The BOE was clumsy I went to the school board meeting Monday to speak my piece regarding the potential closing of Walton, but ended up focused on the uproar over a vaping wrestler. As I understand this, the wrestler dumped his girlfriend for reasons unknown; the wrestler chose to flaunt rules and law by vaping on school property and was filmed in so doing; the wrestler qualified for the State Championship Match; the jilted girlfriend and her mother then shared the vaping video on-line, not with the school; the school needed to uphold a code of conduct to which the wrestler had previously agreed, but also wanted to protect him from the consequences of what was clearly on-line bullying; some school board members called for a special meeting of debatable legitimacy to evaluate this mess and attempted to adjust policy to allow management to somehow deal with an unwinnable matter; word then went through the community that the school system was trying to grant an athlete special privilege to enhance our chances at State, which was how this was first presented to me and, I’m sorry to say, was my first reaction.