A San Diego-area school district superintendent was fired this week, nearly a year after students alleged she threatened to ban them from graduation ceremonies after they inadequately applauded her daughter at a banquet.
The board that oversees the roughly 35,000-student Poway Unified School District voted unanimously to dismiss Marian Kim Phelps during a closed-door meeting on Tuesday.
In a statement read by President Michelle O’Connor-Ratcliff, the board said it “has lost all confidence and trust in Dr. Phelps’ ability to continue to serve as superintendent.”
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Players, coaches and parents allege that Phelps bullied and harassed members of the softball team at Del Norte High School, a Poway Unified campus in San Diego, during an after-season team banquet on May 30, 2023. Phelps, players alleged, was upset that her daughter, who was named team MVP that evening, did not receive applause from her teammates Phelps deemed adequate.
The perceived slight, players alleged, prompted Phelps to launch an investigation — and threaten to bar seniors from participating in their graduation ceremonies.
She didn’t “investigate”, she threatened children.
She used an “investigation” in an effort to make the threat actionable, though. She wasn’t done after the threats.
The fact that the team didn’t applaud for his daughter when she won mvp, tells me his daughter likely didn’t earn it and was given mvp due to nepotism
It doesn’t even say they didn’t applaud, just that it wasn’t enough applause. It could have been a totally reasonable amount of clapping and this lady was mad there wasn’t a standing ovation.
You didn’t read more than the headline, I see.
“Please clap.”
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Pleaseclap.”“Clap, or else.”
She probably fits right in with today fascist.
Today’s fascist? School officials were fascists back when I was a kid.
Check out this lady’s salary if you want to be depressed about how wealthy she was, or laugh at what she threw this all away over
For comparison, POTUS makes $400K
This level of butthurt is crazy.
