Woke Texas School Administrator With Violent Ambitions...
An Administrator With Violent Ambitions and a Rural School District Captured by the Progressive Movement
A few weeks ago, I glanced down at my phone while waiting at baggage claim after a flight into Charlotte. It caught me by total surprise to see the Graham Independent School District (ISD) making the rounds online because of rage posts made by the school’s Assistant Athletic Director Mike Carroll. Graham is a small city in northcentral Texas, a place that I thought of as a close relation of Mayberry during the years I lived there. The town I knew as a teen would not have put up with openly vitriolic spasms by school officials, but times have changed.
I was fortunate enough to spend the most formative years of my youth in north-central Texas during the 1990s. It was a place where I learned the value of hard work and had respect modeled to me by many of the wonderful people who made the region a great place to grow up. It was a joy to return in 2018 to help dedicate the New Century Veterans Memorial, and again this year to attend my old church and visit friends in the city while in the area to attend a conference. So it came as a shock to see a school district official with Carrol’s seniority being exposed online for a history of social media posts calling for violence against people with whom he disagrees.
The spotlight fell upon Carroll’s account for one of his…