'Married school principal quits after student secretly films his steamy kiss with secretary and posts the footage online' (video)

You're busted, Mister! Married school principal quits after student secretly films his steamy kiss with secretary and posts the footage online
By Lee Moran
PUBLISHED: 03:11 EST, 27 April 2012 | UPDATED: 10:29 EST, 27 April 2012






A school principal has resigned after he was caught on a student's cell phone video camera passionately kissing the school secretary.

Stephen McClenning stood down from The Scholars Academy in Quartzside, Arizona, after the two-and-a-half minute footage of the steamy encounter was leaked online.

His secretary was fired after 16-year-old Myranda Garber busted the couple, both reportedly married to other people, during school time.

Myranda said: 'At first we could only see their legs, but they were obviously doing something. I got my phone out to angle it to see their bodies.'

Parent Cindy Joans said the video, which was posted onto YouTube but later taken down, has forced her to pull her daughter out of the school.

She said: 'This is totally uncalled for.

'They're supposed to be role models for our students there. This is on school campus, with our children present, while they are there, while these two are being paid.'

Another parent Erin Joslin added: 'They are supposed to be educating our children.'

The principal and the secretary, who has not been officially named but is believed locally to be called Billie Madewell, have not commented.

A school board member, Donna Dole, confirmed the principal resigned and the secretary was dismissed.

On the school's website, it said McClenning was in his 12th year as an educator in the Quartzsite community.

He founded the school with 100 pupils because children from his remote community previously faced a 1.5 hour bus-ride to the nearest high school.

He told prospective parents: 'I assure you that I will do my best to make sure your child will have the best educational experience possible.'

Concerned parent Tanda Bastin told the local TV station: 'It's a privilege to resign because if anything they should have been fired.

And student Joseph Hager, 18, said: 'Someone could say they are two adults doing their own thing, that's their lives and I totally agree with that.

'But it's the choices they make on when to do and where to do it and appropriateness.'

The parents said the pair both have children with their respective spouses.

An Arizona State Board for Charter Schools spokesman told 3TV the organisation that holds the charter for The Scholars Academy handles disciplinary action for faculty members.

Principal McClenning is the president of that organisation.

Cheaps wrote:They would have had less chances to get caught had they kept their affair off school grounds. I do think it was wrong for the 16 year old to post it online though.