EXPOSED: School Board Destroys Principal Who Actually Cared About Kids

➡ A school principal named Bree transformed a troubled school by teaching students love, respect, and discipline. Despite facing false accusations of embezzlement, she continued to invest her own money into the school, particularly in athletic programs. A documentary called “Love Goes Public” was made about her work, highlighting her dedication to her students, many of whom came from broken homes and difficult backgrounds. Bree’s story is a testament to the power of love and dedication in education.
➡ For 33 years, the speaker worked as a teacher in Macon county, Alabama, a poverty-stricken area where most students came from single-parent homes. Inspired by her own high school coach, she aimed to break the cycle of generational poverty for her students, providing them with love, support, and resources. Despite the challenging environment, she created a conducive learning atmosphere, even using her own money to meet students’ needs when necessary. Her efforts resulted in increased student participation in extracurricular activities and a positive change in the school’s culture.
➡ A principal, who deeply cared for his students, transformed a violent school into a safe haven through love, respect, and character building. He provided financial support for students’ needs and extracurricular activities, which resulted in decreased crime rates and increased college admissions. However, he faced issues with the school district for allegedly violating rules by financially supporting students. Despite the challenges, he remained committed to guiding and supporting his students towards a better future.
➡ The speaker, a school principal, was accused of fraud for distributing funds to support students and teachers in a poverty-stricken school. She provided uniforms, hygiene products, and other necessities to students, and used funds to appreciate teachers. However, her actions were misunderstood, leading to her losing her job, facing legal charges, and having her teaching certification put on hold. Despite the hardships, she remains committed to her students and the school community.
➡ The speaker, a former school principal, is accused of misusing funds, which she claims were used to support students in poverty-stricken areas, including taking them to sports playoffs and buying uniforms. Despite these accusations, she has not been found guilty and her contract was not renewed, leaving her in financial hardship. She expresses frustration at the lack of understanding and support from the school board and superintendent, and worries about the future of the students. She is eager to clear her name and continue her work in education.
➡ A woman who has dedicated her life to helping students for over 30 years is facing a difficult situation due to school politics. Despite her selfless contributions, including spending her own money to support the students, she has been treated unfairly. A GoFundMe has been set up to help her fight her case, and the community is encouraged to support her. The speaker also promotes his branded wine at the end of the talk.

Kids were killing each other. They were actually killing each other. I stopped all that with love. I taught them how to love, I taught them how to support, I taught them how to have school prior. I taught them how to be respectful. And we worked on their character every day. And that changed their outlook on life. They painted the picture that I had spoken, spent over $200,000. Like I had embezzled that money, knowing the type of school environment I worked at. And it was over a 10 year period. So that’s $20,000. Do they not know? I spend over 30 or $40,000 a year out of my own money trying to run school and I’m like 33 years.

The Daily grind that I go through just trying to keep peace and make sure everything is. All the students are safe. This is what you’re going to harp on when you know it’s falsified. But they did. Hey everyone, welcome to another sit down with Michael Francis. Hope everybody is doing well. All is very good, very blessed on this end. As always, my friends, I give all the praise, honor, glory and thanksgiving to our God for that. You know, every once in a while in our lives, we come across a person that really impacted us for a certain reason.

And you know, there’s, there’s a lot of great stories out there, people that have done some good in their lives and have really had an impact on other people’s lives. And this person that I’m sitting down with today is one of those people. I had the opportunity to meet her about 10 years ago and I was doing a. An event. I was speaking at an event, a Youth for Christ event in Alabama. And a fellow by the name of Kevin Flanagan introduced me to this woman. And she was the principal of a school there in Macon county.

And her name is Bri. Affectionately, it’s Bri. I’m going to call her. And they asked me to come and speak to her students. And it’s a, it’s kind of a rough area there, you know, it’s a kind of a poverty stricken area. And so I said, sure, Kevin, let’s go. So we went to the school and I addressed the kids and they were basically all black kids, African Americans. And it was such an amazing time for me because of what I witnessed. This woman, Bree, the principal, the way these kids loved her, it was all about love.

The way they, the discipline that they showed, the respect that they showed, the attention that they showed to me, it was just, it was outstanding and it really had an impact on me. I said, wow, what a special person this woman is. And it moved me so much after I spoke to some of the students and got to know Bri a little bit better, that I encouraged Kevin Flanagan to do a documentary about this woman. And so he got in touch with some of the local people in the neighborhood or in the area of the community that knew her.

