A highschool principal in Louisiana requested to be placed on depart after he eliminated a excessive schooler from the varsity’s pupil authorities affiliation and rescinded a scholarship suggestion over a post-homecoming dance she did on social media.
Following the Walker Excessive Faculty’s homecoming Sept. 30, 17-year-old Kaylee Timonet attended an after-party and was seen dancing in a video posted on social media. The varsity’s principal, Jason St. Pierre, took disciplinary motion towards the scholar, eradicating her from her place in pupil authorities and likewise took away a scholarship suggestion, in response to FOX 8.
Her mom, Rachel Timonet, mentioned she was on the occasion and did not see something inappropriate.
“I used to be bodily there watching her do it. If I’d have thought it was inappropriate in any approach, I’d have corrected my baby,” she mentioned.
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Walker Excessive Faculty Principal Jason St. Pierre (Livingston Parish Public Colleges/Fb)
St. Pierre posted an apology to Timonet on the varsity’s Fb web page over the weekend, and mentioned her place inside pupil authorities could be reinstated, alongside together with her scholarship endorsement.
“First, let me say that I’ve apologized to the Timonets and I’m hopeful that my scheduled assembly with Kaylee’s mother will rectify this case and permit Kaylee to benefit from the the rest of her senior yr at Walker Excessive Faculty,” St. Pierre mentioned.
“As principal of Walker Excessive Faculty, I’m confronted each day with many troublesome selections for the curiosity of our college students and staff which might be by no means taken flippantly. Please know that I all the time try to put our college students first in each determination. It’s for that motive that I’ve taken this corrective motion,” he added.
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Walker Excessive Faculty, Walker, La. (Google Maps)
Livingston Parish Public Colleges Superintendent Joe Murphy informed FOX 8 on Monday that St. Pierre has requested to take depart for the remainder of the educational yr.
“Walker Excessive Faculty Principal Jason St. Pierre has requested to take depart for the rest of the 2023-2024 college yr. The district workplace is awaiting his paperwork to course of his request,” Murphy mentioned.
The 17-year-old’s mom informed WAFB that the apology got here too late, stating that the scholarship deadline handed.
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“I even informed him on the telephone dialog when he made it to us at midday right now asking us to come back into the workplace and he talked about reinstating the scholarship, I let him know that the scholarship deadline was completed, and the injury that he is completed to her is finished. I additionally informed him I gave them the chance after I got here in there at 7 o’ clock the subsequent morning, to try to rectify the scenario at that time. Now, with any individual holding his hand forcing him to do one thing, an apology being enforced, it is too late,” Rachel Timonet mentioned.
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Louisiana principal who eliminated excessive schooler from pupil authorities over dancing video asks for depart
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