Polk School District sent Coosa Valley News the following statement regarding a story on the opening of the head football coach job at Cedartown High School.
“The employee in question, Jonathan Thomas has granted permission for me to share that he has not submitted, nor does he plan to submit an application for the position of Head Football Coach at Cedartown High School. As the Assistant Superintendent of Human Resources, I can confirm this statement is true and the information reported by Coosa Valley News was false.” ​Mark Lumpkin, Assistant Superintendent/ Human Resources
Before publishing the original article, CVN had received information from three individuals who are closely related to Polk School District regarding the job and opted to run the statement that Mr. Thomas was a candidate only for the position. We have since removed the story after receiving the above statement from PSD that he WAS NOT a candidate for the job.