An illegal who managed to dodge the system for almost five years has finally been caught. He entered the US in 1999 on a student visa and his work permit ran out in 2020 (not sure how a work visa would be in place for twenty years either).
During that time, he was a school teacher, a principal, and finally, after his visa was up, became the superintendent of the Des Moines Public school system in 2023. He had weapons charges in 2020 and a deportation order from 2024.
I am assuming he had to submit paperwork for I-9 employment in 2023 as well as have a new background check. Or maybe Des Moines School HR just took the fact that he was employed by another school district as proof that he was legal and didn’t do the paperwork or background check. And the school district before that did the same thing, ad nauseum.
As an aside, he also had gender discrimination lawsuits from his employment from 2020-2023 (he liked being surrounded by women so some men filed suit).
Point being, at least two school districts dropped the ball and put an illegal with weapons charges in a position of authority over their schools, faculty, and students.
It gets worse (because of course it does). Via Not the Bee, it looks like most of his CV/Resume/Experience on LinkedIn is either lacking information or is false (he has at least three birthdates). I know I’ve had to provide official transcripts from every college I attended when interviewing. You’d think that for a School Superintendent position, this would be especially important.
Interestingly enough, Michelle ‘Big Mike’ Obama’s former chief of staff is the Chair of the Des Moines school board that hired this guy.
And yet there are people screaming about how unfair this is to this man. Who willingly broke several different laws. If anything, this who thing exemplifies the issues with public education.
Incompetence and willingness to break the law.
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