The I Love CVille Show With Jerry Miller! - Sex Predator Scandal May Force Superintendent To Quit; VIDEO: Board Asks For Matt Haas' Resignation

Episode Date: June 12, 2026

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Welcome to the I Love Sevo Show, guys. My name is Jerry Miller. It is Friday afternoon in downtown Charlottesville, and today's program will be a show that documents the historical record of what has transpired in Almar County Public Schools over the last 72 hours. On, frankly, 48 hours. On Wednesday evening, a meeting was held at Holly Mead with parents and with parents. with Almaro County Public School Leadership, a superintendent that has now been asked to resign. Dr. Matthew Haas was at this Wednesday evening meeting.

Joe McCauley, the principal at Holly Mead, was at this Wednesday evening meeting. Rebecca Berlin, the school board chairwoman, was at this Wednesday evening meeting. School board member Lee was at this meeting. She is the Rivana District Representative, and she is, this is her district, that all this scandal is taking place within. There were a number of parents.

In fact, the Wednesday evening meeting was more populated with parents. It was attended at a greater clip on Wednesday night than the school board meeting last night. I am going to play on today's show because you, the community, deserve to know what's going on. I'm going to play on today's show nine video clips. Like, I literally watched the Wednesday evening meeting twice. It was 90 minutes. I watched it start to finish twice, and I wrote notes down on a paper of the most important clips to play you, the viewer and listener. There's eight clips from the Wednesday evening meeting.

Yesterday was a school board meeting. It was one of significance on the school board meeting from last night. The school board comes out of closed session, and they demand the resignation of Dr. Matthew Haas. they are now, we've been told, working on a divorce agreement. I'm going to play one clip from the school board meeting last night when the school board is on the record saying we want the superintendent to resign. If you are living under a rock and you don't know what's going on, this show will be the most conclusive and thorough reporting and analysis

of what is taking place in Alamaro County Public Schools, a once championed, a once cherished, and a once celebrated school system. I'll say it again. Prior to COVID, Alamara County Public Schools was championed, celebrated, and cherished. People moved to pockets of Alamara County so their kids could enroll with an Alamara County Public Schools, and I'm looking at Ivy, and I'm looking at Crozet. Now, in a less than 10-year period of time, 2019 to 2026, we're talking seven years. The Admiral County Public School System, its fall from grace, has been notoriously tracked.

Almarl County Public Schools has met the crossfire of Donald Trump. Almaro County Public Schools has met the crossfire of diversity, equity, and inclusion, drama and saga. Almaral County Public Schools has met the crossfire of rebranding and renaming.

Almaral County Public Schools has met the damning developments of SOL test scores and falling SOL test scores, dramatically falling SOL test scores, especially with black and brown students.

Amarral County Public Schools did not navigate COVID in the pandemic well, online learning to in-person learning well. Almara County Public Schools has struggled mightily maintaining school bus drivers. Almar County Public Schools has been in the news for collective bargaining. Almara County Public Schools has been in the news for equity grading. Basically social promotion of students that were not prepared to graduate or to be promoted to the next grade of public school. and most damning of them all, Alamara County Public Schools, is now notoriously in the headlines

for deviant behavior tied to education and educators and sex offending, alleged sex offending. The most notorious is a man named Sweeney. And Sweeney, ladies and gentlemen, is a position that was created, during COVID. He holds a position that was created during COVID and that position is called a social, emotional learning teacher or coach in SEL. Dr. Matthew Haas has said on the record that this SEL position was created during the pandemic and it was relatively new. We are going to put in perspective on

today's program what is happening in Almaro County Public Schools. Champion cherished and celebrated to fallen, notorious, and stigmatized. Michael Sweeney, the social and emotional learning coach, is 37 years old, and he's facing 11 felonies, including seven counts of aggravated sexual battery, three counts of taking indecent liberties with kids, and one count of attempted aggravated sexual battery. Compounding the matter is a 29-year-old man named Joseph Clark, who was charged earlier this year with possessing and transmitting child pornography. Two men, both white, 129, 137 that are categorized and facing charges that are the scumiest of the scum. I'm going to call to action the viewers and listeners on the program one more time.

You need to get your phone out and you need to let somebody know what's going to happen on the I Love Seville show today because it will be the most thorough analysis of what is taking place in Amaral County Public Schools and no other platform has the technology, the innovation, or the long-form content to provide you what we're going to do in the next hour, ladies and gentlemen. It's going to be uncomfortable. This is going to make your skin crawl. This is going to haunt you and it's going to stay with you for a long period of your life, especially if you are the parents that are involved with this, that have kids that have been assaulted.