And they put up some money and they made this documentary. And the documentary is called Love Goes Public. And there’s a trailer within this post that you can log on and look at the trailer. And she totally deserved this to be done for her, because this woman is saving lives. She called these kids her babies, her students her babies. And they loved her and she loved them. And what I found out is over the years she took when, when the school district couldn’t fund some of the programs that were needed in the school, especially the athletic program, she took money out of her own pocket and paid for things out of her own pocket, you know, to the sum of, you know, over 50 or $60,000.

Who does that? But she loved these kids. She genuinely loved these kids. And let me tell you something, these were some hardcore kids. Most of them came from broken homes, no father figure in the house. So she had a rough time with many of them. She had to really, really have an impact on them to get them to turn their lives around, turn away from a life of crime. You know, she’ll tell you, you know, these kids were doing drugs not because they wanted to do drugs, they had to survive, they had to eat. You know, we sometimes don’t understand in some of these poverty stricken neighborhoods what these kids have to go through.

And, you know, I tell you this, you know, as a society, we are responsible for these kids, the environment that they’re growing up in. You know, when we thought it was okay, you know, not to have a two parent family, when, you know, having children out of wedlock is okay, there are consequences to that and these kids suffer for it. I seen it when I was in prison. Some of the kids that came into the system, all of them had broken homes, involved in drug deals and involved with gangs and gang bangers, and they end up in prison, oh, God forbid, something worse, sometimes dead.

Look at the city of Chicago. These gangbangers are killing themselves every weekend. It happens. But we created this environment and we are obligated to help these kids. And this woman, Bree, for over 33 years in this school district has really stepped up. And unfortunately, you know, she’s ran into some trouble. And we’re going to let her talk about that, and I was moved to have her on for that very reason, because I hope to garner some support for her. She’s had a dramatic, dramatic impact in a very positive way on so many young kids that came through, you know, her schools and her tutelage over the past 33 or 34 years.

And this woman deserves some support and some help. And I think when you hear her story, you’re going to feel the same way. And look, you know what? When I can, you know, I try to help people as. As best I can. And this is a woman that’s really entitled to it. And I want you to, you know, log on and get this documentary. It’s called Love Goes Public. You know, if you contribute to buying the documentary and watching it, you’re going to be moved by it, no question about it. And you’re going to be helping her cause, helping to support her, because she gone through some really difficult times with the school district.

And unfortunately, some of these school districts, okay, these departments of education, they get very political and they worry more about the politics and their own situation than they do about the kids. We’ve seen it happen on a grand scale, you know, with our federal government and the Department of Education, and it also happens in communities throughout the country. So with no further delay, I want to introduce Bri affectionately. Know her as Bri, and I want you to hear her story, and I hope you’re moved by it like I am, like I have been over the years.

I’m a witness to what this woman has accomplished over the years. I’ve followed her closely and been with her on several occasions. So enjoy the documentary and please, I’m asking you to support her in any which way you can, and you’ll have an opportunity to do that. So with no further delay, my very special guest, Bri, our principal. So, Bri, it’s really a pleasure to speak to you again. It’s been a while. I know we’ve been texting back and forth, and we’ve been looking forward to sitting down and having this interview. You know, I just, in my introduction, told people how we met approximately 10 years ago now.

I think it is when I came and visited your school that you were a principal of in Alabama, and how I was so impressed with, you know, the way the. The kids just seem to love you, all the students, and the way, you know, you spread the love around and how obedient they were and just how disciplined they were when I spoke to them, how appreciative they were when I got there. And After I was finished. And it was just a wonderful experience that led to many me wanting to do a documentary on this. And, you know, I passed it on to Kevin and to a lot of the people in Alabama who followed up.

And they made a beautiful documentary about you and your work and how the kids loved you and how you love them. And it called. It was called Love Goes Public. And we’re going to post a trailer on here for people to see and obviously they can go and visit and, and get the documentary online. So let me do this. Bre, why don’t you tell me briefly how you got involved in school, how you became a principal, and just what your overall approach was to all of these kids, a lot of them troubled kids, a lot of them that you helped out in so many ways over the years.

Why don’t you give us just a little background on that? Okay, I’ll be glad to. I’ve been in education 39 years and 33 of those years I worked in impoverished environments where kids needs were just daily. And the 33 years have all been in one system, which is Macon county in Alabama, the cities of Tuskegee and Notice Southern and sort of. I was impressed by my high school coach who took me under her wing. I’m one of 19 and I was really the only one that went off to college. And the reason that I went off is because she showed me a different pattern.

