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.
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.
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..
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.
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.
“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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I wondered how she could spread herself that thin BUT Scott Hodges…well…
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?
Failed suicide is the ultimate indication of a loser.
Ignorant comments are an ultimate indication of a stupid person.
Do you think the same about those losers who die of cancer?
Such a hateful comment that only a true loser would say.
Hiring Savaglio as superintendent was the beginning of the end. Corrupt as all get out. She decimated the district.
I warned them against hiring her.
Someone needs to find out why she was forced out. Rumors of her sleeping with her subordinate and promoting him to principal are out there from before she was super.
Wow. There some real pieces of ahit out there. What a coward to lay this trash anonymously. Have some balls and give your name.
Loser
Do you need a hug? Lmao
Seriously
Well your name seems true to who you are
Looks like a guy.
Do a crocodile Dundee on it
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
She’s probably guilty of some of what she was accused of but her comments about Scott Hodges shouldn’t be ignored.
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.
Gross
Another lesbian teaching kids 🙄🤮
Because you’d rather have a catholic priest fondling your kids.
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
Good thing I’m Christian.
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.
Pretty sure she already left the food bank.
Pretty sure she’s a useless hack
Like Tiffany Henyard of Dolton and Thornton Township.
Look at Kerkman- she’s a lifetime politician with no actual accomplishments of her own, and she will likely get reelected, despite being arguably the worst thing to happen to Kenosha County Government in decades.
We need to stop letting the morally bankrupt run the show.
That’s a woman?? Arrest it and put it in the men’s system.
Another lesbian teacher with piss poor ethics.
Given that that she’s a lesbo, she clearly lacks ethics to begin with.
Ignorance at its finest
Yeah! Being a dyke is ignorance for sure!
BINGO
Absolutely. It is a Deviant
Truth
Hoping we hear more about this on WISN RADIO between 2-3pm.
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!
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.
Geeendale, not Glendale
Another freaky .. get away with everything Lib..How many pensions are the taxpayer on the hook for ..
All of them
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.
Gateway has a female teacher who gets paid over a hundred grand a year to teach toenail painting.
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.
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.
Morelli’s deli anyone?
Muff-a-lotta!
Nope
How is calling this white chick a lesbian racist?
You friggin retard.
LMAO. Racist? Followed by a RACIST comment about Italians? OK Real OG.
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.
Hahahaha eat a snickers 😉
Tongue my balls.
Not you lol the OG commenter. She needs to calm her tits
Ok
It’s not a woman lmao
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.
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.
And Having a 6th grader face the wall as punishment? get real!
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.
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?
Can we all agree now that the facts are coming to the surface that Alex Jones was right!!!!
Good luck with your tax increase next year! No one wants to pay for these useless hacks
Congratulations on another of your articles making 1130 WISN radio.
Mark Belling is discussing this story right now.
Belling posing questions about wages, benefits, pension.
KUSD WTF?
He credited Kevin for this story.
America is the greatest country in the world. Hahahahah
It sure is, glad we can agree on that 😊
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.
Sure MLG. Bitter much?
:0(
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 .
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.
Your analysis is spot as. She has learned from her mentor, Milwaukee County Supervisor Steve Taylor an equally vicious and vindictive person. Yes this is the surface and there is much more bubbling up. Here is an appetizer.
Allegations Taylor and Vincent Defraud Milwaukee County by using Legislative Aide for Personal Business
https://www.fcnewswi.com/2024/09/allegations-supervisors-taylor-vincent.html
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.
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).
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.
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.
Thank you for posting this. A ton of people are upset- yet no one shows up to even one damn meeting! Come on!
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.
Agreed! These folks should be ashamed.
Sour & vicious Mary L G is up to her dirty tricks again. Still bitter she got bounced from GSB. Do better MLG!
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.
