Documents Detail Ex-Superintendent’s Settlement

Since the editors over at liberal La Socialista (a.k.a. The State newspaper) have decided our story on a former S.C. principal’s discrimination lawsuit is kind of a big deal, we figured we’d be remiss if we didn’t bring you what we’re sure will be plaintiff’s Exhibit A in this unfolding drama – the deal that [...]

“Slam Dunk”

A former elementary school principal’s case against a Midlands school district is a “slam dunk” according to a legal expert who spoke with FITS on condition of anonymity.
As reported on FITS earlier this week, former River Springs (S.C.) Elementary School principal Melissa Cole filed a lawsuit against Lexington-Richland School District Five saying she was “forced [...]

Cole Lawsuit Alleges Discrimination

A year later, a controversial “sex, lies and educrats” scandal just won’t quit …
A disgraced public school principal is suing her former employer after being “forced to resign” from her position in the wake of an alleged sex scandal involving her and the district’s ex-Superintendent last summer.
FITS has obtained a copy of the lawsuit filed [...]

Principal Sues Midlands School District

A principal who resigned after allegedly having an affair with a school superintendent has sued her former employer, arguing that the circumstances surrounding her departure differed dramatically from those of her former male superior.
Melissa Cole – who resigned from Lexington-Richland School District Five last August – filed the suit yesterday in U.S. District Court.
Cole’s attorney, [...]

District Investigating Latest School Sex Scandal

A male teacher at Dutch Fork (S.C.) High School has been placed on administrative leave while district officials investigate allegations of sexual misconduct made by numerous current and former female students, FITS has learned.
Forty-year-old Jeffrey Browder, who teaches social studies at the award-winning Midlands area school, was reportedly placed on leave sometime earlier this week, [...]

Cole Resigns

PRINCIPAL EMBROILED IN MIDLANDS SCHOOL DISTRICT SCANDAL CALLS IT QUITS
FITSNews – August 19, 2008 – The other shoe dropped tonight in the ongoing Sex, LIes and Educrats scandal at one of South Carolina’s largest school districts …
Melissa Cole – an elementary school principal in the embattled Lexington-Richland School District Five system – submitted her resignation [...]

Bravo, Mainstream Media

TELEVISION TUNES INTO OUR “SEX, LIES AND EDUCRATS” SHOW

FITSNews – August 12, 2008 – It’s been over a month since we first published our controversial “Sex, Lies and Educrats” story, a brilliant piece of investigative journalism that exposed alleged corruption and infidelity in a Midlands, S.C. school district.
Since our story broke, the district’s superintendent has [...]

La Socialista and Mrs. Cole

SOMEBODY FORGOT THE “SIX QUESTIONS”
FITSNews – August 7, 2008 – Who? What? When? Where? How? Why?
Any third-grader (even a South Carolina third-grader) can tell you these are the six questions journalists must strive to answer in their stories. So … let’s see how La Socialista (a.k.a. The State Newspaper) reporter Joy Woodson did today in [...]

Sex, Lies And Educrats

MIDLANDS SCHOOL DISTRICT CAN’T SEEM TO COME CLEAN
FITSNews – July 5, 2008 – It’s been a sweltering summer of discontent for one Midlands-area South Carolina school district, and the heat doesn’t seem likely to subside anytime soon.
Beset by declining academic marks, embarrassed by negative national press over the status of a gay-inclusive club and [...]