TINLEY PARK, Ill., Oct. 4 (UPI) -- An Illinois schools superintendent who made a spoof video suggesting first-year teachers were strippers and drug abusers has been suspended with pay.
Richard Mitchell of Bremen High School District 228 in the Chicago area is accused of hazing first-year teachers by creating the video without their knowledge and damaging the district's reputation by posting it on the district Web site.
The video spliced real answers with fake questions and made first-year teachers appear to be murderers as well as strippers and drug abusers, the suburban Chicago Daily Southtown reports.
He showed it during an opening day institute for 500 faculty and staff members and posted it online for a week. It has since been removed from the Web site.
Mitchell, who is gay, says he plans to sue the district for sexual-orientation discrimination.
School officials also accuse him of attending two school functions while intoxicated, making sexually charged remarks about men and manipulating personnel to punish principals.
