Bradley County school board member Troy WeathersCLEVELAND, Tenn. – Troy Weathers, a long-serving member of the Bradley County Board of Education, bid an emotional farewell to an audience packed with students, teachers and administrators on Thursday evening.
Weathers, representing the county’s 4th District since 1998, lost his re-election bid to Diana Ball Calfee in the Aug. 7 general election.
In the meeting that marked his last as a board member, Weathers left no questions regarding his feelings about students, teachers and Johnny McDaniel, director of Bradley County Schools.
“It never was about power or those kinds of things,” said Weathers. “It was about people who make a difference.”
Teachers answer a calling as “life-changers,” he said, recalling the care and support that he received from a teacher as “a snotty-nosed” child from East Cleveland.