Assaulted while at school when we all want to believe that our kids are in their most safe and taken care of position. This Mike Sweeney guy had an office with no windows in the back of a library at Hollimede Elementary School. No cameras, a small office, the ability to lock his office, and the ability to see kids in one-on-one settings in what is a Predators Dungeon. He had a Predators, a child Predators dungeon in the back of a library

in an elementary school with no windows and no cameras and a lock on the door. Judah Wickhauer has moved mountains in the last 90 minutes getting these nine clips cut for us. So thank you, Judah. The first clip I want to play

is from last night's school, board meeting. This is one of nine. This is the Almaro County School Board meeting from last night where the school board went into closed session and claimed out came out of closed session. And Rebecca Berlin, the school chair, asked for Superintendent Matthew Haas's resignation. Matthew Haas is about as in battled a leader as you will find in Central Virginia today. clip nine first please this is the one from yesterday's video

this clip is roughly 90 seconds long and in this clip you will see the school board come out of closed session and ask for Matthew Haas's resignation Judah Wickhauer please play that clip in three and Judah

listen to this clip in real time as well please two one discussed are considered in the closed meeting Second. All those in favor? Aye. Any opposed?

We are now out of closed session. I have an announcement coming out of closed meeting. It is this board's obligation to rebuild the trust with this community. And because of that, we have asked Dr. Haas for his resignation. And we have instructed our legal officer to work with us, Dr. Haas, on the details. And interim superintendent will be named in the coming day. Thank you so much. I also want to acknowledge that in addition to managing the superintendent and the budget,

our third responsibility as a board is to manage our policies and practices, and we will be looking into and amending our policies as necessary to deal with the issues that have been raised in the Holly Mean and Woodbrook community. And hopefully we will have, be able to move forward with that in the next couple of weeks. Thank you, Ms. Billman. Do I have any other comments from the board before we close this meeting? Seeing no other comments from the board, I am now closing this meeting at 8.30. Thank you so much.

All right, that's the school board meeting from last night. Now I'm going to play eight clips from the Wednesday night, Holly Meade meeting. It's my impression. Here's my impression of how things unfolded. Earlier this year, you had an elementary school teacher named Nicholas Joseph Clark, who's in prison right now, who's in jail right now, facing charges of possessing and transmitting child pornography.

He's 29 years old. This arrest shocked all of us as parents. How is a 29-year-old, 29-year-old elementary school teacher? teacher who we trust our kids with, our little most vulnerable kids, transmitting child pornography and possessing child pornography. This is awful. That was earlier this year. Time has since gone by since that arrest was made.

In fact, some of the charges have since been diminished. The one that really rocked our community is this Mike Sweeney fellow. He's 37 years old. and he's facing 11 felonies, 11 felonies, including seven counts of aggravated sexual battery and three counts of taking indecent liberties and one count of attempted aggravated sexual battery. This is not possessing and transmitting child pornography. This is actually like touching and hurting in physical contact and the nastiest of the nasty with the kids.

Then the community is like, Jesus, what the hell is going on here? The second one really just shook everyone to the core, man. Like it has kept me up at night. It's made my wife and I in our conversations just so uncertain about so much stuff because our kids are our heartbeats walking outside of our bodies. And the one truth that we need to believe is a society. one of the truths that we need to believe as a society is that when we send our kids to school that they're going to be safe, that's one of the truths. Just like one of the truths we need to believe society is a dollar will hold up its value and allow the economy to move forward and our mortgage and groceries to be paid and our electric bill to be paid.

It's just like that. Kids go to school. They're going to be safe, right? We need oxygen to breathe. We have to breathe oxygen to stay alive. kids go to school they're going to be safe so when a 37 year old that's a social emotional learning coach is is is is is is popped with 11 felonies we have our core shaken and that leads on wednesday evening at holly meh this town hall type of setting and this town hall type of setting had superintendent matthew hoss principal joe mccallie school board chairwoman rebecca berlin school board member Lee and some of the staff at Holly Meade Elementary School in a gymnasium with parents that were impassioned and angry and furious and frustrated and concerned and searching for answers.

And it quickly imploded into a public relations disaster. Almarl County Public Schools was incredibly unprepared. Almaro County Public Schools did a horrible job with communication, and Almero County Public Schools did a terrible, terrible job with saying, I am sorry. Superintendent Haas, chairwoman Berlin, and Principal McCauley, went in with a mindset of antagonistic or defensive, as opposed to going into a mindset of apologetic and listening to learn.

And Jesus, you are going to see it in these clips. Also in this meeting was the interim police chief. The interim police chief basically in the first clip that I'm going to play for you. And Judah, make sure you put the lower thirds that correspond to these videos on screen as well. So this would be the video, this would be the lower third about clip one, the interim police chief, video one. Where do you want the lower third to be? When the clip is playing, I would like for you to please play video colon Albuco Police Investigation Timeline. On screen as well.

