Although the timing was apparently not planned, a broadside against the Hamilton County Schools by Hamilton County District 8 Commissioner Tim Boyd was published on The Tennessee Conservative Wednesday about the same time Boyd was telling his colleagues on the commission he would not be a candidate for re-election in 2022.
In the article, which is said to be compiled from an interview with Boyd conducted by the Hamilton County Chapter of Moms for Liberty and from a series of emails between Boyd and the political website, the three-term commissioner said the school district is not transparent with its data, is not spending its money wisely and is not given enough scrutiny by the Hamilton County Board of Education.
Boyd said the district is spending too much of its money on a “bunch of worthless administrators who have no interaction with parents or students while pushing their left-wing ideology,” and that while the schools offer some good programs, the rest “pretty much suck.”
The accusations come while the school board is in the midst of hiring a new superintendent. The first of the three finalists was interviewed Tuesday. The second was to be interviewed Thursday and the third next Tuesday. A final choice is expected to be made next Thursday.
In The Tennessee Conservative, Boyd – who has often been a commission fiscal hawk on budgetary matters – took two current board members to task. He said former chairman Joe Wingate admitted he did not make a line-item review of the district’s fiscal 2019 budget but “trust[ed] the superintendent,” and that current chairman Tucker McClendon is “young, has no children and not enough life experiences to make wise decisions for a public school system as large as HCDE.”