By Dr. John Trotter

  Yes, at least DeKalb’s Central Office Administrator Bob Moseley admitted to the cheating at Atherton Elementary School in DeKalb County.  This is a bit refreshing.  I know Bob, and I have found him to be even-handed.  He probably is the most qualified administrator in DeKalb to be the superintendent in DeKalb.  Did you hear this, DeKalb County School Board?  Oops!  He doesn't qualify after all.  He's the wrong color.  Robert Moseley is white.  This is another little dirty secret which I will let out of the bag...predominantly black school systems, like predominantly white school systems, are also racist in their approaches about who receives which appointments, if any.  Jobs in public schools are made based on racial considerations.  This is simply a given.  Tokens (be they black tokens or white tokens) are thrown in the mix to create some deniability, but nevertheless my assertion here is true.  Public school systems' decisions (eminating from the elected board members) invariably are race-based -- despite the hollow and empty protestations to the contrary.  This is unfortunate that promotions are not based on merit but on racism, cronyism, nepotism, sororityism, fraternityism, churchism, clubism, and, of course, who's-sleeping-with-whomism.  Sorry, Bob, but you are simply the wrong color in "Premier" DeKalb.  The citizens of DeKalb will just have to suffer under the clownism of Crawford Lewis.  Your colleagues did not want to face the music, and you were given this onerous task of facing the media about the egregious cheating.  You were a "stand-up" guy.  We at MACE have known about the serious allegations of systematic cheating in DeKalb for quite some time now.  We have written about it and filed grievances about it but, of course, the good senator's, Ron Ramsey's, office just shuts down a grievance which "Premier" DeKalb apparently does not want to hear for fear of more sordid exposure.  So, we have also picketed on several occasions about this systematic cheating.