The teenage student who Washington County Board of Education Member Keith Ervin called “hot” during April 2’s meeting had choice words for a school board she thinks let her — and her community — down.
The student appeared in front of the board Thursday and delivered a four-minute speech to the sitting members, bashing them for inaction in delivery consequences to Ervin. In her speech, she called the board members “cowards” who taught her that “no one will stand up for [her].”
“The failure to act on the board’s behalf was and is equivalent to his actions, and it has hurt me just as much,” the student said. “To watch the chairperson be so quick to bang her gavel, to control the public, yet not use it once to control her own peer was disgusting. I understand the shock — I was there — but it is her responsibility to control and represent this board. You all have done a poor job at that representation.”
The April 2 meeting was live streamed, just as all Washington County Board of Education meetings are. A camera captured Ervin turning to the girl, telling her “God, you’re hot, you know that?” Ervin was not removed from the board, as county leaders said elected officials cannot be terminated. He was, however, censured in an act of official condemnation from the rest of the board.
That wasn’t enough for the girl, however.