Major Camille Stewart is serving as the acting interim chief of police for Alamara County. Police Chief Sean Reeves is on medical leave. Good God, what a difficult time to come in as the interim police chief facing this crowd of parents that are furious. But she handled it well, Camille Stewart, the interim chief. Chief did. Play the first clip, what we've saved as clip one. And this clip, you will see Major Camille Stewart, the interim chief of police, offer a timeline of this investigation. It's been going on since January. This investigation has been going on since January and arrest was made in June. Listen to the interim police chief, Jude, to play that clip in three, two, one.

We'll provide some assistance for you and some answers. So we were notified of this case. Can I get your question in just a second? We were notified in January of this year. We began investigating on that day, and we haven't stopped since. What that looks like is we have to talk to our victims, talk to our families, talk to any witness that may have information for us. and we have continuously worked this case every day since. We also have to work with our families that are the victims

to make sure that they're comfortable with prosecuting. Sometimes they want us to look into stuff, but they're not quite ready to go through that court proceeding. So we don't ever want to force anybody through that. So we take our time. We have lots of resources in place, and victim witness can discuss what they offer as well. It's not just our detectives that show up.

It is our victim witness specialist. So within that, we gathered our evidence, gathered our statements. We had to reach a threshold to go to grand jury, which grand jury, in case you're not familiar with the court system, grand jury is pre-scheduled every other month on the first Monday of the month. So we don't really have any choice on what day we go to grand jury. when our case is ready and we present it, we have to wait till the next grand jury. I will also tell you that for these type of cases, we like to avoid a preliminary hearing and go directly to grand jury because it saves our victims from having to testify and go through

that trauma twice. So by skipping preliminary hearing, going directly to a grand jury, we are doing that to protect our victims. So once we presented the case to the grand jury, we were issued 11 indictments and we I know one of the questions was why did we not release it to the public right away we do not release information until we make an arrest so once the warrants were issued we had to wait until we made the arrest and then we pushed it out immediately so that that is that timeline the June 1st date was the first available date for grand jury and the only other time we would release something on someone that's not arrested yet is if we are actively searching for them and we need the public's help in locating them. But this individual turned themselves in so we were not looking for them. So we waited until the arrest to put that public.

I cannot share many details of the case because we are still building it and it hasn't gone through the whole court system yet. But hopefully that gives you a little understanding of how. how our investigation has been going. Okay, that is Major Camille Stewart, who is the interim acting chief of police. She stepped into the role following, she stepped into the role on May 8th, after police chief Sean Reeves went on medical leave. You cannot think of a worse time to be the interim chief of police than during a child predator sex assault scandal.

I'll say it again. There's no worse time to be an interim chief of police than during a child assault sex scandal tied to teachers in the school system. And that's what she's doing right now. And I want to salute and commend her for the job she did well on Wednesday evening. I'm going to play a second clip. And this is going to be embattled superintendent Matthew Haas, who's been asked to resign by the school board. He is responding to what the interim chief of police just said. the clip you just listen to and watch.

This will be the second clip from Wednesday night, due to make sure lower thirds were on screen during the actual video, please. After I played this clip, I'm going to try to answer these questions. Are you ready? We just heard from the chief of police that the investigation started in January, and arrest was made in June. From January to June, why did Almore County Public Schools not notify parents that this was,

going on. Did you know the parents of Holly Meade Elementary found out about this alleged child predator and this sexual assault investigation through the news with a mugshot on news websites and not from the schools?

Parents in this meeting said I found out about this on my Facebook feed while seeing news shared on social media and not from the schools. I'm going to try to answer that question. The second question that I have is if this investigation started in January with Alamara County Police, why has the

Almaro County school system not put new protocols in play that limit one-on-one meetings with teachers and kids? Matthew Haas in the Wednesday evening meeting said, Jesus, we still don't have protocols in place that keep teachers from meeting with children in one-on-one settings and closed, locked classrooms. It's been six months. How have you not put a problem? protocol in place in six months. Here's the second clip we're going to play for you. This is Matthew Haas responding to the chief of police and her timeline that she presented to parents and why parents were not notified.

Judah, do you have that sound ready to go with the lower third ready to go? Can you play that in three, two, one? So make sure we hear that with what expectation that they'll find out that they may be notified and what's the process to find out whether or not they've been contacted. Well, really, that is a question for the police department, their timeline for following up on that. I don't think that you would interfere with our investigation if you were to notify parents that your child is going to see. Thank you. I appreciate that.

Then why to figure that out? That's not happening. What I saw was his mugshot on the news. That's how we can't about. Yeah. And I really can't speak, and I know it's going to be frustrated, but I can't speak to our own internal investigations around Mr. Swinney. When the mugshot went out, I had a day's notice.

You know? I'm really sorry. I don't have any issues or anything. But honestly, when we did reach out, to the detective about this, we were told we were going to be interfering with the investigation and he would prefer to make those

contacts himself. So I'm happy to change course and start working on that if we have agreement with the police department on that. I don't. Okay, that's Matt Haas responding to the police chief. And I want you to catch some double talk

that happened there. Initially Matt Haas, the superintendent, said we did not notify the parents when this investigation started in January of this year of what was going on because we didn't want to interfere with the investigation. You heard him say that. Then the interim chief of police, Camille Stewart, gets back in front of the podium, grabs the mic from Matthew Haas in respectful fashion and says, well, that's really not true.

