NYT: TM Landry falsified transcripts

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News of the Broussard boy’s low test scores spread last fall, and at least eight parents interviewed by The Times had their own students assessed. Of their 11 students, only two were performing at grade level, while the rest had fallen behind or made no progress. One junior was performing at a fourth-grade level in reading and math.

Dodie Thomas, a T.M. Landry grandmother, said she discovered that her 6-year-old granddaughter had never learned phonics and that she could not read. She played with Legos most of the day.

“I feel like I’ve paid for a high-priced babysitter,” Ms. Thomas said.

Middle and high school students said they mostly completed worksheets that were recycled every few weeks. They came to recognize the failures in the school.

“It was like building a house on water,” Tyler Sassau said.

High school students took ACT practice tests day after day and sporadically attended classes. Bryson Sassau, who took the ACT three times, said that once he got to college, he realized an education that revolved around test preparation had ill-served him. “If it wasn’t on the ACT, I didn’t know it,” he said.

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he realized an education that revolved around test preparation had ill-served him

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an education that revolved around test preparation

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Mr. Landry admitted that he hit students and could be rough. “Oh, I yell a lot,” he said. He goads black and white students to compete against one another because that is how the real world works, he said.

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Landry success stories have been splashed in the past two years on the “Today” show, “Ellen” and the “CBS This Morning.”

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