The last day of January was a long one for me, starting too soon after midnight with a drive to Logan Airport. It ended with the Conway School Board’s hearing into allegations of inappropriate conduct by a teacher at Kennett High School, which in turn suggested inappropriate conduct by the board itself.
My interest in the case involves a biography I’m writing just now. Fitz John Porter, one of the better generals in the Union Army, was court-martialed on false allegations and dismissed in disgrace because of his sympathy with a political faction disliked by the Lincoln administration. He was sacrificed to save lesser generals who were popular with the dominant political faction in Washington, D.C., whose own transgressions were forgiven because they were favorites.
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