BOCA RATON, Fla. – A Florida principal who plagiarized graduation speeches this year and last will serve a 10-day unpaid suspension, and will be moved to a “non-instructional” role in the school district.

West Boca Raton High School principal Mark Stenner reached an agreement with the Palm Beach County School District after he was busted for plagiarizing large portions of speeches he gave to the graduating classes of 2014 and 2015, and has been on leave pending a district investigation, The Palm Beach Post reports.

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This week, a panel of his fellow school administrators dreamed up a punishment that would have cost him about $3,788 in lost pay for a recommended 10-day unpaid suspension, though the time he’s already spent on leave during the investigation would have counted as time served. Under the agreement, Stenner would have had to write an apology to the school staff, students and parents, but would return as top dog at West Boca Raton High.

News of the agreement frustrated parents, who vented their concerns to teachers and the district’s new superintendent, Robert Avossa. Avossa told the South Florida Sun Sentinel he wasn’t a big fan of the process used to determine Stenner’s punishment, or the punishment itself.

Hours before the school board was set to approve the agreement, Avossa renegotiated a new deal with Stenner’s attorney to ensure he won’t be returning as a school leader, the South Florida Sun Sentinel reports.

Details of the new agreement are sketchy, as board members didn’t discuss the deal before approving it in about 20 seconds. The Palm Beach Post reports Stenner will serve a 10-day unpaid suspension, while the Sun Sentinel contends “he will no longer face a recommended 10-day suspension.”

The West Boca News posted an outline of Stenner’s approved deal:

Mark Stenner agrees to the following:

  1. Mark Stenner will be transferred from his position as a school Principal, to a non-instructional position within the District, which will be decided by the Superintendent.
  2. Mark Stenner will retain his current salary and complexity pay through the 2015-16 school year.
  3. Mark Stenner will retain his salary but not complexity pay for the 2016-17 school year.
  4. Mark stenner will agree to issue a letter of apology to the staff and parents of West Boca High School, pre-approved by the Superintendent, acknowledging his wrongdoing and his commitment to maintaining the highest ethical and professional standards.

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The Palm Beach Post reports Stenner didn’t just lift sections of any graduation speeches, but rather some of the most viewed graduation speeches available online.

This year’s speech included advice to grads to “resist the easy comforts of complacency” and to “be worthy of your advantages – taken from an acclaimed 2012 graduation speech by Massachusetts English teacher David McCullough Jr. about why students are “not special” and “it’s where you go from here that matters,” according to the site.

The discovery of Stenner’s plagiarism this year prompted a look into his past performances, further revealing that he lifted anecdotes and advice verbatim from a 2000 graduation speech by University of Texas psychology professor Marc S. Lewis.

Both speeches were well publicized and included in a list of “Top 10 commencement speeches” online, the Post reports.

Avossa told the Post Stenner’s agreement was changed in part because he didn’t like the process used to determine the former principal’s punishment.

“I have to honest with you, I’m not happy with the process,” he said.

That’s because Stenner’s suggested punishment was prescribed by a committee of six to eight fellow administrators, who obviously have a vested interest in issuing a light sentence.

“We have a process in place,” Avossa said. “On one hand you do want people to have due process, but the process should be transparent.”

The current system leaves taxpayers to wonder whether the relatively light punishment is the result of “people protecting colleagues,” he said.