HIGH SCHOOL REPORTERS UNCOVER PRINCIPAL'S FALSE CREDENTIALS

A newly hired principal at Pittsburg, Kansas High School resigned Tuesday after student journalists at the school newspaper dug into her past credentials and found them to be false. Members of the high school newspaper clicked around the internet but could only find troubling signs of the school – called “Corllins University” – from which Principal Amy Robertson claimed to have acquired her masters degree and Ph.D. Some of the links led nowhere, other pages had grammatical errors and the school had no official address. Students found several articles referring to Corllins as a diploma mill – where people can buy a degree, diploma or certificates. The students spent weeks confirming their suspicions before publishing a newspaper article that led to the principal’s resignation.
* Extra cafeteria tater tots for those kids at lunch!
* On a more positive note, ex-Principal Amy Robertson has just been offered a job in the Trump Administration.
* Wow, imagine the high school street cred you’d get out of this.
* “See those students over there. They got our principal canned.”
* This beats the usual high school newspaper stories like “Volunteers Needed to Set Up Folding Chairs.”
* It’s like a Nancy Drew origin story.
* Isn’t it more of a commentary on the school board’s vetting process?
* The principal still doesn’t get it. She just applied to NASA with a brand new engineering degree in rocket science.
* Wait, the students spent weeks fact-checking? They’ll never make it in today’s journalism with that kind of attitude.