When Dajon Darien was employed because the athletic director at Peeksville Excessive College in Baltimore County, Maryland final summer season, the varsity felt it had landed somebody really particular. In spite of everything, he had a level from a prestigious college in Darien and greater than a decade of expertise as an administrator in increased training. He even had expertise with synthetic intelligence. There was just one downside with this normal employment. None of this was true. Darien’s resume consisted of a set of fabrications and exaggerations. Only a few months later, he was expelled from faculty and now faces prison expenses for theft, assault and disorderly conduct. He used AI to create a faux recording of the Peeksville faculty principal utilizing racist epithets and unfold it on-line, inflicting an enormous disruption on the faculty. (CBS Information)
Baltimore County Council Chairman Izzy Patoka stated it was disturbing to listen to that former Pikesville Excessive College athletic director Dazon Darien discovered his means into the varsity with a false resume.
So disturbing, the chairman stated, the county authorities should take motion.
“Whereas Baltimore County Public Colleges has a duty to teach the youngsters, the households, they stay in our districts,” Patoka stated. He stated any employees members close to the scholars “must be rigorously screened” to make sure this doesn’t occur once more.
A Baltimore Banner investigation discovered that Darien, who police accused of utilizing synthetic intelligence to impersonate a principal, made a minimum of 29 false claims on 4 job purposes utilizing two completely different names.
Now the varsity is asking if there are different individuals who used false resumes to get into the system. It actually appears like somebody was capable of uncover Darien’s precise employment historical past throughout the hiring course of. An in-depth investigation by the Baltimore Banner revealed that the person had been criss-crossing the nation for years taking jobs at numerous small faculties and excessive colleges, hardly ever lasting quite a lot of months earlier than discovering himself in hassle.
He took a instructing place in Texas in 2021, submitting a resume claiming to have labored in increased training for eight years as a scholar affairs administrator. He held solely two associated positions, every for just a few months. He additionally claimed to have youngsters in faculty. He was 29 then. Earlier, in 2018, he secured a place at Colorado Mesa College. That too collapsed rapidly.
He labored briefly at a number of different faculties as a scholar advisor. He wrote on his resume that he attended Southern College A&M School in Baton Rouge and was at present pursuing a doctorate. College information present he attended a part of three semesters and was by no means awarded a level. He claims to have a grasp’s diploma, however there are not any information to mirror this.
The checklist goes on. Did Darien see the film? Catch me should you can A number of instances and begin pondering that seemed like a pleasant concept? The issue is that Leonardo DiCaprio really had the power to work his means by means of numerous jobs and idiot individuals. It would not appear to be Darrin brings the identical talent set with him. Nonetheless, we’re left to marvel what occurred to the testing course of in public colleges in and round Baltimore. Does the human assets division confirm employment and search information as a routine process? At the very least they might do a google search. But when Dazhon Darien goes forward and applies to a different faculty, his identify might be all around the web, and never in a great way. Until, after all, he modifies his identify once more.
