A published report said the assistant principal at Fort Campbell High School has been reassigned after the district superintendent met with the garrison commander at the Army post on the Kentucky-Tennessee border.
The Leaf-Chronicle reported it obtained an email showing that garrison commander Colonel Rob Salome asked Superintendent Frank Calvano to take "significant action" against assistant principal Demetrius Thomas. The request stemmed from conversations Thomas had involving the wife and child of a brigadier general.
A statement on Tuesday from the Department of Defense Education Activity said Calvano made the decision to discipline Thomas "independently." It said installation's chain of command "has no role or influence" over school personnel decisions.
Thomas was initially reassigned to a different school, but has since been assigned to work at the district office.
