The Record on Joe Miller
IT’S HARD ENOUGH TO BE A KID THESE DAYS.
IT’S EVEN HARDER WHEN YOUR TEACHER IS JOE MILLER.
His own school district disciplined him for how he treated students. His own coaching evaluations documented a temper problem, year after year. Read the record below.
THE LETTERS ARE PUBLIC RECORD. READ THEM YOURSELF.
What’s in the Record
WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW.
Voters deserve to know the truth about Joe Miller, drawn from his own district’s signed records.
- His official coaching evaluation says he “erupt[ed]” for the third straight season and that he “struggles with accountability.”
- His school district formally disciplined him for demeaning remarks about female students, finding he created a “hostile and offensive environment” based on gender.
- He now campaigns as a champion of schools and kids, while his own record, in his own district’s words, tells a different story.
Parents deserve to know who is standing in front of their kids.
Chapter One
Joe Miller spent years in our local schools as a golf coach. In that role, the people who supervised him wrote down the same thing, year after year: when something doesn’t go his way, he loses his temper and refuses to take accountability.
At a 2009 tournament, multiple accounts say Miller repeatedly called the PGA professional running the event “an idiot” in front of coaches and players. Other coaches described the confrontation as “pre-meditated and planned.” His official evaluation flagged the outburst as an “embarrassing situation for the school district” and said he “struggles with accountability” and “always passes the blame to others.”
Firelands Local Schools, Head Coach Evaluation
"...erupt[ed]... for the third straight season."
"An embarrassing situation for the school district."
"Struggles with accountability" and "always passes the blame to others."
[1]Firelands Local Schools, Joseph Miller Head Coach Evaluation and related incident correspondence, Sept. to Oct. 2009.
Chapter Two
The Firelands School District formally disciplined Miller for what he said to students in class. The district’s signed findings state that he called girls who dance a certain way “whores” and said they were painted with “the same slutty brush,” and that he didn’t want his foreign exchange student seeing “all the slutty girls from Firelands.”
The district concluded he created a “hostile and offensive environment,” disparaged students “based on gender,” and violated the state’s educator conduct code. Miller was removed as student council advisor. The district warned him that another incident could get him fired.
Firelands Local School District, Findings of Fact, Sept. 30, 2014
"An intimidating, hostile, and offensive environment."
"...to disparage a student based on gender."
"The Firelands girls were wh*res... painted with the same slutty brush."
[2]Firelands Local School District, Progressive Discipline Disposition re: Joe Miller, Sept. 30, 2014 (Supt. Robert F. Hill).
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WERE YOU AT FIRELANDS WHILE JOE MILLER WAS TEACHING THERE?
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