No, no, not another public official in trouble with the law. It’s just Guilford County Board of Education member Denna Hayes’ way of explaining why she’s not running for another term:

..Hayes disclosed her plans to not seek another term on the Guilford County Board of Education after her current term ends in 2014. Instead, she wants to focus on her community organizing work.

“I am going to spend the next four years being convicted about getting to bottom of what ails this district,” said Hayes, who was first elected to District 8 in 2002 and ran unopposed last year. “I’ve seen enough.”

Note that one commenter asks N&R education reporter Morgan Glover what exactly what Hayes meant; Glover says that’s just what she wrote down, though she invites Hayes to clarify her comment.

I assume Hayes’ comment means she’s going to stick to her ‘firm and fixed belief” that there are racial disparities in the schools. However, another definition of the verb ‘convict’ is ‘to impress with a sense of guilt.’ She’s sure done plenty of that during her nine years on the board, never passing on a chance to race bait on most any issue confronting the school system.