RALEIGH, N.C. — The principal at the North Carolina school
who approved a cash-for-grade fundraiser this month has left the school.
Susie Shepherd, principal at Rosewood Middle School in
Goldsboro, N.C., is on leave beginning Friday and will retire Dec. 1, said
Wayne County school district spokesman Ken Derksen.
Rosewood Middle was held up to national ridicule this week
because of a fundraiser that would have students buy test credits. For $20,
families could buy 20 test points, and students would have been able to apply
10 credits to two tests of their choice.
The school district stopped the fundraiser when it found out
about it.
Derksen said Shepherd is retiring voluntarily.
“She was planning to retire at the end of the
year,” he said. “She’s retiring at this point in light of everything
that’s happened.”
Some parents are rallying around Shepherd and want her to
stay at the school. The idea for the fundraiser was posed by the school’s
parent advisory council and endorsed by Shepherd.
Via McClatchy-Tribune News Service.
