From Fortune Magazine, April 3:
The principal of a Florida charter school quit her job last week after reportedly writing a $100,000 check to a con artist posing as multibillionaire Elon Musk.
Local NBC News affiliate WESH first reported on Dr. Jan McGee’s resignation from Burns Science and Technology Charter in Oak Hill, Volusia County on Thursday.
According to her LinkedIn profile, McGee had worked at the school, which teaches kindergarten through twelfth grade, for almost 12 years. The STEM-specializing school is A-rated and has just under 1,000 students across all classes.
Announcing her resignation at a meeting with parents and faculty members in the school’s cafeteria last week, McGee said she had been fooled into handing over school funds to a scammer purporting to be Twitter and Tesla CEO Musk.
“I am a very smart lady. Well-educated. I fell for a scam,” McGee said at the meeting, before claiming she had been groomed into handing over the cash.
“Grooming is when you talk to somebody and you believe in them, and they get you to trust them that this is really real, and so I fell for it,” she said.
Parents cheered as McGee told them she would be leaving the school....
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That scammer must have been trying to think up the most outlandish scenario he could imagine, just so he'd have a story to regale his fellow members at the Con Club:
"So I thought posing as the richest person in the world asking for money would be too much for anyone to fall for..."
The headmistress' response and the crowd's reaction is uncannily similar to that of the Professor who was debating swimmer Riley Gaines. Gaines asked:
"If you were to dig up two humans one hundred years from now, both man and woman, could you tell the difference, strictly off of bones?"
The Professor says "No" and the audience starts laughing at him.
He then said he's "the expert in the room." and continues:
"Have any of you been to anthropological sites? Have any of you studied biological anthropology? I’m just saying, I’ve got over 150 years of data, I’m just curious as to why I’m being laughed at,"
"I have a PhD!"
When @Riley_Gaines_ asked University of Pittsburgh professor Gabby Yearwood if an archeologist could differentiate between two sets of bones as male and female, Professor Yearwood. who calls himself the “expert in the room,” answers “no” to which the entire audience laughed. pic.twitter.com/Ecxs1NMDTr
— Independent Women's Forum (@IWF) March 30, 2023
