A concerned dad in Tennessee confronted Keith Ervin, the Washington County school board member who called a female student “hot” during a public meeting on April 2

The confrontation happened during an April 8 emergency meeting, during which the board voted to censure Ervin

Ervin, who was previously censured in 2009 for making a sexual gesture, defended his comment, claiming that “hot” referred to the student being “on a roll” with her questions

A concerned dad in Tennessee confronted a school board member who called a female student “hot” during a recent public meeting.

Less than a week after Washington County school board member Keith Ervin referred to the teenager as “hot” during a livestreamed meeting on Thursday, April 2, the Washington County Board of Education held an emergency meeting to discuss the remark on Wednesday, April 8.

At the April 2 meeting, an unidentified female David Crockett High School student shared some of her thoughts, after which Ervin touched her and asked, “God, you’re hot, you know that? Where do you go to school at?”

At the latest meeting, the school board voted to censure Ervin, who was previously censured in 2009 for making a “lewd, juvenile gesture of a sexual nature” during a classroom discussion, per records obtained by NBC affiliate WSMV.

Before the vote, several community members confronted Ervin and the rest of the school board — including a dad whose remarks about the situation went viral on social media.

After he was informed that he was not allowed to formally ask the board a question during the emergency meeting, the dad said, “Well, I’m asking a question. You don’t have to answer. But let’s just say if you were really offended by that, just raise your hand. If it doesn’t offend you, keep your hand down.”

When none of the board members lifted a hand, he continued, “Do you see what I’m saying here, guys? How would you like your kid talked to like that?”

“We have to worry about our kids getting shot up in schools and all this other stuff, right? But what we don’t need to be worrying about is the comments of a man to a minor. Would you want your kid around that guy without a camera around? I wouldn’t,” he said, as community members at the meeting clapped in agreement.

“And I’m astonished by every single person here, and I’m gonna tell you straight up that if this guy still has a job here soon, I’m going to do whatever I can to raise as much money as I can to get every single one of y’all out of here. No joke,” he said, inciting more claps and comments of agreement from attendees.

Referring to the other concerned community members, he continued, “And the rest of them is with me. We gon’ get down here every meeting and everything. That’s unacceptable, man.”

The concerned father then turned his attention to Ervin directly: “And look at your face — you don’t even care. This is your community that you’re supposed to be serving. Look at the distraction. You put us on the map — nationally, embarrassed us. And you don’t even have the backbone just to walk off, dude.”

“It's sad that you're still here. It really is,” he later added, before stating, “When I was growing up, if somebody would have said something like that — accident or not — you're gone.”

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Other concerned community members also spoke out, including one who told Ervin, “If that had been a male student next to you, you wouldn’t have done that.”

Ervin has since defended his remarks during the April 8 emergency meeting about them, claiming in a statement that by “hot,” he meant that the girl was “on a roll” due to her questions during the meeting.

“Obviously, I’ve seen the clip. Look, I get it, if that’s all you’re seeing, I understand why people are reacting the way they are. But that’s not the full conversation, not even close,” said Ervin, adding that the student “was asking good questions, she was engaged, she handled herself well, especially right before the clip in the conversation with the superintendent on hot topics.”

“When I mentioned she was hot, I meant she was on a roll. It was nothing to do with her appearance,” he said, adding that “when you take a couple of seconds out of a two-hour meeting, it can change how everything sounds. And honestly, it doesn’t give her the credit that she deserves.”

“I am sorry that this has overshadowed what would have been a bright moment for one of our students,” Ervin said.

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