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| Palm Beach County gets their monies worth from the school board, hiring and firing dozens at a time. |
Sun Sentinel - The Palm Beach County School Board on Wednesday will vote on whether to fire five employees, including a principal accused of stealing furniture from her school, a janitor caught naked in a school storage room and a female reading teacher who is accused of having sex with an 18-year-old student.
A pillar of higher education I'm sure...the details:
1) According to a district report, on Nov. 30, 2010, an assistant principal heard a noise in the orchestra strings storage room at Bak Middle School of the Arts in West Palm Beach and went to investigate. She found Rivera-Ortiz, a custodial foreman at the school, naked in the storage room, according to the report. It does not disclose what Rivera-Ortiz was doing inside the storage room.
Well to be fair I have always heard that when cleaning with industrial strength chemicals, its best to have as much exposed skin as possible in poorly ventilated areas.
2) Maloney, 49, took over as principal of the school but was removed last year after a district investigation alleged that she stole a saxophone, a projector, a laptop and about $14,000 in furniture from her school. A district investigative report alleged that Maloney gave the furniture to another district employee, former Area Director of School Accountability Delorisa Brown, to be used at her business, Brown's Funeral Home in Lantana.
The most puzzling part of the story, what is a funeral home doing with $14k of school furniture? Are mourners going and paying their respects while seated in a room with 100’s of those desk/chair combos with the cubby underneath? Can adults even fit in those chairs? I always remember seeing parents during parent teacher nights awkwardly straddling the line between squeezing themselves into these childrens desks or trying to pull off the “cool parent leaning on the desk look.” Not a good look while paying your last respects.
3) The district is also recommending firing 29-year-old Palm Beach Central High School reading teacher Susan Keppers, whom the district report alleges had a sexual relationship with an 18-year-old student in January.
The story just kinda throws this in as an after thought, no real details for us, "oh yea, and another Florida teacher was caught fornicating with a student, so there's that too."
Which all begs the question, just what the hell is going on down there in Florida? Are they just hiring anyone off the street? Can I stroll in today and get hired for the empty Principal's job? Set me up in an office where I can blog and discipline students as necessary? Sounds like a cushy gig.
