I'm sure there will be bulling now. This will have the exact opposite effect that the superintendent wanted. I can't imagine her daughter being very happy about this
Nowadays it's: "Those who can, do. Those who can't do, teach. Those who can't teach become school administrators". Of course, this "super-intendent" had to be placed on PAID leave until her firing occurred.
Even if she _wasn't_ falsely accusing those students, she went about her "investigation" all wrong. She didn't deserve to keep her position after her witch hunt.
In my school district, the superintendent's daughter got in trouble at high school and tried to pull the "my dad is your boss card". It blew up in her face. She had to do the standard punishment for her offense and publicly apologize to everyone involved. The superintendent also apologized and made in clear that the rules applied to everyone equally.
Her daughter has a scholarship to play for Princeton next year, so she's actually a pretty good player which makes the mother's reaction even more bizarre.
You are probably right. But part of me thinks that if what you say is actually true, at least one other parent of a player on that team is just as crazy and would be all over social media calling out the Superintendent the moment this happened.
I'm willing to bet that if the other students did not clap loud enough, it was because they did not believe the award was earned. If a woman is willing to harass children and even go so far as to threaten their graduation, she would definitely be willing to put her fingers on the scale to get her daughter mvp even if she did not deserve it.
This was my immediate thought when I listened to the story. The superintendent (mom) forces the MVP committee, usually made up of the coaches, to select her daughter as the MVP. She was probably motivated to do this, thinking HER daughter could list another accolade on her college applications. Regardless, the competing students for the MVP award knew what was going on and chose not to clap. For mom to push it to this level was simply crazy.
Clapping is a form of appreciation. If you don't appreciate, don't clap. So, in essence, the mother was upset because the students would not lie about their level of appreciation.
I feel sorry for her kid as much as I feel sorry for the other teammates. Anything the daughter accomplished in school instantly got tainted by her mom's bad behavior. Its a shitty situation, and one she didn't choose.
Reading various articles that got statements from different people it sounds like she'd been very involved in her daughter's education and had used or at least been accused of using her position to benefit her daughter on the team at least twice. It makes me think there maybe WAS subdued applause for her daughter but I don't expect there was any conspiracy. The team just didn't have the same respect or enthusiasm for her accomplishments that they had for others without the (real or perceived) nepotism. And maybe those students were wrong about it, but voicing that concern is their right and not clapping is a way to do that. And her mom's reaction does not make a good case for them being wrong.
Private Entities are Not Bound by the 1st Amendment 1st Amendment only applies to government restrictions. Private entities, such as corporations, organizations, and individuals, are not bound by the 1st Amendment and can impose their own restrictions on speech and expression.
@@AtaGunZ you are correct, perhaps I misunderstood the context of the case. I'm originally from Canada and live in the US, I grew up going to public schools. Although freedom of speech is legislated somewhat differently in Canada, where I'm from, a superintendent to student relationship would be publicly funded and the superintendent considered a civil servant, bound by such restrictions/'amendments' as it were. My understanding was that this too would apply to a superintendent of a publicly funded school in the US, if this was a private school with its own regulations and charters, I could see this being a harsh yet valid grounds for punishing a student. In public schools, I believe 1st amendment stands, but maybe I need to look this up, I'm just a doctor not a lawyer ¯\_(ツ)_/¯.
Had a 4H leader that kept giving her daughter awards. My Mother didn't believe it until she personally inspected the girl's latest project. We quit and formed a new club. Everyone else quit and joined us. The 'Princess' was left alone. Ran into the 'Princess' a few years ago, she has, according to her neighbor, morphed into a Karen. She tried to lecture me about how I shouldn't walk with the dog on a public street that I don't live on. Why didn't her mother realize what she was doing to her daughter?
Natural for leftists. I am reminded of the story of Josef Stalin receiving a ridiculously long (several minutes) standing ovation because the applauders were all scared to be the first to stop applauding. The first to stop applauding (perhaps still scared but about to fall over?), thereby starting an epidemic of applause-stopping, was supposedly exiled soon after.
@markmaki4460 um , what? those weren't leftists. they were scared of Stalin, & rightly so ,as your story shows. The superintendent wasn't a leftist... who are you talking about?
CA education system is unhinged. Lots of experimental classroom setups, open floor plan schools without walls, liberal hive mind policies, etc. Anyone that can navigate the woke nonsense can rise to power over the insane clown posse that runs the system. It takes a lot of negative publicity to get removed. Case in point this took an entire year before the SI was punished and too late to fix the damage done for the student that missed her scholarship program.
You haven't met many teachers, have you? I have a family full of them and let me tell you......they will tell you within 2 minutes of meeting them that they are teachers and deserve praise and reverence, deserve at least double their current salary and the world would collapse without them.
Great job, lady! Not only do you destroy your career and reputation, but now (ironically) your daughter will be subject to even more scrutiny and ridicule.
Abuse of office and assorted state official misconduct criminal charges should also be filed against her, just to discourage other public officials from abusing their own official positions.
Yeah, I don't care whether the applause was genuine but not effusive, or if it was the most sarcastic clapping known to man. Whatever the case, the superintendent's response was an abuse of power, and thus out of line.
Yeah, those award ceremonies sometimes really drag on, especially if it's an all sports awards where they have all the teams for the school present. Those can last a couple hours easy.
We all know this superintendent, or someone just like her. She got her doctorate from the state University . Her kids went to private pre-school, learned to read when they were 4. She made sure they all p;ayed every sport, and reluctantly put them in public school because of her position. Her daughter is a decent athlete, but there are others who are equally or more gifted, and who are just as deserving, if not more so, of that MVP award. You can't disassociate the superintendent's daughter from the award, and probably a plethora of privileged accommodations throughout her public schooling. Ms. Superintendent DEMANDS that her daughter be given the show of respect that she DESERVES. OR ELSE!