She showed me how to break the generational poverty cycle. And so when I became a teacher, I want to do the same thing. She did it for me, but I want to do it for all of my kids in Macon county because the schools that I worked at was 98% free and reduced lunches, poverty driven. And it just, you know, a sad situation. I will always say these kids did not ask to be born in this situation. Like I did not ask to be born in mind. And I’m going to do all I can to help them change that.

And that’s what I vowed to do. So for 33 years in the Macon county school system, I did that. I worked daily, I worked nightly. I gave all I could. And those like you and all who would come in and see the need would give and support my efforts. So I didn’t do it alone. I had supporters who understood my rationale and why I felt the need because I was a product. And if I could do it, I felt like I could help the other students. So that’s what I strive to do every day. All right, quick interruption.

If you really want to get some insight into me. And I mean insight. Zoom calls, Q&As, behind the scenes information, stories I’ve never told before. You want to become part of the elite? Then join the family. We have over a thousand members already. Michaelfrancis.com family. It’s an offer that you shouldn’t refuse. Now let’s get back to the show. And Bri, were most of these children that you taught, did they come from broken homes? Maybe a one parent home? Were there father figures in the house? What was the situation for most of these young children? The majority of them were single parent homes.

The school that I worked at for the last 10 years, we serviced six housing projects. But most of the ones that didn’t live in the housing projects came from low income home. So it was 98%. And it was a struggling environment every day. The needs were every day. And you know, I established an environment conducive for learning even against all odds. Because before I walked through the doors, it wasn’t like that. It was a school that was full of crime. It was a school that students just had very little direction. Maybe 10% would get out and go off to college with parents or something that would help them or someone who had adopted them in the community.

But the majority of them would just struggle for life and the generation poverty cycle would continue. And Bri, when I was there, I witnessed how these kids actually loved you. I mean, you talked, to use the word love quite a bit when you came up on stage, stage. And I remember them singing, you know, what was it? Why did they take to you so, you know, so lovingly? I have to say, why did they, you know, what was it that you did? How did you put yourself out there to them? It’s almost like you became a foster parent to them aside from a teacher.

That’s exactly what happened. I love them like I was their mother. As a matter of fact, I did not even refer to them as students. I refer to them as my babies. And the reason why I did that is because I want them to know that I was all in with them. I showed them love, whatever type of love they needed, whether it was hugs and kisses, whether it was finances, whether it was food, whether it was just listening to them, the emotional part, the mental part, whatever they needed, even when they need the discipline, I gave it to them, the tough love.

And they didn’t really hold any grudges against me because I communicated with them and they saw me every day. You know, my favorite scripture is John the fourth, chapter eight Verse which is really behind me, I have it on my wall at my house because it’s my favorite scripture. And it’s those that don’t love, they don’t know God, because God is love. And so. So my thing with that is I didn’t have to really speak it. I showed it in my action, but I taught them how to show it in their action as well as speak it.

When I first got there, some of the kids were not even expressing love. They were all about hate and trying to survive. The ones that were selling drugs, they weren’t selling drugs just because they wanted to sell drugs. They were trying to survive. Those that would steal when students would leave something in the dressing room and then fights would occur behind it, they didn’t do that just because they wanted to. They were trying to find ways to survive. I figured that out and I changed that because I stopped providing their needs. And when I stopped providing their needs, the culture and the climate changed and there was love.

And there were kids that were more involved because a lot of them weren’t involved in extracurricular because they couldn’t pay the participation fee, or they didn’t have food to eat at the concession stand, or they just didn’t have whatever they needed. With the help of you and other supporters, I was able to do that. And if you all didn’t get it, I did it at my household. I’ve taken out loans to get it done. But I made sure the students had the school that I’ve been at for the last 10 years. I recall I walked through the door and they only had 19 football players.

Before I finished with them, they had 65. Most of them were not planning because they didn’t have the money. It was a participation fee, or they couldn’t get what they need. They couldn’t buy the shoes. I did, or I got supporters to do it. And so that helped them with the idle time, really, just instead of going home and meeting with gangs, they would be going after school playing whatever sports that they were participating in. And then with the choir, I think we had about 40, 40 students in the choir. I think before I left, it was 152jrotc, which is a discipline program.

They had about 30 kids total. We were 148 students. Before I left, there were three students from needing another instructor. And then we got more sports. We offered more sports. But that was the strategy. That was the strategy to get them involved so we can keep them at school as long as they could be and we could change and Mentor them and they wouldn’t be exposed to what was going on in their community and in their household because it’s real. And if you don’t show them a different pattern, you they’re not going to adapt. They just going to keep this constantly with the same one that was going on.

