From the Orange County Register: Two students who were declared the winners of Troy High School's top
student political offices in April will not assume their posts this
fall, after one of the candidates broke into a school database and
discovered the election was rigged by the school's ASB faculty adviser.Jenny
Redmond, a Troy special-education teacher, has resigned as ASB adviser.
Troy senior Jacob Bigham, who revealed that the candidates named ASB
president and ASB vice president weren't the top vote-getters, received a
five-day suspension and was stripped of his ASB office, he said.
The actual winner of the Associated Student Body presidency, senior
Ryan Daliwal, will assume Troy's top student post when school begins
Aug. 27. Bigham, who ran for and won the ASB vice presidency, will not
be allowed to take office; second-place finisher Taylor Kang will be ASB
vice president for 2012-13.
"No one is empowered to change what
the students vote," George Giokaris, superintendent for the Fullerton
Joint Union High School District, said in an interview. "There's no
question it's unacceptable and that message was conveyed. She
overstepped her authority."
But Troy students remain outraged by
the school's handling of the matter, noting that while Bigham received a
five-day suspension immediately after coming forward with allegations
of ASB election fraud on April 23, Redmond continued teaching the ASB
leadership class for the remainder of the school year.
"The
implications of what I did vs. what she did are not on par with each
other," said Bigham, 17, of Buena Park, who was stripped of his post as
ASB secretary after exposing the scandal. "I feel changing the results
of an election has far more gravity than finding out by whatever means
that someone did that."
http://www.ocregister.com/articles/asb-364574-school-redmond.html
What sucks is the student who discovered the rigged election is suspended for 5 days and the teacher who fixed the election got got nothing in terms of punishment.
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