KUSD Teacher, Who Is Also A Powerful Milwaukee County Democrat Politician, Disciplined By District

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Kathleen “Kathy” Vincent – Board President, Greendale School District
Board Member, Milwaukee County Board
6th Grade English Teacher, KUSD School

Kathleen Vincent (D) is a powerful Milwaukee-area politician. She is the president of the School Board in Greendale, and she is on the Milwaukee County Board of Supervisors. Her full-time job, however, is a middle school english teacher. According to public records, she has a hard time juggling the three roles and has actually been disciplined several times by the Kenosha Unified School District for doing elected duties while working for KUSD as a teacher, among other things.

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In an undated letter in Vincent’s Personnel file, she was found to have committed serious misconduct, including “Theft of Time”. For example, she is accused of calling in sick to her job at KUSD at least a half-dozen times to attend Milwaukee County Board Meetings. She was paid by the taxpayers to attend a non-KUSD event in which she was paid for by both entities – (double-dipping.)

In the same letter, she was found to have participated in virtual zoom meetings for Milwaukee County and Greendale School District while students were in her classroom. She would give the students “busy work” so that she could take care of her elected positions on the KUSD taxpayers’ dime. Vincent reported to the assistant principal that she was on her phone repeatedly on a field trip because she was being “slandered” in her Greendale school board election.

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In this letter, multiple students and parents complained about Vincent’s “unprofessional and targeting behavior.” It was reported that a student was taking photos and videos in Vincent’s classroom. She said that she would “file a report with the police for this invasion of my privacy.” The principal tried to explain that while the filming in the classroom would be a violation of board policy, it is not illegal and KUSD would not be calling the police the incident.

After several more reports of misdoings in Vincent’s classroom, a parent “pulled” the student because she believed her child was being targeted and “didn’t want anything on his permanent record.” A student was having difficulty in Ms. Vincent’s class so she separated his desk from the rest of the class and forced him to face the wall. Reportedly, Vincent sent confidential behavioral information of students to a school Dean on multiple occasions..

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Vincent emailed the entire KUSD school board and identified her as a KUSD teacher and the president of the Greendale School board, seemingly to gain favor with the board.

In a June 3, 2023 letter from the school’s principal to Vincent, a list of “expectations” was authored. In this letter, it was made clear that Vincent should only be doing KUSD activity when working at KUSD.

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Finally, earlier this year, Vincent was written up and issued discipline. In the letter, the principal stated, in part, “You’re being issued a written warning pursuant to board policy 4226 and 4391 for the continued usage of multiple devices at KTEC West. This has been a topic of concern since last school year, 2022 to 2023. On multiple occasions during the school year, I had discussions with you about this issue… I told you that multiple devices and working for other education entities is not permissible. I told you that this behavior cannot continue…The aforementioned issue has caused collaboration with colleagues to be extremely difficult due to your engagement in other non-KUSD activities during your prep time (often your door is closed or you have turned colleagues away due to taking phone calls and meetings for another school district/employer.) While your prep time is a time for you to work on school related needs either as a team or individually, it is being used for activities not related to your KUSD responsibilities. This issue has disrupted the professional learning environment of our staff and educational programming of our students… This letter is considered disciplinary in nature and any further violations will result in further actions such as suspension or termination. “

Vincent has bipolar disorder and has tried to commit suicide in the past. KCE knows this, because she told WISN, Channel 12 on TV.

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“I believe Mr. Hodges fosters a school climate where he favors some staff and in my case singles me out for disfavorable treatment,” Vincent said in a letter. Scott Hodges is the former principal that was recently demoted for seemingly botching the grooming incident regarding Christian Enwright. Vincent sent KCE a statement in response to our public records request:

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  1. A democrat that is bi-polar……you don’t say. And a failed suicide attempt? She couldn’t even get that right.
    When is enough enough with this school district?

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    1. Wow. There some real pieces of ahit out there. What a coward to lay this trash anonymously. Have some balls and give your name.

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  2. Open the door, shut it behind her .

    I have no problem with people having multiple jobs. Work seven days a week if you want to.
    Nights too.

    But when you are at one job, work at that job.

    As for calling in sick and getting paid for a “sick day” ? To then work at another job ?
    That’s a failure of policy.

    If policy gives you paid sick days with no verification of being sick, then so be it. It’s called playing the system. Some play it better than others.

