The Tennessee high school senior humiliated by a creepy school board member who called her “hot” at a public meeting got her revenge with a blistering attack on him and the “cowards” who failed to protect her.
Hannah Campbell blasted Washington County education board member Keith Ervin in a blistering four-minute speech Thursday, just over a month after he went viral for sidling up to her to tell her, “God you’re hot, you know that?” — and asking what school she went to.
“I do not forgive you,” she bluntly told the balding, heavyset board member as he sat uncomfortably with his hands folded across his chest, WVLT reported.
The student made clear from the outside that the middle-aged board member’s creepy comments “were not only unwelcome” but were “sexist and derogatory.”
“I know this because he has not behaved this way with any of our male members, nor do I believe that he ever would,” she said in her four-minute speech.
Ervin, who slouched in his chair and had his eyes closed at times during Campbell’s rant, had previously claimed his words were taken out of context – but the student wasn’t buying it.
“I do not forgive you, and I do not accept your fake apologies used to protect yourselves. I do not believe that you deserve that peace of mind,” she said.
“Every time that you feel a little bit of discomfort from the public, I want you to remember that it isn’t even a fraction of what I felt on April 2nd,” she said of the initial creepy confrontation.
Campbell also lashed out at Ervin’s colleagues for failing to speak up and condemn him during the meeting.
“I believe that you’re all cowards, especially those who use their God as a cop out for forgiveness. Just as religion is not allowed in schools by authority figures, it has no place in this boardroom or any professional setting,” she said.
Ervin wasn’t fired from the school board as he’s an elected official — despite students calling for his resignation. A petition calling for Ervin and school board superintendent Jerry Boyd’s resignations racked up 6,760 signatures.
He had tried to claim he was just trying to praise the senior for asking “good, smart questions” during the meeting, and trying to blame it on his age and upbringing.
“You know, I’m old school. I’m an old farm boy. And I didn’t mean nothing by anything. I just was proud of her,” he previously told WJHL.