Bus driver challenges school board

[Alicia Leonard]

BUS DRIVER CHALLENGES SCHOOL BOARD

By ASHLEY AMASON
Walton County bus-driver Barbara R. Hunt claims in a series of letters presented to the Walton County School Board that her non-re-employment this past April is retaliatory on the part of Director of Transportation Mac Work.
In Hunt?s first letter, dated July 2, 2008, she details the instances which she believes led to her [?]
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[sunspotbaby]

This is rather disturbing and makes me think of that old adage:

"It's not who you know....."

:angry:

Thanks for posting this enlightening information on our school board.

 

[Jdarg]

This is rather disturbing and makes me think of that old adage:

"It's not who you know....."

:angry:

Thanks for posting this enlightening information on our school board.

If you read the article, the bus driver job was not the school board's decision to make. They could comment, but that appears to be about it.

And before the Anderson critics get all excited, I also don't think this is an issue to use when considering the superintendent race. This is one of those issues that sounds like we don't have the whole story, and maybe there is a good reason why Anderson did not comment, since "no comment" situations often mean there is a "rest of the story".

A superintendent has to make many decisions- not all of them will be popular, and maybe even sometimes not fair. She is the boss of the school district employees.

 

[beachmouse]

The version of the story I remember reading a week or so back makes the bus driver seem like a busybody who constantly overstepped the boundaries of her job, and also a difficult employee.

And considering that the former employee sound like the type who would get lawyered up, I wouldn't make any comments on the record until I was confident that there wasn't going to be some sort of legal action on the matter either.