Former principal blamed for private school’s demise

BOULDER — Former school board members of the now-defunct Flatirons Christian School partly blame the school’s former principal for the school’s demise.

School board members accused Edgar Stayer, 43, in October 1998 of writing himself 60 checks over a nine-month period, totaling almost $11,000 of the school’s money. Stayer, who still lives in Boulder, declined comment.

The worst part of it, says a victim-impact statement to the court, is that many of the students looked up to Stayer.

“Mr. Stayer was a father figure to them,” the statement…