These high school journalists investigated a new principals credentials. Days later, she resigned.

[Cattledog]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2017/04/05/these-high-school-journalists-investigated-a-new-principals-credentials-days-later-she-resigned/?tid=ss_fb-bottom&utm_term=.0ffdc4bfcb68

Connor Balthazor, 17, was in the middle of study hall when he was called into a meeting with his high school newspaper adviser.

A group of reporters and editors from the student newspaper, the Booster Redux at Pittsburg High School in southeastern Kansas, had gathered to talk about Amy Robertson, who was hired as the high school’s head principal on March 6.

The student journalists had begun researching Robertson, and quickly found some discrepancies in her education credentials. For one, when they researched Corllins University, the private university where Robertson said she got her master’s and doctorate degrees years ago, the website didn’t work. They found no evidence that it was an accredited university.

“There were some things that just didn’t quite add up,” Balthazor told The Washington Post.

The students began digging into a weeks-long investigation that would result in an article published Friday questioning the legitimacy of the principal’s degrees and of her work as an education consultant.

On Tuesday night, Robertson resigned.

[pangaia]

1. Maybe CNN should hire a couple of these 'kids'....

[tallahasseedem]

2. Power to the people!

If only the MSM would have this much integrity.

[Wolf Frankula]

3. Therefore the students have to be punished

for lack of respect for the administration. The school paper should go back to writing about school spirit (sarcasm!!)

My congratulations to the reporters for doing a journalist's job.

Wolf

[HoneyBadger]

4. Power to the people

I bet that if students researched every school worker , that they could clean up the schools.

[ck4829]

5. More journalistic ability than a lot of our media today

[unblock]

6. sounds like that principal is vying for betsy devos's job!

[HoneyBadger]

7. I just remembered one incident

In NYC, a teacher needs to get advanced teaching credits within 5 years to go from initial to professional. He had a disagreement with a parent who then was motivated to do a little research and found that the teacher had not taken the classes. Teacher resigned and is now a tutor. He was actually the "good" teacher in the grade.

[EllieBC]

8. Sad when the students do a better job of vetting than the administration.

Did the district just take her word for it that she had those degrees and that her university was accredited?

[Mr. Ected]

9. Who in the hell leaked this information to those students?

These leaks undermine the integrity of our school system!

They must be stopped! We will find the source of these leaks!

*sarcasm intended*

[cloudbase]

10. Just sent the link

to a professor friend who is teaching a journalism ethics class.