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Jan 11 2025
06:50 am

The Blount County Director of Schools David Murrell resigned Monday, January 6, 2025. In his resignation letter, he said he wants to "return to a tenured faculty position with BCS."

... "the district had been through three directors in three years and would be going into a fourth."

In a Blount County Board of Education meeting Thursday, an addendum was added to the agenda.

The addendum read, “Agreement, Release, and Covenant Not to Sue,” and attached was an agreement signed by Board Chair Chris Pass and Murrell.

It stated that the board would place Murrell on paid administrative leave until the acting director assigns him to an educator position, which could happen this school year or at the beginning of the next. It also read that the board will not remove Murrell’s tenure “based on any events that have happened before the effective resignation date.”

According to the agreement, if voted through by the board, Murrell would not sue the board of education and agree “to keep all matters concerning this Agreement, as well as the facts, circumstances, and contents of this Agreement, absolutely confidential …”

The agreement also said that Murrell would release BCS from any claim regarding employment, termination, attorney’s fees, discrimination, wrongful discharge, or “any other federal, state, or local constitution, regulation, law (statutory or common), or legal theory.”

What the heck is going on? Why is this Director of Education leaving? Why did the other two leave? Why the deception? Why can't Blount County Schools keep a Director?

yellowdog's picture

With that school board,

who would want the job?

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