Gender identity education divides principal, school board
Lisa Maloney rejected the accusation from Otto Petersen Elementary School's principal of 'hateful comments.'
A Scappoose School Board meeting was anything but routine Dec. 14 when an elementary school principal leveled a complaint against a sitting School Board member.
Board Chair Michelle Graham read a letter to fellow board members from Otto Petersen Elementary School Principal Jenneca Crocker, which was directed against board member Lisa Maloney.
At issue before the board was whether the complaint merited an investigation into Maloney's past comments at board meetings.
"As a public School Board member, Lisa Maloney has been allowed to speak against and down to students, families, and staff members that are served by the Scappoose School District. Her racist, accusatory, and hateful comments are offensive, devaluing, belittling and insulting to the very students and families who attend and make up the Scappoose School District community," Crocker wrote.