WHITE CO.—An employee of Wabash and Ohio Valley Special Education District in Norris City has been arrested and released from her position at the school.
Kathleen Collins, secretary at the facility, was walked from the premises on August 28, 2014, upon being arrested on charges relating to theft of medicine from the students’ lockup.
WOVSED is the agency that provides special education services to grades Kindergarten through 12 in Edwards, Gallatin, Hamilton, Hardin, Pope, Saline, Wabash, Wayne and White counties. WOVSED services are provided in the schools in those counties, as well as at the Annex School, as it’s called, at the home base in Norris City.
It was Norris City Police who walked Collins out of the building, with the preliminary arresting charges being Theft and Possession of a Controlled Substance, the substance(s) coming from the medicine lockup for the school. Students’ medications (such as those to control seizures, outburst, and in most cases, ADD/ADHD, which often involves an amphetamine) are dispensed from a central location in most schools since the rise of pill poppers and those who are inclined to thieve such items.
WOVSED director David Kaytor sent a note home to parents, dated August 28, about the incident that resulted in the arrest of Collins; that note is displayed here at the beginning of the article.
Disclosure contacted Kaytor for comment, but Kaytor declined.
Attempts to reach White County prosecutor Denton Aud on deadline were unsuccessful, however, a spokesperson in the office advised that charges were pending, and she wasn’t aware of the exact nature of them.
Information coming in to Disclosure on deadline seemed to indicate that many parents of students in the school system had been advised that Mike Reel, Principal at the Norris City Annex, had been terminated from the school.
That matter is being looked into and will be the subject of future reports.