California superintendent fired after allegedly threatening to punish students who didn't clap for her daughter

US News A California school district axed its superintendent this week – nearly a year after students claimed she threatened to ban them from graduation festivities for failing to clap loudly enough for her daughter at a sports banquet. The board overseeing the 35,000-student Poway Unified School District in San Diego voted unanimously to dismiss Marian Kim Phelps on Tuesday during a closed-door meeting, The Los Angeles Times reported. Michelle O’Connor-Ratcliff, the board’s president, read a statement saying it “has …