according to Ed Source<\/a>, an outlet that covers California education.<\/p>\n\u201cI really have always liked you,\u201d the \u201ceyes emoji\u201d account messaged the former student, according to communications shown in an investigative report by the Pleasanton Unified School District.<\/p>\n
Jonathan M. Fey, then-principal of Amador Valley High School in California, allegedly contacted the student on Grindr from an account dubbed \u201ceyes emoji,\u201d according to reports. Linkedin\/Jonathan Fey<\/p>\n
\u201cDidn\u2019t you notice last year I would go out of my way to say hi or smile every time I saw you?\u201d<\/p>\n
He also expressed a desire to \u201chook up\u201d and asked that his identity be kept a \u201csecret,\u201d according to the report.<\/p>\n
In a separate communication between the \u201ceyes emoji\u201d Grindr account and a current student, he calls \u201chella hot,\u201d the user said that \u201cthere\u2019s a part of me that would love a secret school tryst.\u201d<\/p>\n
At one point, the student asked, \u201cAre you the principle [sic] of Amador?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhy do you think that?\u201d the user responded \u2014 with the student replying, \u201cI just know buddy trust me you are not discreet.\u201d<\/p>\n
After an exchange of uncomfortably flirty messages, the former student had finally had enough, telling him, \u201cThis is embarrassing to read.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t want to sound rude but you a grown man with a wife and kids and you\u2019re acting like this is your first high school relationship. Honestly, i\u2019m not sure what you\u2019re expecting,\u201d he continued. \u201cThe fact that you used to be my principal when I was in high school and the age difference is just so creepy.\u201d<\/p>\n
Fey has maintained that he was not the \u201ceyes emoji\u201d account and believes his identity was stolen. Jonathan Fey<\/p>\n
Fey, 54, who had worked at the district since 2022, learned in February that he was being fired after spending months on administrative leave. <\/p>\n
He appealed that decision before accepting a $254,000 settlement last week.<\/p>\n
Fey has maintained that he was not \u201ceyes emoji\u201d and believes his identity was stolen. <\/p>\n
His lawyer has said there were previous instances of Amador Valley High students pretending to be other people online.<\/p>\n
\u201cI really have always liked you,\u201d Fey allegedly messaged the former student, according to communications shown in an investigative report. Google Maps<\/p>\n
\u201cThe allegations made against me are false,\u201d Fey said in a statement through a public relations firm.<\/p>\n
Justin Brown, the Pleasanton Unified School District\u00a0board president, told EdSource that \u201ca neutral third-party investigator substantiated allegations of misconduct by Mr. Fey, which the district and the board of trustees took seriously.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
The school district \u201cchose to settle the upcoming [appeal] to avoid subjecting students and staffers the stressors of testifying in an adversarial hearing\u201d and to \u201cpreserve resources that otherwise would be spent in litigation,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A pervy high school principal resigned after he was found seeking sex with a current and former student…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":31892,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7,9,8,23236,15251,23237,3183,3586],"class_list":{"0":"post-31891","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-california","8":"tag-california","9":"tag-california-headlines","10":"tag-california-news","11":"tag-grindr","12":"tag-high-schools","13":"tag-principals","14":"tag-students","15":"tag-us-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31891","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31891"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31891\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}