Hey, Washoe County School Board We’re Uncomfortable

We were going to pen an article about the need for Alex Woodley to step aside (AKA resign) from his Washoe County Library Trustee District E, but This Is Reno did such a great job we thought we’d just share their newsletter for their subscribers. (You should become a subscriber so you too could receive the This Is Reno newsletter.)

Picon has a few additional thoughts because we are far snarkier than This Is Reno. Kids are glued to their cell phones, and it is an unfair task for teachers to separate them during classes. We’re surprised more parents aren’t in an uproar over Mr. Woodley’s sexting – have we all become so immune or has TikTok taken over our brains. A Reno city employee using a city cell phone to sex-message during a school board meeting? Really, that just has such a bad message.

Good gosh teachers have enough to deal with – with many divorced parents using their kids cell phones as a weapon against one another and this bleeds into our classrooms. We remember a teacher told us about her co-worker who had a father that had plead, with child support he was paying, it was a financial burden for him to pay for his son’s cell phone too. He paid for the phone anyway so his child could call him daily. Then the mother forbade the child from calling the father due to court dates amending their custody agreement. The mother took the time to tell her son’s teachers he could no longer talk to his dad if he called. The child would receive a phone call at lunch from their dad checking in and they couldn’t answer because the mother had forbidden answering. The mom would check the cell phone after school to make sure her son had no contact with his dad. This educator would share her lunch with the child to raise his spirits and just shook her head at how a cell phone could become a weapon of despair. Why we tell you this story? Picon thinks a sexting trustee might add an addition burden on teachers.

Hey, females out there shouldn’t you be more upset by the redacted City of Reno photos and they sort of strikes us of objectification, but hey, maybe breast size doesn’t matter.

Our point, a bad look is just that a bad look.

It is time for the Washoe County School Board Trustee’s to get their head out of the sand and realize the scandal of “Reno-City-Employee-Sexting” isn’t going to go away, it isn’t going to blow over, it isn’t going to be forgotten.

If you go back and take a gander at the Primary Election in 2024, Mr. Woodley won his primary election with a vote total of 6,563.

Our publisher, Larry Chesney, lead a successful recall against the Palimino Valley General Improvement District Chairman in the 2024 primary. We asked Larry if he thought Woodley could be recalled. Larry told us with the performance of Woodley’s opponents, Bev Stenehjem (4,108 votes) and Oscar Williams (1,010), you could get the signatures needed to get Woodley recalled, and then he said, “the work begins, and the costs start to hit.”

We ponder how Washoe County Board President Beth Smith will continue to avoid this gorilla in the room. The allegations are not “alleged” they are in black and white and all media in the Reno/Sparks area have written about the sexting and/or published redacted photos. How can the board president overlook sexting at the Washoe County School Board meeting, and if she is willing to overlook sexting what else isn’t important to Ms. Smith.