Here is the speech by Emily Claus from the 2/10/2025 Spotsylvania County School Board meeting.  She talks about teachers being silenced for speaking the truth along with the lies and coverups in the school division.

Here is the speech by Shamgar Connors from the 2/10/2025 Spotsylvania County School Board meeting. Shamgar blasts the Superintendent’s far-left social media posts and racist behavior online. He also talks about the Superintendent’s illegal immigration information on the school division website. Shamgar is always effective in getting his point across. Today, he dressed up as Hollywood Hulk Hogan from the NWO.

Here is a speech from the 2/10/2025 Spotsylvania County School Board meeting by Lt. Col. Edward Baccich. The speaker blasts the far-left members of the school board and the superintendent on their Marxist views that focus on indoctrination. He also talks about illegal immigration information on the school division website and abuse issues.

Today we celebrate Thomas Sowell for Black History Month. Sowell grew up in poverty and later became an economics professor. He is one of the crown jewels of economics that does not get enough media attention. Below is an article covering Sowell’s life and a YouTube video. Pay close attention to minute 12:10 to 15:45 in the video where Sowell discusses education.

The video features the following quote “With respect to education, Tom would say it doesn’t make any difference how much money you put into education but if there are not some basic factors that you must take into account that is, in order for a kid to get a good education somebody must make him go to bed on time. Somebody must make him do his homework. Somebody must make him mind the teacher. Somebody has to get him up in the morning. And if those things are not done, I don’t care how much money you put into education you’re not going to get very good results. And that is precisely what we see.”

Sowell has written extensively on economics and education topics. We encourage all our readers to buy his books and search for his speeches online on youtube. Below are screenshots of the following web links.

https://www.hoover.org/news/black-history-month-profile-thomas-sowell

https://www.hoover.org/profiles/thomas-sowell

https://www.tsowell.com

The January 21 budget meeting revealed that Spotsylvania County Schools is dealing with a lot of legal costs. Spotsylvania County Schools admits on their presentation slide that there is “numerous case loads and FOIA requests as well the high cost of external counsel” to justify the need for another $1,400,000.

To make things sound softer, Superintendent Clint Mitchell’s budget presentation marketed this slide under the name “Compliance adjustments / Organizational improvements”. His presentation also stated that they reduced this area of the budget by 25% to make it sound better.

Despite the cheap marketing, the reality is that the Spotsylvania County School division has a lot of legal costs stemming from gross mismanagement from the Superintendent and administration. There have been many child abuse scandals and unjustified wrongful terminations of teachers over the past year. We suspect there are many lawsuits. Superintendent Mitchell wants you the taxpayer to pay for this!

According to the GovSalaries website, here are the salaries from the last school year (FY2023) for those in leadership positions within Spotsylvania County Schools.

• Deborah Frazier – $163,302
• Dennis Martin – $159,891
• Jennifer Belako – $154,752
• Philip Trayer – $152,247
• Allison Langridge – $136,544
• Jeremy Siefker – $123,191

We assume that their salaries are higher for this current school year. GovSalaries says the salaries listed on their website do not include the cost of benefits which we estimate to cost the taxpayer another $10K to $20K per employee. In our earlier article, we pointed out the salaries of 3 others in leadership positions. Here they are for reference. https://spotsywire.com/2025/01/26/spotsy-school-administrator-salaries-part-1/

• Amy Williams – $159,487
• Kenneth Forrest – $153,745
• Sean Clore – $127,885

Collectively, these 9 individuals cost the taxpayer over $1,200,000. We have not even looked at the salaries of the others in leadership positions. Are these bureaucrats really worth this huge cost to the taxpayer? Why does anyone on the Board of Supervisors want to raise taxes since it only helps to increase the salaries of the bureaucrats?

The website called GovSalaries shows the salaries without benefits for employees of Spotsylvania County Schools from the last school year, 2023. Employee pay scales are publicly available on the Spotsylvania County Schools website.

