“These people have to pay. You got paid to get a job and you didn’t do it. It was not like you worked at UPS and the packages didn’t get there. Your job are was our children. … I am disappointed it has come to this. Atlanta is the capital city of the South. And now we’re known for having the worst cheating scandal ever.”
— Parent Shelby McDonald, a graduate of North Atlanta High School whose daughter attends Atlanta Heights Charter School.
“I can assure you they were not a part of some grand scheme, some pseudo-enterprise as related to testing. Not by any stretch of the imagination have they done that.”
— Atlanta attorney George Lawson, who represents three high-ranking former administrators indicted Friday.
“I’ve been saying this from the beginning: Beverly Hall needed to take the fall for this. I think the principals were bullied to do this. She got the most money out of this… . I’ve got a lot to be angry about.”
— Chandra Gallashaw, the mother of two current APS students, including a ninth-grader who attended two of the schools at which cheating is alleged to have taken place.
“This cheating scandal has been extremely detrimental to Atlanta. We can’t debate about that. We’re going to suffer the consequences of this for years.”
— George G. Andrews, founder, president and CEO of Capitol City Bank & Trust Co. “
“We will not accept any cheating. We’ve taken a lot of measures to make sure that doesn’t happen. I’m very confident we will not have any more issues from a cheating perspective at Atlanta Public Schools.”
— Reuben McDaniel, chairman of the Atlanta school board
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