High School Journalists Land a Scoop, and the Principal Resigns: NYTimes

[Stuart G]

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/05/us/high-school-journalists-principal-quits.html?_r=0

Four days after students at a high school newspaper in Kansas published an article that questioned the credentials of a recently hired principal, she resigned.

The episode, which unfolded at Pittsburg High School in Pittsburg, Kan., about 125 miles south of Kansas City, garnered news coverage and won praise from journalism organizations for investigative reporting by student journalists.

The story began to germinate on March 6, when the Pittsburg Community Schools announced it had hired Amy Robertson as the high school principal.

In a statement, it said her “diverse and extensive experience impressed district staff and leadership and repeatedly propelled her to the top” of the list of candidates. She had “decades of experience in education” and was the chief executive of a consulting firm that advised companies on education, the statement said.

Maddie Baden, a 17-year-old junior and a staff member of the student-run newspaper The Booster Redux, set out to write a profile. Emily Smith, a teacher and adviser to The Redux, said on Wednesday that she had not expected the reporting to lead to questions about Ms. Robertston’s credentials.

“We’re Midwesterners,” she said. “As soon as somebody puts something on paper, we think they’re honest about what they’re saying.”

But in multiple interviews over several days, Ms. Robertson provided details of her background that did not hold up, Ms. Smith said.

Then Ms. Robertson became increasingly evasive.

“She was asked direct questions,” Ms. Smith said. “She couldn’t give direct answers.”
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This article delves into this story far greater than others. It offers background information and insight that makes this outstanding reporting. We get to know the method the students use to undress a phony principal, before that person actually became a principal Outstanding reading, and in this case, the phony crook is caught before the crime, by the least likely detectives ....the students at the school the principal was going to be principal of..

[heaven05]

1. I wish this 17 year old

would get on the conjobtrump/russian connection. She would be more honest and less circumspect than these so-called journalists of the day on major media outlets....

[Blue_Tires]

2. Jesus Christ...

Kansas is a dumpster fire...

"Corllins University??"

[dalton99a]

3. It's an alternative spelling of Corlllins University