Fayette to replace teacher who resigned

The Fayette County Board of Education will vote on Sept. 18 to name a replacement for a Whitewater High School teacher who resigned amid controversy in August.

Joshua “J.D.” Hitson, who taught ninth-grade English, submitted his resignation on Aug. 17 after a group called Atlanta Antifascists released a 180-page dossier calling him an “alt-right racist agitator” and asking the school to take action.

Hitson’s resignation was accepted on Aug. 21, and the county says it “cannot comment further” on a personnel issue. However, former Whitewater principal Roy Rabold said in a letter to The Citizen newspaper that he “never had a complaint about [Hitson’s] teaching.”