And I didn’t want that. I said, if I can do it, then I can help others to do it. And that was my goal. So I worked on it every day to get it done. Well, Bri, I know that you know, and I can verify everything that you’re saying, because when I was in prison, you know, a lot of young kids, a lot of young African American kids came into the system and they were 21, 22 years old. They had mandatory minimum drug sentences. And I would counsel them even before I became a Christian, because I really had a heart for kids.

I mean, I have seven kids of my own. I have seven grandkids. And, you know, I understand how tough it is to be raised in this world, in this community, this environment, when you don’t have a mother and father figure that are able to support you the right way. And, you know, you could have written the same script for every one of these young men that I spoke to. They all came from a broken home. Their mom was young, you know, trying to do her best. Normally she had two or three children of her own just trying to survive and work and no father figures.

So what happens? They gravitate to the street. They meet, you know, meet the gang banger or drug dealer, and just to survive, they start doing that, that bidding and they end up in prison or God forbid, something worse. So the fact that you gave them love and understood that really was able to change their path in life. And I noticed that when I was there. And, you know, I remember you telling me, Bree, that there were times when the school was underfunded. You put up your own money, you know, to help some of these programs and to support some of these kids there.

I’ve never heard of another principal doing that. Quite honestly, I did it constantly and I did it and didn’t give it a second thought because whatever I do, I do from my heart and I don’t look for anything in return. And when I look in these kids eyes every day, I can see I give them hope. So I try to work with them every day on letting them know they could be me. You know, when I first walked into the last school I was in, kids were killing each other. They were actually killing each other. I stopped all that with love.

I taught them how to love, I taught them how to support, I taught them how to have school pride, I taught them how to be respectful. And we worked on their character every day. And that changed their outlook on life. You know, I know the school was most of them, their most structured environment, and that was their safe haven. And, and so in Macon county, we don’t have Boys and Girls Club, we don’t have ymca, we don’t have recreation. So if we allow the kids, especially high school students, to go home at 3 o’, clock, they have from 3 o’ clock to the next day to do whatever.

And that is what was getting them because they had so much idle time. When we got them involved with all the activities and programs that we had in school, we helped them. We not only helped them, we helped the community because crime went down, juvenile percentage went down with the courts and all. So it was just so positive. And like I tell people, it takes money to do anything these days. If you think about just the kids in your household or your grandkids and their needs, you’ll see what it takes for them every day. Well, I know I could not do everything for every channel, but I did almost.

I mean, I did a lot for a lot of them every day. And it made a difference and they saw it and so it gave them hope. And we got it to the point where I would say 60 or 70% of those kids were going to off to college. And if they weren’t going off to college, they were going to the military and they were leaders in the military and they were productive and they’ve gotten college degrees. You know, so the, the, the work that I’ve done and the effort and the strategies that I have were working.

However, you know, I’m not there anymore. So I just pray for the kids and hope that they still, you know, have an honest opportunity to make it in this world. Cause this environment here doesn’t have much to offer to teenagers. So you have to guide them every day and you have to support them, you have to show them love and let them know that, you know, you can have a life like mine, but you got to do these things to get it done. And that’s what I was doing. No, there’s no question, Brian. I think people that watch this Love Goes Public documentary, I think they’re going to see some of the success stories and see what a powerful impact you’ve had on these kids.

You know, recently I was very disturbed, unhappy to hear that you somehow got at odds with the school district and it’s caused you some, some real issues and maybe you can get into that a little bit. Let us know what happened there. Well, yes, I was told that I violated the athletics association rules for feeding these kids. I was up for a raise. I. My contract was ending, my three years was up, I had worked. So I had told my superintendent And I said, Dr. Williams, I see that you’re taking our football coach name to the board for a raise.

I said, I don’t have a problem. He feel like that’s what, you know, he deserved. I said, but my contract ends June 30, 2024. And I would negotiate. I said, father, no. I’ve gone through six sports to 14 sports. I work all day, all night, even on the weekends. I’m taking care of the kids. I said, and I do it because that’s the need. I don’t have a problem with. But I said I worked 16, 18 hours a day. I said, but we’re going to need to negotiate my contract. No, no. She spoke about the previous superintendent and she stated that she did not evaluate me one year, so therefore I automatically get another year on my contract.

And I said I can care less about that. I said, because you was up on the same person. And she evaluated us the same way. I said, but I have worked my three years and have gotten the job done and it’s time for me to negotiate my contract. And I said, even if I get the extension on the contract, I still need to negotiate. And she said, well, we’ll have to talk about that. I said, well, if you don’t negotiate desire that just move me to an elementary school and I would take the salary that I’m at.

