'david.steele@sdhc.k12'; 'Marc.Hutek@sdhc.k12.fl.us'; 'john.hilderbrand@sdhc.k12.fl.us'; 'linda.cobbe@sdhc.k12.fl.us'; 'pmanteiga@lagacetanewspaper.com'; 'Gene''linda.cobbe@sdhc.k12.fl.us'; 'doretha.edgecomb@sdhc.k12.fl.us'; 'candy.olson@sdhc.k12.fl.us'; 'carol.curdell@sdhc.k12.fl.us'; 'jennifer.faliero@sdhc.k12.fl.us'; 'jack.lamb@sdhc.k12.fl.us'; 'susan.valdes@sdhc.k12.fl.us'; 'april.griffin@sdhc.k12.fl.us'; 'stein@sptimes.com'; 'tobin@sptimes.com'; 'hooper@sptimes.com'; 'mbrown@tampatribune.com'; 'ptash@sptimes.com'; 'larsen@tampatribune.com'; 'steveotto@tampatribune.com'; 'palmer@tampatribune.com'

School Employees David Steele, Marc Hutek, John Hilderbrand:

Marilyn Brown, Tampa Tribune, quotes you in the article below as boosters of the new program to dummy down grades in the public schools.

To put your recommendation for grade inflation in context, may I have as public information these data: your terminal degree, in what subject, from what institution, and whether you were a member of Phi Beta Kappa if your institution were prestigious enough to have a chapter?

Could you add as well whether management consulted the teachers at your schools in this radical dilution of grades, or did Ms. Elia order you to just impose it on the teachers without consultation from them? Is, in your opinion, this dummying-down scheme to make Ms. Elia's record look better so that she can extract more "performance" money from the taxpayers than her already bloated salary of $300,000 represents?

Ms. Brown quotes you, Mr. Hutek, as saying this: "It's known," he said. "That's why so many kids are so into exempting their exams." What does this bizarre construction mean in standard English, Principal Hutek? And is this an example of your customary method of expressing yourself?

I will post your responses on www.leedrurydecesarescasting-roomcouch.blogspot for people's edification about how the school system runs.

Please send the answers to this request for public information to Linda Cobbe of the public-affairs office so that she can convey them to this citizen.

Thank you.

lee drury de cesare