Kenosha, Wis. — A receptionist at Indian Trail High School and Academy resigned last month while under investigation for improperly altering student attendance records, according to newly released internal documents from the Kenosha Unified School District.
Danielle Nixon, who worked at the school’s front desk and had access to pupil databases, left her position on March 7, 2025, just days after being questioned about potentially unauthorized modifications to student absences. The district’s records, obtained by Kenosha County Eye through a public records request, confirm Nixon’s resignation came in the midst of an ongoing internal probe.
A key piece of evidence is a signed written statement dated January 29, 2025, submitted by the school’s head secretary. In the memo, the head secretary described observing a student leave school early without an approved excuse. When later reviewing that student’s attendance record in Infinite Campus, she discovered that Nixon had changed the absence from “TRU” (truant) to “TARE” (excused tardy). The memo states that Nixon did not take the call related to that student’s absence and had previously changed other records under similar circumstances. After the head secretary corrected the record by reentering the truancy codes, she later discovered that Nixon had gone back into the system and removed the truancies again.
The memo documenting the incident was submitted to Principal Scott Kennow.
In a separate document dated January 9, 2025, the head secretary outlined common attendance codes for Human Resources:
- TRU – Truant
- ABSU – Unexcused Absence (without valid documentation)
- TARU – Unexcused Tardy
- TARE – Excused Tardy
The district’s personnel records also show Nixon had changed or deleted other attendance records using the ABSU code in cases where documentation was lacking. That code is intended for unexcused absences when a parent calls but fails to provide adequate explanation.
In a document obtained by Kenosha County Eye, Nixon was shown to have changed or deleted more than 4,000 attendance records during the last seven months of her employment. Many of the affected students were athletes, raising questions about whether the changes had implications for sports eligibility.
Under Wisconsin Interscholastic Athletic Association (WIAA) rules, students with excessive absences or academic irregularities may be disqualified from participation in school athletics. The district has not disclosed whether any athletes benefited from the altered records.
After taking several days of unpaid leave and exhausting her sick time, Nixon turned in her keys and badge and submitted her resignation. The district has not stated whether disciplinary action was pending or whether law enforcement has been contacted.
According to KUSD policy, improper modification of records—including time sheets, attendance logs, or student data—can result in disciplinary action up to and including termination.
KUSD’s Director of Human Resources, Kevin Neir, appeared to omit significant documents in the district’s response to Kenosha County Eye. Notably, there were no findings of fact included in Nixon’s file, and although one document confirms that she was interviewed by Human Resources, no notes, transcripts, or summary documents from that interview were released. Kenosha County Eye has previously and successfully sued KUSD for similar omissions. As part of that legal settlement, Neir promised to be more diligent in future records releases. That promise does not appear to have been kept in this case.
Nixon’s husband Rodney, who is a coach for the Indian Trail boys’ basketball team, was named in the documents released to Kenosha County Eye, but his connection to the alleged misconduct, if any, remains unclear. District officials have not said whether he was interviewed or had any involvement.
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Why else would she do it other than to impact eligibility? Also, 4000 instances???!!!
IN ONLY SEVEN MONTHS….That’s crazy.
Instances could be each class period. Instead of 1 instance per day, there are 5 to 7 class periods for students. So number may be “inflated”.
4000 divided by 7 is 571.42, does this make it more acceptable? If I was the superintendant of a school and an employee did this 10 times, they would be gone. Why would anyone try to dismiss the seriousness of this? Seems like you think it’s okay.
She should be prosecuted
She actually shows up for work like that
or is she in the talent show?
I would fire her just for those glasses.
Some of the styles now, look really obnoxious.
I think they are more concerned that people see them.
Their real popular in some circles.
Probably just scratching the surface on the implications of sports eligibility.
The impact can only be assessed by the scores and win and loss records of the teams but it’s up to competing schools to determine if they were played against by otherwise ineligible players.
