An otherwise productive discussion of how Moore County Schools plans to spend federal COVID-19 relief funding over the next three years adjourned in chaos Tuesday after Chair Libby Carter and Vice-Chair Pam Thompson accused board member Robert Levy of verbally âattackingâ students on a local conservative radio show.
Rather than allowing Levy to respond, Carter, Thompson and board members Ed Dennison and Stacey Caldwell voted to adjourn the meeting even as Levy and board members David Hensley and Philip Holmes clamored for discussion to continue.
A protest flyer circulated before Tuesday s meeting of the Moore County Board of Education
Hensley, Holmes, and Levy then left the boardroom to join a crowd of more than 50 demonstrators who had gathered in front of the districtâs central office in Carthage to protest student mask mandates and in-school vaccination clinics.