Longview ISD superintendent's retirement planning business banned
LONGVIEW -- Since taking the top job in Longview ISD, Superintendent James Wilcox has had a side business selling what he calls retirement planning to educators. As of this week, however, he and his representatives won't be peddling their products on Longview ISD campuses.
After representatives from Primerica — a company some say is essentially a pyramid scheme — made their pitch Oct. 22 at Longview High School, the district's school board directed Wilcox to "not allow any meetings of this type on any LISD property in that future," Wilcox said last week.
"That will be fully complied with in the future," he said.
A portion of the district's employee policy manual seems to prohibit such an on-campus sales pitch, but Longview ISD board President Chris Mack said last week he didn't see anything wrong with the company's services being sold on district property. The manual, however, prohibits employees from using their position with the district "to attempt to sell products or services."
The board made its decision, Mack said, not because of its policy but after hearing an uproar from the community.
[font color=330099]I wonder how many employees were intimidated into participating in the plan and if the Ponzi scheme will collapse now that the rug has been pulled out?[/font]