Below are screenshots of last school year’s salaries for Human Resource Director Amy Williams, Executive Director of Operations Kenneth Forrest, and Director of Transportation Sean Clore. According to GovSalaries, William’s salary was $159,487, Forrest’s salary was $153,745, and Clore’s salary was $127,885. Forrest is Clore’s boss in the organization chart.

Below are screenshots of the pay scale for the “Director” position and “Executive Director” position in Spotsylvania County Schools for this current school year. We believe Williams, Forrest, and Clore make more during this current school year compared to last school year. These three individuals combined make $441,000 per year not including benefits.

The School Board is lobbying for more money from the Board of Supervisors which may raise taxes. This does bring up an interesting question for the taxpayer. Are these salaries appropriate for Williams, Forrest, and Clore in light of the 11 charges of child sexual abuse against Miguel Velasquez Velasco? https://spotsywire.com/category/miguelvelasquezvelasco/

• How did the Williams or Clore not properly vet Miguel Velasquez Velasco during the hiring process as a bus aide?
• We learned in court that Velasquez Velasco needed an interpreter. How did Williams, Clore, and Forrest not notice that Velasquez Velasco could not speak English?
• How did Forrest not realize that there is a problem since he is Clore’s boss?

Maintaining a child’s innocence is priceless. Yet Superintendent Clint Mitchell continues his virtue signaling on protecting illegal immigrants instead of focusing on the safety of the students- https://spotsywire.com/2025/01/24/dr-mitchell-sings-ice-ice-baby/

Spotsylvania County Schools Superintendent Clint Mitchell posted a letter on immigration enforcement on January 24, 2025. Mitchell states that “If the United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) or any other non-local law enforcement agency requests access to a school, they must present appropriate legal justification and await approval from SCPS to protect the rights of our students and staff.”

Tom Homan recently stated that any local or state official obstructing immigration enforcement will be arrested. Since federal law supersedes state or local law, is Mitchell planning on obstructing federal agents? Is Mitchell planning on physically removing ICE agents from Spotsylvania County Schools? Why does Mitchell think that a federal agency needs his permission before entering a school? If Mitchell follows through with this, get ready for the popcorn.

Superintendent Clint Mitchell plans on making Spotsylvania County Schools a sanctuary school division with this letter he wrote. Mitchell is a disgrace putting illegal aliens ahead of the safety of citizens of Spotsylvania County. Look at the difference between the immediacy of this letter on immigration versus the no-reaction by Mitchell on the Miguel Velasquez Velasco, the Spotsylvania County Schools bus aide charged with 11 counts of child sexual assault.

Spotsylvania County Schools Superintendent Clint Mitchell posted a tweet on January 6, 2021 that associates a Trump supporter and Trump as “White Supremacy and Privilege”. Mitchell made his statement without any supporting evidence. His statement is a broad overgeneralization that paints all Trump supporters and Trump the same way.

The irony seems lost on Mitchell. When one makes a broad overgeneralization on race, as Mitchell did in his statement, one would call that person a racist. This is yet another piece of evidence that shows that Mitchell has racist views.

Dr Mitchell, if a parent were to complain about their child being XXX abused in the school division and they are light skinned, is it privilege? Inquiring minds want to know.

During public comment at the 1/13/2025 school board meeting, a dad spoke about the sexual harassment of his daughter by a teacher. We showed the video of this speech in our earlier article – https://spotsywire.com/2025/01/14/more-coverups-at-spotsy-schools/

On 1/14/2025, the father wrote an email to the Spotsylvania County School Board. Below is a screenshot of that email. In the email, the dad states that “It speaks to the level of leadership of Clint Mitchell that he thought it wasn’t prudent to bring an accusation like my daughter’s case to you.”.

At public comment during the January 13th Spotsylvania County School board meeting, a parent spoke about a teacher that sexually harassed his daughter. He provides the name of the teacher. This led to a motion later in the meeting for Superintendent Mitchell to provide a report to the board. Are there more coverups underway in Spotsylvania County Schools ?