If you had notified parents, that would not have interfered with our investigation. And that's when the parents gave the chief, the interim chief, a round of applause. Then Haas gets back on the mic after the police, the interim chief talks and says, look, I couldn't really say anything because there was an active investigation, so I couldn't tell you what was going on. Okay? So there's a squirmy person in that scenario. A wormy, squirmy person that is trying to use protocols and procedures and bureaucracy

and legal exposure is a shield for failing to communicate. I will leave it up to you, the viewer, and listener, to determine who is the squirmy, wormy person that is using bureaucracy as an excuse or crutch for failure to communicate. That's your decision to make who the squirmy person was there. What I do know is the investigation started in January of this year and parents found out in June through the news.

Through the news. Through the news. If you were a parent of a kid that was potentially sexually assaulted by a teacher in a sex dungeon in the back of a library, a windowless sex dungeon that had a closed lock door in the back of a library and no cameras, Do you want to find out about this through a mugshot on a news platform? Or do you want correspondents from human beings face to face?

Furthermore, why from January of this year until June of this year was there no protocols put in place for the entire second semester preventing Albemarle County teachers or Alamore County payroll employees from meeting in one-on-one settings with children. It literally imploded with alleged sex offending, one-on-one closed-door, locked-door, sex dungeon scenario, and from January until June, nothing was done to solve the problem from a protocol standpoint.

Does that sound weird? Does that sound curious, or does that sound like educational malpractice to you? I'm going to play a third clip for you here. This is Matthew Hoss explaining what a social emotional learning coach is. And I'm going to give you a little cliff notes of what an SEL is. Matthew Hoss says the social emotional learning coach is a position that was created during COVID. He was the superintendent during COVID.

The social emotional learning coach is not a licensed position. Jesus, it's not a licensed position. How in God's name does the school system allow an individual, that is not licensed to meet with elementary age kids in a windowless, cameraless, lock door sex

dungeon and the back of a library. Listen to this clip from Matthew Haas. This is the third clip with the lower third on screen, please, in three, and two, and one. You should be contacted about that. With regard to the social emotional learning

coaches, they were a position that was brought on during the pandemic and coming out of it. And when we staff those, those are not considered a licensed position. They are more like teaching assistant position. And so we have teaching assistants all over the school system, hundreds of them, that work individually with students, and they're not licensed. And they work on all kinds of issues with students and work with them on that. We have a short-term education program where students are in-school suspension with a non-licensed staff, and they work with them.

So it's not really about having that, but we do provide training for them and training modules around working with these students with issues. Right here. Yeah. So just to clarify, can you answer this and then I have a follow question. It is policy that if, and that's the health of, meet with the student 101, that parents are no correct. Okay, so that's Haas saying this is basically a TA. Okay, so the immediate questions I have as a parent of an 8-year-old son and as a 3-year-old son. My wife would ask the same.

All right, so you're saying this person is basically a teaching assistant and is not licensed, and it's a new position created during COVID. Why were these, why was somebody like this allowed to meet in a 101-1? setting with kids in a locked door without a locked room without any windows or cameras. Okay, that's an obvious question, right? But please remember that Matthew Haas basically calls this person a teaching assistant because this is something that will come up later. And it's going to come up later in clip number seven when an actual teacher at Holly Mead

apologizes to the parents in the room. This actual teacher in clip seven who apologizes to the parents actually shows remorse and is apologetic. and is emotionally intelligent. And really, without this lady realizing or not, maybe she does, maybe she doesn't, she actually has mastered public relations where Superintendent Haas, Principal McCauley,

school board chair, Berlin, were the antithesis of public relations. What they did on Wednesday evening was fuel the fire and make it worse, make it more nasty and angry and piss people off more. I also want you to realize in this video how in this in this holly mead wed wednesday evening meeting of how unprepared the school system was they did even have a microphone for the entire first half of the meeting for the parents to ask questions in they basically asked a gymnasium full of parents rose and rows of parents to scream at the top of their lungs to the front of the gymnasium their questions as opposed to having a basic microphone and speaker so they could feel more comfortable that's how piss poor this was organized I this Wednesday evening meeting was about as piss poor of a public relations nightmare as I've ever seen.

Even the communications director of Almore County should be shameful of what happened on Wednesday night. And I hope he hears that. The next clip I'm going to play is parents attacking the principal Joe McCauley. You, the anger and the fury and the concern and the uncertainty is tangible. and palpable in this clip. A room full of parents are attacking a principal in Joe McCauley here. Judah, this is clip four.

