She had enough qulaifications to last 28 years there, and keep getting promoted until she was at a level where she was deciding what students got in. I imagine it would have been discovered a long time ago, if she did have the necessary qualifications to perform the various jobs she’s held there. My point is that our society has become obsessed with “credentials”, in many cases dumping actual qualifications out of the selection process completely. The federal and most state governments are among the most egregious examples of this. Nearly all positions require one or more “degrees”, but there are tens of thousands of lazy and/or incompetent government workers who have the requisite degrees but lack the qualifications. And many applicants for the same jobs who DID have the qualifications were turned away for lack of the requisite degrees. Public school teachers are probably the most destructive example of this process. State governments, in collusion with unions, have passed laws and regulations requiring degrees in “education” or at least “teaching certification”. Acquiring either involves spending huge amounts of time doing truly idiotic things and listening to truly idiotic lectures, so many brilliant people who would make excellent teachers are excluded from jobs teaching in public schools, while all sorts of barely literate people get these jobs on the basis of their “credentials”. I’d have a lot of trouble getting worked up about it, if some well-educated, highly motivated person got a public school teaching job by falsely claiming to have a degree from one of our nation’s teacher’s colleges, and proceeded to move up the ranks and make a real positive difference in the schools.