Exclusive: Former Award-Winning MNPS Teacher Forced to Change Student’s Grade Says District ‘Doesn’t Care About the Kids’

Exclusive: Former Award-Winning MNPS Teacher Forced to Change Student’s Grade Says District ‘Doesn’t Care About the Kids’

by | Aug 20, 2026 | Education, News, Tennessee, The Michael Patrick Leahy Show, The South, TN LEAD

Former Metro Nashville Public Schools (MNPS) teacher Samira Hardcastle is calling on educators to speak publicly about problems she says she witnessed firsthand in the district, including students struggling with basic academic skills and pressure on teachers to...

Reporter Tom Pappert: If Tennessee Parents Had a Choice, They ‘Probably Wouldn’t’ Be Sending Their Kids to Failing Institutions Like Antioch High School, Shelby County Schools

by | Jan 28, 2025 | News, Politics, Tennessee, The Michael Patrick Leahy Show, The South

Tom Pappert, lead reporter at The Tennessee Star, said if Tennessee parents had the financial freedom in deciding where to send their children to school, they “probably wouldn’t” be enrolling their children in dysfunctional school districts like Shelby County Schools...