Superintendent fired after allegedly investigating students for not applauding her daughter enough
Superintendent fired after allegedly investigating students for not applauding her daughter enough
A San Diego-area school district superintendent was fired this week, nearly a year after students alleged she threatened to ban them from graduation ceremonies after they inadequately applauded her daughter at a banquet.
The board that oversees the roughly 35,000-student Poway Unified School District voted unanimously to dismiss Marian Kim Phelps during a closed-door meeting on Tuesday.
In a statement read by President Michelle O’Connor-Ratcliff, the board said …