@@WhtAbtBob10 I was reminded of a section from Solzhenitsyn's Gulag Archipelago where an old man was arrested for being the first person to stop clapping.
Not until litigation got filed that the insurance company would be unlikely to want to defend. They'll next seek an out of court settlement that admits no wrongdoing...
I don't really agree with your implication. When someone is accused of something, it's only right to do a thorough investigation. Sometimes that takes quite a while if you do it right.
@@itsapittie This isn't an international intelligence agency plot to kill a President. Do you really think it takes a year to ask 8 people about clapping at an assembly? There is nothing that could be educed on this topic over 364 days that couldn't have been thoroughly assessed on the first day.
@@spvillano and you have to take the settlement usually because once an offer is made if you reject it and get less than the offer or lose they make you pay the government's attorney fees. It's so corrupt. But you can't know whether you'll jabe a scum ag bootlicker jury.
Im one of four kids to an extremely controlling mother. Academically my older sister got it worse than me but career wise she tried more than once to jack my life up. she barged in and chewed out my office manager and boss once over none of her business. Both parents resented me staying at my next job where I was promoted. Thankfully they understood she was unhinged. So I will withhold judgement on the character of the daughter. Maybe shes like her mom, maybe shes a sweetheart like my sister or a fighter like me. But I know for sure life with this woman is hell. She has destroyed that girls childhood thoroughly. She has no real friends except maybe those she keeps hidden, she has no life if not a double life, and god forbid she ever have an opinion of her own. When a parent shows they are willing to commit a massive breech of boundaries and ethics like this, its obvious how much destruction must be behind them.
Perhaps it's best to keep your life more private from your meddling mother. "Why don't you tell me anything about your life?" "Because it's nunya bidniz, mama. You've earned that."
Sadly, most people who don't know the daughter are going to judge her for her mother. The 'sins of the father' thing, though in this case, it's sloughing off of the mother. I'd say it's 50/50 if the daughter is as bad or not. At least, that's been my experience with it. Which means you give her a chance to prove she's better, and only treat her like scum if she blows it, just like any other person you don't know yet.
@@thedevilinthecircuit1414 It's difficult not telling your parents that you have a job and who your employer is. After all, that's public information. At least, not without a restraining order against them, though, since that is public information, they're still going to find out.
@tinydancer7426 1) Unless you work at home you have to travel through public spaces to get to work, which makes it something that is reasonably observable without invading your privacy. This is one of the basis that makes investigative work possible without needing a warrant for every single step. 2) If you are a standard wage-earner employee (meaning no contract, and they typically deduct your income taxes from your pay) then there is a registry somewhere of who their employees are and you're on it. That registry isn't technically public information, but it isn't hard for the public to access because it isn't restricted information, it's in a legal gray area. After all, how do you think debt collectors track you down at a new job?
I was in a school district that hired a big bully as superintendent. He had an elementary age daughter that had a decent singing voice for someone that young. The superintendent called in the vocal music teacher and TOLD him that he was required to put on a musical that year in addition to his teaching responsibilities. Saying no was not an option. Auditions were held and the superintendent’s daughter was selected for the lead part. District resources were used to advertise the performances to the public and district busses were used to transport students from throughout the district during instructional time to watch performances. Principals were bullied to permit the releases of their students - no specific threats, just strongly worded expectations. Eventually, the superintendent was sued over bullying several teachers and during the investigation it was determined that he had done the same sorts of bullying at his former districts. He was eventually fired and went on to be a bully in two other districts of which I am aware. How people like that get into positions of responsibility is a mystery to me.
LIES on the RESUMÉ/CV and put on a convincingly GOOD ACT at the INTERVIEWS. When found out they cut a deal to stay out of the media and courts (saving $$$$ legal fees for the School District) and leave quietly so they can take their SHAM SHOW to a new, unsuspecting place. With all the Social Media these days you'd think their evil deeds would be easily discovered.
They keep getting hired in jobs like that because it is against the law for the former employer to tell the new employer anything negative about the potential employee. The former employer can be sued by the loser employee.
@mikeslater6246 That partially depends on whether or not they use them as a reference. Your references can warn potential employers about such problems without facing legal backlash. Of course, someone who's in a position where they interact with a lot of other people as a normal part of their job, many of whom are coworkers, and doesn't have an excess of references from that job is a huge red flag, that sadly tends to be ignored in favor of that fancy piece of paper saying they've got a college degree and the 'wealth' of experience from the other districts they worked at. Although, if they were good at the job, then why do they have so many previous districts that they worked at?
@@Razmoudah the use of references is a valid point but it would be unusual for a person to give a reference from an employer that they were a known problem at. And job surfing doesn't seem to be as big a problem today for employers as it was when I was working. I am retired. The market has really changed since my first job until my retirement.
I just saw this story yesterday on another channel, now on Steve's. She denied everything, like texting the people around midnight, she fired some people (coaches), etc. There was overwhelming evidence against her. She is now fired.
I say it elsewhere too - on "Nate the Lawyer" - on May 7. It's horrendous that it took a year and an independent investigation to fire her. She damaged so many lives!
Before people assume the daughter is like her mother- I knew a mother that pulled similar tactics regarding her perfect daughter but the daughter was mortified. Once the girl turned 18 she busted out of the house like she was running for her life. After that they didn't have much of a relationship.
I'm sure the daughter is taking notes. If you're an important superior member of society with power, don't be so overt in your punishment of the lesser plebes.
Fun Fact: The student that sued the superintendent and got her fired, probably got more applause after winning the law suit than the superintendent's daughter for winning the award.
Imagine being the daughter of this superintendent, and the team MVP... her mother has forever destroyed any self-respect that she may have genuinely earned for herself. The only thing worse than what this superintendent did to her daughter's teammates is what she did to her own daughter.
