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A former Saskatchewan school principal defended her cash offer to two teachers to help improve her daughter’s English grade.

“I was trying to be a good person,” Kim Sautner said at a Saskatchewan Teachers Federation ethics hearing in Saskatoon on Tuesday.

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Sautner, the former principal of Wolseley High School, is now a principal-teacher at an elementary school in New Brigden, Alberta.

In January 2015, more than six months after she left her position in Wolseley, Sautner texted the two teachers who had taught her daughter’s 2014 English class.

Sautner testified that her daughter, who had started university, was struggling in her first-year English class, which was a prerequisite for her education program.

Sautner said her daughter was advised she could retake the course — but also that, had she earned an 80 average in her senior high school English classes, she would have been exempt from taking it. Her high school transcript showed marks of 80 and 72.