“Theoretically, she would have benefited because it would have been reflected in her scores,” Steve Dackin, the superintendent of Reynoldsburg City Schools told The Dispatch.
A middle-school teacher in the suburbs of Columbus, Ohio resigned on Tuesday over charges that she told a bunch of gifted fifth- and sixth-grade students to fail a science test on purpose.
The teacher, Heather Campbell, allegedly told her students to draw pictures of stuff instead of actually attempting to answer questions, reports The Columbus Dispatch. They allegedly responded by illustrating things like cats and rocks in the places where they supposed to provide test answers. They also scribbled shorthand texting slang such as LOL and IDK.
Campbell, 39, had been a second-year teacher at Waggoner Road Junior High School in Reynoldsburg.
The test, a science assessment, was part of the local school district’s new teacher evaluation system. Under the new system, the district will grade all teachers. Among the criteria is a measurement of how much students have improved over the course of the school year. Presumably, the test near the beginning of the year would serve as a benchmark.
Classroom observation makes up the other part of the grading criteria.
Campbell’s motivations were not clear. The Dispatch was unable to contact her.
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