Former teacher, guidance counselor face charges
Former Clinton High School assistant baseball coach and teacher Clay Turpin and former guidance counselor Carrie Jenkins face charges of destruction/tampering with government records related to altering student grades.
Anderson County Sheriff’s Office Captain Shain Vowell told The Courier News that Turpin went to the Anderson County Detention Facility on Thursday, May 8. With his $100,000 bail paid, however, he left the following day.
His 24 tampering/destruction of government records charges are connected to a grade-altering scandal, which caused the school system to fire Turpin on May 8, 2024.
Anderson County Schools had already done an internal investigation, and Turpin admitted to going through the grades of students in a credit-recovery program and changing them to be above 60.
He claimed that “others were doing it and aware of it … if this is wrong somebody would stop us doing it.”
Jenkins faces two charges of destruction/tampering with government records.
She turned herself in on May 13 at 5:03 p.m. and made a $40,000 bond through Tennessee Bonding Co.
