Wildly Inappropriate Skit Forces Wyoming High School Principal Resignation

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Principal Dean Kelly – natronahs.us

Staff members at Natrona County High School in Casper, Wyoming performed a wildly inappropriate skit on August 25 for the hazing initiation of new teachers and welcoming of returning teachers. The outrage from the skit has caused the principal, Dean Kelly, to be forced to resign as of Wednesday.

The skit involves two male faculty members dressed up as cheerleaders. They reference masturbation, virginity, homosexuality, breasts, and more. Additionally, as they introduced new teachers to the staff, they discussed their body types and compared them to sex offenders, serial killers, mentally challenged people, and alcoholics. They also made sexual gestures to audience members and new teachers who were brought to the front.

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Screengrab via YouTube

This is one of those situations in which one has to wonder: didn’t someone think to suggest that maybe this wasn’t a good idea? Obviously, people complained that this stunt violated sexual harassment and conduct policies. Well, duh!

Principal Kelly resigned but will take on another role in the district. He claims that he did not know in advance what the offending pair would be doing, but they’ve performed skits in the past and he though they were trustworthy. The two staff members who performed the skit have not been named and were not fired. Crazy!

inappropriate skit principal resigns
Screengrab via YouTube

Kelly called it an “unfortunate incident” in his resignation letter and offered this statement:

?We need to put this to rest and begin to heal from it,? Kelly said in his resignation letter. ?I just didn’t know if it was ever going to get put to rest if I remained the principal.”

School district attorney Kathleen Dixon said that no students were involved in the filming of the skit, but the Casper Star-Tribune claims that six student council members were present during the skit. Come on! What are these people thinking? What is this teaching these kids? Ridiculous.

Board of Trustees Chairman Dave Applegate suggested there are things to learn from this incident. Like maybe they can use this as a teachable moment for future personnel training.

“We’ll try to capture lessons learned and share that with teachers,” Applegate said.

Wow. Let me volunteer my kid for that. Even he can teach Sexual Harassment 101. These people are unbelievable.

There is a video of the skit below. The school district released it in response to a public records request from the Casper Star-Tribune.

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