To my Constituents:

You might think that the school board doesn’t really have any direct effect on you or your family especially if you don’t have children of school age. However, children or not, the decisions made by the school board directly effect all of us.  

Loudon County residents are currently facing higher property taxes and possibly the implementation of a wheel tax. These increased and new taxes are a direct result of the poor decision making and fiscal management of the current school board. The board has squandered millions of dollars on wasteful and unnecessary spending. 

But when it comes to the management of our schools, things get even worse. The current board has allowed some of the facilities to fall into such a state of disrepair, that at Greenback School, firemen must be paid to walk the halls of the school during the day to assure the safety of the students. This fire watch as it is known was mandated by the State Fire Marshal due to horrendous condition and fire code violations at the school. The auditorium at Loudon High School is off limits to students due to the unsafe conditions of the building. Again a mandate by the State Fire Marshal. There are maintenance issues at nearly all the facilities that continue to go un-repaired. Year after year, the Loudon County Commission has consistently funded the board yet year after year, the board has consistently misused the funding. 

Who suffers most? The students. Getting a good education in this age is not optional. Our students deserve the opportunity to receive a quality education without having to worry about the safety of the building they sitting in or freezing to death when the heat doesn’t work or sweltering in the summer when the air conditioning doesn’t work.  

Some of the current members of the Loudon County Board Of Education including my opponent, have stood by while both the quality of education and the integrity of the facilities have been compromised. The tax payers of Loudon County, the parents of students in the Loudon County Schools and especially the more than 5000 students deserve better, much better.  

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