If I was a parent in this school district and I went to the superintendents office to complain that the students didn't applaud enough for my kid. I know the response / reaction I would get from this superintendent. This superintendent should not only be fired, but she should also spend some time in jail. As a person of authority, as a person who should be making the school a safe area for students, she used her authority and power over the students to intidate them. This is such a breach of trust and authority, being fired from her job is not enough. She needs to be charged and if found guilty put in jail.
Applause is tantamount to freedom of speech under the law; an individual can be neither compelled to applaud nor be prevented from doing so. This is a civil rights issue.
Because the wrongful punishments are handed out to unprotected students, not (relatively) high ranking government employees. The amount of protections you get when working for the government is... Insane.
The problem with that approach is that we don't select government by lottery. People drawn to power are typically also those that would be most inclined to abuse it.
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I heard this story the other day. I still can't get over how conceited (or vicariously conceited as it were) this woman was. Then there is the video of her daughter trying to defend her mothers action and honestly she sounds like she is just as bad.
Congrats, this lady successfully turned her daughter's receiving an award into a humiliating and painful experience that will traumatize her for years.
I read about this story. It's a shame that one girl was effectively banned from athletics for her entire senior year because of the superintendent's pettiness.
Plenty of evidence for a civil suit then, that should about cover the higher education of that student then. After all they denied her the chance for a scholarship, so the penalty should be paying for it.
@@DKNguyen3.1415 Not really, if she had been good the scholarship was very probable, especially in a court, where the opposing party already has a conviction for this.
I understand the student that was blocked from playing softball her senior year is suing the superintendent personally. I believe she should have to have a big payout because the student that couldn't play during her senior year may have lost opportunities for scholarships for softball teams at college. Additionally the superintendent is too stupid to realize that colleges are going to hear about this and they're going to not want her daughter on their softball teams. Too much drama!
When I was in highschool, the district was shutting down a bunch of clubs. The head of the district agreed to come in and explain why. So the whole school was in the gym. Someone did an announcement and she walked up. No one and I mean NO ONE clapped for her entrance. The first thing she said "This is the rudist group of kids I've ever seen" then all the students started applauding cheering etc. We didn't stop when she tried to start talking. She then threw her hands up and stormed off. Then our cheering intensified as she stormed off. It was honestly the best day of school.
The school I went to had a quarterback that had more loss yardage then gained. He was the quarterback because his father owned a sporting goods store in town that supplied a lot of the sports equipment for the school.
the next year's school female varsity softball team will be all "transitional females" (mtf) players from the male junior varsity baseball team... and all of them will "be celebrated"....
You can bet the coach was leaned on by this helicopter superintendent mom. The players saw what was going on. Even if the daughter was awesome, the selfish mom spoils everything.
The sad part is that because of her mothers interference, the daughter will never be taken seriously. Even if she's super talented this will follow her onwards. Most people will come to the conclusion that she didn't earn her spot on the team or win that award on her own merit.
Thanks for covering this idiotic story. I live in California and have been watching the news with dismay that some school districts seem to be in the process of being taken over by lunatics who have some bizarre agenda of causing trouble and essentially bullying some groups of students. Some are people being elected to school boards and some are being appointed by school boards, but some of these people seem to have an agenda of causing trouble for reasons that seem to be ideologically driven in a couple of school districts. The end result is chaos for some students and so I appreciate people like you pointing out that bringing your ones ideas that aren't contributing to a positive learning environment are neither appropriate nor "adult".
If your daughter is named MVP, and that gets a lukewarm response, it's because everyone else on the team knows full well that your daughter wasn't the MVP and only got the award because of your job title.
@@MartenKrueger-sx4me Possibly correct in the years of your childhood. But it would appear that appreciation of sardonic humour was not allowed as a part of the curriculum then though. 😉😊
I was one of our Principles's favorites in Highschool because I didn't cause trouble and was polite and respectful. He was a teacher who moved up. He died in 2004, near 100. Mr. Landis you are missed
My high school principal came back and spoke at my dad's funeral. He was getting close to 90 at the time. My dad was also my history, government, and social studies teacher. He was the school counselor and coached four sports too. I asked him why he never wanted to be a principal and he said that there was no way he was going to get into high school politics.
Way back when I was in high school one of my teachers told me that the son of someone in the office would win an award voted by teachers. No teacher she talked to nominated or voted for him. His mother was the one in the office who counted the votes. I'd forgotten that until now (because high school is soooo important once you graduate).
@@theoztreecrasher2647 It was the principal's assistant. The entire staff probably knew what was going on. It was easier to appease her. The teachers helped us in other more important ways.
I had an aunt as my 3rd grade teacher. She became principal of the elementary when I was in middle school. She became superintendent when I was in high school. She is now retired. She actually changed to being a superintendent to a school in Wyoming because the pension was better. Just a few years there gave her more than all the years in our small town. She was a strict person I don't think she gave me or any of my siblings or cousins any favorable treatment. Her kids were all out of school during this time, and her grandkids were younger or at other schools.
I have been to several various award nights and this is most applicable when there's a lot of awards being given. As the awards are handed out the amount of applause diminishes. I recall some where the audience was asked not to applaud because it draws the proceedings out too long. The other approach is to hold the applause to the end when all the award recipients are on the stage,
It's not just modern day officials. Some officials back in the day were clowns too. They just didn't get caught or accusations for them were more frequently swept under the rug.
In a corrupted system, the most evil and incompetent rise to the top. The school system is entirely corrupted, with blue unions, that refuse to fire anybody, no matter what they do. This is a universal law... just look at the DMV or post office, for another example.
It's also telling that the accusation wasnt that they didn't applaud at all, but that they didn't applaud *enough.* I remember how common it was, and as I'm now an adult, is, for people to cheer extra loud for their friends and family. It's perfectly possible that every other award given had their friends cheer extra loud for them, and the girl in question only got a normal applause.
Demanding applause? Maybe the whole student body should have gotten up, extended a hand out about 45 degree straight arm, palm down and recited that thing they used to day in Deutzland about 85 years ago?
