Around the country, teachers have been forced to deal with the aftermath of President George W. Bush’s No Child Left Behind. One of the most recent groups of victims of the program are a series of teachers in Atlanta who have been caught in a cheating scandal.

Thom Hartmann breaks down how No Child Left Behind was designed to eradicate funding to lower-income schools and that these teachers were most likely just trying to survive in a system that’s stacked against them.

Watch.