    I’m not saying it’s right but, it’s probably not wrong.

    Still it’s now good for all to know everything.

    Interesting though that living in Greendale she had to come this far to “get” a job. How many other schools has she worked at or applied and was not hired. Lots of schools closer

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    1. She used to work in Greendale!
      Very interesting that she left, when still living there. Now goes all the way to Kenosha, interesting! 🤔
      Double dipping? Obviously isn’t giving her best to any one job.

      1. Catholics are part of the problem. People donate to the church who then hire lawyers to protect the empire known as the Vatican.

        Pope Francis; born as Jorge Mario Bergoglio in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Bergoglio worked for a time as a bouncer and a janitor as a young man before training to be a chemist and working as a technician in a food science laboratory.

        Ha

  3. This is news because you cannot serve one master at the same time and do it well. How many officials and board members do this? The new executive director of the Kenosha County Food Bank is also on the Racine County Board and the Racine City Council. The assistant Village Clerk of Union Grove also is on the Racine County Board and Racine City Council. Some of the scandals that Kevin has reported on involve people working for multiple jurisdictions and engaging in bad behaviors. These people are serving no one but themselves.

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  4. First of all, the KUSD should have her on some type of probation and watch her for future violations and then dispose of her once that occurs. Second, the other school district should be informed. They should publicly be made aware of this. I wonder if Glendale has some type of policy on that. Either way, she needs the be put in the light for others to see. I also believe she should not be allowed to hold a title of a Board Member for a School Board and a County Board at the same time. I think there is a conflict of interest there. And remember, bad people always repeat there actions and eventually get caught!

    1. Exactly, this would not be a problem in the private sector-I already would have fired her after the first warning was ignored. There’s still time to do the right thing, but I guess there’s no will to do so.

  5. At Gateway Technical College there is at least one claiming to work full time while working part time at another job. We all know the Gateway Technical College isn’t being done at least 40 hours but those in charge ignore the fact. Another waste of taxpayers money along with today’s employee learning day. Employees learning unneccesary things unrelated to jobs with free breakfast & lunch.

  6. All the ignorant comments?! I don’t know the woman, I know of her, but calling her a lesbian and implying that’s why she’s the problem is typical of the ignorant racist Kenosha populace. Kenosha is a town of white italian privilege, never mind half the cities businesses are money laundering entities.

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    1. I’m completely with you.

      Is her behavior problematic and worthy of investigation? Absolutely. Should she face punitive measures for double dipping? Yes. Completely. I would even concede that she should be fired, given the information Kevin has presented.

      However, it’s the 21st century, and we need to put away the homophobic slurs and hate speech. It lowers the collective IQ of the comments section, and distracts from the actual issue at hand.

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    2. Did you just say that calling someone a lesbian is typical of the ignorant racist Kenosha populace?

      This has got to be the dumbest, most ignorant comment anyone will read on the internet today, tomorrow or the next day.

      You do know that being a lesbian has nothing to do with race, right? Maybe you dont.

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  7. English teachers are a dime a dozen, so she can’t flit from job to job. KEA doesn’t have much power these days, but watch for the union to try to protect her. She is clearly in over her head. The bi-polar thing is sad, but deeply troubling for parents, students and taxpayers. In the education field, a person like this is given an “encouraged resignation” and a fake recommendation for her next job. Remember the crook from Louisville who lasted only three weeks or so as UW Parkside Chancellor? KUSD does not need teachers who are lawbreakers or in conflict with administrators and vice-versa. KUSD already fails half its students. This woman has nothing to offer KUSD and can easily be replaced.

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  8. Seems like she has too much going on to be successful at anything. She is shortchanging the students and Kenosha taxpayers by not being 💯 all in while at school. Maybe it’s time for her to choose to stay or go.

    Okay, see how that was done: no attacks on her private life, personal appearance, lifestyle choices. Y’all got to be better. Stay on topic and don’t be so weird.

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  9. Your headline gives Vincent way too much credit for her position on the Milwaukee County Board. At best she’s a back bencher. She brings nothing to the table of 19 incompetents. Her goal in life as a County Supervisor is to be in as many photo’s of keg tapping’s as she can get into. She’s facing ethics charges there and her doing other work while being paid by KUSD is in the play book for useless self serving politicians.

