MY HS Principle Plagiarizes!!!

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Ok, this is/was my high school. Check it out, and see if you can BELIEVE IT!!! THIS WAS MY HIGH SCHOOL! I WAS PRINCIPLED BY HIM!!!!
From the Chicago Tribune.... http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/l...tory?track=rss

The principal of Naperville Central High School on Friday admitted lifting large sections of a speech he gave at a Tuesday ceremony from a Central graduate who now teaches at the school.

Jim Caudill, who has been principal at the prestigious west suburban high school since 2003, said he found the speech written by Megan Nowicki on Monday night in a file after feeling dissatisfied with a speech he had written for a commemorative ceremony set for Tuesday night. He was impressed, Caudill said, and lifted large portions of the 1997 address, intending to phone Nowicki, who teaches in the school's Communication Arts Department.

After noticing that it was almost 10:30 p.m. Monday, Caudill said he felt it was too late at night to call his colleague and decided to send her an e-mail notifying her of his intentions. But, he said he decided an e-mail was too impersonal for such a request and wrote himself a reminder to talk to Nowicki, a 1997 Central graduate, the next morning.

Tuesday morning he tried to reach Nowicki, but she was in class, so he decided to talk to her later, he said.

"It's no excuse but I just got busy and I forgot to do it," Caudill said. "I'm in the middle of my speech and I paused and I thought, 'Oh my God, I have not talked to her before.' "

He said he decided to forge ahead and looked for Nowicki after the speech to explain, but she had left the ceremony. The next morning, he phoned the school superintendent and Nowicki, acknowledging his actions, he said. Caudill also said he met personally with Nowicki that morning and met with four school board members about the incident.

"I spent three lunch hours Thursday talking with the department" about his error, he added, and is planning to speak to the entire teaching staff Friday.

<<shakes head>> Are you kidding me? The pledge of our school district 203 includes stressing never plagiarizing. Holy shit dude.

Edit: What a bunch of fucking posers at the top of our administration! No respect for my school district...