the White kids are being taught the information which helps to expand the mind in their schools.

With all those blacks there I wasnt sure if I was looking at a court in Somalia or Kenya!!!

So glad they went right then... Hahaha. Thieves.. ruined how many kids? Maybe you will meet a few in the jail and will be faced with the outcome of your theft... Stolen chances from those kids

They did thier time

They change my grade and I came out great ,they are hero the system messed up,who cares about. Christopher Columbus etc ,