If you could play clip four with the lower third on screen, please. And three, two, one. You were sorry to close either worded incorrectly or misleadingly. You all were not aware of prior allegations against this individual. No. Thank you. Yes.

Hi, Joe. My question is for you, actually. What accountability are you taking here? Yeah, you. What accountability? You know how much I heard in the school. Oh. I knew. I said this to you. I've said this to you. I've said this guy with public. His principal I own.

Everything. I feel a heavy way of responsibility. It's happened. So how many other parents besides me said that Sweeney was a predator and needed to be removed? Do you remember when I came to you and told you that he locked my son in his office and refused to let him out until a teacher intervened? No. I don't know that at all that. I'm 100% truthful. You told me I was overreacting.

Oh, you absolutely would. You are extremely misogynistic to women, and I have heard it from your staff, and I have experienced it myself. You told me I'm not speaking to you. You told me I was overreacting, and this man is now a child molester. Dr. Grant, we need to cut that off.

I'm talking to Mr. McAvoy. No, no. That's not out of here. No, I don't know you with all respect. I want to know from McCauley what he's doing. Okay, so that's a fair question. So if you want to respond to the staff? No, I'm not support the staff.

Do you support the children? Especially because you asked you. As a problem, we share a child, the same child. My child was the problem when he began acting out. I have the email. And I have the email. So I understand the frustrates that. I hear that today.

frustration it's anger it's not frustration those are two very different emotions get it correct do you have children are you would you want Mike Sweeney around your children I'm here to help no if a yes or no question do you want Mike Sweeney around your children I'm happy to answer question as a relationship that are here none of you are no issues we're gonna you and I go know you said my child was the problem when he began acting out we agreed yes he was acting out yes he had ADHD his behaviors were not acceptable. Yes, we were trying to correct that at home.

That does not negate the failure you have made. That is what these parents want you to understand. Yes, our children are at school. Yes, our children should in theory behave. But again, there are children that is not always going to happen. There are things that they experience, there are things they don't understand. So if you guys don't get to get frustrated,

try and hush us up, try and tell us we're overreacting, try and tell us you can't tell us shit, just because you don't want to. to deal with it. This is here. This is why we now have two different freaking people who have preyed upon these children. At what point is it going to be? Let's just get this shit done, let's handle it correctly so that way this stops being a problem. If you don't understand that, I know that it's already been said. Resumner. I understand my child is no longer at Halloween, but he had an issue at Halloween. What happens when he goes to a different school and is there?

The child should not have to be a current student for this to be addressed. The child should not have to have the police involved for you to do due diligence. So what are you doing to take accountability, McCulley? What are you doing, Joe? I'm not saying you've got to resign. But I want to see actual accountability from you. And I have yet to see it. So in front of all of us, for your staff,

when parents came to you multiple times, that he would take my... this predator to do this, to meet with these children behind closed doors, to lock my child in a room, to meet with these children outside of school grounds, out on the playground, out where you cannot see them. You have allowed this man to be in a... So from where we are, I hear? So what... You can literally in these clips hear the absolute, like, heartbreak and, and, like, sheer pain and, like, I mean, just distraught and like, what's the word?

Like, this is your kid. There's parents in that room that told, that are speaking in front of this room full of people. And they said to this room full of people, including a superintendent, an interim chief of police, the school principal, the school board chair, and the school board member for that district, saying, we told you that this person was a predator. we've been telling you that this person was a predator and you did nothing about it and I want to put you, I want you,

viewers and listeners that are parents or just people in general, to put yourself in the shoes of a mom or a dad and this mom or the dad has been notifying a school system for an extended period of time that they're extremely concerned about a human being and what this human being is doing with their kids and they notified this school system over and over and over and over and over again.

This person worries me. This person worries me. The hair in the back of my neck is up. This intuition, this mother's intuition I have, is saying that this person is bad. This person is bad. And the school system does nothing about it. And then you find out through a mugshot

in a Facebook news feed that your intuition was right. And then you find out it is your eight or nine-year-old or 10-year-old or 11-year-old kid that was allegedly sexually assaulted by this person that you've been raising a red flag about for an extended period of time. That array of emotions that you're feeling, the fury and the rage, and then also the sheer disappointment in yourself, those parents that notified the school that something was wrong and still had something happen to their kid, the array of emotions they're feeling

right now is strangle and kill somebody, rage to... the most empty disappointment in their selves that they're feeling because they never did anything about it truly and still let it happen. And that will forever, forever, forever, forever, forever, forever, haunt the children and the parents associated with this for as long as they walk on this earth. The next headline I want to play, the next video I want to play, this is video five, is Superintendent Matthew Haas, talking about the fact that there's no protocol in place preventing one-on-one meetings. An adult and a child in a room, closed door with a lock on the door,

no windows and no camera. There's nothing in place still from keeping this from happening. The investigation started in January, here we are in June, and jack shit has been done. This is video number five. Do you have that, Judah?

