ELIZABETHTON — The controversy in the Elizabethton City School System between Superintendent Ed Alexander and West Side Elementary Principal Doug Mitchell escalated on Friday afternoon when Alexander sent a letter to the members of the Board of Education in which he said “I now feel I must give more detail/evidence to support my recommendation.”
Alexander listed five charges in his letter that he did not address in detail at a April 4 meeting with concerned West Side parents. He said he did not reveal those details at the time because he wanted to shield any innocent individuals, but he now felt he needed to provide the additional information.
Those details included an alleged case of harassment between Mitchell and a West Side teacher that forced her to request a transfer to another school, failure to follow instructions on the proper procedures to rate teachers, attendance problems and shifting responsibilities at staff meetings, inappropriate joking about drugs and his behavior at the April 4 meeting with parents.
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