"I have always talked with students and others
about the importance of high standards and making good decisions."
"In this instance, I failed both expectations. . . .
I failed to follow my own guiding principles."
-- Scott Syverson
This from the Indianapolis Star:
Ex-Fishers High principal hopes for similar post
Resignation after DUI charges shouldn't end educator's career, his attorney says
Resignation after DUI charges shouldn't end educator's career, his attorney says
FISHERS, Ind. -- The attorney for Fishers High School Principal Scott Syverson said the administrator hoped to land another job in another Indiana school district after his resignation Thursday over a drunken driving case.
"Scott Syverson is a standup guy who loves Fishers High School and has always acted in its best interests," attorney Edward O. DeLaney said after a Hamilton Southeastern School Board vote and signatures concluded the resignation agreement Thursday morning...
..."His resignation is one final and painful step in doing what he can for that school," he said.
Syverson, 42, avoided board action to fire him Thursday by resigning. With a promise not to sue the district for any perceived offense, he also secured $25,000 in severance pay.
School Board members voted 7-0 to accept the offer, ending the "personnel matter" they initiated after a Dec. 22 traffic stop that led to drunken driving charges against Syverson....
...Minutes after 1 a.m. on Dec. 22, Syverson was driving his 2004 Infiniti on 96th Street west of Allisonville Road when a Fishers police officer saw the car weaving toward a curb and stopped him.
Syverson had just left the Blue Crew Sports Grill on 96th Street, where he was drinking with two fellow administrators. He was headed toward his home in Carmel when he was stopped.
The administrator was shown on police video denying he'd been drinking and asking whether he could just continue home. Officer Kevin Kobli conducted field sobriety tests; on the breath test for measuring alcohol, Syverson registered 0.18. A driver with a level of 0.08 is considered to be intoxicated.
Instead of taking him into custody, however, Kobli, who knew Syverson as the Fishers principal, decided to drive him home....
...[Superintendent Concetta] Raimondi has acknowledged that Syverson stopped by her home hours before the traffic stop for an annual Christmas party that included alcoholic drinks.
Although she said she does not think Syverson was impaired when he left her home two hours before the traffic stop, Raimondi said she has considered making future staff parties dry ones...
..."I think the board will ask that I use my best discretion, as I always have in the past." ...
...Syverson's trial is set for March 24. He is charged with two counts of operating a vehicle while intoxicated, one as a Class C misdemeanor and one as a Class A misdemeanor punishable by as much as one year in jail.
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