Play video number four. and put the lower third on screen, and three, two, one. Is there an action plan? When is it going to be shared? Well, that's an excellent question. And so today, one of the questions that we had that came up through the petition, and we've addressed those on our web page, is this piece about meeting one-on-one with students. One of the things I did was did a comparative policy analysis to,

look at metropolitan school systems around Virginia like Fairfax and they also do not have policies that speak specifically to meeting one-on-one with a student. Right, but what I'm saying, I'm just saying, let me finish, what that tells me is the same thing that all of us came up through education, I was a teacher, it was just, I hate to say this, but an unwritten rule that you didn't do this. And so we all had that training we train our employees on boundaries with students and appropriate boundaries with students but clearly that's not enough that's my takeaway even before coming to the meeting is to start working with the board to develop that

very specifically for Albaal County Schools and yes we can lead on that we're we're gonna continue to debrief on this situation with school staff we want to continue to hear from you if you and I am accessible you can reach me you can email me you can call the office you absolutely can yeah yeah well email me email me and find out I'm sure there's also many people here who have received replies I mean my question was is there an action plan already place when is it going to be shared? Okay, that's the superintendent

from a public relation standpoint looking like he's deflecting again and talking about protocols and procedures and bureaucracy and using protocols and procedures and bureaucracy as an attempt at having a bulletproof vest on or protecting himself.

And it backfired tremendously on him because we are going to see through those tactics. The tactics, when he started, starts by saying, well, that's a really good question. No shit, that's a really good question. You don't need to humor us by saying that's a really good question to curry favor with us. We're not in third grade that we need our egos pumped. And multiple times in this Wednesday evening, Holly Mead, Town Hall, parents have said, we've papered and documented the trail about Mike Sweetie being a red flag potential predator. Multiple times, you've heard that in these clips.

So if that paper trail does exist, as these parents are suggesting it does, that right there seems to be a paper trail that could be leveraged in some kind of lawsuit, whether it's collectively against the school or whether it's individually against individual people. The next clip I'm going to play is Rebecca Berlin. She's the school board chair. This is from the Wednesday evening Holly Mead meeting. I have not seen such piss poor public relations as I've seen in this meeting on Wednesday night. And I sincerely believe this. I think Matthew Haas was asked to resign last night by the school board because of how absolutely a shit show the Wednesday night meeting was. It backfired and imploded tremendously.

Having this meeting made things worse than having no meeting at all. And I think it went in a long way in contributing to Matthew Haas and the school board asking for his resignation. Here's Rebecca Berlin, the school board chair. I'm going to give you about a two-minute clip of her talking. The first time she talks in this entire meeting is one hour into about an one hour and 40-minute meeting. And look at how antagonistic she is with parents that are facing the nightmare of their kids being sexually assaulted in a windowless, cameraless, lock door sex dungeon in the back of the Hollymead library. Here's Rebecca Berlin.

Look at her emotional intelligence here. this is clip number six put the lower third on screen as well school board chair Rebecca Berlin basically fighting with parents here three two one we'll be able to have done if it's that simple I'm Rebecca Berlin and I'm the chair of the board with the board is meeting in closed session tomorrow so we have a board meeting tomorrow which is a standard board meeting the second Thursday of every month. There are things that have to be closed, contracts,

and things that are personal issues. And because this is a personal issue, we do have to meet in closed session. We are not allowed to do that in an open session. But the board is meeting at 445. Again, in closed session, to discuss this, to review all the information that we have to date. That's why myself and Ms. Lee were here,

to also hear from you, to hear your concerns. and to look at what are the additional policies that need to be brought forward and put into supplies of the CPS. And those will be in writing for your review tomorrow? So we are meeting tomorrow to first go over the investigation. Coming out of that, the board is going to also make some recommendations potentially about additional policies based on what we have heard and what we hear in closed session. We can write those, we can write a draft of those. a draft of those in the procession. We're just going to haul out and think about a row.

Ma'am, ma'am, I'm actually not going to do that. I have two. I have two. Ma'am, ma'am, may I have the floor for one minute? They'll see the person when y'all are about with a four weeks. We will. Yes, we will. But please know, we want to make sure that we put policies in place

that protect our children. I was in the military. I was in the basic training. I had to run around with a battle by the entire time. entire time with a 28-year-old woman it's not that hard for children thank you thank you for your service I just want you to know ma'am ma'am I want your kids to be safe too that is why I ran for school board man I need to meet I cannot by myself make the decision I have a board of seven elected people that have to we have to meet together I can't I if I could know exactly

yes people fail us if they don't put this policy through got it we're taking names and receipts guys I don't know what more like ma'am ma'am just just give me a moment we will be needing to discuss the policies we will be working with our lawyers we need to make sure that the policies we put in place makes sense I the last thing I want to do is put a policy in place quickly that has loopholes and that are not enforceable so please know my name is Rebecca Berlin you can call me personally but I am not going to make a policy decision ASAP to I need to make sure that it will stand up is this the first school board meeting that you've had in the last five

