We are thinking Major Screwup must be in charge of the district.
May 16, 2007 - Darrell Left Hand, 31, Plenty Coups High School head track coach was arrested and charged with misdemeanor assault in an incident Friday after a track meet in Billings. He had been drinking and got into an argument in a bar. Two track team members returning to Pryor with the coaches were waiting in the van in the parking lot of the bar during the incident.
According to Carbon County Sheriff Thomas Rieger, Left Hand allowed one of the students, who did not have a driver's license, to drive the school van earlier in the day.
IT GETS WORSE
Police discovered that Left Hand was convicted in federal court in 2000 of simple assault on a child under age 16.
Left Hand's criminal record would have prohibited him from being hired two years ago by the Pryor School District, but Superintendent Luke Enemy Hunter said he did not know that Left Hand had been convicted of a crime against a child.In addition to his position as head track coach, Left Hand is a teacher's aide and worked with a special-needs student at Pryor Elementary.
Left Hand was also convicted of involuntary manslaughter after a 1995 drunken-driving accident that killed a passenger in his car, also a conviction Enemy Hunter said he was unaware of.
Enemy Hunter said the district requires a background check on all certified staff as part of the hiring process. But, because Left Hand was not a certified teacher, a background check was not done.
TT - Plenty Coups High School rates a 1 at Greatschools.com
The state average for Math was 54% in 2006. Plenty Coups High School = 12% in 2006. The state average for Reading was 75% in 2006. Plenty Coups High School = 24%
"Separate but equal schools" was a concept that died in the 1960s. What is the excuse for condemning 79 students in this school to such appallingly low standards?
