so I googled around a bit. This story is weird. The guy had shown signs of instability as far back as 2005. I think the District is in deep shit for hiring this guy. Sounds like his hard drive needs de-fragged.
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Questions in hotel sex case
Nippersink School District 2 Principal Daniel Markofski’s alleged hotel tryst with two teenagers made national headlines last week.
Police said Markofski took the 15- and 16-year-old girls to a Super 8 motel in Glendale, Wis., where he plied them with cognac, wine coolers and marijuana. A police officer smelled the marijuana and knocked on the hotel room door.
Markofski was caught, literally, with his pants down. The teenagers also were partly undressed and a porno movie was playing on the TV, police said.
It’s the sort of story that you hope doesn’t happen anywhere, let alone in a local school district. Markofski told police that he met the 16-year-old on a phone-chat line. And he has said that it was not the first time that he took the 16-year-old to a hotel room. Previously, Markofski said that he and two women played strip poker with the girl and she had ended up topless, police said.
Markofski has been charged with having sex with a child age 16 and with two counts of exposing a child to harmful materials.
We trust that the Wisconsin criminal justice system will deal appropriately with Markofski and the charges against him. But there are significant issues back home that need to be addressed. Namely, did District 2 do enough during its interviewing process to investigate Markofski’s background, and what new procedures is it going to put in place for the future.
Markofski simply had stopped showing up at his previous job as a principal for the Sauk Prairie School District in Wisconsin in 2005. Sauk Prairie officials said Markofski told them that he was going through a divorce and was having emotional problems. Did Nippersink officials call Sauk Prairie?
Nippersink School Board President Patricia Anderson said the district did know about the situation, yet Sauk Prairie officials do not remember anyone from Nippersink calling them.
Unfortunately, district officials have been slow to answer our questions. And the question of whether Nippersink did its due diligence is an important one.
Of interest is the fact that Markofski had worked with Nippersink’s former associate superintendent Scott Brunswick for several years at Arbor Vitae-Woodruff Elementary in Wisconsin. Did Markofski have the inside track for the Nippersink job?
Also, school officials have said that Markofski was not required to take a drug test before being hired. School officials say that policy will change. It should.
This is a disturbing story that will distress all parents, particularly those who had children who came into contact with Markofski, both at Nippersink and school he had worked at previously.
The Markofski case raises many questions. Parents and taxpayers in District 2 deserve answers.
http://www.nwherald.com/articles/2008/04/12/opinion/editorials/doc48015d92968b2505665006.txt