months because I'm accused of why you think so upset that we're gonna do god-dame upset I don't thank you so much were there any title nine reports against all right that's the school board chairwoman Rebecca Berlin I what she just did there was about is tone death I hope you're watching Rebecca Berlin. I hope you're watching school board chair Berlin. Your public relations skill set and your public relations acumen is that of a, Judith says a wet bag. I mean, your your your your your your public relations skill set leaves an incredible amount to be desired. Your level of of tone death and antagonism and and and and and and and being punched drunk with your own position and your own

and your own perceived power radiated and percolated off your body to a tune of nauseaism. And I hope you hear that. You infuriated and fueled the fire on Wednesday evening. Text from Jim Hingley. Principal needs an N in the title. Joe McCauley attacked by parents. We need missing an N in the headline. Thank you, Jim.

We appreciate you, sir. Next headline. next video clip is principal Joe McCauley. Watch this. This is the principal here. This is the eighth clip. And then we'll close with a teacher apologizing and what you're supposed to do.

Here's the eighth clip Joe McCauley trying to apologize, but instead is getting in a fight with parents. Do you have the McCauley clip ready? And the lower third? Yeah. Thank you. Joe McCauley, the principal of Holly Meade Elementary,

trying to apologize, and then attacking parents. Three, two, one. What we're doing, what our responses are, I know that you know that we care about kids, and I'm sorry that the answers that we're giving tonight don't necessarily satisfy. We're trying to do our best with this.

You do love your kids. You do take ownership. I do hold myself accountable for everything that happens in this building. I am very, very sorry that this happened. It will haunt me for the rest of my life if the allegations are true. You know me.

You've seen me, whether you're like it or not. I'm not want to be interrupted. I'm trying to speak to the screen. I'm trying to speak to the screen. I'm trying to speak to the heart. I am trying to speak from the heart. You're speaking. I'm sorry.

I'm sorry. I'm sorry. The screen, I hear you. No, you don't hear you. No, I do. And I don't mean to be upset. But I do want to speak to the entire of this room in my phone. I had to see that I was told to you a family.

I had to move. But you got a lot of conversation and I got a lot of conversation and I got reporting to you and I, I got emails, corresponded, and I even told you if you had any contact with my daughter, to contact me, you waited until after business hours her last day here to tell us she had a physical wife. So whether I do, you go take accountability,

You ain't heard about nothing. You saw your asses with fun. That's all it is. No, that's... All right, so, again, in terms of... You make me out. You're talking about it for your staff. Why you treat my first kind of life shit

and put her in a great shit and want to teach? Retaliation. Alexander John. You'll talk about... Yeah, so here's... Jason, Jason, I don't know you're trying to run this right, and I...

But, and I'm sorry anything in my silence or just my presence here to send the wrong message to you. You're trying to do this right. We're trying to give you a voice. You're trying to make sure that you're heard. Words are easy. I get it. But you deserve the words at least. If the allegations are true, this will help me for the rest of my life as principal.

My number one job is to be guardian and protector of this building. This is the staff. And every single one of you, you don't own this. guys, I want you to look at you guys, you don't own this. You take ownership of this, you take ownership for kids and you care. But I want you guys to give yourselves a break about this. You do everything you can for the kids. There are pieces of this.

You just don't own. So don't put this on yourself, please. Principal to school, I take responsibility to things. Whatever accountability I need to take, I will take. Are we working on things to make the school safe? All right, so that's Joe McCauley, the principal of Holly Meade Elementary. Joe McCauley is punch drunk with Joe McCauley. Matthew Haas is extremely punched drunk with Matthew Haas.

When you're so intoxicated with yourself, your judgment is clouded and you lose the God-given abilities that you were birth with or that you developed over professional time of human connection and a willingness to listen to learn. You're at a town hall and to antagonize and to cut off parents that are reeling with sexual assault allegations and their children, the last thing you do is interrupt and to antagonize. That's someone punched drunk with themselves

and used to being the alpha dog, a principal, in a school where everyone towed the hallway line to listen to what he said on the speaker or in person. You don't do that in a town hall, Joe McCauley. And frankly speaking, Principal McCauley, I'm very curious if you're going to be forced to resign as well. or if you do it on your own accord, I will frankly be surprised if you're the teacher at Holly Meade Elementary

come the start of the school year. Now, the last clip I'm going to play is an actual Holly Mead teacher. And in this clip, you will see a master class of what superintendent Haas should have done, what school board chair Berlin should have done, and what principal Joe McCauley should have done. This is saved intentionally for last, about a three minute and 45 second clip of a teacher in Holly Meade Elementary,

apologizing to parents for everything that's transpired. I saved the best for less. This was the only positive that I think materialized from the Wednesday evening that I think, frankly, led the school board chair to force Matthew Hoss into a resignation. Holly Meade teacher, her name is set at the beginning of the clip, apologizing to the parents in the room, Judah Wickhauer, and three, two, one. My name is Pam Sweed.

