The controversy around leadership at Carrboro High School continued to heat up this week, with a local chapter of the NAACP weighing in on demands to oust Helena Thomas, the school’s principal. Public controversy began when CHS parents and students released a letter on behalf of over 70 anonymous staff members, alleging mistreatment and poor communication from the school’s administration. When satisfactory action wasn’t taken, they staged a walkout from Carrboro High School on Thursday, May 29. They were specifically criticizing the administration under its current principal, Helena Thomas, who was later suspended with pay and barred from attending her school’s graduation ceremony on Saturday, June 14. In response, the Chapel Hill Carrboro NAACP held a press conference on Wednesday, June 11, citing concerns around the Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools District Office’s treatment of Thomas, who is a Black woman. They called upon the district to give Thomas due process while evaluating...