“God, you’re hot. Do you know that? Where do you go to school at?”

How do you possible make this worse? Ask them where they wll be later.

Not calling for violence but how does this not get you tarred and feather in the parking lot?

anyone else in that room who did not immediately stand up and drag this douche out by the ear is complicit.

White House chief of staff: “Mr president.. we’ve found your new Secretary of Education sir”

Wow, that's... that's pretty cut-and-dry. Like honestly what the fuck? How the hell did literally no one stop that meeting right then and there?

Watch the far right rally around this.

I became involved because I reside in Washington County, I went to school my entire life in these schools. The things that are happening now have happened for as long as I can remember. It’s the “good ole boy” system. They protect each other and let each other get away with whatever they want, and it needs to stop.

Many such cases, tale as old as time, etc.

Is the girl in question the one blurred out? And is he not touching her? How is that appropriate? It's not JUST the inappropriate sexual comment, but also TOUCHING of a minor, during a public meeting.

Launch him into the sun.

Mr. Ervin has explained that he meant nothing offensive and that we have simply misunderstood his intentions,” the board said.

Uh huh, we just misunderstood (slightly paraphrased) "god you're hot, what school do you go to?"

There are SO many ways to interpret this, you don't know what he meant, except for that all those ways are all fucked up in the head

And he is sitting next to her and grabs her when he says it... Ewww.

Definitely investigate this guy, i bet he has a BAD history. May be some criminal charges in the future.

This Trump Public Schools?

The petition may be found here:

https://www.change.org/p/fire-jerry-boyd-and-keith-ervin-from-washington-county-board-of-education

Let's do our part, dear friends. And see you on the streets on Mayday at the next protest!

They.. just... laughed?

he loves god, so what

Conservatives are all pedophiles. This cannot be stressed enough.

The public hearing for possible action will be here for those in the area:

April 8th, 4:00pm

405 W College Street Jonesborough, TN, 37659

But think of the children!

These are the same people who push things like age verification, and banning porn. The really worse part about this, despite his hand-waving “I didn’t mean to offend anyone” bullshit, is that this apparently has become so normalized that this has become something that is taking a large amount of effort and time to resolve (if it ever gets resolved).

In any normal timeline, this a) would have never happened so publicly, and 2) he would’ve been immediately removed and stepped down in shame.

But here we are: the Dark Ages pt. 2. Their masks are off, and they are leaving their shame behind. This is our new normal.

Thats what you get when you choose your leaders by popularity contest. That wouldn't be appropriate even if she was an adult.

Let me guess.

Evangelical MAGA Republican?

"I'm so surprised," said no one ever.

Ok, I've said this before and I will say it again. If you want to find someone who has a drive to do something they shouldn't you look for the jobs that allow them to do so without much oversight/consequence or where it is actively incentivised. Are you a profit driven sociopath? Corporate management/executive will treat you just right. Wish to do violence to people, maybe specifically brown people? The police and the military got you covered. Want to diddle kids? The implicit permission and authority of the priesthood, teacher, school admin/board member gets you a ton of access and assumed innocence.

That does not mean that every person who works in corporate is a sociopath, that every soldier is a violent racist, and that every priest is a pedophile. But if you ARE a sociopath, violent racist, or pedophile, you can see how those jobs might appeal to you and so you are certainly going to find more of those kinds of people in those professions than elsewhere.

I've been to Tennessee, the most churches I've ever seen, seemed to be one on every block. Checks out.