The Strange Case of the Iowa Superintendent

[jon-nyc]

That school board president is running in the Democratic primary for Joni Ernst’s senate seat. She worked for Michelle Obama back in the day.

[taiwan_girl]

For sure, the board is ultimately responsible. But, probably the board just hires someone to verify and dont do the actual checking themselves.

[jon-nyc]

Fair enough but your article says the board knew he was lying about the doctorate when they hired him. That should have been enough.

[Mik]

Jesus. I did not read it all. Really? They knew and hired him anyway?

I retract idiots and resubmit imbeciles.

[Horace]

I recently reiterated the commonly understood point that progressive white women are the shady figures behind the scenes who choose the figureheads who look the right way and who parrot the right politics.

This is only an anecdote of course, but this is a mic-drop for that point.

And more than you probably want to know about the situation:

Link to video

[taiwan_girl]

Thanks God for President Biden. If it wasn't for him, the good doctor would still have his job.

(As an aside, wonder what he is thinking now. I am sure he has built quite a life in Iowa. The next time he will see the outside of a jail cell, it will be in Guyana. How does he wrap up his life here?)

[Horace]

Another fun breakdown. Colleagues thought he was an obvious DEI hire, a pathological liar, he did almost no work, seemed "preoccupied with women". I wonder if he got along well with the school board president who hired him.

Link to video

[jon-nyc]

@Horace said in The Strange Case of the Iowa Superintendent:

seemed "preoccupied with women".

That’s funny. I never saw him at the meetings.

[Horace]

@jon-nyc said in The Strange Case of the Iowa Superintendent:

@Horace said in The Strange Case of the Iowa Superintendent:

seemed "preoccupied with women".

That’s funny. I never saw him at the meetings.

There can be no doubt that his politics were prerequisite for both his vocation, and for that particular avocation.

[taiwan_girl]

https://apnews.com/article/iowa-superintendent-conflict-audit-fb0c9065a825b51bd429c59c81d83e6b

Iowa’s largest school district said Tuesday that it revised its conflict-of-interest policy after an audit found its former superintendent awarded district business to a consulting firm he worked for, affirming findings first reported by The Associated Press in the weeks after federal immigration officers detained him.

Ian Roberts, a native of Guyana in South America, worked for two decades as an educator and administrator in urban districts across the U.S. His Sept. 26 arrest in Des Moines, Iowa, shocked the community and drew national attention to his history of criminal charges and falsified credentials. He pleaded guilty in federal court in January, admitting to falsely claiming to be a U.S. citizen on a federal form and illegally possessing firearms.

Roberts’ sentencing hearing is scheduled for May 29. The two counts together carry a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison.