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Resident: 'No investigation' after 43 written complaints about administrator; family says student died by suicide

3684192 · May 30, 2025
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Candice Banister told the board that Knox County Schools did not investigate 43 written complaints about an administrator she says bullied her son; she said multiple students died by suicide during that administrator's tenure and that the family's concerns went unaddressed.

Candice Banister used the public forum at the June 5 Knox County Board of Education meeting to say the district did not investigate 43 written complaints about a school administrator and to recount the family's experience following her younger son's death by suicide.

Banister said she has raised the matter with the district for about a year and recounted that an employer conducted an…

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