Lewd sexual gesture leads to school board member’s censure

To thomashenry,

First of all, I have no knowledge about Washington County Tennessee schools. However, your post says exactly what needs to be said concerning MOST public school systems. I can’t understand how, or why, these types of situations exist and very few people ever discuss it. Oh, I certainly understand why teachers won’t come forward. Telling the whole truth would likely cost them their jobs. The leaders have this thing down pretty good.

Many public school systems are more corrupt than average tax paying citizens could ever imagine. The goal of the leaders seems to be to keep just the right people happy, and not complaining.

It seems today’s public school leaders care little about what young people are learning. I wonder what their main goals actually are?

Thanks for your post. It was great!!!!

Danny Good was recently hired as the athletic director at Daniel Boone High School.  I am curious! How did he get a job that he helped create? I wonder if Danny getting the A.D. job is unethical?  Danny does not even have a college degree. Sounds like confilict of interest to me.  Hiring him is telling the teachers and administrators who have worked hard to get certified to teach children are of lesser value. It seems that unethical behavior is going around quite a bit these days in Washington County. Keith Ervin has waded around Wasington County Schools for the past three years intimidating faculty, staff, and coaches. I am a bit surprised that many of Keith’s bad behaviors have not come to light until now. It has been said that other board members go to the schools in Washington County during extra curricular activities and intimidate teachers and coaches.  When is all this going to stop?  Children are first and the uneducated board members know nothing about education outside of when they were a student themselves.  The board members, especially the uneducated ones need to stay with policy making (which is a scary thought too) and let the educators do the teaching. The community is stirring about this topic and I hope they continue to get involved.

Dear Deeb, the problem here as in any other upcoming election is that the attention span/memory of the average American is about like that of a mosquito.  By the time his re-election comes up, most citizens will have forgotten the exact specifics and will only remember his name as a recognizable incumbent.  It is the responsibility of the voting public to remember these incidents and vote these offenders out of office.  Unfortunately, I don’t have a lot of confidence that enough people will remember the issues unless there is a grass roots campaign that springs up to keep these facts in the forefront of the public’s consciousness.  Tea parties should not just be to complain about national elected officials.  Local officials should be held to a higher standard as well.

What comes around goes around is all I have to say about Mr.Ervin. He thinks since he is on the school board he can run Washington County schools. He costed an innocent teacher their job, along with other county employees their jobs after promising their jobs “wouldn’t be cut” Too bad his job wasn’t cut. Its sad people trust this man as a leader for their childeren, not knowing he was a threat to them.

When obama visited a classroom and told the story of American soldiers loosing their lives every time he clapped his hands and a student told him “dumda$$ stop clapping your hands"You never heard an outcry for him to be removed from office.