But the real lesson for the students is that just because the adults go to bat for you doesn’t mean that they played fair in doing so.
Should the students be penalized ? No. But they should or should not be playing according to their “reviewed and corrected” eligibility’s.
Winning and losing is a part of sports AND is one of the most important parts of playing school sports.
Because it teaches a life lesson of not everyone wins. Cheating is not a lesson we should be teaching by example.
The student athletes who were innocent and actually qualified to play are the ones who will be hurt the most by this.
Fake news! The head secretary is a bully and a liar but she’s white so she must be right. There’s more to this story.
Then why did you resign if you didn’t do anything wrong?
I’m not her but I do know her. She’s an upstanding member of our community and has been for years. If I were being bullied, lied to and on you and purposely excluded I would probably resign as well.
Evidence appears to say otherwise. Both in the “upstanding member” and the “being bullied” categories.
We ALL know it is you, so stop lying and playing the race card. Enjoy working at Walmart, I heard the employees there enjoy their job. 🙂
Nice try . It beez da honkies fault ! 😂
She’s Hispanic, and her husband and kids are African American…. Sorry, no race story to be told here about the head secretary… nice try
So typical, bringing in the race card when clearly doing something wrong and getting caught for it. I bet $100.00 the facts won’t lie. I also bet the vast majority of the adjustments were for…
5,000?! Did she even do any actual work?
They aren’t content to cheat through recruiting alone and are now doctoring attendance records, too? Is this surprising? The real investigation should analyze placement. A school with academies that are supposedly populated by “lottery” also “coincidentally” has the largest concentration of top athletes? Is the lottery driving placement or is athletic skill driving placement? Are the teams predominantly made up of students who live in the IT boundary or are the bulk of the student athletes from the academies? Why not put the academy students back in their boundary schools for athletics and rebalance the district athletic programs?
All this effort for high school sports. So ridiculous.
She will be hired by Bradford by morning. They keep hiring incorrectly so. This would be a good fit.
Were any of the altered records for white students ? Neir should be fired as well . While we’re at it , fire Tanya Ruder. Have a nice day !
I always wondered what happened to Shirley from “What’s Happening.”
Dynomite!!
I’m sure her defense will involve feeling completely justified in her actions. Those kids shouldn’t be expected to show up for class. And if they don’t, penalizing them is wrong. Wait for it.
Oh, that’s been going on for years in Kenosha. They used to do it for Mahone at Bradford when he was out screwing all the white chicks and not going to school.
Dindo Tribe can’t be trusted for anything
Dindo muffin !
You know things are bad at KUSD, particularly Indian Trail, when it’s a breath of fresh air to read a story like this and think to yourself, “Well, at least it didn’t involve sex, grooming, drug dealing, etc.” In this case, cheating didn’t pay off because the Indian Trail boys basketball team was 5-20 overall (2-12 conference) last season. Ouch.
Sad but true .
Well, how do we know what the students were doing when they left school without parental consent or proper notification? Drugs, criminal mischief, underage sex? Don’t be so quick to be relieved.
So glad I moved out of this area. It’s a cesspool of depravity in every sector.
Right there with you, leaving SE Wisconsin was the best thing I’ve done for my family. It might just be me, but things didn’t seem that bad until after the riots. Seems Kenosha attracted all the hood rats from Milwaukee and N. Chicago. Now you have a city full of crime and people there are so unfriendly.
So typical, bringing in the race card when clearly doing something wrong and getting caught for it. I bet $100.00 the facts won’t lie. I also bet the vast majority of the adjustments were for…
Yeah this is funny. Indian Trail’s athletics suck…..what was the point of this?
The one day in the life of Kenosha soap is good…so much racism directly and indirectly, so much better than others attitudes and all of you have something in your closet 🤣🤣 half your husbands and wives are cheating the other half are alcoholics most are problem addicted to something prescribed and call it ok but let’s down grade and talk about others so we can feel good about ourselves so pathetic 🤦🏽♀️🤣🤣🤣