Marian Kim Phelps: Prior to her engagement in San Diego, this woman operated out out of my corner of California. For those of you who are wondering, yes she is a DEI hire. Yes she is the kind of administrator who states her ethnicity above her credentials and work history, and yes she has a long history of this kind of behavior, effectively earning one firing per year per each year of her holding a job title she had never earned. I don't recall what her doctorate was in, but I have and I'm absolutely not saying this to be churlish, seen people with an effective education limited to the 6-10th grade levels be awarded PhDs in California and unfortunately, Marian Kim Phelps is one of them.
This will have the exact opposite effect that the superintendent wanted. I'm sure there will be bulling now. I can't imagine her daughter being very happy about this
If the daughter is anything like mom, then I can imagine why students would not "applaud enough."
Sharp!
It goes one of two ways: the child is exactly the same and complained or the child is the opposite and completely embarrassed.
I suspect that whole MVP selection was rigged to begin with
I'm sure there will be bulling now. This will have the exact opposite effect that the superintendent wanted. I can't imagine her daughter being very happy about this
The apple seldom falls far from the tree.
Sounds like the daughter didn't deserve the MVP award to begin with.
MVP = Mom Very Pushy
or Most Vocal Parent
or Major Vote Packing
The irony of her bullying students because she falsely accused them of bullying her daughter.
Next level gaslighting.😂
Nowadays it's: "Those who can, do. Those who can't do, teach. Those who can't teach become school administrators". Of course, this "super-intendent" had to be placed on PAID leave until her firing occurred.
God damn it LOVE ME 😡
OR ELSE
Most women make false accusations.
Even if she _wasn't_ falsely accusing those students, she went about her "investigation" all wrong. She didn't deserve to keep her position after her witch hunt.
In my school district, the superintendent's daughter got in trouble at high school and tried to pull the "my dad is your boss card". It blew up in her face. She had to do the standard punishment for her offense and publicly apologize to everyone involved. The superintendent also apologized and made in clear that the rules applied to everyone equally.
Her daughter probably got the award not on merit but because she was the daughter of the superintendent....
Yep, those kids got an early lesson in nepotism
Yeah, this sort of stuff puts everything on new light with the hindsight.
Her daughter has a scholarship to play for Princeton next year, so she's actually a pretty good player which makes the mother's reaction even more bizarre.
You are probably right. But part of me thinks that if what you say is actually true, at least one other parent of a player on that team is just as crazy and would be all over social media calling out the Superintendent the moment this happened.
wow.. what insight... wgf?! thats NOT relavant
I'm willing to bet that if the other students did not clap loud enough, it was because they did not believe the award was earned. If a woman is willing to harass children and even go so far as to threaten their graduation, she would definitely be willing to put her fingers on the scale to get her daughter mvp even if she did not deserve it.
A superintendent that tried to punish students for not applauding almost certainly also intimidated the coaches into giving her daughter the MVP award
This was my immediate thought when I listened to the story. The superintendent (mom) forces the MVP committee, usually made up of the coaches, to select her daughter as the MVP. She was probably motivated to do this, thinking HER daughter could list another accolade on her college applications. Regardless, the competing students for the MVP award knew what was going on and chose not to clap. For mom to push it to this level was simply crazy.
That was my thinking too. No matter how much a fraud’s enablers want to pump them up, people will know they’re a fraud and express that in some way.
Clapping is a form of appreciation. If you don't appreciate, don't clap. So, in essence, the mother was upset because the students would not lie about their level of appreciation.
The applause because of this superintendent getting fired is deafening!
And it still hasn't stopped.
Amen to that! 🤣🤣🤣
If mother is any indication, the lack of applause for daughter may have been totally justified!
how much intimidation was involved in the superintendent's daughter being picked for an award ....
I feel sorry for her kid as much as I feel sorry for the other teammates. Anything the daughter accomplished in school instantly got tainted by her mom's bad behavior. Its a shitty situation, and one she didn't choose.
Reading various articles that got statements from different people it sounds like she'd been very involved in her daughter's education and had used or at least been accused of using her position to benefit her daughter on the team at least twice.
It makes me think there maybe WAS subdued applause for her daughter but I don't expect there was any conspiracy. The team just didn't have the same respect or enthusiasm for her accomplishments that they had for others without the (real or perceived) nepotism.
And maybe those students were wrong about it, but voicing that concern is their right and not clapping is a way to do that. And her mom's reaction does not make a good case for them being wrong.
If clapping is not voluntary, it is forced expression, and 1st amendment supercedes the desires of those tyrants forcing such expression.
Private Entities are Not Bound by the 1st Amendment
1st Amendment only applies to government restrictions. Private entities, such as corporations, organizations, and individuals, are not bound by the 1st Amendment and can impose their own restrictions on speech and expression.
@@AtaGunZ you are correct, perhaps I misunderstood the context of the case. I'm originally from Canada and live in the US, I grew up going to public schools. Although freedom of speech is legislated somewhat differently in Canada, where I'm from, a superintendent to student relationship would be publicly funded and the superintendent considered a civil servant, bound by such restrictions/'amendments' as it were. My understanding was that this too would apply to a superintendent of a publicly funded school in the US, if this was a private school with its own regulations and charters, I could see this being a harsh yet valid grounds for punishing a student. In public schools, I believe 1st amendment stands, but maybe I need to look this up, I'm just a doctor not a lawyer ¯\_(ツ)_/¯.
See Stalinist Russia and North Korea also
Seems like the woman's not fit to be a regular intendent, let alone a super one
Nice play on word!!😂
Hahahahahah!
That immediately made me think of Intendant Kira from DS9's Mirror Universe. THAT kind of Intendant? Yes, yes she is.
Ba dum tiss!
