Special meeting set for Piper board

The Kansas City Star ^ | 3/31/02 | MARK WIEBE

[KC Burke]

The Piper school board has scheduled a special meeting for 7 p.m. Tuesday to address the ongoing plagiarism dispute.

The agenda calls for a discussion of the Wyandotte County district attorney's civil complaint that board members violated the Kansas Open Meetings Act on Dec. 11. The complaint contends that the board, behind closed doors, discussed alleged plagiarism. Board members are thought to have overridden a biology teacher's decision to give failing grades to 28 students she had accused of plagiarism.

The board has until Wednesday to respond to the complaint.

The agenda also calls for the board to discuss the grading of the botany assignment that the students allegedly plagiarized and to vote on the language of a news release related to the plagiarism issue.

The meeting will be in the auditorium at Piper High School, 4400 N. 107th St. in Kansas City, Kan.

[KC Burke]

Tonight's meeting on this item is supposed to close with a joint announcement with the local Prosecutor as to how the violation of the Kansas Sunshine Law will be dealt with. The proposed list of items needed to put this behind the district, as prepared by the Teachers, has never been acknowledged or addressed.

The last thread was Parents Seeking Ouster of Piper School Board President, Two Members

Other previous threads will be added below.

[KC Burke]

Other threads are:

Tomasic Accuses...

What About the 90 Who Played it Straight?

The original TV 5 Article

TroutStalker finds the first Newspaper Article: "Teacher Quits..."

TopQuark also Posts the KC Star

Cincinatus'Wife posts the first Chicago Tribune Editorial

It has also been carried by AP, been discussed by various Universities in Kansas and thereby reported in Wichita, Topeka, Manhattan, Lawrence and other area papers and media. National coverage and international coverage has been extensive in print and broadcast media.

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[Bahbah]

I'm befuddled. Does this mean that the only issue for resolution is whether the Sunshine law was violated? If the answer is yes, do they have to hold the meeting again in public? That would be interesting. Looks like they are going to perhaps skate on this one which would be pretty dreadful.

[Bahbah]

I'm befuddled. Does this mean that the only issue for resolution is whether the Sunshine law was violated? If the answer is yes, do they have to hold the meeting again in public? That would be interesting. Looks like they are going to perhaps skate on this one which would be pretty dreadful.

[KC Burke]

The radio is reporting that they plan to discuss the whole Plagerism Grading Reversal event and then close with the announcement, issued jointly with the Prosecutor, as to the resolution of the inquiry into wrongful actions by the board.

I believe they will fail to set a full and detailed course to recover from this event, but we can always hope.

[TroutStalker]

They will come to a resolution with the prosecutor on the sunshine law, declare the issue "settled" without resolving the basic issues the teachers and parents are most interested in, and declare it's time to move on. Unfortunately, for the students, it will be the competent teachers who will move on.

Let the recall proceed and give the community an opportunity to elect new board members who can articulate their ideas rather than clam up under fire.