Last month’s announcement that principal Melonie Jones would be transferred from Crain’s Creek Middle School has set off a wave of resignations from teachers and other staff who feel ignored
A long-running feud between Moore County School Board member David Hensley and Whispering Pines Mayor Alexa Roberts spilled over into a rare face-to-face bitter exchange between the two of them during a Village Council meeting Wednesday.
Roberts, a public schools advocate long before she became village mayor in 2019, has spent the past few months, mostly on social media, calling out and criticizing Hensleyâs performance, comments and judgement on multiple school issues. She recently filed a public records request for school board membersâ texts after seeing Hensley using his phone during a board meeting.Â
Hensley, elected to the board last fall, has lashed out at Roberts on social media and a local AM radio program, calling her âleftist,â âradical,â tagging her as a âflying monkeyâ and even commenting on her hair.Â
The Moore County Board of Education is now fielding calls to reprimand David Hensley in light of a remark he made on social media the day before the âStop the Stealâ rally in Washington, D.C. last week that ended when rioters breached the Capitol.
Hensley, who was elected to the school board in November, says that he did not attend the rally in support of President Donald Trump, and that his post on Moore County Republican Party social media manager Steve Woodwardâs personal Facebook page to bring back âsevered earsâ from the rally was intended as innocuous banter.