A teacher at an elite New York City school has been pulled from her classroom for giving students top scores on a mandatory citywide exam, without actually administering the test, the New York Daily news reports.
Alexandra Karlson, a third-grade teacher at the Anderson School for gifted children was suspended after an investigation found she had failed to administer the Early Childhood Literacy Assessments, but still "marked every student at the highest level" on the standardized reading exam. Further details of Karlson's employment status have not been disclosed.
"How could she think she'd get away with it?" a parent of a student in Karlson's class asked the Daily News. "When a whole class of kids doesn't take a test, people will find out. Kids talk."
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