Incoming Knox County school board member Amber Rountree said "it took
a little bit of teeth pulling and the Law Director's Office to get" her
into a crucial board-related orientation session that the school
superintendent didn't want her to attend.
But, Superintendent Jim McIntyre says he just wanted her to reschedule as to avoid the "appearance of impropriety."
Rountree,
though, isn't buying it. And she's now questioning why McIntyre appears
to be turning her maternity-leave status into an issue and whether
"there were some other factors in play."
"It did raise some
questions for me because I had campaigned pretty strongly that I was
somebody that a lot of folks considered to be anti-McIntyre . . . and
then when I meet a lot of these obstacles that (the other two) new board
members didn't seem to have, I was concerned," she said.
Rountree,
a school librarian who is on medical leave and will resign from her job
next Monday, added: "I felt like it was vital for me to go to the
orientation prior to being sworn in . . . and something about it didn't
feel right to me so I got in touch with the law director's office."
You can check out the entire story, as well as, McIntyre's response RIGHT SMACK HERE.
If you just want to read the emails, then click RIGHT SMACK HERE.
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