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Having consent from some parents for use in a different book is not good enough (or even close).
After that, the district changed their allegation to one that said he didn't have district approval to publish student work
Also untrue. It may have been where they added additional charges... but they never removed the claim that he lacked parental consent... since they found him guilty of that (not that guilty is the right word).
35. Mr. Turner did not obtain permission from parents to publish their child's works in Scars from the Tornado.
36. Mr. Turner obtained signed permission slips from approximately half of the parents whose children had works published in Scars .fom the Tornado. That permission slip reads in part:We would like to include work written by your child in an upcoming book, Eagle Pride, being written about the Joplin Tornado and our 2011- 2012 school year.(Exhibits 24 and 27.)
37. Nowhere in the permission slip does it rcfer to Scars.from the Tornado. Nowhere in the permission slip docs it indicate that Mr . Turner was personally publishing a book.
38. Mr. Turner produced no permission slips for any book for approximately half of the students whose work was published in Scars from the Tornado. (Exhibit 27.)
If he actually had consent forms from all of the parents for use in that book... he would have an easy case against them
But I feel pretty certain I would have done the same thing.
Yep... and if they had said something damning like "I told you that I would get rid of you some day... and now I win" then I could see using it. But there wasn't any advantage to using it and it made him look dishonest (and obviously provided more ammunition for them).
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