Nineteen students accused of cheating on online courses have been suspended from an Atlanta high school.
An Atlanta Public Schools spokeswoman called the case “an isolated incident.”
But the alleged cheating comes after staff at the same school warned the school board that students in online classes were awarded grades they did not earn. And it comes a year after students at another Atlanta high school used a teacher's account to change online course grades.
In Atlanta, as in many districts nationally, more students are taking classes online as part of regular instruction and to make up credit for failed classes. Atlanta’s expanding use of online classes includes the use of “blended learning” at Crim, which entails online work supervised by in-person teachers.
The Crim teacher whose online credentials were compromised this year “was counseled by school administrators on how to safeguard program passwords in the classroom,” Atlanta Public Schools spokeswoman Kimberly Willis Green said, and her password has been changed.
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