In Knox County people are fed up with the Nazistic appointed school superintendent. He doesn't listen to the teachers, he doesn't listen to parents, and he doesn't listen to the taxpayers. He is only accountable to 5 of 9 school board members, as that's what it takes for him to get what he wants.
And the school board isn't much better. They continue to extend his contract to the point where it is cost prohibitive to fire him because he would be owed so damned much money as a buyout.
I'm pretty much like most everybody else in Knox County - we are fed up with the lack of accountability of both the Stupidintendent (spelled like I mean to spell it) and the school board. The individual teachers by and large to a great job. They simply have little support from their in school administration or from Central Office Administration. It's not a money thing - the funding is there. What that money is being spent on by the administrative powers that be is the issue here.
In our county the power shift occured in the last school board election (a 4-3 support edge changed to a 2-5 deficit)and this was last fall. Our director of schools (superintendent) resigned and was actually forced out before the end of the school year. He wasn't even allowed to award diplomas at the HS graduation. I think most people are happy he is not there anymore but that may have been a little overboard. He also didn't believe he was accountable for his spending. We have two school plants that are over 50 years old and he was proposing purchasing land to construct a new school but would not tell the county court or the board what type of school he was planning to have built (a high school or an elementary school), needless to say his request for funds were denied. By law he doesn't have to line item his request but hell they just wanted to know what they were going to put out cash for. Some people don't know how to handle power.