Still, Horace Humphries, a retired career military man who oversaw Normandy High's Air Force ROTC program for seven years until his contract was not renewed in 2000, says he's less than happy with the outcome. Humphries had hoped his lawsuit might prompt the school district to rethink Principal Alvin Smith's employment. That hasn't happened. Nobody has really cared about what is happening to those little girls, and that is my biggest concern.
Nobody cares about what is happening to the kids.
Bartman concluded that his office had no legal authority to investigate, but he forwarded the letter to Normandy Superintendent Raymond Armstrong, who hired a law firm to look into the letter's claims. During a two-week period, a paralegal made some inquiries but says she was unable to substantiate any of the most recent claims involving teenage students after her phone calls to the girls' homes went unreturned. She did not investigate the earlier accusations involving the pregnant student and the drug abuse. But those disclosures apparently did not trouble his employers. A retired U.S. Air Force colonel who built Normandy's ROTC program from scratch, he says other teachers began telling him that Smith suspected him of writing the letter, though Humphries flatly denies doing so.