Kudos to April Carney, the School Board member who stopped the hiring of a very poor choice for public information chief of the government schools in Jacksonville.
When Superintendent Chris Bernier sent an email announcing that he would recommend Dan Adams, current chief of public information in the Loudoun County, Va., schools, Carney’s alarm went off.
She knew what a mess the Loudoun County school system is and recalled that the board had rejected that county’s former superintendent when he applied for the position Bernier won.
“As soon as I saw who it was, I almost had a heart attack,” Carney told Eye on Jacksonville.
Loudoun County schools have become “a lightning rod” against parental rights, she said. That is the exact opposite of what the current school board has been trying to do, which is to protect Jacksonville parents and children from the racist, pornographic agenda of the Far Left.
School officials in Loudoun County are being investigation by the U.S. Dept. of Justice for possibly abusing Title IX. It is a place that allowed boys in girls bathrooms, which resulted in a rape in a girls bathroom.
The school district and Adams are being sued by the Daily Wire because Adams refused a Freedom of Information Act request for details of a settlement the school district made with the victim in the rape case.
After Carney did more digging she then sent an email to the superintendent. He called her and said he didn’t know about Adams’ background. Carney told him Adams would never get her vote, no matter what other board members did.
”We are trying to boost enrollment and assure citizens we are transparent,” Carney said. “Adams has done the opposite.”
The hire was on the consent agenda for last week’s board meeting, which is rather alarming in itself. Carney pulled it off the agenda for discussion and shortly before the meeting Bernier notified the board he was withdrawing the recommendation to hire Adams.
The question remaining is how much vetting Bernier gave the candidate. Did he even do a simple Google search?
