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 ...
Sounds like the principal was chosen by a “faculty committee”.
I bet her resume was dripping with all sorts of liberal nonsense that got her the job.
No verifiable credentials... lived in the middle east.
And they were just about to introduce this awesome new religious studies program. Well at least one religion.
My wife works for a rather large medical organization.
As one of their PR people, part of her job is to do research on the backgrounds of people who are promoted or getting new positions.
I wish I could tell you she never uncovered a scandal. But some of them are just too easy to find.
I was thinking along those same lines.
The professional stenographers in the media, should take a lesson!
We could use some investigative journalists like these in the networks and major print news.
The problem is they would only be allowed to investigate conservatives and republicans.
https://www.facebook.com/Corllins-University-208166832556111/
https://www.geteducated.com/diploma-mill-police/degree-mills-list/corllins-university
https://www.complaintsboard.com/complaints/corllins-university-c468391.html
Sic these kids on Obama’s background! they have more gumption than the MSM.
She was probably related to someone on the School Board.
Yes indeed. Very odd!
And there are questions now about her undergraduate degree.
Just a few days before, the brain dead Superintendent said this:
...Superintendent maintains new principal highly qualified, best candidate...
My guess is that Robertson got hired on as a teacher in Dubai fifteen years ago...having a bachelor’s degree.
Disappeared off the charts for one year, and came back for a better position, and showing a master’s degree from the Corllins University (fake). Things went fine, and five or six years later...leaves again for a year or two...shows them some PhD and gets the head-master job for the Dubai school, with another fake degree.
She probably worked three or four years....and applies back to US schools. This Kansas school is in a fairly rural area, and they weren’t going to pay the going rate for PhD-level instructors....and Robertson applied. Did a good interview and that was the end of that.
About fifteen years ago....the US Army woke up and realized that they had a problem with fake degree folks who’d been hired for GS-12/13 jobs. They were all dragged in and told to either quit or be fired.
Many people who work at schools are just dumb. The women who worked at our local school office used to send out “warnings” about various things to the parents. It was obvious their source of information was emails forwarded by friends.
I went in one day to show them how to do web searches for hoaxes. They didn’t know they could.
The school district’s web site still has this:
http://www.usd250.org/single-post/2017/03/30/Dr-Robertson-Brings-Decades-of-Experience-to-PHS
This is so great ! The students doing the school board’s due diligence.
For a brief moment, I thought it happened in my beloved Pittsburgh, PA, only to discover it was Pittburg, Kansas. I should’ve known better.
There were some similar situations in Oklahoma in the early 1980s of some faculty and Dept. of Education personnel who had shady/shoddy credentials.
Some of those credentials were from colleges that did not exist or were degree mills.
IIRC, around 10 education-related persons were caught up in the scandal and lost their jobs.
As with this situation, the bigger question should have been: Who hired them and why, without a full background check?
‘A group of reporters and editors from the student newspaper, the Booster Redux’
They were one letter off from getting your name right.
;)
Neither did your English teacher! The school board didn't do its job.
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