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Had a 4H leader that kept giving her daughter awards. My Mother didn't believe it until she personally inspected the girl's latest project. We quit and formed a new club. Everyone else quit and joined us. The 'Princess' was left alone. Ran into the 'Princess' a few years ago, she has, according to her neighbor, morphed into a Karen. She tried to lecture me about how I shouldn't walk with the dog on a public street that I don't live on. Why didn't her mother realize what she was doing to her daughter?
That sounds painfully familiar, but I'm not allowed to share the story.
Self-awareness is incompatible with karenicity.
As an active 30 year high school teacher veteran, welcome to todays TYRANNICAL world of school administrators!
It is sad and DISGUSTING.
Natural for leftists.
I am reminded of the story of Josef Stalin receiving a ridiculously long (several minutes) standing ovation because the applauders were all scared to be the first to stop applauding. The first to stop applauding (perhaps still scared but about to fall over?), thereby starting an epidemic of applause-stopping, was supposedly exiled soon after.
@markmaki4460 um , what? those weren't leftists. they were scared of Stalin, & rightly so ,as your story shows. The superintendent wasn't a leftist... who are you talking about?
@@MrSimondaniel3 *Pats the cute bot on the head* Bless his heart...
I can only hope to God you didn’t teach English.
What's most troubling is somebody this mentally unbalanced rose to such a high position in the education field. Scary.
CA education system is unhinged. Lots of experimental classroom setups, open floor plan schools without walls, liberal hive mind policies, etc. Anyone that can navigate the woke nonsense can rise to power over the insane clown posse that runs the system.
It takes a lot of negative publicity to get removed. Case in point this took an entire year before the SI was punished and too late to fix the damage done for the student that missed her scholarship program.
You think this is the exception? Petty tyrants are everywhere.
@@sweetreamer5101 I didn't say it was exceptional. I said it was troubling.
You haven't met many teachers, have you? I have a family full of them and let me tell you......they will tell you within 2 minutes of meeting them that they are teachers and deserve praise and reverence, deserve at least double their current salary and the world would collapse without them.
@@rxdawg75 And that matters because?
Wanna bet the ex-superintendent asks to speak to a manager at least twice a week?
Is her name Karen?
More like a day
Sadly, in this case she is going to ask to speak to a judge.
I bet she goes to their jobs and tries to get them in trouble...
AND, tells everybody she's the Superintendent to throw around some sort of clout....
It is amazing people like this woman manage to achieve positions where they are responsible for the education of children.
Students knew why she got an award.
The video shows a nice round of applause. It is not at all clear that the superintendent was correct about the applause (not that it matters).
Something that is happening in our society is that the perceived lack of _sufficient_ respect is now being perceived as disrespect.
Great job, lady! Not only do you destroy your career and reputation, but now (ironically) your daughter will be subject to even more scrutiny and ridicule.
Abuse of office and assorted state official misconduct criminal charges should also be filed against her, just to discourage other public officials from abusing their own official positions.
Really.. I bet you VOTED a lot.. 😂😂😂
That action was a definite abuse of power by her. Just because her daughter wasn't super popular, or the students were tired of the ceremony.
Yeah, I don't care whether the applause was genuine but not effusive, or if it was the most sarcastic clapping known to man. Whatever the case, the superintendent's response was an abuse of power, and thus out of line.
Yeah, those award ceremonies sometimes really drag on, especially if it's an all sports awards where they have all the teams for the school present. Those can last a couple hours easy.
They were probably too busy texting to clap.
Nate the lawyer has video of the clapping
It appears to me that the other students thought she won the award through nepotism.
Soon as people get a little power it goes to there head
We all know this superintendent, or someone just like her. She got her doctorate from the state University . Her kids went to private pre-school, learned to read when they were 4. She made sure they all p;ayed every sport, and reluctantly put them in public school because of her position. Her daughter is a decent athlete, but there are others who are equally or more gifted, and who are just as deserving, if not more so, of that MVP award. You can't disassociate the superintendent's daughter from the award, and probably a plethora of privileged accommodations throughout her public schooling. Ms. Superintendent DEMANDS that her daughter be given the show of respect that she DESERVES. OR ELSE!
She could get a job in the DPRK. They jailed folks for not showing enough grief for the passing of Kim Il Sung.
That's a good one. My brain went to the Soviet Union under Stalin.
Was thinking that the DPRK is still lenient, she needs to be sent to Somalia as a school teacher.
Yeah, first person to stop clapping got sent to Siberia @risingphoenix1088
@@WhtAbtBob10 I was reminded of a section from Solzhenitsyn's Gulag Archipelago where an old man was arrested for being the first person to stop clapping.
california is the DPRK
If she got the award from her teammates, the applause would probably been thunderous. JMHO
I like how they use minors as a defense against saying anything but refused to do anything about the situation for a year
Not until litigation got filed that the insurance company would be unlikely to want to defend.
They'll next seek an out of court settlement that admits no wrongdoing...
I don't really agree with your implication. When someone is accused of something, it's only right to do a thorough investigation. Sometimes that takes quite a while if you do it right.
@@itsapittie This isn't an international intelligence agency plot to kill a President. Do you really think it takes a year to ask 8 people about clapping at an assembly? There is nothing that could be educed on this topic over 364 days that couldn't have been thoroughly assessed on the first day.
@@spvillano and you have to take the settlement usually because once an offer is made if you reject it and get less than the offer or lose they make you pay the government's attorney fees. It's so corrupt. But you can't know whether you'll jabe a scum ag bootlicker jury.
I applaud your coverage of this story. Loud, loud applause. I think we all feel Steve deserves a standing ovation.
Im one of four kids to an extremely controlling mother. Academically my older sister got it worse than me but career wise she tried more than once to jack my life up. she barged in and chewed out my office manager and boss once over none of her business. Both parents resented me staying at my next job where I was promoted. Thankfully they understood she was unhinged. So I will withhold judgement on the character of the daughter. Maybe shes like her mom, maybe shes a sweetheart like my sister or a fighter like me. But I know for sure life with this woman is hell. She has destroyed that girls childhood thoroughly. She has no real friends except maybe those she keeps hidden, she has no life if not a double life, and god forbid she ever have an opinion of her own. When a parent shows they are willing to commit a massive breech of boundaries and ethics like this, its obvious how much destruction must be behind them.
