Posted on 04/05/2017 6:32:23 AM PDT by glorgau
Connor Balthazor, 17, was in the middle of study hall when he was called into a meeting with his high school newspaper adviser.
A group of reporters and editors from the student newspaper, the Booster Redux at Pittsburg High School in southeastern Kansas, had gathered to talk about Amy Robertson, who was hired as the high school’s head principal on March 6.
The student journalists had begun researching Robertson, and quickly found some discrepancies in her education credentials.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
Now THAT is freedom of the press.
“OK, the newly hired Principal resigned, but what about the hiring committee that failed to do proper due diligence?”
Hey, it’s the NEA. Standards? They don’t need no stinkin’ standards.
Kicking out the principal is on most high schoolers list.
I wish a team of even high school students had looked into the thug from Indonesia/Hawaii/Chicago in as much depth!
Yes you would. Yes you would.
Better information:
http://www.kansascity.com/news/local/article142682464.html
...Students journalists published a story Friday questioning the legitimacy of the private college — Corllins University — where Robertson got her master’s and doctorate degrees years ago.
U.S. Department of Education officials, contacted by The Star, confirmed student reports; the federal agency could not find evidence of Corllins in operation. The school wasn’t included among the agency’s list of schools closed since 1986...
...Robertson, who has lived off and on for 19 years in Dubai, United Arab Emirates...
K-12 education in the US has gone from the best to worse-than-mediocre in the last half century. It was led there by our MSED’s and EDD’s, the products of our schools of education.
Walter Williams hit the nail on the head five years ago:
https://www.creators.com/read/walter-williams/01/12/schools-of-education
No MSM outlet in its right mind would allow this story to hit the airwaves.
Kids doing it right.
"The resignation thrust the student newspaper staff into local, state and national news, with professional journalists nationwide applauding the students for asking tough questions and prompting change in their administration.""Professional journalists"?!? Certainly not from the fifth-column leftist media, who carefully avoid asking hard questions, especially to Demonicrat politicians, and only ask agenda-driven gotcha question to Republicans.
Indeed. But I find it very, very odd that there is no picture of this person in either of the two articles I looked at. Even odder is that whoever wrote these stories thought that the names and pictures of the <18 year old journalists (at least one for sure) is okay but not one picture of this esteemed principal.
The Pittsburg Community School Board should be asked to resign for hiring this diploma-mill con artist.
School Administrators are this country’s highest-paid migrant workers. This is an unusually occurrence. Most of the time, when they are either “found out” or are seen as ineffective, the school board “pays them off” because of their muiti-year employment contract, and they move on to the next school district to wreak havoc there. Sorta double dipping because they are worthless.
Right, the school board didn’t do it’s job.
This happened also at my private high school. They hired a PhD from a top university to teach Biology, and by the end of the first semester the smarter kids could tell they knew more about biology than he did. The students checked with that top university who said they never heard from him, and he was gone the next day.
>> “She was going to be the head of our school, and we wanted be assured that she was qualified and had the proper credentials,”
Maybe kansascity.com could hire one of the students as an editor. There seems to BE a word missing in this sentence.
17. Get control of the schools. Use them as transmission belts for socialism and current Communist propaganda. Soften the curriculum. Get control of teachers’ associations. Put the party line in textbooks.
18. Gain control of all student newspapers.
Communist Goals (1963) Congressional Record—Appendix, pp. A34-A35 January 10, 1963
Current Communist Goals EXTENSION OF REMARKS OF HON. A. S. HERLONG, JR. OF FLORIDA IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Thursday, January 10, 1963 .
Can't argue with that.
I think I know where you’re going with that, and I reckon you are onto something.
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