On his Facebook page, Brian Becker posted the contents of the letter"
Becker's response:
The siory was addressed today in the Cape Girardeau Southeast Missourian:
"I certainly wish that somebody from the school would have called and said, 'Hey, are you saying these things about our superintendent?' and I would have said, 'Absolutely not,'" Becker said. "Why that phone call was never made, I don't know.
"It is certainly a lie I spoke those things or that I spoke them with malice," Becker said. "I haven't said anything with malice or with a reckless disregard for veracity. We disagree with how things were handled this summer, and I thought it was over and then I got this letter."
Becker also said he was under the impression school board members knew Porter planned to speak to a lawyer, but not that a letter would be drafted.
(Betsy, the lawyer who wrote the letter) Helfrich emphasized in a later phone interview the district has no plans to take further action since sending the letter earlier in the month.
"Since then, it's died down, and we're just trying to keep focusing on educating the kids," she said. "We're hoping to move forward. I don't think the school will take any legal action."
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