The Tabloid is WRONG...Again
This column from the tabloid Editor today 2/18/2007
Who will speak for Lindsey?
Looks like fur will fly at Tuesday’s meeting of the Knox County school board.
“We’ve got five votes to buy out Lindsey,” a source told Betty Bean several days ago. Interestingly, this person mentioned Kimberly Kallenberg in the next sentence.
Kallenberg and Powell High School principal Diane Psihogios were suspended with pay last summer, pending an investigation that has never been concluded. Perhaps it was never begun.
Various candidates for school board have promised to end Superintendent Charles Lindsey’s contract, but it’s not happened. As a Lindsey foe came onto the board, another fell off.
Seventh District board member Diane Dozier was perhaps Charles Lindsey’s last big booster. She was defeated by Rex Stooksbury, who told Shopper reporter Jake Mabe that he would not vote to extend Lindsey’s contract.
This writer will shed no tears over the departure of Charles Lindsey, if the board votes Tuesday to buy out his contract.
Think no further than his contemptuous treatment of the late Jerry Sharp to understand why.
With media attention on the state’s Sunshine Law, don’t look for school board members to be talking outside of Tuesday’s meeting. But expect a spirited debate then.
Or maybe there won’t be much debate at all. The five votes that brought him here (by knocking Roy Mullins out of the final three candidates) are gone: Steve Hunley, Tommy Prince, Margaret Maddox, Diane Jablonski and D.M. Miller.
On the 2007 school board, there is no one to speak for Lindsey.
Tommy Prince did NOT vote for Lindsey. he voted for Robert Schiller. In his vote he made the statement. "Why vote for Jeff Blauser when you can have Ken Griffey, Jr." An email was sent to the tabloid editor to point out the facts of her error. Her response was less than professional.
Who will speak for Lindsey?
Looks like fur will fly at Tuesday’s meeting of the Knox County school board.
“We’ve got five votes to buy out Lindsey,” a source told Betty Bean several days ago. Interestingly, this person mentioned Kimberly Kallenberg in the next sentence.
Kallenberg and Powell High School principal Diane Psihogios were suspended with pay last summer, pending an investigation that has never been concluded. Perhaps it was never begun.
Various candidates for school board have promised to end Superintendent Charles Lindsey’s contract, but it’s not happened. As a Lindsey foe came onto the board, another fell off.
Seventh District board member Diane Dozier was perhaps Charles Lindsey’s last big booster. She was defeated by Rex Stooksbury, who told Shopper reporter Jake Mabe that he would not vote to extend Lindsey’s contract.
This writer will shed no tears over the departure of Charles Lindsey, if the board votes Tuesday to buy out his contract.
Think no further than his contemptuous treatment of the late Jerry Sharp to understand why.
With media attention on the state’s Sunshine Law, don’t look for school board members to be talking outside of Tuesday’s meeting. But expect a spirited debate then.
Or maybe there won’t be much debate at all. The five votes that brought him here (by knocking Roy Mullins out of the final three candidates) are gone: Steve Hunley, Tommy Prince, Margaret Maddox, Diane Jablonski and D.M. Miller.
On the 2007 school board, there is no one to speak for Lindsey.
Tommy Prince did NOT vote for Lindsey. he voted for Robert Schiller. In his vote he made the statement. "Why vote for Jeff Blauser when you can have Ken Griffey, Jr." An email was sent to the tabloid editor to point out the facts of her error. Her response was less than professional.
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