Ohio Principal Loses 31-Year Career for Letting Homeless Student Stay in School
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Updated · CBS New York · Aug 24
Ohio Principal Loses 31-Year Career for Letting Homeless Student Stay in School
3 articles · Updated · CBS New York · Aug 24
Summary
Rob Burnside said Lakota East High School forced him out after he let homeless student Landerius Hayes keep attending despite a district order to withdraw him.
A letter showing Hayes' mother lived outside the district triggered the dispute, but Burnside said the teen had no safe home and was sometimes sleeping in a car or cold mobile home.
Burnside and his wife took Hayes into their home with his mother's blessing, then later became his legal guardians, allowing him to return to school lawfully.
Hayes graduated from a different high school in May and is now pursuing work as an aviation mechanic, while Burnside said he still cannot get another principal job locally but does not regret the decision.