High school student paper vets new principal, finds bogus credentials

[apeman33]

The students at Pittsburg (Kan.) High School's Booster Redux find bogus credentials while looking up background on the new high-school principal. Turns out they can't prove the school she got her Masters and Doctorate from exists or ever did and she fibbed about her degree from the University of Tulsa.

New Pittsburg, Kan., High School principal resigns after student journalists question her credentials

The principal resigned tonight without ever getting the chance to take the position.

Robertson Resigns — Incoming PHS principal quits before starting work

 

[JohnHammond]

Embarrassing the local paper didn't catch this.

 

[cisforkoke]

Facts in the article were apparently incorrect, too. Road numbers are almost always wrong in any newspaper.

 

[Jake_Taylor]

Embarrassing the local paper didn't catch this.

The school paper hadn't laid off the education reporter yet.

 

[JohnHammond]

Facts in the article were apparently incorrect, too. Road numbers are almost always wrong in any newspaper.

Slightly funny the commenters on the newspaper story who pointed that "University of Cambridge" is really "Cambridge University" were wrong.

 

[TheSportsPredictor]

Embarrassing the local paper didn't catch this.

Two months later, almost to the second. Welcome back!

 

[cjericho]

Two months later, almost to the second. Welcome back!

Was that ban one month shorter than Dickie's?

 

[HanSenSE]

The school paper hadn't laid off the education reporter yet.

Is he/she also covering golf? [/crossthread]

 

[MTM]

Embarrassing the local paper didn't catch this.

Embarrassing for the school district that didn't do its job in vetting the principal

 

[playthrough]

Is he/she also covering golf? [/crossthread]

Was on the way to Augusta and couldn't cover this.

 

[Gator]

Was that ban one month shorter than Dickie's?

I was wondering what happened to **** Whitman ... is he serving a little suspension?

 

[cjericho]

I was wondering what happened to **** Whitman ... is he serving a little suspension?

Have no inside knowledge so can't say for sure, but that seems to be the case. On another thread, it appeared DW was posting under another name.

 

[cisforkoke]

Slightly funny the commenters on the newspaper story who pointed that "University of Cambridge" is really "Cambridge University" were wrong.

Speaking of Cambridge:

What organ transplant is easiest to get in England, and what is the hardest to get?

 

[Vombatus]

Speaking of Cambridge:

What organ transplant is easiest to get in England, and what is the hardest to get?

****?

 

[cisforkoke]

England does not have a kidney bank, but it does have a Liverpool.

 

[HanSenSE]

The students breaking the story will be on Jake Tapper's show today.

 

[fossywriter8]

England does not have a kidney bank, but it does have a Liverpool.

 

[Pilot]

We mostly watched movies and played cards in my high school journalism class. Every so often it still amazes me how worthless that experience was. Our teacher didn't exactly set a high bar.

 

[Central-KY-Kid]

The managing editor used "whether or not" twice.

Yikes.

And an online university in the mid 90s didn't throw up a red flag to the community newspaper or the school board?
K.
Weren't some of us still using AOL dial-up or Netscape Navigator and that particular time?