The collective idiocy of the high-stakes testing regime seems to have reached its apogee as a Texas middle school principal threatened to kill a group of science teachers if their students did not improve their standardized test scores.
Principal John Burks made the threat in a Jan. 21 meeting with eighth-grade science teachers.
Veteran teacher Anita White told the Houston Chronicle that Burks said “if the TAKS scores were not as expected he would kill the teachers.” White said “He said ‘I will kill you all and kill myself.’ He finished the meeting that way and we were in shock. Obviously, we talked about it among ourselves. He just threatened our lives. After he threatened to kill us, he said, ‘You don’t know how ruthless I can be.’ “We walked out of the meeting just totally dumbfounded because it was not a joke.”
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