PUBLIC SCHOOL OFFICIAL JAILED AFTER BUYING DRUGS FOR STUDENT

    While the Corporate Media is busily fanning fake news about teenage boys in MAGA hats, actual malpractice by Swamp Creatures running the public schools in largely gets swept under the rug. Even when they get caught doing things like defecating in public and having violent hysterical episodes on school property, the media isn't overly worried about focusing attention on our out-of-control public school officials.

     Another such incident occurred this week in Elwood, Indiana. Casey Smitherman, Superintendent of Elwood Community Schools was arrested this week after obtaining prescription drugs for a student by posing as his mother. This she did without the parents' permission, incidentally. Since the young man is legally a minor (15), his name wasn't released; but Mrs. Smitherman was charged with Official Misconduct, Identity Fraud, and two counts of Insurance Fraud. 

     Smitherman claims that she was doing this because the boy was home sick and needed antibiotics. She said that she feared that he would be put in foster care if not treated. The local press has been downplaying this as a misguided but sympathetic act and local politicians have been pressing to have charges dropped in exchange for her participation in an 'intervention program.' 

     Now, the lad's mother isn't so happy about Mrs. Smitherman's charitable impulses towards her son which, according to WHTR included "buying him clothes" and "cleaning his house." His mother pointed out the obvious fact that a pharmacist would have no way of knowing whether the young man had allergic reactions to the drugs he was being provided. 

     And actually Mrs. Smitherman should have known this, considering that her husband heads a company closely connected to Obamacare. Steve Smitherman runs Caresource Indiana, the company "that leads with the heart," as its website boasts. 

    The website also claims that it is "one of the nation's largest Medicaid managed plans... serving 1.9 million customers across five states." Caresource even has its own political PAC, donating heavily to politicians of both parties in Indiana and Ohio. Hilary Clinton was their largest recipient of funds in 2016. But of course, just because Mrs. Smitherman's husband is politically connected doesn't suggest that all of this media and political sympathy for his spouse is biased, right?

     Now, admittedly I am not as prudish as some Conservatives when it comes to allegations of inter-generational hanky-panky. After all, boys will be boys and girls will be girls; but committing insurance fraud and potentially endangering a young man's health and using institutional power to cover it all up is a different matter. A lot of school employees have ended up in prison for a lot less---and in those cases the media all push for the maximum penalties without the slightest appeal for mitigation or mercy. 

     The average median income in Elwood is $19,444 per year---35% below the national average and 26% below Indiana's state average. As Superintendent, Mrs. Smitherman's base salary is $118,500 with a fat benefits package.  Test scores in Elwood are also 23% lower than other Indiana schools. 

     But since the Smithermans are part of the 'Elite' the same standards don't apply to them as apply to us little people. The public schools are one of the most fetid parts of the Swamp needing draining. It's especially important to do so, because the schools are a breeding-ground for even more Swamp creatures.