This letter brings up some interesting points that are likely to be raised when four School Board seats are up for election in 2008. The positions on the ballot on February 5, 2008 are the 2 nd District, 3 rd District, 5 th District and 8 th District.
Lindsey buyout terms an incredible story
Sam Venable opined in his March 2 column that School Board Chairman Karen Carson’s explanation of Charles Lindsey’s ouster as school superintendent was “the most ridiculous statement in the history of personnel management.”
He was referring to her statement that there was no hidden reason for Lindsey’s contract buyout, that the school board was just “being proactive instead of waiting ‘until something bad happens.’ “
What I find even more incredible is that the same school board that has never seen a tax dollar it did not like – and wants and claims to desperately need – would buy out Lindsey’s contract at a potential cost to taxpayers of $404,301.33 on the basis of such unlikely reasoning.
RICK HARRINGTON
Knoxville
