The San Mateo Daily Journal is reporting the South San Francisco
Unified School District Board of Trustees just learned last week
that a new vice principal hired over the summer – former Gilroy
High teacher and Live Oak High School assistant principal Kim Lemos
– was accused of stabbing her husband in a domestic dispute in
Gilroy last year.
The San Mateo Daily Journal is reporting the South San Francisco Unified School District Board of Trustees just learned last week that a new vice principal hired over the summer – former Gilroy High teacher and Live Oak High School assistant principal Kim Lemos – was accused of stabbing her husband in a domestic dispute in Gilroy last year.
Lemos applied for the position under her maiden name of “Kim George” according to the story by the Journal. In January, Lemos pleaded no contest to misdemeanor disturbing the peace – because her husband Tim Lemos, a Christopher High School football coach, refused to testify against her according to the District Attorney’s Office – but Lemos was originally charged with felony inflicting corporal injury on a spouse.
Since the charge was lessened to a misdemeanor, the South San Francisco School District did not share the information – apparently – with board trustees before she was hired in August as a vice principal for El Camino High School, according to the news story.
South San Francisco Unified School District Trustee Phil Weise would not elaborate on the new information, according to the Journal, but said “the board was not aware of the situation until Thursday,” and, “It would have been nice to know, yes.”
Lemos previously worked at Gilroy High School until 2003 as an English teacher and most recently she resigned as assistant principal at Live Oak High in June to pursue the El Camino job.
Gilroy police arrested Lemos on Aug. 26, 2010, after she turned herself in the day after she stabbed her husband in the chest with a knife and caused other minor injuries at the couple’s home on Swallow Lane in Gilroy, according to police.
Lemos continued to teach at Live Oak High following the incident and was never put on administrative leave.
It’s unclear at this point if Lemos will face any consequences by the South San Francisco School District as a result.