Spotsylvania County Schools Superintendent Clint Mitchell wasted no time in creating another potential lawsuit against the school division. Clint Mitchell’s email from 7:19pm on 1/12/2025 shows that he wants to issue a no trespass order against citizen Roy Searles for the great crime of free speech. Mitchell apparently doesn’t think the school division has enough lawsuits so let’s add another one while giving raises to school board members at the 1/13 school board meeting. Apparently, Roy trespassed on Mitchell’s feelings.

At the Spotsylvania County School Board meeting on January 13, the consent agenda shows that school board members will receive raises. Where is the outrage? Didn’t Megan Jackson and Belen Rodas make a stink at the January 2024 school board meeting when a similar measure was attempted?

These school board member raises come on the backs of taking away teacher raises, tight budgets, and the lack of health care reserves. Yet, they want to give more money to a new chair? Are school board members really wanting to take more tax payer money for themselves ?

The election of the Spotsylvania County School Board Chair and Vice Chair happens at the January 13 school board meeting. Yet, Nicole Cole has already declared herself the winner as Chair of the school board. The screenshot below shows this in the yellow highlighted text. This has been on her page for at least a few days now without any correction. We would love to see Nasty Nicole as the board chair. It would be entertaining to watch her racist views, arrogance, anti-education, and anti-child views on a bigger platform!

Spotsylvania County Schools Superintendent Clint Mitchell admits his work as Superintendent is political. Superintendent Mitchell stated at one of his listening sessions “Part of the work of the superintendency and the superintendent, while we don’t want it to be political in nature, it is political”. Here is the video of Mitchell making that statement.

Does Clint Mitchell pretty much admit to being a politician? We think so. It is all about politics and looking good instead of solving problems. We think this explains why he pushes diversity, equity, and inclusiveness. We think this explains why he does nothing and stays silent on the serious problems of child XXX abuse. Do we really need someone that is a politician leading the school division?

Here is a video clip where Superintendent Clint Mitchell of Spotsylvania County Schools focuses on race and diversity. Why does Dr Mitchell want Human Resources to hire teachers based on diversity instead of just hiring the best teachers possible regardless of diversity? Why is Dr Mitchell obsessed with pointing out the immutable characteristic of race instead of focusing on the individual decisions required for success? We think we know why. Race matters only to racists. The rest of us care about character.

Shamgar Connors attended the school board meeting on 12/9/2024. In the picture below, Ms. Drane, Mr. Lieberman, and Marcus Hugo Chavez Garcia appear in the background. Clogged Drane and Marcus Hugo Chavez spoke during public comment. Apparently neither of them cares about the child XXX scandals in Spotsylvania County Schools and believe that the government is the solution to all the problems in education. If that were true, why haven’t test scores gone thru the roof in places like Baltimore that has one of the highest costs per pupil in the country?

Here are two back-to-back video clips of a testy exchange between School Board Chair Lorita Daniels and Vice Chair Nicole Cole at the November 18 school board meeting. Daniels was struggling to get a hold of the meeting during a motion made by Carol Medawar.

Here is the video clip at the 11/11/2024 school board meeting where Spotsylvania County Schools Vice Chair Nicole Cole mocks Trump supporters. Ms. Cole goes onto further say she does not want anyone making a mockery of the school board meetings.

Cole’s statement is nothing more than projection. Cole has made a mockery of school board meetings with her racist rants, attacks on school board members, and attacks on citizens that we covered in past articles – https://spotsywire.com/category/nicole-cole/

We are getting reports of abuse at elementary schools such as Berkeley, Cedar Forest (again), Battlefield, and others. We are aware that a teacher had their hands around a kid’s neck at one of the schools. If any teachers or parents have knowledge of these events, please email us. We will keep you anonymous. Sunlight is the best disinfectant. Dr Clint, hiding information from parents does not help anyone.