My first question after reading about seven teachers in an Atlanta public school accused of altering standardized test scores to make it appear students performed better than they actually did was: How could they!?

The seven were nicknamed “the chosen,” and, according to Georgia state investigator Richard Hyde, the less-than-magnificent seven sat in a locked room without windows, erasing wrong answers and inserting correct ones. It’s one thing for a child to cheat on a test; it’s quite another for teachers to do it.