RB - I'm glad to see you're accepting posts from host as proxy.
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And will, you'd never ask host that question. Just pointing it out....
I read the wall of text - with great interest, actually. It's an interesting story, but I don't see exactly what you want to discuss since the author seems to mostly agree with your assessments of a smear campaign and travesty. But that's school system politics for you. An extreme example, but no real different than a vice-principal fired for having a sexual relationship with and changing grades for a highly-recruited football player when she did neither.