Zachary School System Lying and Hiding Again

By Lael Montgomery | Community Voice | Collins The Brand

The Zachary School System has a problem, and it is not just what happened on that bus.

It is what happened after.

When a serious incident involving students reaches the point where board members are saying they first heard about it from a news article, the public has every right to ask one simple question:

Who knew, and why didn’t they tell everybody else?

Dr. Crystal London said she and other members of the Zachary School Board were not informed about the bus incident and that The Advocate article was their first time hearing about it.

That is not a small detail. That is the detail.

Because if elected school board members are being left in the dark, what do parents think is happening to them?

Zachary loves to sell itself as the polished school system. The model district. The place everybody wants to move for. But behind the clean branding, the press releases, and the carefully worded statements, something is not adding up.

And now here we go again.

Lying and hiding.

Instead of clear answers, the public gets another round of silence, spin, and damage control. Instead of accountability, somebody is likely hoping this fades before the next meeting, the next headline, or the next angry parent shows up demanding the truth.

That is how systems protect themselves. They do not always fix the problem. Sometimes they bury it, soften it, and wait for people to calm down.

But children were involved. Families deserve answers. Board members deserve full information. And the community deserves more than silence dressed up as professionalism.

Zachary cannot keep asking for trust while hiding the truth.

That math does not add up.