LeBron James-backed I Promise School supporters say Akron officials' test-score review was 'detrimental'

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The LeBron James-backed I Promise School received support at a meeting in Akron, Ohio, Monday night after the school was said to have delivered "discouraging" student test results.

Victoria McGee, the senior director of the LeBron James Family Foundation and the I Promise School Family Resource Center, was among those who spoke up for comment and criticized the Akron Public Schools board and called officials’ actions "detrimental" to the student body.

"Your actions degraded every Akron Public Schools educator that has ever taught the current and past I Promise students that you have singled out locally and nationally," McGee said, via the Akron Beacon Journal. "Absolutely, it was hurtful to the LeBron James Family Foundation, but more importantly, detrimental to our students."

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The flag of the new I Promise School on July 30, 2018 in Akron, Ohio. ( Jason Miller/Getty Images)

McGee equated the board’s discussion with "bullying" and said it was doing damage to students who were already at a disadvantage.

School board president Derrick Hall pushed back on the criticism.

"If you go back and you actually watch the board meeting, nobody on this board, no speaker or presenter made any comments that any rational person would call belittling, bullying or anything of that nature," Hall said.

He added there were some who were twisting the officials’ words to create "their own self-serving narratives."

The issue stemmed from a public meeting last month, when it was revealed that this fall’s class of I Promise School eighth graders had not passed a state math exam since they were in the third