{"id":2253891,"date":"2024-05-27T16:36:02","date_gmt":"2024-05-27T20:36:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/athletic-director-accused-of-impersonating-principal-with-ai-allegedly-lied-dozens-of-times-on-applications-took-jobs-at-numerous-schools-report\/"},"modified":"2024-05-27T16:39:06","modified_gmt":"2024-05-27T20:39:06","slug":"athletic-director-accused-of-impersonating-principal-with-ai-allegedly-lied-dozens-of-times-on-applications-took-jobs-at-numerous-schools-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/athletic-director-accused-of-impersonating-principal-with-ai-allegedly-lied-dozens-of-times-on-applications-took-jobs-at-numerous-schools-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Sports Director Allegedly Used AI to Fake Principal Identity, Lied on Multiple Job Applications at Various Schools"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">36<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fathletic-director-accused-of-impersonating-principal-with-ai-allegedly-lied-dozens-of-times-on-applications-took-jobs-at-numerous-schools-report%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2253891&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>An investigation revealed a Baltimore County <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fired-football-coach-sues-school-officials-for-retaliation-over-political-differences\/\" title=\"Fired Football Coach Sues School Officials for Retaliation Over Political Differences\">athletic director<\/a> allegedly falsified information on job applications\u2064 for various schools.\u2063 He is\u200d also accused of using artificial intelligence to generate racist and \u200danti-Semitic comments, appearing to\u200d be from \u2064the school&#8217;s \u2064principal. Despite numerous false claims on job applications, \u200bthe director was continually\u200b hired after purported background checks.\u2064 The incident has spurred calls for\u2062 comprehensive reviews of \u200bhiring practices\u200c to prevent application fraud. A prior employment report shows he \u2064was fired\u2062 after\u200b three months\u2063 at a university and exaggerated his\u200b credentials when applying for \u200ba job\u2064 in Texas. Despite not \u200dhaving the required\u200b teaching certificate, he was hired by Pikesville High School. This culminated \u2062when\u200c he allegedly created a fake\u2062 racist \u200drant, leading to students&#8217; outrage and intensive media \u2062coverage.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p>A Baltimore County athletic director made headlines last month after he allegedly used <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/artificial-intelligence\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">artificial intelligence<\/a> to make it sound like the school\u2019s principal made racist and anti-Semitic comments. Even before that alleged misconduct, however, the 31-year-old AD made it a habit to lie on job applications before he was hired at multiple schools across the country, according to an investigation by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thebaltimorebanner.com\/education\/k-12-schools\/dazhon-darien-pikesville-high-baltimore-county-SQVT7K63OFGOBCBG44TF7272GA\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Baltimore Banner<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Dazhon Darien, Pikesville High School\u2019s former athletic director, used two different names to fill out four job applications, which he filled with around 29 false claims, The Baltimore Banner reported. In Darien\u2019s two resumes that he submitted to Baltimore County Schools, he made 16 false claims, but the man was hired after the school system said it conducted a background check and checked fingerprints and references.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is a clear case of an individual willing to fabricate anything \u2014 including his own qualifications \u2014 and to go considerable lengths to do so,\u201d County Executive Johnny Olszewski Jr. said in a statement. \u201cThis incident is concerning and reinforces the need for all public organizations to take a comprehensive look into hiring practices to ensure all appropriate steps are being taken to prevent this type of application fraud.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Darien was fired after just three months at Colorado Mesa University in 2018. Then, when applying for a position in Texas, Darien appeared to exaggerate his credentials, claiming he worked \u201cthe last 8 years in higher education as an administrator in student affairs,\u201d and served \u201cin the positions of Director of Student Life and Dean of Students,\u201d but there was no evidence that he held those positions for that length of time.<\/p>\n<p>Darien was hired by Pikesville High School last fall despite not obtaining a Maryland teaching certificate, which is required for all <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/chicago-mayor-orders-teachers-back-into-classrooms-union-vows-to-call-a-strike\/\" title=\"Chicago Mayor Orders Teachers Back Into Classrooms, Union Vows To Call A Strike\">public school teachers<\/a>, according to the Baltimore Banner. Darien joined the Pikesville High staff after working for a few weeks as a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/thats-a-dodge-martha-maccallum-presses-teachers-union-president-over-1619-project\/\" title=\"\u2018That\u2019s A Dodge\u2019: Martha MacCallum Presses Teachers\u2019 Union President Over 1619 Project\">social studies teacher<\/a> at Randallstown High School, which is also in Baltimore County, in the spring of 2023.<\/p>\n<p>The athletic director was being investigated for mishandling school funds when he allegedly used AI to create a fake recording of Pikesville High principal Eric Eiswert \u201cspewing racial and anti-Semitic insults about staff and students,\u201d the Daily Mail <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-13351569\/Black-Baltimore-athletics-director-charged-fake-racist-rant.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported<\/a>. The recording appeared to capture Eiswert, who is white, saying \u201cungrateful black kids \u2026 can\u2019t test their way out of a paper bag,\u201d adding, \u201cAnd if I have to get one more complaint from one more Jew in this community, I\u2019m going to join the other side.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The fake recording was posted to social media where many students at the school heard it and became outraged as the media swarmed to cover what looked like a scandal covered in racism. Darien\u2019s alleged deception was found out after the recording was analyzed by experts who said that AI had been used to create a voice mimicking Eiswert. Baltimore County Police Chief Robert McCullough said his department worked with the FBI and forensic experts from the University of California at Berkeley to look into the recording.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDazhon Darien, the school\u2019s athletic director, produced the recording to retaliate against Principal Eiswert, who had initiated a probe into the mishandling of school funds,\u201d McCullough said.<\/p>\n<p>Darien was arrested and charged with stalking, disruption of school operations, and retaliation against a witness, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/abc13.com\/disgruntled-ex-athletic-director-dazhon-darien-used-ai-to-generate-fake-racist-rant-in-pikesville-hs-principal-eric-eiswerts-voice-police\/14734616\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ABC 13<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><b><a href=\"https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" aria-describedby=\"sk-tooltip-9096\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp&#038;source=gmail&#038;ust=1700760801843000&#038;usg=AOvVaw2PQrVSrJfhxNb4LcARqniG\">CLICK HERE TO GET THE DAILYWIRE+ APP<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p>As far as the troubling details surrounding Darien\u2019s hiring, officials are pushing for the school district to review its practices. Ryan Coleman, president of the Randallstown NAACP, said, \u201cThe next question is, did they miss anything else? Is there anything in his background that says he shouldn\u2019t be around children?\u201d He added that the situation worries him about the role models children have in the community\u2019s schools, but said he is optimistic that Superintendent Myriam Rogers will \u201cright the ship,\u201d The Baltimore Banner reported.<\/p>\n<p>Baltimore schools are also facing <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2023\/09\/23\/students-at-40-of-baltimore-high-schools-failed-math-proficiency-exam\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">staggering rates<\/a> of failing grades as none of the students at 40% of its high schools were proficient on the state math exam last spring.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last month, a 31-year-old Baltimore County athletic director supposedly used AI to mimic the principal&#8217;s voice, making racist and anti-Semitic remarks. However, it was unearthed that the director has a history of falsifying information on job applications, leading to his employment at various schools<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":324,"featured_media":2253892,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2024\/05\/GettyImages-1966058434-scaled-e1716835705254.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2253891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2024\/05\/GettyImages-1966058434-scaled-e1716835705254.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2253891","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/324"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2253891"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2253891\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2253892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2253891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2253891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2253891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}