We guess we shouldn’t be surprised that hate and viciousness have surfaced in two races for the Hamilton County Board of Education because the same thing happened in the last election for both board seats.
Still, we thought maybe the political parties representing the candidates in Districts 2 and 11 could make it until Election Day on Thursday without such spite. We were wrong.
The education of some 45,000 public school students in Hamilton County is critically important, but the election of two people who may sit on the board is not important enough to smear the candidates involved.
In District 2, where a record amount of money for a county school board race was spent in 2020, left-wing online posts have attempted to make Republican candidate Ben Daugherty guilty by association.
Posts say the businessman is a member of Calvary Chapel Church, which recently noted that a Tennessee House Joint Resolution designated the month of July as a time of prayer and fasting, and asked church members to, among other things “pray that the Board of Education would be dismantled and that school choice would see the light of day.”