I said, but it costs every day for me to do what I need to do and to keep it going and all of that. I said, basically the money going back into school and to the students. I said, but you know, it’ll help me when I retire or whatever. And I said I don’t have a problem with that. And so it went on and she decided that she was going to move me, but she didn’t know where. And I said, well, what about an elementary school? She said we don’t have a slot for you. And I said, okay, so you just gonna move me from Fukuchi that you know what you’re gonna get every day that I’m there? Oh yeah, yes, we’re gonna move you.

So over the spring break, the spring break was coming up the next week. I wrote a 14 page letter to the superintendent, the attorney and their five board members to let them know that I really want to stay where I was, but I want to let them know the challenges and what it was taking for me to run the school and all of that. Well, I put in there. I said, even, you know, I got all these kids that are participating and it costs, you know, for them to participate. I said, when these kids go off to games at night and day, they don’t have any money for the concession stand.

I said, a lot of you come to the game, you just watch them. I said, I’ll come to the game. I lead cheers, I watch them, I’m controlling the crowd and all. But I also watch to see what children can go to the concession stand. And ones who cannot, I say, and the ones that cannot, I cash at them and I give them money so they can buy themselves something to eat. I said, because most of them would have eaten since 12 o’ clock that day and it’s seven or eight at night. And I said, so you know, I send them money.

So I sent them copies of my cash app to a few of the athletes where they say I had violated the athletic association rule. I said, how is that a violation? I said, as the principal, I am supposed to look out for the well being of every child. I said, and here it says in loco parentis, which means acting in the place of the parent. I said, and that’s all I’m doing. I said, the athletic association room is for boosters and who’s trying to recruit players and all of that. I’m not trying to recruit any players.

I’m taking care of my babies who are here. And as I was adding up my cash app, it was show over the last 10 years, just cash out. Not the ones that don’t have cash, not the ones that I’ve given cash, don’t have a bank account. I, I have given out $62,000 in cash out to these students and parents. And so. Wait, Bree, let me stop you. So in other words, out of your own pocket, you’ve given the students over $52,000. 62, yes, over the last 10 years that added up. And you know, cash app is documented, so you can see.

And they said, because I would say something motivating to the kids that were at the game. I said, good rebound, a way to get the rebound like I was doing. My own son John when he played and he went off to college and played for Auburn University and all of that. You know, he was on the championship team when they won the national championship. But I told her, I said, I’m saying these comments to motivate these kids. These kids, parents are not motivating them like I motivate them. I said, so all I’m saying is, oh, I love how you made that touchdown, or I love how you got those rebounds, or get me some more and all of that just to motivate them.

She turned it like I was paying the kids to play. And she actually said that to me when she knows not only do I take care of those athletes that playing, I take care of kids every day at the school. If you go in my office, you’re going to right now. Because I have not been allowed to go over and get my belongings from the school yet. And you go over to that school right now, you will see probably 100 uniforms. Because I would buy uniforms or I would get donations from supporters to buy uniforms. I had uniforms in my office.

I have food, I have bath cloths. I have all the personal hygiene things. I will have, have a washing powder. Because the kids. When you’re dealing with kids of poverty, you have to remove the barrier from first before you can do anything else. Some people don’t understand that. If they’ve never struggled and they never had to go through anything, they don’t understand that. But I did so many things, and I did it confidentially so the parents wouldn’t feel bad, the students wouldn’t feel bad, and I would get it done. You know, it’ll be some students that are coming along.

Me son, they saying I stink. I said, well, you do have an older baby, but take this bag. I would have bags with soap, deodorant, toothpaste, toothpaste. I will have those already made. And I said, take this, go down to the shower. I give you a pads when you get back. And I had uniforms. I even had underwear and everything. I did everything for those kids. And I didn’t give it a second thought because I knew I need it. I remember when I came to school not smelling fresh, and my coach took me in the restroom with some.

With a washcloth and some deodorant and all of that and got me fresh though, you know. And so it’s not that you’re knocking them, it’s just that you’re supplying their needs. And so I did all that. And so they wondered why the students love me, the kids love me because I love them through actions and through words. So, you know, that’s what really happened. It was to the point where she said, I had Violated the athletic association rule by giving athletes money. And like I told her, why are you taking this to the athletic association? I’m not violating no athletic association group.

I’m not dealing with athletes. When I’m talking to my babies, I’m dealing with my babies. And you know that she knew it because before she became superintendent, she and I were friends. So she saw my work, she knew what I was doing. But, you know, I don’t know her rationale for attorney like that. But it went that way. And one thing led to another. The next thing. And what action have they taken against you now? The next thing they did was they went down and filed a complaint, really for fraud. And went down to the police department and said that I had taken some money when I had given it to the ptsa.

