The Case of the Embezzling Principal

Another report about the Stansberry scandal, with the district saying it's changing a policy requiring employees to report arrests:




An arrest after being hired is one thing, but if a principal has sealed files from a previous district where he or she committed professional misconduct and resigned in lieu of dismissal, there isn't one damned thing any employer or the media can do to make that information public. The only reason WCSD is trying to cover its tracks is because the local media made the district aware of Stansberry's conviction.

I have been told there is at least one other WCSD principal who has been with the district a number of years who had a sealed file when this individual was hired from another district. The person was alleged to have committed some fairly serious misconduct. However, there is no way the media or the school district can investigate this person because the circumstances remain confidential. WCSD, like so many school districts around the country, has a serious principal/administrator problem. Stansberry may well be the first principal ever fired outright by the district, but there should have been many, many more for various instances of professional misconduct and incompetence. Instead, they are moved around, promoted, or demoted. They are allowed to remain and pad their pensions.