Perhaps it's best to keep your life more private from your meddling mother.
"Why don't you tell me anything about your life?"
"Because it's nunya bidniz, mama. You've earned that."
Sadly, most people who don't know the daughter are going to judge her for her mother. The 'sins of the father' thing, though in this case, it's sloughing off of the mother.
I'd say it's 50/50 if the daughter is as bad or not. At least, that's been my experience with it. Which means you give her a chance to prove she's better, and only treat her like scum if she blows it, just like any other person you don't know yet.
@@thedevilinthecircuit1414 It's difficult not telling your parents that you have a job and who your employer is. After all, that's public information. At least, not without a restraining order against them, though, since that is public information, they're still going to find out.
@@Razmoudah How is where I work public information?
@tinydancer7426 1) Unless you work at home you have to travel through public spaces to get to work, which makes it something that is reasonably observable without invading your privacy. This is one of the basis that makes investigative work possible without needing a warrant for every single step.
2) If you are a standard wage-earner employee (meaning no contract, and they typically deduct your income taxes from your pay) then there is a registry somewhere of who their employees are and you're on it. That registry isn't technically public information, but it isn't hard for the public to access because it isn't restricted information, it's in a legal gray area. After all, how do you think debt collectors track you down at a new job?
👏 I'll applaud you Steve! Enjoy listening to you while I'm at work welding.
I was in a school district that hired a big bully as superintendent. He had an elementary age daughter that had a decent singing voice for someone that young. The superintendent called in the vocal music teacher and TOLD him that he was required to put on a musical that year in addition to his teaching responsibilities. Saying no was not an option.
Auditions were held and the superintendent’s daughter was selected for the lead part. District resources were used to advertise the performances to the public and district busses were used to transport students from throughout the district during instructional time to watch performances. Principals were bullied to permit the releases of their students - no specific threats, just strongly worded expectations.
Eventually, the superintendent was sued over bullying several teachers and during the investigation it was determined that he had done the same sorts of bullying at his former districts. He was eventually fired and went on to be a bully in two other districts of which I am aware.
How people like that get into positions of responsibility is a mystery to me.
LIES on the RESUMÉ/CV and put on a convincingly GOOD ACT at the INTERVIEWS.
When found out they cut a deal to stay out of the media and courts (saving $$$$ legal fees for the School District) and leave quietly so they can take their SHAM SHOW to a new, unsuspecting place.
With all the Social Media these days you'd think their evil deeds would be easily discovered.
They interview well, or have connections that bring them in, and hide the dirt.
They keep getting hired in jobs like that because it is against the law for the former employer to tell the new employer anything negative about the potential employee. The former employer can be sued by the loser employee.
@mikeslater6246 That partially depends on whether or not they use them as a reference. Your references can warn potential employers about such problems without facing legal backlash. Of course, someone who's in a position where they interact with a lot of other people as a normal part of their job, many of whom are coworkers, and doesn't have an excess of references from that job is a huge red flag, that sadly tends to be ignored in favor of that fancy piece of paper saying they've got a college degree and the 'wealth' of experience from the other districts they worked at. Although, if they were good at the job, then why do they have so many previous districts that they worked at?
@@Razmoudah the use of references is a valid point but it would be unusual for a person to give a reference from an employer that they were a known problem at. And job surfing doesn't seem to be as big a problem today for employers as it was when I was working. I am retired. The market has really changed since my first job until my retirement.
Superintendent offered job as party whip in China. "We feel she has demonstrated excellence in ensuring leaders receive enough applause."
I just saw this story yesterday on another channel, now on Steve's. She denied everything, like texting the people around midnight, she fired some people (coaches), etc. There was overwhelming evidence against her. She is now fired.
Did anyone get their job back?
@@GoToPhx I'll bet there are a number of lawsuits pending. And I'll bet there'll be a number of out-of-court settlements.
I say it elsewhere too - on "Nate the Lawyer" - on May 7. It's horrendous that it took a year and an independent investigation to fire her. She damaged so many lives!
My heart goes out to the daughter whose merit will forever be questioned and who was possibly not clapped at enough.
Before people assume the daughter is like her mother- I knew a mother that pulled similar tactics regarding her perfect daughter but the daughter was mortified. Once the girl turned 18 she busted out of the house like she was running for her life. After that they didn't have much of a relationship.
What a psycho... Glad the board actually pushed through instead of just brushing it off
Let's hope the daughter learns something from her mother's idiocy.
I'm sure the daughter is taking notes. If you're an important superior member of society with power, don't be so overt in your punishment of the lesser plebes.
Princesses remain Princesses throughout their lives.
There's video of the daughter defending her mother, even saying her mother should have done more punishment. She is the same.
@@trombone79That daughter is like her mother, bank it
I wonder if her name is Salome.
Fun Fact:
The student that sued the superintendent and got her fired, probably got more applause after winning the law suit than the superintendent's daughter for winning the award.
The daughter who didn't get enough "applause" testified in the investigation that she was bullied by the others. Doesn't matter, her mother is NUTS.
If anything that only casts more doubt on the daughter's testimony rather than make the mother's accusations sound less biased.
Imagine being the daughter of this superintendent, and the team MVP... her mother has forever destroyed any self-respect that she may have genuinely earned for herself. The only thing worse than what this superintendent did to her daughter's teammates is what she did to her own daughter.
If I was a parent in this school district and I went to the superintendents office to complain that the students didn't applaud enough for my kid. I know the response / reaction I would get from this superintendent.
This superintendent should not only be fired, but she should also spend some time in jail. As a person of authority, as a person who should be making the school a safe area for students, she used her authority and power over the students to intidate them. This is such a breach of trust and authority, being fired from her job is not enough. She needs to be charged and if found guilty put in jail.
