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While the basketball team was attending an out-of-town camp, the two coaches from Tishomingo (Okla.) High School decided they needed to go on a beer run. The only vehicle at hand: the school bus. They used it — and were fired. Locals are outraged, but school officials aren’t doing much else about it. “Our repeated phone calls to superintendent Kevin Duncan have not been returned,” says the local TV station. That’s probably because Duncan is already busy with another scandal: his wife, Shelley, the school’s “cheer coach” and special education teacher, was arrested at school and charged with having an “inappropriate relationship” with a 14-year-old boy. Parents are demanding the school board do ...something, especially since Mrs. Duncan is still listed as a school employee, even though her teaching license has been revoked by the state. “We’re all upset just that no one will talk about it,” said one parent. “Apathy runs rampant here. No one wants to get involved, no one wants to talk. Everyone’s scared of something, but I don’t know what.” And with that, the school board adjourned — for a month. (RC/KXII Sherman) ...I can only tell her what the politicians aren’t scared of: the voters.