And this will happen. With that, we went to the football playoffs. Now, before I got there, they wasn’t even really winning in the game. People wouldn’t even come to the game. I changed all that. So we went to the football playoffs and we received a check for $14,000 in some art cent where I had allowed my PTSA, which is parent Teacher Students association, to take up money for parking for the football game. Okay? So I did not know that someone down to the central office was going to take this money that we had set aside for teacher appreciation and put it in the general fund.

Well, if it’s in the general fund, we can’t use it for. We want to use we had in courtesy so that we can do whatever we need to do. Because not only is the environment, it has to be conducive for students, it has to be conducive for teachers, too. And so you have to understand that these teachers that work in the school and impoverished school, they don’t get any treats, really. Not from parents or anything like that. So I have to make sure. So on teacher appreciation the entire week, we try to show them that we really appreciate them.

Where the parent Teachers association, we may have had four or five parents that would show up every. Every month that we met monthly. And I had. When they took the money that they had raised from the parking, I said, well, Lord, how are we going to have teacher appreciation if I don’t do what I need to do for these teachers, we are really going to have some issues because before I got there, they couldn’t really retain teachers. Teachers were leaving, you know, it was just a mess. But I have been able to retain teachers year after year.

And, you know, they’re working with the kids and they understand the type of kids, kids that we work with and all of that. So when I got the $14,000, I gave 10,000 to the football team who had earned it and I took the 4000 and gave it to PTSA. Well, that’s my decision as the principal because I have to try to keep everything in order. Well, they told me I didn’t have a right to do that. And what they did was they told me that I had, I had given the money to the PTSA. They told me I had to give their 4,000 some odd dollars back to the football players and to the account to the school.

So I told my PTSA president that she had to go down to the bank and get the money. And because a penny had not been spent, this happened like in March or April and teacher appreciation is in May. So the money had not been spent. But the superintendent and I guess her cfo, they went down and they filed fraud charges on me. They said I had no business doing that. And behind that I got to go to court because the grand jury, I have to defend that. But in addition to that, when they found out the, they said the account did not match anything they had at the board, I tried to tell the superintendent, no it didn’t because it’s a PTSA account.

If you look at the tax ID number, it will show that it’s the PTSA tax ID number. Well, they were upset when they went and found out where that check was deposited. They saw like when you would send me something or Mr. Porter or Mr. Flanagan will get something through your edge or you for Christ or you first. And they would see that tips had been deposited in that same account. They added it up over the 10 years and said that I had, they painted the picture that I had spent over $200,000. Like I had embezzled that money knowing the type of school environment I worked at.

And it was over a 10 year period. So that’s $20,000. Do they not know I spend over 30 or $40,000 a year out of my own money trying to run that school? They didn’t care. They painted that picture. And so the board members and all, they fought the superintendent Lee, but they, when they had the termination hearing, they could not terminate me because they tried to terminate me behind that. But they didn’t found ground to terminate me because they said, well, we can’t say that she has misused it, but she had no right of opening an account without our permission and sending those cash apps to those students.

And I’m like 33 years. The Daily grind that I go through just trying to keep peace and make sure everything is. All the students are safe. This is what you’re going to harp on when you know it’s falsified, but they did. So everything that I have gone through, I have gone through. Losing my job, I have gone through. Well, the sheriff didn’t arrest me, but I had to go down to the sheriff’s department and I’ve been fingerprinted. Now that hurt. I’ve been fingerprinted, so I pretty much arrested. But I had a bondsman to come and sign my bond immediately, so I didn’t have to be locked behind bars.

They have sent my information to the certification office, so my certification is on hold. So I can’t get an education. My background is pending, so I can’t get another education job. Is that clear? They sent information to the ethics commission saying that my ethics. It just been a lot. It’s one thing after another. And I’m not going to kid you, Michael. If I didn’t know the Lord, I would probably have a news breakdown on a heart attack or a stroke. Because when I’ve given all that I could and they have thrown this at me, I’m telling you, I’m trying to keep on crying because I’m not really a sensitive person.

But it hurt my heart to know that all the sacrifices that I made and they just take a grain of salt. It’s easy dealing with kids that come in every day from. Even though you, I’m going to say, detox them as soon as they walk through the door, they leave you. And they still go back to that. So they. They stopped my character ed assembly from every morning. They said, why did I have it every morning? I said, because our babies leave us every day and come back. And you don’t know what they’ve been through from the time they left us to the time they get back.

