There is nothing erroneous about not trying to draw conclusions on speculation.
Here are the reasons cited by the CC BOE in an open records request obtained by the local newspaper. I've inserted comments in RED
• Providing pills “on more than one occasion” to students. None of the documents identifies the type of medication, except for one witness who said the pills he saw “might have been Aleve,” which is an over-the-counter pain killer.
Sure against the rules but no proof it was anything over the counter. Meanwhile, the local Taco Bell manager who has half the education as Propst is perfectly fine with handing out Aleve. (would be in any medicine cabinet)
• Owing $301,317 in federal income taxes and $143,000 in delinquent state taxes.
A non-issue, he is paying through garnishments and has not been charged with any crime.
• Interfering in the hiring of Jamie Dixon as the Colquitt County High School principal.
He set up a meeting with Dixon at Starbucks. The report does not indicate what Propst tried to accomplish from the meeting. Perhaps he was excited about the hire and had an idea he wanted to share or perhaps he wanted to let him know who really ran the school. Either way it was bad judgment but hardly fireable.
• Insubordination.
They cite Rush yelling at an administrator. Do they fire all employees that get upset? What did he refuse to do? Why not fire him on the spot? Just another BS excuse.
• Attempting to charge $143.66 for a personal hotel stay to the school system.
That is a pretty cheap Marriott in Atlanta. Perhaps Rush was there to meet about some players and thought he could expense the room. I use to work in the office supplies sector and you would be surprised about how much money is wasted by school systems. $143 over 10 years isn't some scheme to steal money, it is a mistake.
• Interfering with another sport.
He told some changes that he didn't want football players playing whatever sport they coached. There needs to be more context to this. I have never heard of a football coach that did not want his players running track. Propst wasn't some backwoods triple option guy, he was a student of the game.
• Problems associated with the 2018 football team and especially conduct at the end of the championship game loss to Milton.
The team just lost their second state championship in a row, they were upset. Every year a losing team starts some type of incident. The year before WR started a fight after their loss to Rome.
None of these incidents were firable at the time. If anything the BOE decided to fire him over the combination of them all and they have that right. The next coach that takes over for Propst isn't going to get 140 college scholarships over 10 years. The fact is they don't have that type of talent in CC. The skill was built by Propst and his staff. It is very obvious that he ****ed of the wrong person and that is why he was fired.
