Athens ISD awards Robert Nichols (Jacksonville) for voting against school choice while their teachers have sex with pupils. (Source: KETK)
Jacksonville's Robert Nichols is against parents choosing where their kids go to school, while the children of his Colony Ridge donors attend high-end private schools. Senator Nichols claims he is defending public education by opposing school choice. He says there is "no transparency" in school vouchers and "no accountability" in private schools, while his hometown cheerleads teacher-student relationships reaching epidemic levels. Nichols gets to have it both ways when area 'Christian' private schools sing his praises for voting to impeach Attorney General Ken Paxton. Because Paxton investigated their shady Colony Ridge land deals that allow tens of thousands of subsidized illegals to flood your school districts - without contributing to the tax base. The actual reporting of teachers having sex with minors is quelled to protect the teachers associations lining everyone's pockets. Meanwhile, teachers are screwing their students at record levels.
Parental choice is a threat to those who want their hands on your kids.
East Texas fake news will do everything possible to cover up for their hometown heroes. Local media go so far as changing and misspelling their names when they get busted for illegal acts, emboldening their little darlings to commit even more crimes. They create aliases for them while simultaneously scrapping all past reporting of their former pride and joys. They run out-of-state articles of horrible things going on elsewhere courtesy of the Associated Press to pretend it's not happening in their neck of the woods. They get more upset with losing a football game than kids being molested in school. They lie about their ages when 40-year old coaches are charged with having sex with minors. Official statements misrepresent where they went to school and where they work. The Jacksonville ISD can only offer plausible deniability when faculty is arrested for the sex assault of a student and the East Texas press runs with it.
Former Jacksonville HS quarterback Andrew Carter McCown, of the McCown brothers' NFL fame and now a high school teacher in the San Antonio area, was arraigned in April 2024 after an improper relationship with a 17-year old female student. (San Antonio teacher, coach charged with improper student relationship, My SA News) Carter McCown was arrested in 2022 on DWI and gun charges, when local media immediately began referring to him as Andrew McCown.
Jacksonville high school football fans remember him as Carter McCown and hope you do, too. In March 2024, the North East Independent School District contacted the San Antonio PD about the ongoing relationship.
“The suspect did not want to cooperate with the investigation," said Sgt. Moscoso.
NEISD released a statement on the incident, emphasizing that McCown has not been on campus since the investigation began.
"Andrew McCown was hired at Roosevelt High School in the fall of this school year. In March, several students reported that he was having a relationship with a 17-year-old student. NEISD began an investigation and placed McCown on leave. He has not been back on campus since March 8," said NEISD. (Source: News 4 SA)
Police are checking with other school districts for similar incidents. McCown's hometown connections failed to acknowledge the arresting officers' press conference.
The apples don't fall far the tree.
Brandon Branton circa 2014, Jacksonville Boy's Varsity
On April 24, 2024, former Jacksonville HS varsity player Brandon Branton was given a life sentence for the stabbing death of hitchhiker Randy Davenport back in 2020 (Jacksonville man gets life for 2020 stabbing death, KLTV). After graduation and nearly a decade of football heroics published in local newspapers, Number 55 had been convicted and released on multiple felony charges, including drug possession, firearm theft, and credit card abuse. Branton has been sitting on the Cherokee County criminal docket awaiting trial for nearly 4 years after the 2020 slaying.
Brandon Matthew Branton (Courtesy CCSO)
In 2023, Jacksonville ISD assistant coach Kyle Kingrey was arrested for the sex assault of a Jacksonville High School student. (Source: Athletic trainer accused of relationship with Jacksonville ISD student, KLTV) School officials' response was to deny culpability and shift blame elsewhere, even denying Kingrey had access to students on campus or that he was employed through the district. Kingrey was contracted through UT Health as a licensed trainer for the female high school athletes. He had his hands all over the student body and the Jacksonville ISD knows it.
...Jacksonville ISD said Kingrey wasn't employed by the district but was provided to them through an outside entity. (Source: KETK)
In November 2023 the Jacksonville ISD released the following bullshit statement:
“Jacksonville ISD is aware of the arrest of an individual who previously provided services to the District and who has not been on a JISD campus this school year. We are cooperating with local law enforcement agencies who are handling the investigation, and we have no further information to share at this time. This matter is still under the investigation of local authorities. JISD reiterates that the health and safety of our students always remain a paramount priority for our school district and for our community as a whole.” (Source: Jacksonville ISD athletic trainer arrested for sexual assault of child, KETK)
However, as a Jacksonville ISD assistant coach, Kingrey was providing rub downs for the girls' softball team in April 2023 according to the Jacksonville Progress:
It was all Lady Panthers (and Mother Nature) in the decisive game. Conditions were so poor at one point, [Jasmine] Gallegos, the Jacksonville pitcher, was accidently [sic] hit in the face by a very slipper ball that was thrown by a teammate during between-inning warm-ups.
After receiving medical attention by Jacksonville assistant trainer Kyle Kingery [sic] during a brief stoppage in play for the weather, Gallegos, was able to get back out to the circle.
(Softball: Jacksonville's season ends following two losses to Spring Hill, April 29, 2023 - Jacksonville Progress)
JHS girls' softball coached by Kyle Kingrey circa April 2023 (Source: Daily Progress)
When Cherokee County's small town icons are busted, expect a media blackout and feigned ignorance. In other parts of the State, law enforcement and school districts work together for the students' safety and teacher accountability. Responsible institutions of learning don't merely remove the name of the arrested teacher from the school website without calling a public meeting to address the issue. Legitimate news outlets don't print deliberate typos and/or bury the story when the local sports idol is arrested.
Statutory rape rarely gets prosecuted in Cherokee County and always gets water down when it involves school staff.