But they. They don’t understand poverty. And that’s a problem. I mean, that’s a serious problem. But it’s. Breathe. Let me, Let me. I want to be clear on this. They haven’t accused you of taking any money for yourself. They’ve just accused you of putting money in a place that it shouldn’t be sent to. Yes. And what happened was I was able to use it for whatever. Like for instance, I’m going to tell you like this. When my. Like I told you our kids were going to the playoffs. Well, you go to the first playoff and you probably got 20 people in the Stands and the other team has hundreds and hundreds of people.

So when we start back going to the playoffs after that, I said, no, we got to get some students there. So I couldn’t decide on how to select the students. Cause all of them in the same predicament. So I started asking people to help me take the entire school. Every time we went to the playoff, I got enough funds to take the entire school. That’s where the bulk of that money went most of the time. If it wasn’t buying uniforms for the students or buying something for a particular team, or dealing with the awards programs at the end where you have to buy trophies.

So all of it is pretty much documented, but the superintendent painted this picture like I had done something wrong when she knew all I was doing is meeting the needs of the students. And they. They. They fell for it. But I. I haven’t been, you know, found guilty or anything because really, I hadn’t gone to court. But I went to the hearing with the board, the Macon County Board of Education, and they could not find me guilty. But what they decided, what the superintendent is. Once my contract ended, they were not gonna renew my contract. And what position has this left you in now and for the future? Bri? I’m struggling.

I’m struggling because I’ve depleted all my savings. I lived from check to check. And when I did leave to go back home to take care of my mom, I had. That was in Georgia. I had withdrawn from teaching retirement because I didn’t know if I was coming back. And so I was working up. So I had 20. I have 22 years, and I need to work at least three more years to get retirement so it can be decent. But now, as I was bringing home about $6,000 a month, now I’m bringing home about 3,400. And when I say I’m going to be living in poverty, because it just started on the 1st, with my first check, because the school board paid me all the way through my contract.

But now that I’m retired and my certificate is on hold, I can’t get another education job and all that. We’re still waiting on the court date because my court date really hadn’t been set, I suppose, had gone to court in April, and they brought a big case from a neighboring county and a kidney, I guess, officer docket or whatever. And so I did not get a chance to even go to court or be, you know, trial at that time. Yeah, I don’t feel that they’ll find me here. To the customers, they see all the evidence and what you have to go, what I’ve gone through and what is in front of them, you know, things will be okay, but I like it in ruined to have this.

And you know, and other thing is I am really, I pray for the kids every day because right now they over there fighting again. And the school, they’re losing control of the screen like it was before I walked through the door. And the babies, they don’t deserve that. They had bought into what I was putting in front of them. They were believing in themselves, they were believing in their future and you know, I was giving them a chance to break the generational poverty cycling. But now, you know, all they trying to do is get them in the door and get them out the door.

You know, they can care less about them participate, they can care less. It’s just, I don’t know, it’s different. It really works. And obviously Bree, you want to face these charges as soon as possible to get, you know, to obviously clear yourself of any wrongdoing, I would assume. Yes, sir. Yes. And have they put your pension on hold too? Well, not yet because I haven’t been found guilty of anything. Ah, okay. Well, I’m pretty sure it’s going to work out, Bri. Look, I know you and I know how you’ve dedicated your life to really helping these kids as a teacher and a principal and just as a good person.

And you know, I want to follow this up and hopefully it’s going to work out. And I think people listening, agree, going to understand what you’ve been through. And sometimes, you know, I don’t know what it is with these school boards and the Department of Education. They worry less about the kids than their own politics and their own selves. And we were seeing that, you know, in, in various ways now with the Department of Education. But I just hope it all works out for you, Bri. And we’re going to try to, you know, help in any which way that we can to support you because I know you deserve that support.

And you know, I know you’re a God fearing woman and we know that God stands behind us when we’re in times of challenges and troubles. So I really pray it all works out. I just want to say one other thing that I got sure. During the COVID 19 pandemic, you know, when you already working in a struggling school and then you have to deal with this when the few parents that were working are not working anymore. I carried that school in the household, I kept utilities on, I kept like parents Were selling food stamps. And, you know, I told them I didn’t need to know that, but just so they can try to pay the utilities.

It was really a challenge and to the point where I took out some loans to help parents, and when they lost their jobs, they couldn’t pay. And it got me so stretched where I don’t mind calling the name, but Mr. Howard Porter, he had to come and help me get out of that jam. But it cost me my house because I was stretched so far where I couldn’t even pay my mortgage. And we had been in. Well, we would have been in now 18 years, would have 12 more years to pay for it, But I lost my house.

