Alva Review-Courier -

The Freedom School Board held its regular meeting last Wednesday evening. The meeting, in the first half hour, started and stopped like a tractor with a clutch problem. Board members Richard Babcock and Phil Kirkpatrick (along with Superintendent Freida Burgess, minutes clerk Patricia Dauphin, Principal Michelle Shelite and soon-to-be-seated new board member Kyle Rhodes waited about 10 minutes for Board President Shane Morris to put on a fresh shirt and rush to the meeting.

Once Morris arrived, the group began informally discussing how to swear Rhodes in, as his swearing-in had not been put on...