Leslie Kelly

Leslie Kelly lkelly@reyn.org or lkellywd2@yahoo.com : Vice Principal (Waggoner Road Junior High School) & Reynoldsburg Council; Ward II
7410 Daugherty Drive, Reynoldsburg, Ohio 43068; phone: 614-751-8439, work phone: 614-501-5702, cell phone: 614-402-3303

CONFLICT OF INTEREST

1) Councilwoman Leslie Kelly pushes tax levies on Reynoldsburg taxpayers.

2) Leslie Kelly receives pay raises as a Reynoldsburg vice principal after tax levies pass.

CHILD ABUSE

        The Ohio Legal Rights Service (OLRS) warned the family of the disabled child that the RCSD could always find a way to remove children from their district; even after the family won mediation. Evidence suggests that Leslie Kelly may have been ordered to find such a way. (The Nuremberg Defense is not a defense.)

• An independent psychologist, hired by Reynoldsburg to perform an Independent Educational Evaluation (IEE), recommended that the child be given a “nonacademic form of self-redirection” to deal with his uncontrollable frustration.

• The RCSD psychologist and special needs instructor both successfully used chewing gum as this nonacademic form of self-redirection.

• Leslie Kelly agreed to the simple solution of using tic-tacs instead of chewing gum. (It was her suggestion that they be used without the noisy plastic container.)

• Then, without any explanation, Leslie Kelly took away this successful means of self-redirection... without replacing it with another.

• What happened next was not a surprise to anyone:
    a) The tortured child’s frustration led to an outburst.
    b) The outburst led to a chase through the school.
    c) The chase led to the principal physically assaulting and restraining the child.
    d) A counterclaim of the child assaulting the principal led to the police being called.
    e) Charges were filed and a suspension was given.
    f) Leslie Kelly used this suspension time to find alternative placement.
    g) A videotape of the alleged-assault disappeared from the new 20 million dollar school.
    h) The prosecutor and school officials didn’t even bother to show up in court.
    i) The judge threw out the fraudulent charges.
    j) Placement outside the district was accomplished.
   k) “Mission Accomplished.”

PERJURY

• The Ohio Department of Education (ODE) found enough evidence to open an investigation.

• The ODE ordered the RCSD to produce records which would either substantiate the parent’s claims or exonerate the district. The RCSD refused to provide all the relevant paperwork, and Leslie Kelly claimed that the child’s change of placement was done by the parent “voluntarily” and “unilaterally.”

• The director at the new school would not corroborate Leslie Kelly’s false testimony. Click here to see the director’s statement that the child was, “referred... by Reynoldsburg City School District Special Education Administrators.”

• The prosecutor's office confirmed that perjury charges are hardly ever pursued and, of course, a councilwoman would know this fact.

• As for the mental torture that the disabled child was put through, the ODE ruled that the tic-tacs used to help the emotionally-disturbed child were not specifically mentioned in the child’s Individual Education Plan, so RCSD officials could withhold them... no matter what the consequences to the child.