Lee County Schools’ new superintendent got what can only be described as a mixed welcome message from school board Chair Sherry Womack after his hiring was announced Tuesday night.
On the one hand, Womack praised his “passion, dedication and knowledge” and said Dossenbach is “so clearly focused on the success of Lee County Public Schools.”
“He has established a solid pattern of honesty, transparency and accountability, and has already proven that he can make tough decisions, enforce high standards and actively promote change and accountability,” she said. “We are blessed to have him in Lee County Schools and excited about working together — not only to improve academic performance and achievement, but also to unite our community in supporting our public schools.”
But in her closing remarks the same night, Womack went on a bizarre tangent in which she warned him “don’t ever frickin’ lie to me” and requested that he “please keep it in his pants.”
“We joke about this, but the reality is we know that (Dossenbach’s wife) would take care of that situation,” Womack said as Dossenbach stood in front of the board.
Womack may have been referring to a scandal from 2008, when former Lee County Schools Superintendent Jim McCormick resigned his position after allegations of an affair with a subordinate became public. It’s unclear what – if anything – that situation has to do with Dossenbach or anyone else currently involved in Lee County Schools.
Video of Womack’s remarks can be seen here, beginning just prior to the 2:35:00 mark.
-Gordon Anderson and Richard Sullins
Why would anyone make a flippant comment like that to be entered into the official record of the school board meeting? What a wonderful moment for him & his family just trashed by her careless comment. Is there a conference that she can attend about how to be professional and maybe just a little more classy?
She’s as unqualified for her job,as my cat.She should be ashamed of herself for making such a comment about someone she doesn’t know.I don’t know why he doesn’t use her for defamation.
And yet, if a liberal school board chair had said the same, the Scant writers would be praising their witty humor.
Is that your way of defending Sherry Womack? Wow!
I’m not so sure about that.
Um, no sir. You do not get to make this one “liberal vs. conservative.” This is about a deranged lunatic making unwarranted, slanderous comments against a man who has been nothing but beyond reproach. She should be reprimanded and brought to task by her peers and her party…but I won’t hold my breath on that.
I do get to make this “liberal vs. conservative” just as the Scant writers have done countless times. What the chairman said and how the Scant writers flaunt their political beliefs are two different topics.
The comment Sherri Womack made , especially at meeting, was very unprofessional & uncalled for !!
She’s crazy and has no place in public office!
Wow… Can she be any more unprofessional in an official meeting? She just has to be a loudmouth. Good job Sherry Womack, another example of just because you were an Officer in the U.S. Military, does not mean you have any class… Pathetic display of classless nonsense. Lee County and more importantly the students of Lee county deserves better. She should be made to apologize for her rude, classless, and uncouth comment that is actually very close to sexual harassment.
I love the smell of liberal tears in the morning.
Maybe instead of making a list of demands on what Mrs. Womack should do or what should be done to her, y’all should talk to Dr. Dossenbach and see how he feels about the whole situation.
What do you expect him to say? What would you tell the public if the words came from the Chair of the School Board and you were just hired by that very Board to be Superintendent? Good grief!
Lower class people support the comments of other lower class people. That’s what this is, the support of a low class individual by other low class members.
Is she trying to be Lauren Boebert aka Beetlejuice 2.0–that Thom would be a criticism! The Rant reported what she said—a “fact”not an opinion. Too many people don’t know the difference between fact and opinion nowadays—sad. She is a disgrace to Veterans, especially female veterans, right before Veteran’s Day—period! Sexual harassment is not a partisan liberal matter either aka Mr. “Scant”ily clad! Wasting $25,000 of taxpayer money for a search for a superintendent when his replacement is right here—fiscally irresponsible! Wasting how much(over $100,00?) to oust and buyout former Superintendent Dr. Bryan was another power play that was fiscally irresponsible! BTW Dr. Bryan was hired at increased pay at a smaller district so he made out fiscally and professionally and had the last laugh at Ms. Womack’s expense! Does anyone really wonder why no firm wanted to apply to search for our superintendent after knowing what a lunatic the school board President is by doing a basic online search of her past comments/behavior? Are you Thom too going to March around downtown with your Confederate flag like Ms. Womack does? Are you going to break into non Republican houses with no consequences like Ms. Womack too? Are you going to continue to defend her like her hypocritical husband, Jim Womack, by wanting the ouster of a school board member for inappropriate sexual behavior albeit private consensual behavior? Ms. Womack made a “glaringly, beyond cringeworthy” out-of-line sexual remark to try and disgrace Mr. Dossenbach AND his wife—where is Jim Womack’s outrage now!!! If you Thom don’t have the morals to see an apology is required professionally at the very minimum, then I do! Please accept my apology, Mr. and Mrs. Dossenbach, as Ms. Womack was beyond unprofessional by stating an unwarranted opinion that was indeed sexual harassment too—sue the school board if she isn’t removed immediately! She won’t apologize as you know she stole credit for hard work from innocent students and teachers when they improved test scores at a board of education meeting on the record and never apologized then either even though it was pointed out to her at two subsequent school board meetings! Sherry Womack has no morals to steal credit from the kids she is supposedly supposed to protect and obviously after her last sexually harassing remarks to Mr. and Mrs. Dossenbach in a public, professional meeting—no class and she needs to be removed!!! Ps Remeber the school board member who ousted a play for inappropriate language and forced the play to be dropped? Does this newly elected school board member condone Ms. Womack’s comments now—Really???
It’s BS politics like this that distract from actual important issues in Sanford, like our polluted, PFAS-laden tap water. Test of the wastewater going into the river shows that people here in Sanford are responsible for most of the PFAS pollution that is making our water undrinkable. We could fix this locally, but instead we are spending our time on BS like this.
Geez V we get it PFAS is in the water. Guess what it has nothing to do with this post. I even think that you might actually be right, but damn you work it into about every conversation. I bet your friends love to hear you constantly talk about it. Please for the love of God give it a rest.
Oh, am I distracting you from this very important discussion of a complete idiot embarrassing herself by bringing up the insignificant fact that the tap water here is giving people cancer, and causing infertility and birth defects? Is that annoying to you?
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Regardless of who Ms. Womack is, the comment was uncalled for and out-of-line. She should be reprimanded for her comments. No one deserves to be spoken to like that in public. And to think she is suppose to be representing children??????
Complete and utter lack of class from a wannabe Lt Governor candidate.
I wish I was there in some ‘official’ capacity to have her explain what “it” was in her reference. Twisted ‘me’ would just love to hear ‘Twisted Sherry’ say in public ‘penis’.
Isn’t that some crap, if he would have said that to her there would be hell to pay, They should be here out.