A California faculty district axed its superintendent this week – practically a yr after college students claimed she threatened to ban them from commencement festivities for failing to clap loudly sufficient for her daughter at a sports activities banquet.
The board overseeing the 35,000-student Poway Unified College District in San Diego voted unanimously to dismiss Marian Kim Phelps on Tuesday throughout a closed-door assembly, The Los Angeles Occasions reported.
Michelle O’Connor-Ratcliff, the board’s president, learn an announcement saying it “has misplaced all confidence and belief in Dr. Phelps’ skill to proceed to function superintendent” following an investigation into Phelps’ actions, which started Nov. 15.
“The investigation dropped at mild earlier unknown proof with witnesses with direct first-hand data that contradicted Dr. Phelps’ statements and assertions to the board, district employees and the general public,” the board’s assertion mentioned.
Phelps felt members of the softball staff at Del Norte Excessive College, a Poway Unified campus in San Diego, didn’t applaud loudly sufficient for her daughter after she was named MVP throughout a Might 30 staff banquet, in accordance gamers, coaches and lecturers.
The so-called slight, gamers alleged, prompted Phelps to launch an investigation — and threaten to bar seniors from collaborating in commencement ceremonies.
Phelps, who additionally slapped with a pending lawsuit over the matter, couldn’t be reached for remark.
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