Gary Marsh
Appearances
Big Time
The Homecoming Queen’s Gambit | 1
Anything else, Ms. Carroll? Not that I know of. Okay, I'll go ahead and end this conversation. I think we both can understand probably where this goes, unfortunately.
Big Time
The Homecoming Queen’s Gambit | 1
School says hundreds of votes were fake and most of them came from Carol's phone.
Big Time
The Homecoming Queen’s Gambit | 1
Okay, now you're very soft-spoken, so if you could restate an affirmative and a little more of a teacher voice, maybe that would be the easier thing to be able to do. Okay, so acknowledge that. For the record, if you would please state your full legal name and your current position with the district. My name is Laura Carroll, and I'm an assistant principal at Bellevue Elementary.
Big Time
The Homecoming Queen’s Gambit | 1
Have you, as an administrator, have you ever been aware of anybody having inappropriate access to the student information system?
Big Time
The Homecoming Queen’s Gambit | 1
You have your daughter, right? Emily Grover. She's at Tate.
Big Time
The Homecoming Queen’s Gambit | 1
Any chance that your daughter's logged in? Your daughter's gained access to your system?
Big Time
The Homecoming Queen’s Gambit | 1
Okay. We are concerned because when we happened to run across some information that I'm dealing with, we saw your login had access to information for over 300 high school students.
Big Time
The Homecoming Queen’s Gambit | 1
Well, good point. Emily just got crowned homecoming queen up at Tate High School, correct?
Big Time
The Homecoming Queen’s Gambit | 1
Here's what the concern is. There was a significant number of fraudulent votes, and those fraudulent votes were cast for your daughter. There were no other fraudulent votes cast for anybody else. And the bottom line is, it's either her or you. So it's one of the two. How does that make you feel?
Big Time
The Homecoming Queen’s Gambit | 1
It's pretty apparent that... Emily has probably been accessing the Tate and other schools, but accessing Focus for that information for a significant period of time using your login.
Big Time
The Homecoming Queen’s Gambit | 1
I think probably over the last month she probably has been collecting that information. maybe even closer to the homecoming timeframe, because we see a large spike in the access to focus during homecoming week, and then it all stops. I don't think she'd do that. Why would you not think she would do that? She's my kid.
Big Time
The Homecoming Queen’s Gambit | 1
Well, how would you feel then if we're being told that Emily's made comments that my mother did this? My mother's the one that went into focus and did this.
Big Time
The Homecoming Queen’s Gambit | 1
We'll find out. Because that's my understanding is what's happened today up at Tate High School. it if you say i didn't do it because i don't search those kids then the odds are of that it's emily then i think the answer is pretty evident so it's one of the two i'm going to be very honest with you there is nobody else okay yeah
Big Time
The Homecoming Queen’s Gambit | 1
And every one of those false votes corresponded to those students' Focus account having been accessed in the last 30 days. of the 200 and plus kids that I referenced to you earlier. So the question goes back to, as El Carol, that's your login for Focus, correct? It is. Okay. Why would El Carol have made access to over 300 high school students in Scamby County School District?