Former Sask. principal accused of changing daughter’s grades
A Saskatchewan teacher is facing disciplinary action after allegedly changing students’ final grades, including those of her own daughter.
Kimberley Sautner faces charges of professional misconduct for allegedly using the Wolseley High School’s electronic marking system to change her daughter’s grades and the grades of at least three more students, as well as asking two other teachers to change her daughter’s English grade. Sautner was the school’s principal from 2008 to 2014 before she moved to Alberta.
Sautner sat quietly next to her lawyer at her disciplinary committee hearing Monday while the Saskatchewan Teachers’ Federation retainer laywer Dennis Fisher presented the facts of his investigation into the allegations. He called seven witnesses to the stand over the course of the first day of the hearing.
The allegations began in January 2015 when teacher Gayle Wheatley testified she received text messages from Sautner, who had already moved to Alberta, asking her to change her daughter’s Grade 12 English final grade and offering to pay Wheatley $500 for her time.