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"A former teacher at Douglass Mid-High School in Oklahoma City says she witnessed school leaders changing grades.Stephanie Thompson told KOCO Eyewitness News 5 on Friday that there were times when teachers weren't even allowed to give homework.A federal investigation is under way to look at allegations of grade tampering and attendance record manipulation.Click here to read about the allegations.From 2006 to 2010, Thompson was an English teacher at Douglass. She said that she loved the students but felt forced to leave after questioning the tactics of the administration.\"I loved teaching. I didn't want to leave, but I did feel like I was being bullied by Dr. Staples,\" she said.Staples is at the center of the investigation by the U.S. Department of Education.\"Since we were the lowest performing school, there was some pressure to turn things around due to No Child Left Behind,\" Thompson said.She told KOCO that Staples would do anything to make it look like the school was improving.\"I would notice that I would enter one particular grade, maybe a poor or failing grade of D or F, and when the students would receive the progress or grade report, it would be changed to a C,\" Thompson said.Thompson alleges that Staples changed the grades. She said she also believes he doctored attendance records and manipulated the state testing process to boost scores.\"We have pretests, and if a student wasn't doing well on the pretests, he would enroll them in a remedial English class, which didn't count,\" she said.Thompson said even her daughter's grades were changed. She ended up being salutatorian at Douglass.Oklahoma City Superintendent Karl Springer responded to the investigation.\"The district investigation is ongoing. We are fully cooperating with the United States Department of Education,\" he said."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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