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FL Principal Who Sent $100K To Elon Musk Scammer Resigns: Report
A Volusia County educator wrote the check in hopes of getting a scammer posing as Elon Musk to invest millions in her school, a report said.
OAK HILL, FL — The principal of a Volusia County charter school resigned this week after she sent $100,000 in school money to a scammer posing as Twitter owner Elon Musk, according to a report by NBC affiliate WESH.
Janet McGee, the principal of Burns Sci-Tech STEM school in Oak Hill, resigned Tuesday after school board members learned she paid the scammer the money in hopes of getting him to invest millions of dollars in the school, WESH reported.
"I love this school more than anything else. If it means your administration is going to stay, I'm turning in my resignation," McGee said at Tuesday's school board meeting, according to WESH.
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Burns Sci-Tech is a K-12 public charter school that enrolls about 1,000 students. It opened in 2011.
School board chairman Albert Amalfitano did not immediately return Patch's request for comment.
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