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Principal demotion echoes past tensions
BOE backs Wilson; Gamble-Hilton supporters vow action
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Members of the community, led by Statesboro attorney and 12th District Congressional candidate Francys Johnson, congregate at Thursday's Bulloch County School Board work session to express their disapproval of plans to remove Dr. Evelyn Gamble-Hilton as principal at Langston Chapel Middle School.
Rumblings that became protest Thursday, with Superintendent Charles Wilson transferring Langston Chapel Middle School Principal Evelyn “Bonnie” Gamble-Hilton to a high school as an assistant principal and local NAACP leaders calling for Wilson’s ouster, echo both 2015 and 2017. "There's not too much I'm going to say because it's a personnel matter,” Wilson said Friday in a phone interview. “But I will say, and I mean this in all sincerity, I'm very sensitive and sympathetic of all the frustration and heartfelt grief that members of the community are expressing.
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