This is all being driven by a former ultra liberal board member who lost the last board election and is now seeking retribution with Greendale and Board members. She could not convince voters to elect her and is pounding her fists.
https://patch.com/wisconsin/greendale/meet-mary-grogan-candidate-greendale-school-board
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.
https://www.fcnewswi.com/2024/09/vincent-discipline-made-public-as.html
https://www.fcnewswi.com/2024/09/vincent-discipline-made-public-as.html
Vincent Discipline Made Public as a result of Student in Classroom NOT Mary Grogan
https://www.fcnewswi.com/2024/09/vincent-discipline-made-public-as.html
Vincent’s Discipline Made Public as a Result of Student in Classroom NOT Mary Grogan
https://www.fcnewswi.com/2024/09/vincent-discipline-made-public-as.html
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.
Wow. Amazing how people can transfer their own crap onto others. The only bully here is Mary Laurel Grogan who has been dismissed from multiple jobs and positions due to her aggressive, unfriendly, and disparaging behavior. She has made it her personal mission to target others who she feels have wronged her. This is not the first time it has happened. She has the same reputation everywhere she has worked including MPS and it looks like she has taken it to Greendale. She has repeatedly been posting about this person on multiple websites with different names to hide the her identity. She has been trying to rally others to join her personal vendetta. Demonstrates exceedingly poor character.
Scott Hodges who was basically promoted for covering for a groomer. To gross.
I wish people posting in response to this article would focus on the facts (objective) at hand instead of using personal slams against others (subjective). The subjective comments, via a social media platform that allows anonymity, clearly supports one of the greatest issues in our society today – the ability to say whatever you want with no accountability. This type of behavior makes it difficult to teach children the most important social responsibilities. 1. Address your concerns with another person and then move up the chain of command if you are not able to do this collectively. 2. Stay objective. 3. Treat others as you would like to be treated. 4. MOST IMPORTANTLY -please reflect on kindergarten (for those of you who need to go back to your pre-shool days), if you don’t have anything nice to say, do not say anything at all.
The “Chrisitian gentleman” (loosely used term in my words), should truly consider revisiting his faith. This is not what my faith, as a Christian, would encourage me to do. You should speak to the facts, and only the facts, if you want to tout yourself as a reporter, and more so as a Christian.
Your article clearly supports some of the greatest problems in our United States of America. You are part of the continued disappointment for so many citizens.
Thank you for this. It is killing me to see Ms Vincent attacked like this. Without this woman my children would have fallen behind in school. She is a consummate professional. She does not deserve this slander
Why necessary to disclose health information in this that is not relevant to the complaint? I find that a horrendous misuse of information. I would also like to say that Ms Vincent made an absolutely tremendous difference in the life of both of my children that have had her as a teacher. She went above and beyond, giving up personal time outside of school hours to dedicate to my family after the loss of my husband, following up on some of the issues that my kids were having returning to school and their studies. If it was not for Miss Vincent’s dedication to her students and their excellence in learning neither of my children would have gotten full rides to college as they both did thanks to her efforts during a very difficult time for us. It is sad to me that people who go over and above, who dedicate their entire life to their profession, are being disciplined for their time management when she has shown in the past she is on the clock every waking hour of her life to better the educational experience for children. That is what truly matters here. Miss Vincent deserves to be recognized in her community as an exceptional leader in education not torn down. And certainly not to have her personal health issues dragged through the media as if it has ever affected her job performance which it has not. I want to emphasize what an incredible difference in our lives she made. And that without her my children probably would have not returned to school the year that their father died and would have fallen behind. She went above and beyond on her own time. The article even demonstrates that she is constantly going above and beyond on her own time considering that she used sick days to do more work. Who cares what somebody uses a sick day for! When we need sick days we need sick days. She took a sick day to dedicate more time to improving the educational system in our state, in my opinion that should be commended not villanized. We live in a time where the traditional punch in punch out of the past is no longer relevant. All of us carry other duties in our life that we take care of throughout the day. This is no different and in fact more commendable considering it all is based around one common goal. The goal that Wisconsin has a system that supports the education of our children. Nothing Ms Vincent has done has shown that her dedication is anything other than exemplary.
She went on TV and told hundreds of thousands of people she was bi-polar. Learn to read.