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Principal gone after droppings scandal
Principal Bob Kovachik will not be back at Walter Whyte School in September.
Kovachik is on leave from the Grand Marais school after the now-infamous moose-droppings incident during last month's school canoe trip.
Lord Selkirk School Division superintendent Scott Kwasnitza would not say Friday what has happened to Kovachik or where he will be in the fall.
"There will be a new principal at Walter Whyte School, effective the start of the 2012-2013 school year," Kwasnitza said in an interview.
The new principal has not been named, he said.
The division has not confirmed parents' claims that Kovachik was among three teachers who were aware an adult volunteer chaperone tricked two Grade 8 students into putting moose droppings in their mouths during the school trip. The teachers did nothing to stop it, and it appears none of the six adults on the trip stepped forward when they returned to report what had happened.
Kwasnitza said the division has offered additional private counselling to the 16 students on the canoe trip.
He telephoned the parents of all the kids Friday morning to update them on counselling and inform them there would be a new principal in the fall.
"First and foremost, the safety and well-being of the children is the top priority," Kwasnitza said.
The Manitoba Teachers' Society declined to comment Friday. The union represents Kovachik and the other teachers on the canoe trip.
Republished from the Winnipeg Free Press print edition June 23, 2012 A7
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