A suburban Indianapolis school district is suing its former superintendent, claiming that he schemed to defraud it of millions
of dollars for himself.
The lawsuit filed in Marion County court by the Wayne Township school district says Terry Thompson deceived school board
members into approving more salary and compensation than he knew they would approve in contract negotiations.
In its complaint filed Tuesday in Marion Superior Court Civil Division, the district said Terry Thompson used complex contractual
changes to increase his annual income from $218,000 in 2003 to $2.2 million in 2010, WIBC-FM 93.1 reported.
School district attorney Linda Pence told WTHR-TV that the board trusted the recommendations Thompson made.
A law firm representing Thompson called the lawsuit inappropriate and said it was the school board's duty to review contracts
for all employees.
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This is NOT a good school board and many, many other Boards - faced with the same situation - would have handled it much differently.
Looking at their Board, one of their members has served for some 40 years - WAY TOO LONG.
Thompson is not blameless; he and his attorney knew what they were doing.
BUT, at the end of the day, it is the Board that is legally responsible for accepting/signing the contracts and approving them.
If I were in their district, I'd go find some new people to serve on that board.
The hundreds of thousands of dollars WASTED in all of this could have been used in the classroom to help students. No excuse.