Friday, April 13

Pretend Suspension of John Thomas

The Board of Education Is Blowing Smoke



If you look in the Courier this week on page 8A in the upper left hand corner you will see a picture. It is about the Parris South DARE graduation. Found it yet?

What really tickes me off about the picture is that our Board of Education  is allowing John Thomas to represent them in public, standing their in his slender, with our Chief County Law Enforcement Officer and his Chief Deputy, no less, celebrating a crime prevention training progrem graduation for out kids. 

I thought the dude was “suspended” with pending criminal charges. I even looked up the word suspended in my dictionary, so I know what the word means. I couldn’t find anything about pretend suspend. Either one is or one isn’t. There is no in between.

Yet the Board of Education still allows him to represent the BOE, our School System and all those that are affiliated with the school system and himself as “Director” of Schools.  I just can not get my head around that.

This in name only suspension is smoke and mirrors. Smoke and mirrors to the tenth degree. The man has not been suspended, it is just a pretend suspension. Our Board of Education, those with the oversight responsibility, are just giving us citizens lip service, feeding us a bunch of hot air and trying to keep us in the dark.

Let's see, that must come under policy setting and enforcement 101 in Hardin County Board of Education operating manual. Along with the tried and true “Well, that is just the way we do it in Hardin County.

The days of that kind of attitude must be numbered and counted down, starting now. Mr Fowler has been and is doing the heavy lifting on this one. I have been tied up with  business and the county commission and their pretend animal control effots, but it is time to relieve the concerns of the citizens, so to Mr. Fowler, help is on the way.  Let's get-er-done.

Note my friends at the Courier - First, at this time, I would refrain from calling him any kind of community leader, that insults the real community leaders. Second-the next time you publish a picture of him associated with the Hardin County School System, would you please identify him correctly as John Thomas, Suspended with Pending Criminal Charges Director Schools congratulates anyone, especially when they are associated with our young and impressionable DARE graduates. I’m sure young Ben Brown will be real proud to have that one in has scrapbook.
 
Respectfully submitted for your consideration,
 
Uncle Ted