Attorney For Cleared APS Teachers;Evidence Was Never There
Atlanta attorney Quinton Washington describes his client’s feelings as ecstatic.
They both denied any cheating at Finch Elementary School.
Their attorney says a different story would have been told if they appeared before a tribunal hearing,
“the person that alluded to the fact that they [Florence and Thomas-Wilson] may have cheated, I knew for a hundred percent would not go into a tribunal and say that she knew that. Which at that point meant the only thing they would have had was the erasure analysis.”
That analysis indicated a high number of wrong to right erasures found on their students 2009 CRCT exams.
“The erasure analysis may be true but the erasure analysis does not mean that they were the people who erased the answers,” says Washington.
Earlier this year, Washington says his clients volunteered information to the Fulton County district attorney’s office.
“I reached out to them about wanting to talk to them as they were doing the investigation so that way I could help them reach a conclusion faster because I knew the evidence wasn’t there.”
Washington says his clients are not upset with APS.
Both have been offered contracts for the upcoming school year however; neither has made a decision in returning to the district.
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