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  10. so think about this.

    you have a bipolar person rising to all the positions of power. the non-united states of Israel USI is in sad. shape. by the way, the filth that Kevin exposes happens in nearly every city in USI. Kev is as rare as a sober Irishman for exposing the pervs and satan’s evil folks. I live in rural Mexico and I find the USI values strange. These values include perversion, corruption, racism, division, drugged, poor, war-mongering, and brainwashed. From a foreign perspective am I understanding USI correctly?

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  11. Kathleen Elizabeth Wied Vincent is one of the dirtiest politicians Greendale has ever seen. Hats off to this Kenosha Eye reporter and WISN for exposing the layers of lies and corruption associated with Kathy Vincent. The surface has been scratched, the deeper they dig, the more they will find. Prayers for her students, her colleagues, her neighbors and anyone who accidentally crosses paths with this vicious and vindictive person.

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      1. MLG speaks the truth. It will come out in pending ethics complaints. You should probably start considering candidates for County Supervisor and Greendale School Board now while you have some time .

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        1. This is ugly local politics. Mary Grogan has a personal beef with Greendale board members and those who bounced her out for her own misdeeds and bullying behavior of village residents and employees. As evidence to her vendetta look at her multiple posts on different community sites including here. Probably what got her canned. Ironic that she brings up conflict of interest given she was an MPS employee, Greendale Board member, and many other roles simultaneously. There definitely needs to be accountability, but this kind of trolling is shameful and reflective of those driving it.

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  12. Looking at her voting record and policies, it seems like Kathy is one of the more conservative members of the Milwaukee County Board.

    Is she conservative enough for the author of this article? Probably not.

    Is she more conservative than most other members of the Milwaukee County Board? Probably so.

    Other than the author of this article, what are the political leanings of those who seem to be aligned against her?

    How do we convince people with Center-Right to Far-Right political tendencies to pursue roles on school boards and other roles in government? This article certainly doesn’t help.

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    1. She poured herself into DEI and wasted money on the likes, so no- she is not conservative enough. She’s a spineless Dem who is being manipulated more and more to the left (just like the rest of them).

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      1. I had not heard this. Do you have any references/citations? Searches for her name and DEI using multiple search engines are not turning up any results that would indicate such.

  13. The next Greendale School Board Meeting is Monday 10/7/24 at 7pm in The Greendale High School Library. Anyone wishing to make a public comment at the beginning or end of the meeting calling for Kathy Vincent’s resignation is invited to do so. The irony of having a School Board President in Greendale on the verge of being fired as a Teacher in Kenosha is hard to reconcile.

    The next KUSD School Board meeting is 10/22/24 at 7pm – at the Educational Support Center in Kenosha, but anyone wishing to call for Vincent’s resignation or contract termination can do so there as well.

    If you do not want to speak publicly, you can email both School Boards requesting Vincent’s resignation or termination.

    The same goes for the next full Milwaukee County Supervisor Meeting on 10/1/24 at 4pm in The Milwaukee County Courthouse room 200.

    1. Thank you for posting this. A ton of people are upset- yet no one shows up to even one damn meeting! Come on!

      1. Voicing isn’t enough. Run for office. Hold down multiple jobs if you have to… no, wait… that’s not allowed.

        Retire comfortably then, then devote yourself to community service so you can enjoy all the wonderful love and respect of the public (and partisan press from either side) /s

        It’s a no win game. I wonder why anyone would serve.

    2. This is yet another trolling message from Mary Grogen under a different handle. Same bullying behavior that got her removed from Greendale School Board. She posted the same message on multiple sites. Definitely on a vendetta.

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    1. It is 100% Mary L Grogan commenting as “Greendale Voter” in this comment section and very likely her spearheading this smear campaign.

      I have a screenshot of posting the same comments verbatim on a FB group, which she subsequently took down after I confronted her.

      She should be ashamed of her predatory trolling behavior she’s demonstrated over many months of attacking Kathy.

  14. Kathy Elizabeth Weid Vincent (and her online trolls) will look for any excuse to deflect and lie about her unethical conduct as a Teacher and Elected Official. The Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction has a form for reporting the unethical behavior of public school teachers: Kathleen E. Vincent (File #14865) Let’s all hope that the good people of KUSD will triumph in holding her accountable for stealing time from her students and Kenosha taxpayers and that the Greendale School Board will censor her. It takes courage to stand up to a bully like Vincent.

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