"Cheating was swept under the rug"

Huffington Post - Cari Shane Parvin: Cheating 201 (Part III)

Turns out teachers at a local DC school had been trying for years to turn in one of the leaders of the Churchill High School cheating scandal but the administration at the school kept telling them it wasn't worth the hassle...

"We had been waiting years for him to be caught. Years!" says a teacher at a different school who had taught one of the students at the center of the suburban DC cheating ring. "Every time we went to the administration about another cheating episode, we were told not to pursue it and the cheating was swept under the rug..."