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Three weeks after she was controversially reinstated, Wakatipu High principal Lyn Cooper has resigned.
Cooper, who was sacked from her role in September after several damning reports and investigations into the school’s management, announced her resignation to staff yesterday.
She will not return to the school next year.
Current stand-in principal Paul O’Connor, who was brought in by a Ministry of Education-appointed official, is expected to run the school till the end of the first term in 2012.
Cooper was fired by MoE-appointed limited statutory manager Peter Macdonald after she refused to accept his exit strategy as part of a school management overhaul and abruptly walked from the job. The axing came after a damning Education Review Office report critical of Cooper and senior management.
At the time, Macdonald said he was also guided by feedback from staff and the board who’d “voted overwhelmingly that they’d lost trust and confidence in their principal”.
Cooper later lodged an Employment Relations Authority claim over her dismissal.
Mountain Scene this week revealed that during her brief reinstatement, Cooper took a week’s holiday to Australia.
In a statement, the school board of trustees “acknowledges the events over the past few months and Cooper’s dismissal by [Macdonald] were unfortunate”.
They “regret both the course of events and the effect this has had on Ms Cooper”.
“The events of the last few months should not overshadow the contribution that Ms Cooper has made to Wakatipu High School.”
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