With her mother being the superintendent, the odds are high, the daughter was "given" the title MVP.
Applause is tantamount to freedom of speech under the law; an individual can be neither compelled to applaud nor be prevented from doing so. This is a civil rights issue.
Why do these investigations take years when (wrongful) punishments can be handed out on a whim???
Because the wrongful punishments are handed out to unprotected students, not (relatively) high ranking government employees. The amount of protections you get when working for the government is... Insane.
How insecure must you be to punish students for this?
I'll bet the superintendent also had a horrible parent or two. Having terrible, overbearing parents makes people exactly like that.
Before any person assumes a position of authority -- including the President of the USA -- should be tested for arrogance and narcissism.
The problem with that approach is that we don't select government by lottery. People drawn to power are typically also those that would be most inclined to abuse it.
How true that is! Great idea.
@@beetweedledeereally.. But how many times you VOTED?? 😂😂😂
@@petergamache5368being politicians, judges, lawyers, cops, doctors, CEOs, BANKERS, generals, preachers, kings, queens, media, etc.. are favorite jobs for narcs/sociopaths/psychos that 💘 power and 💵💵, 💘 to dictate how others live and die, and 💘 to be admired and adored like GODS.. 💯💯
Arrogance is treatable. Narciss8sm, not so much.
My god, the ego! I’m speechless.
How do people with such poor judgment manage to get into these positions in the first place???
We vote for them.
Sounds like someone else we know... "Clap for that you stupid bastards", lol
Now all of a sudden a school administrator cares about bullying.
"ATTENTION! There is an 80db applause minimum when my daughter is announced!" 🤣🤣
Narcissism and entitlement. So ridiculous that this went this far.
I would guess that the daughter IN REALITY WAS NOT MVP but the coach bent her will to APPEASE THE superintendent.
Under an authoritarian regime, never be the first to stop clapping after Dear Leader speaks.
I heard this story the other day. I still can't get over how conceited (or vicariously conceited as it were) this woman was.
Then there is the video of her daughter trying to defend her mothers action and honestly she sounds like she is just as bad.
Congrats, this lady successfully turned her daughter's receiving an award into a humiliating and painful experience that will traumatize her for years.
I read about this story. It's a shame that one girl was effectively banned from athletics for her entire senior year because of the superintendent's pettiness.
Plenty of evidence for a civil suit then, that should about cover the higher education of that student then. After all they denied her the chance for a scholarship, so the penalty should be paying for it.
@@SeanBZA That'd be real tough to prove that she would have gotten a scholarship if given the chance.
@@DKNguyen3.1415 Not really, if she had been good the scholarship was very probable, especially in a court, where the opposing party already has a conviction for this.
Page 317 , rule 1219 clearly states that all superintendents children must receive standing ovation.
The best part of this case is that she really can't hide this BS on her resume going forward.
I understand the student that was blocked from playing softball her senior year is suing the superintendent personally. I believe she should have to have a big payout because the student that couldn't play during her senior year may have lost opportunities for scholarships for softball teams at college. Additionally the superintendent is too stupid to realize that colleges are going to hear about this and they're going to not want her daughter on their softball teams. Too much drama!
When I was in highschool, the district was shutting down a bunch of clubs. The head of the district agreed to come in and explain why. So the whole school was in the gym. Someone did an announcement and she walked up. No one and I mean NO ONE clapped for her entrance. The first thing she said "This is the rudist group of kids I've ever seen" then all the students started applauding cheering etc. We didn't stop when she tried to start talking. She then threw her hands up and stormed off. Then our cheering intensified as she stormed off.
It was honestly the best day of school.
Now I wonder if she actually did deserve to be MVP, did the mother threaten people to be made MVP
The school I went to had a quarterback that had more loss yardage then gained. He was the quarterback because his father owned a sporting goods store in town that supplied a lot of the sports equipment for the school.
the next year's school female varsity softball team will be all "transitional females" (mtf) players from the male junior varsity baseball team... and all of them will "be celebrated"....
She probably did not.
Of course she did !!!
You can bet the coach was leaned on by this helicopter superintendent mom. The players saw what was going on. Even if the daughter was awesome, the selfish mom spoils everything.
freeking law dad... many of us appreciate you offering us your perspective! ♥ tks
The sad part is that because of her mothers interference, the daughter will never be taken seriously. Even if she's super talented this will follow her onwards. Most people will come to the conclusion that she didn't earn her spot on the team or win that award on her own merit.
Best wishes to the young lady who filled the lawsuit.
the sad thing is, the school district will ALSO be damaged because of her actions
"If you want to test the character of a man, give him power..." - Abe Lincoln
Government employees have high opinions of their positions. It's only going to get worse.
I would guess the daughter was not deserving of the award to begin with! Shame on the Super.
She let her ego go full throttle.
She should also lose her pension. That was terrible what she did.
This reminds me of the Jeb Bush "Please clap." moment...
Thanks for covering this idiotic story.
I live in California and have been watching the news with dismay that some school districts seem to be in the process of being taken over by lunatics who have some bizarre agenda of causing trouble and essentially bullying some groups of students. Some are people being elected to school boards and some are being appointed by school boards, but some of these people seem to have an agenda of causing trouble for reasons that seem to be ideologically driven in a couple of school districts. The end result is chaos for some students and so I appreciate people like you pointing out that bringing your ones ideas that aren't contributing to a positive learning environment are neither appropriate nor "adult".
“I’m Joseph Stalin - and I approve this superintendent” 👏 👏 👏 👏 👏 👏 👏 👏 👏 👏
With Kim Jung Un not only do you need to wildly clap for him you need to cry.
The first thing I thought of.
You people are so brainwashed, it's stunning.
@@connorscanlan2167 Pray do tell
@@TimothyWiebe-v2y ... tell you what? Do you not know what "do tell" means?
