The Des Moines Public Schools staff blacked out some words or names before sending the emails to The World-Herald. We have blacked out other words or sections for taste or because they were emails from Sebring's lover.
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The woman with the tattoo on her foot, hailed as a bold, take-charge outsider who could face down the chronic academic problems plaguing the Omaha Public Schools, proved a weakling against her own passions.

Rather than charging into the OPS superintendent's office to a fanfare, Nancy Sebring crept quietly away Saturday, victim of an electronic communication trail and her reckless decision to carry on torrid exchanges with her lover on school computers, using her work email account, sometimes during the workday.

Some of the exchanges took place when OPS was working to select a replacement for retiring Superintendent John Mackiel, with emails discussing intimate matters while also noting her meetings in Omaha with school officials and community members.