Dr. Little preaches unity. Maple rife with sarcasm at Board meeting.

If the new Perry Township Superintendent Dr. Thomas Little preaches unity -- shouldn't the new Board President follow suite?

Well, you'd think so. But that's not the case. Of course, I'm referring to the last Perry Township School Board meeting on August 11th! Maple was a loose canon...

As Assistant Superintendent of Curriculum Dr. Debra Barnes was giving her presentation on the new "teachers" text books (she chose them, not the teachers), new Board President Steve Maple interrupted her and chided: "is the Freedom Writers Diary going to be included in that?" The audience groaned, loudly. Sensing he struck a nerve -- instead of apologizing for an obviously inappropriate remark -- he defensively held up a bunch of letters: "I still get stacks of letters from all over "(protesting teacher Connie Heermann's suspension)."The letters call the board anything from unfair...to Nazis, book burners, communists, etc. I just want to quit being on TV and just run this Board," added Maple.

Since the re-election of three new board members, all the board has preached unity, "let's forget the past."

Forgetting the past is hard to do with Maple's sarcastic comments that aren't funny!