Via Gawker:
Schoolhouse Crock
A Bronx teacher who repeatedly flunked his state certification exam paid a formerly homeless man with a developmental disorder $2 to take the test for him, authorities said yesterday.
The illegal stand-in - who looks nothing like [38 year-old] teacher Wayne Brightly - not only passed the high-stakes test, he scored so much better than the teacher had previously that the state knew something was wrong, officials said....
[At] Brightly's Mount Vernon home yesterday, a man who strongly resembled him insisted [formerly homeless man Rubin] Leitner took the test on his own. The man, who appeared to be in his late 30s, denied being Brightly - saying he was the teacher's son.
[To the tune of Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young, "Teach Your Children," from the album "So Far".]
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