On Tuesday, July 16, an already tense school board meeting in Newburgh, NY, was pushed over the edge when the school board president, Christine Bello, was caught on a hot mic calling a concerned parent an “asshole.”
A lapse of decorum, to be sure, but this slipup was merely the culmination of a conflict within the Newburgh School District, stretching back nearly a decade and involving allegations of conspiracy, catfishing, and racism. And the hurled obscenity in question was in response to a mother in the district revealing it all to the public.
