Only in Kansas...Maybe they need to fire the Super, looks like he has no clue how to conduct a search. School District Superintendent Destry Brown told the Kansas City Star he felt like he had let his teachers and students down. Maddie Baden, a 17-year-old junior at Pittsburg High, said: “That raised a red flag. If students could uncover all of this, I want to know why the adults couldn’t find this.
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It began as a routine interview between an incoming principal and a high school newspaper — but just days after a group of student journalists at a Kansas high school published their findings and raised questions surrounding their newly-hired headmaster's credentials, she resigned.
Amy Robertson, who was hired to be the head principal of Pittsburg High School in Kansas on March 6, resigned on Tuesday, according to the Pittsburg Community Schools Board of Education. Her resignation followed a front-page story from student newspaper Booster Redux published on Friday.
The group of students did some digging and could not find proof that the private university where Robertson said she had received both a masters and doctorate degree, Corllins University, was a legitimate institution, according to their report.
"She was going to be the head of our school, and we wanted be assured that she was qualified and had the proper credentials," Trina Paul, a senior and an editor of the newspaper, told the Kansas City Star. "We stumbled on some things that most might not consider legitimate credentials."
Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2017/04/principal-quits-after-students-probe-her-credentials/#yJxuJJYkbYk431er.99
http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...dent-journalists-question-credentials-n743021
It began as a routine interview between an incoming principal and a high school newspaper — but just days after a group of student journalists at a Kansas high school published their findings and raised questions surrounding their newly-hired headmaster's credentials, she resigned.
Amy Robertson, who was hired to be the head principal of Pittsburg High School in Kansas on March 6, resigned on Tuesday, according to the Pittsburg Community Schools Board of Education. Her resignation followed a front-page story from student newspaper Booster Redux published on Friday.
The group of students did some digging and could not find proof that the private university where Robertson said she had received both a masters and doctorate degree, Corllins University, was a legitimate institution, according to their report.
"She was going to be the head of our school, and we wanted be assured that she was qualified and had the proper credentials," Trina Paul, a senior and an editor of the newspaper, told the Kansas City Star. "We stumbled on some things that most might not consider legitimate credentials."
