<story><title>High school journalists investigated a new principal’s credentials</title><url>https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2017/04/05/these-high-school-journalists-investigated-a-new-principals-credentials-days-later-she-resigned/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>nkurz</author><text>I don&amp;#x27;t know how common falsified credentials are in school administration, but I&amp;#x27;ll mention a parallel experience that was a formative part of my upbringing.&lt;p&gt;While I was in high school, my father taught at a small private college in Wisconsin, where he was on the hiring committee for the new college president.  After being hired, the chosen candidate&amp;#x27;s behavior was surprisingly erratic, prompting my my father to continue researching his background.&lt;p&gt;After a bit of digging, he found that the new college president had falsified almost his entire resume. Thinking he had solid proof of this, and not being politically savvy, my father presented his evidence to the other faculty who had been on the hiring committee.&lt;p&gt;To his surprise, he (rather than the fraudster) was promptly fired from his supposedly tenured position for &amp;quot;gross insubordination&amp;quot;. Shortly thereafter, the &amp;quot;fake&amp;quot; college president pocketed the proceeds from remortgaging the college dorms, drove his college provided little-red-sports-car out of town, and was never heard from again.&lt;p&gt;Embittered by the lack of backing from his purported colleagues, my father never returned to academia, and instead turned to odd jobs and house painting.  Not long after, the college lost its accreditation, and went out of business: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Mount_Senario_College&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Mount_Senario_College&lt;/a&gt;.</text></comment>
<story><title>High school journalists investigated a new principal’s credentials</title><url>https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2017/04/05/these-high-school-journalists-investigated-a-new-principals-credentials-days-later-she-resigned/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>pitaa</author><text>And she would have gotten away with it too, if it weren&amp;#x27;t for those meddling kids!</text></comment>