Student blasts school board for not axing member who said she was ‘hot’

A Tennessee teenager called her school board a group of “cowards” last week for not firing a member who hugged her and remarked that she was “hot” during a public meeting last month.

A Tennessee teenager called her school board a group of “cowards” last week for not firing a member who hugged her and remarked that she was “hot” during a public meeting last month.

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Hannah Campbell, a student in Washington County, said bluntly in a fiery speech before the school board Thursday that she does not “forgive” the members for allowing Keith Ervin, a member since 2006, to keep his position.

“To begin, I want to address Ervin’s actions, which were not only unwelcome, but sexist and derogatory,” said Campbell, a student representative on the board. “I know this because he has not behaved this way with any of our male members, nor do I believe that he ever would. I do not wish to beat a dead horse, as everyone here has clear context as to what happened was wrong.”