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High school journalists investigated a new principal’s credentials

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Re: High school journalists investigated a new principal’s credentials

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Post by posguy »

snackai wrote: post #39

This is how journalism should work. Not like the Washpo, acting as Jeff Bezos Anti-Trump propaganda machine. Don't get me wrong here, this is not a Trump fan writing, but I can't stand the biased bs media publishes these days.

Yeah, no joke. Immediately at the end of the article, one of the suggested articles is "America is ‘over-stored’ and Payless ShoeSource is the latest victim". Looking at the other recent articles, it is a theme.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2017/04/0...

Re: High school journalists investigated a new principal’s credentials

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Post by WhiteSource1 »

nkurz wrote: post #29

I don't know how common falsified credentials are in school administration, but I'll mention a parallel experience that was a formative part of my upbringing. While I was in high school, my father taught at a small private college in Wisconsin, where he was on the hiring committee for the new college president. After being hired, the chosen candidate's behavior was surprisingly erratic, prompting my my father to cont…

But wouldn't academics have to at least show framed diplomas somewhere? Or research?

Re: High school journalists investigated a new principal’s credentials

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Post by LoSboccacc »

> 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.

what an amateur - this is how you do it http://bigbusinessjournal.com/

Re: High school journalists investigated a new principal’s credentials

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Post by daemin »

mschuster91 wrote: post #30
IIAOPSW wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Public schools serve one primary purpose. They free up women to work in the labour market. It turns out that having every kid attended to one-on-one by their mother was a terribly inefficient system compared to just shoving them all in a room and letting one person look after ~20. The fact that any sort of education happens is just a nice add-on after the fact. School also does a fantastic job of preparing you to sub…

Nice narrative, and especially the "bend and break the kids to conform with mainstream" rings a bell. Yet I don't believe the major driving force is to free up women as laborers - schools have been existing way before women had the right to work or vote. In my opinion schools and universities rather serve to breed out worker drones and the curriculums are based on corporate needs, not society's. And this has, especia…

Schools were around before washing machines. So just because a woman didn't have a job at an office or other place of employment, she did have a lot of work to do around the home.

Re: High school journalists investigated a new principal’s credentials

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Post by jrs235 »

nkurz wrote: post #29

I don't know how common falsified credentials are in school administration, but I'll mention a parallel experience that was a formative part of my upbringing. While I was in high school, my father taught at a small private college in Wisconsin, where he was on the hiring committee for the new college president. After being hired, the chosen candidate's behavior was surprisingly erratic, prompting my my father to cont…

This is a story about a teacher near where I live who only got outted for a fake degree when he ran for a school board. And from stories I have heard from his students, he got the fake doctorate degree because he wanted to be called doctor. In fact if students in high school called him Mr. Kulas he would correct them (sometimes chew them out) that he is to be referred to as Dr. Kulas.

Use imcognito mode to open this link to avoid possible pay wall: http://lacrossetribune.com/news/ex-candidate-cited-degrees-f...

Re: High school journalists investigated a new principal’s credentials

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Post by kevinmannix »

WhiteSource1 wrote: post #42
nkurz wrote: post #29

I don't know how common falsified credentials are in school administration, but I'll mention a parallel experience that was a formative part of my upbringing. While I was in high school, my father taught at a small private college in Wisconsin, where he was on the hiring committee for the new college president. After being hired, the chosen candidate's behavior was surprisingly erratic, prompting my my father to cont…

But wouldn't academics have to at least show framed diplomas somewhere? Or research?

A framed piece of paper? I can make you a graduate of Harvard if that's all it takes.

Re: High school journalists investigated a new principal’s credentials

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Post by jrs235 »

kevinmannix wrote: post #46
WhiteSource1 wrote: post #42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

But wouldn't academics have to at least show framed diplomas somewhere? Or research?

A framed piece of paper? I can make you a graduate of Harvard if that's all it takes.

Some people are willing to pay you thousands of dollars for that!

Re: High school journalists investigated a new principal’s credentials

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Post by Retric »

jstanley wrote: post #37
p49k wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Can you explain more about the cigarette burn trick? I've never heard of it.

Presumably, make the date illegible so that you can claim whatever date you like. I don't quite see how that gets you anywhere. Maybe somebody who only just got the degree is trying to claim they got it 20 years ago and have been gaining experience ever since?

Many credentials expire at which point they earn rather difficult or expencive to get back. Consider an application with a MSCE from 2002 or something.

Re: High school journalists investigated a new principal’s credentials

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Post by losteverything »

My experience with young people is they think nothing of googling someone.

Example. 25yr old always G Earth the presons address, searches other sites,FB, etc As ROUTINE. New male client comes in she openly tells coworkers about her results.

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