Disclaimer: Liberal Arts graduate. Knowledge of modern physics limited to reading snarky comments of slashdotters nitpicking sci-fi that fails to account for relativistic effects.
ASSUMING the cost is negligible. If the position comes with a separate salary, that seems like a blatant misuse of UN funds. After all, we don't pay the US Secretary of Veterans Affairs extra money for being president-in-waiting.
She didn't want to give the opposing attorneys ammo they could shoot her with.
Exactly; she's not pleading the 5th to questions from the police, she's refusing to answer questions from a plaintiff's attorney--the kind of lawyer even other lawyers think are scum. I'd have a hard time faulting Hitler for trying to avoid those kind of questions. I have a lot of sympathy for the kid and his family, but their lawyer gets a hard-on whenever he gets in front of a camera, and he's been more than happy to mouth off about this administrator even she didn't say anything (e.g., she "may be a voyeur.") I think the administrator is guessing--probably correctly--that the lawyer doesn't give a shit about the truth: he wants to get her to say something unseemly so he can blast it in the papers, scare the school district into a higher settlement, and collect his 33%.
Don't get me wrong, it seems like what the school district did here was absolutely reprehensible; I'm just withholding judgment until I see some sort of investigation by a party (FBI, US Attorney's Office, DA) that doesn't have a financial stake in the outcome.
I would love to watch this fool try to prove that sex education promotes sexualization of a child much less sexual attacks or whatever.
You might love to see him "prove" that until you remember that in his line of work, "prove" doesn't mean "demonstrate conclusively by scientific evidence," it means "convince 12 citizens of Juneau County Wisconsin."
The moon is made of green cheese. -- John Heywood