If your daughter is named MVP, and that gets a lukewarm response, it's because everyone else on the team knows full well that your daughter wasn't the MVP and only got the award because of your job title.
Exactly
In Soviet School District clapping is mandatory!
Frist to stop is sent to Gulag.
As a former Student of the Soviet Union, grade school, thru graduation, 17 years of age that is absolutely false!!!
@@MartenKrueger-sx4me Possibly correct in the years of your childhood. But it would appear that appreciation of sardonic humour was not allowed as a part of the curriculum then though. 😉😊
Steve, thanks for bringing some common sense to this crazy world. I enjoy your post and your views on numerous ideas.
I was one of our Principles's favorites in Highschool because I didn't cause trouble and was polite and respectful. He was a teacher who moved up. He died in 2004, near 100. Mr. Landis you are missed
My high school principal came back and spoke at my dad's funeral. He was getting close to 90 at the time. My dad was also my history, government, and social studies teacher. He was the school counselor and coached four sports too. I asked him why he never wanted to be a principal and he said that there was no way he was going to get into high school politics.
Kirk...
Use any dictionary to learn "principle" and "principal."
You're not very educated.
Your English teacher must have favored you as well
@@snapmalloy5556 Why Thank you
Good for you, Boomer.
Now i question Superintendent’s daughter’s mvp award….due to the integrity or lack of integrity from the Superintendent.
I saw that story…that poor girl will be a PARIAH
I bet she already was
Pariah Carey?
with a parent like that then the "poor girl" won't care... she'll be just like her mom
@@superman9772 not always…
Not always but more often than not abusive entitled people raise kids that are worse than them
Way back when I was in high school one of my teachers told me that the son of someone in the office would win an award voted by teachers. No teacher she talked to nominated or voted for him. His mother was the one in the office who counted the votes. I'd forgotten that until now (because high school is soooo important once you graduate).
But couldn't that teacher have rung the Principal and asked him/her/undetermined to find some more votes? 🤔🙃
@@theoztreecrasher2647 It was the principal's assistant. The entire staff probably knew what was going on. It was easier to appease her. The teachers helped us in other more important ways.
There is a good reason to always have more than one person to count votes, especially in situations of obvious conflict of interest.
“You shall call me Supreme Leader and worship daughter”
Abuse of power should carry a greater punishment than firing.
Stripping this woman of the status she enjoyed probably felt like an amputation to her. But she must be held to account.
The freedom of expression is also the freedom not to express
I had an aunt as my 3rd grade teacher. She became principal of the elementary when I was in middle school. She became superintendent when I was in high school. She is now retired. She actually changed to being a superintendent to a school in Wyoming because the pension was better. Just a few years there gave her more than all the years in our small town.
She was a strict person I don't think she gave me or any of my siblings or cousins any favorable treatment. Her kids were all out of school during this time, and her grandkids were younger or at other schools.
My mom expelled me from school
@@texasslingleadsomtingwong8751 Possibly she also regretted expelling you from her womb? 🤔
"Admit you didn't clap for my daughter or you can't participate in graduation activities..." "Okay, I didn't clap... See you at graduation."
It makes you wonder if the Superintendent mom exerted her influence to get her daughter the award and the rest of the team resented it.
I have been to several various award nights and this is most applicable when there's a lot of awards being given. As the awards are handed out the amount of applause diminishes. I recall some where the audience was asked not to applaud because it draws the proceedings out too long. The other approach is to hold the applause to the end when all the award recipients are on the stage,
What the hell is wrong with these modern day school officials?
It's not just modern day officials. Some officials back in the day were clowns too. They just didn't get caught or accusations for them were more frequently swept under the rug.
In a corrupted system, the most evil and incompetent rise to the top.
The school system is entirely corrupted, with blue unions, that refuse to fire anybody, no matter what they do.
This is a universal law... just look at the DMV or post office, for another example.
@hgrimes Hey, they're just doing their second job like their primary job......HOA president.
It's also telling that the accusation wasnt that they didn't applaud at all, but that they didn't applaud *enough.*
I remember how common it was, and as I'm now an adult, is, for people to cheer extra loud for their friends and family. It's perfectly possible that every other award given had their friends cheer extra loud for them, and the girl in question only got a normal applause.
Ben is on the Viper
Video dropped a few seconds after you posted...
Well done
Mornin' Bill
@@Bobs-Wrigles5555 You missed. This is Ben Leitch’s comment.
Fast fingers again, well done Ben.
😂
@@user-no1cares RUclips's getting odd, You appeared first And I posted the reply on "Your" post
@@user-no1cares Thank you Bill but we actually tied so hats off to you as well.
Sounds like insufficient loyalty, we all may subject to that threat this fall.
Demanding applause?
Maybe the whole student body should have gotten up, extended a hand out about 45 degree straight arm, palm down and recited that thing they used to day in Deutzland about 85 years ago?
Many students on the team said she was the weakest link on the team and only got the reword after her mother threatened them with being fired.
Touch of the Nellie Olsen's maybe ?
(Little house on the prairie)
Marian Kim Phelps: Prior to her engagement in San Diego, this woman operated out out of my corner of California. For those of you who are wondering, yes she is a DEI hire. Yes she is the kind of administrator who states her ethnicity above her credentials and work history, and yes she has a long history of this kind of behavior, effectively earning one firing per year per each year of her holding a job title she had never earned.
I don't recall what her doctorate was in, but I have and I'm absolutely not saying this to be churlish, seen people with an effective education limited to the 6-10th grade levels be awarded PhDs in California and unfortunately, Marian Kim Phelps is one of them.
Way to inject racism into the incident. Thanks!
'Stalin demands you clap as loud as humanly possible'
It’s like getting in trouble for not going to the office holiday party.
This will have the exact opposite effect that the superintendent wanted. I'm sure there will be bulling now. I can't imagine her daughter being very happy about this