I am a teacher here at Halloween. I've been teaching for a lot of years, 27, 10 of those here. I have a great deep loyalty to this community, to these families. And so I want to start by saying, I'm sorry. I'm sorry for every child that, Mike Sweeney took out of my room. I am sorry, which isn't even enough. It sounds ridiculous.

I did want to address a couple things, and I thought, no, I won't get up. But I want that accountability for me. I want that accountability for Holly Mead. I want that accountability for Albuhral. And I trust that you all will hold us accountable in that. I love that about you. When we talked about Mike Sweetie's role as the SEL, and maybe I'm just, I can only speak for myself, I had no idea that he had no qualifications.

I want to own that I did not ask. I did not look into that. That's on me. But there are, you know, and Mr. Haas, I think, said, like, he was basically a TA. I've never in my years here been told that the ASIL coach is a TA. Our TAs are amazing. They do fantastic work. They really do.

But I never sat in any sort of meeting about a child with administration and a TA. But I have sat in them with Mike Sweetie. So that makes it seem like he wasn't just a TA. Mike Sweeney, you know, if you radioed a call for someone, TAs, don't have the walkies to answer those calls, but Mike Sweeney did. And then the other thing that I was thinking about the list, since there hasn't been documentation of who Mike met with when he met with them, what he met with them for, to my knowledge with the children,

that I've experienced. I would like to think that this list of students that were exposed to him potentially one-on-one is coming to us, is coming to me, so that I can look at it and say, no, you've missed somebody. Put this to that I feel your frustrations tonight with the lack of answers.

But please trust me when I say that I can only speak for myself and the other teachers. we do care and we do know that it is going to take a lot to rebuild your trust. And out of a daughter, you know, that hasn't always had great experiences at school. And I get it. And your children will be safe with us because when things like this happen, we will do things differently. But it must be written into policies. We can't just assume little people are with these kids doing that.

So that there is how it's done. And that there is a master class in authenticity and being apologetic and taking accountability. That there is a master class in human connection and EQ. The antithesis on what you saw from Rebecca Berlin, the antithesis of what you saw from Joe McCauley, and certainly the antithesis of what you saw from Superintendent Matthew And that is 70 straight minutes of content for you, the viewer, and listener from the I Love Seville Network and our flagship show, the I Love Seville Show, that no other media platform can provide for you because we have the technology, the innovation, the skill set, and long-form

content ability to do so. We will continue this analysis into next week. And I'm going to close by asking these questions for you, the viewer and listener. Question number one, we still need an answer of why Mike Sweeney was allowed to go from Woodbrook Elementary to Holly Meade Elementary. We still needed an answer on how many kids were impacted in a sexual assault capacity at Woodbrook Elementary. Furthermore, Mike Sweeney had a job at a group home prior to working at Woodbrook Elementary. There were rumors in Scuttlebutt linking him to this group home and deviant behavior. Rumors in Scuttlebutt. Has there been a history of this

type of behavior following Mike Sweeney, and if so, why was he allowed to go from group home to school, then to school? Why was he giving a walkie-talkie? Why was he given a list of the most vulnerable kids in an elementary school to counsel? Why was he given a private office in the back of a library that had no windows, a locking mechanism? Why was he allowed to meet in 101 capacity with students, unsupervised? Why was he allowed to do this for an extended period of time? Why did Albemarle County Public Schools know the investigation started in January, pass it along to the police in January, and mentioned nothing to the parents in any capacity, the parents found out with news articles and mugshots and news feeds. Why is there no protocol in place that prevents one-on-one

interactions with teachers, adults, and children, and locked closed-door classrooms? Six months this has been going on, and still there's no protocol. What kind of a case? accountability does Joe McCauley the principal face? What kind of accountability is the Almor County School Board face? Did the Almaro County School Board demand Matthew Haas's resignation so they can deflect accountability legally, personally, professionally, community from themselves? Was Matthew Haas made to be the fall guy to avoid accountability from the school board legally, personally, professionally, and within our community? Matthew Haas still has not resigned.

Is Matthew Haas going to fight for his job? What kind of payout is in store for Matthew Haas? He's under contract through June of 2028. Does he get a lump sum payout? Are there lawsuits that are going to be faced in the near future? Class action suits against the public school system. Will they pursue individuals, parents in this lawsuit? There is a lot to unpack and damage.

we are going to get to the bottom bit on the I Love Seville show. And I want to commend Judah Wickhauer for putting nine clips together in a short period of time this morning. Thank you, Judah Wickhauer. This show is unaffiliated and unafraid, and we will be unabashed with our commentary, and that's why the program works. We are back in the saddle on Monday at 1230. For Judah Wickhauer, my name is Jerry Miller.