{"id":5823,"date":"2012-04-17T07:00:35","date_gmt":"2012-04-17T11:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/?p=5823"},"modified":"2012-04-17T09:38:29","modified_gmt":"2012-04-17T13:38:29","slug":"morning-read-lake-placids-vanishing-principal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2012\/04\/17\/morning-read-lake-placids-vanishing-principal\/","title":{"rendered":"Morning Read: Lake Placid’s vanishing principal"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"It’s been a tough year for Lake Placid’s school district, with the Superintendent caught up in a scandal and a growing call for change on the local school board.<\/p>\n

Now Chris Morris at the Adirondack Daily Enterprise<\/a> has broken the story that the Middle-High School principal, Katherine Mulderig, has abruptly departed before the end of the year.<\/p>\n

District Superintendent Randy Richards said in an email Friday that Mulderig “is on Personal Leave” and didn’t say anything else. But a district employee says Mulderig told him\/her that she has accepted a settlement offer from the district and won’t return at all.<\/p>\n

The employee spoke to the Enterprise on condition of anonymity out of fear of getting fired.<\/p>\n

“She had all these boxes packed (in her office), so I asked her what she was doing,” the employee said. “That’s when we got into the conversation that she was leaving. She had had enough.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Mulderig was entangled in a scandal, in which she accused Richards of describing some female employees of the district as “bitchy” and said they needed a “bitchier” supervisor.\u00a0 He later apologized.<\/p>\n

In February, parents submitted a petition to the Lake Placid school board calling for Richards to be dismissed.\u00a0 The petition included roughly 600 names.<\/p>\n

In a public letter quoted in the Plattsburgh Press-Republican<\/a>, Richards said, “I have every confidence that we will have a successful end of the school year.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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