So now the house that I’m staying in, now I’m renting because of the predicament that I got put in, working in that environment. And then when Covid came, it knocked me back, and we. I was just stretched too far. And, I mean, that’s real, but all that is material. And I know. You know, I felt like I deserved that because I had worked for it. But I know God has a plan, but that has really been rough. And that’s why I said the superintendent and the board members, they really don’t know all the sacrifices and what the superintendent does.

Let me back that up. She knows. She just. I just feel like she just felt like I was too strong or something, that she just wanted me out of the way because she only been there two years. The previous superintendent, she knew me, and we had conflicts, but she never questioned what I did for those kids, because she was there when the kids were killing each other and when the kids were fighting all day. Before I took over that school, they had to hire police officers every day. They had three or four police officers at that school all day long every day.

Three months after I got there, I told the police officer, they can leave. So that saved. It was the sheriff’s department that saved the sheriff’s department money because they didn’t have to pay officers. I had gotten the kids under control where they knew that was their school. And we had to act like it was our school. And we would come in there to get an education. But that was not easy. Cause my first day walking in that school, I had 12 fights. And, you know, I changed it up, you know, with what I had in place, and the students believed in me.

So I just pray and ask the Lord, it just, you know, working out for me. But I do appreciate you just listening to me and being by my side along the way. Well, Bri Like I said, it’s really unfortunate that you had to go through this. We don’t know why. You know, these things happen at times, but like I said, with these school boards and school districts, it’s just more politics than anything else at times. It’s very unfortunate, you know, that a person like yourself who’s dedicated her whole life to helping out these kids has to go through this.

But we pray it’s going to have a good ending. And I have some viewers on here that I know are going to be touched by your story, and we’re going to see if we can help you out, because I think you certainly deserve it and you’re entitled to that. And in the end, I know it’s all going to work in your favor. Thank you so much. And I just appreciate you and your heart because you’ve been there a long time, consistently well, and I witnessed it, Bri. I saw you. And we’ve been in touch over the years, and I saw the results, and I know the lives that you’ve saved and these kids, how they changed their whole attitude under your tutelage.

And it was so impressive to me. Like I said, I encourage the people like Kevin Flanagan and the people in Alabama that knew you to make this documentary together, your story out. And I think, you know, it’s taken some time, but I think now that people are going to see it. I think the timing might be good. And let’s see what God has in store for you. Okay, well, thank you. All right. All right. All right, people. Well, there you have it. You know, it’s. It’s terrible when a woman who has devoted and dedicated her life to helping her babies, her students over the past 33 or 34 years to be treated in the way that she was treated by the school, school district.

And let me tell you something. This is an honest woman. There’s no way that she defrauded anybody or she meant anything other than to help her students out. That’s all she’s been doing for 33 years to the tune of, I think she told you over $60,000 of her own money that she put in. She’s not a wealthy woman. She lives on a school principal’s salary. But she cared about these kids so much that she’s gone above and beyond. She saved many lives. She. She’s got them to graduate. Many of them are now professionals as a result of the love and the care that she gave them, more than their own parents have given them.

So to be treated in the way she’s been treated is. Is not right. So there’s going to be a GoFundMe set up for her. You know, reach into your heart, see what you can do for her. Because any little bit helps as she has to fight this case now, you know, and you know what it is to fight a case. She’s going to be acquitted or found, you know, innocent of all these trouble charges. She didn’t do anything wrong, but she’s got to go through it. And what they’ve done to her is terrible. So any way that you can support her, no matter what it is, I certainly appreciate it.

The money goes directly to her, not to anyone else. And I think you’d be helping someone that has helped thousands of youths over the years. So reach into your heart, do the best that you can for her. And listen, for all of us Christians out there, this is a time for us to step up and help. So that’s it for today, my friends. How do I always leave you? Same way. Never going to change. You know, be safe. You know, this woman took people, took young kids and made sure they were safe in the work that she did over the years.

Be healthy. She fed them, gave them the right diet. She did everything for these kids. So be safe, be healthy. God bless each and every one of you. God bless you, Bri, and God bless America. See you next time. Stay tuned. And my friends, before I go, I want to remind you for Franz East Wine, I now have a wine branded in my name from the world’s oldest vineyards. We have alcoholic wine, of course, non alcoholic wine, huge seller now. And the taste is terrific, my friends, really. You’re going to enjoy this family atmosphere wherever you want.

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