Answer to the reader about the 3-minute restriction of the board on public speakers:

The three-minute rule would be zero minutes if the board had its way. The board does not want to hear from citizens.

When board members campaign, they are effusive in their promise to consult with citizens when they are elected.

Once they get on the dais, however, they become regal and don't want to hear from us peasants. They believe they have ascended to the purple. They want us unwashed citizens to leave them alone in their ROSSAC bubble, where they have motivational speakers carted in to cheer them with visions of their eternal influence on the schools and the community because of the potency of their personalities, impeccable intentions, and beneficent smiles on the peasants though the TV lens. I have a public-information request in to find out how much the board bilked the taxpayers for their motivational falderol romper-room amusement.

I think the reason why not one of the other board members has not intervened with Pole Girl Falliero's bashing me and the First Amendment at the podium and having the Jolly Green Giant security behemoth kick me out is that the board all agrees with Polegirl Falliero.

The board doesn't to hear from people, especially me. They wish that I would just die and leave them to their school-board playpen.

You notice the provision in Chair Pole Girl's rigmarole at the beginning of the meeting about people's not being able to say anything critical of anybody translates into people can only bow down and praise the board when they come to the mike.

Board members mistake their rambling verbiage for statesmanlike language, but it serves only to display their stupidity. They think that if on the dais they use the subjunctive mood (not that one could define it to save his or her life) and prissy circumlocutions, that such is the language of high diplomacy.

They don't discuss anything on dais that would let the public in on the racket they are running and funneling past the public on the consent agenda; the consent agenda is a group cover-up of what's happening behind the Wizard-of-Oz curtain. It has rolled on for years, so that explains why the board and administration is so startled to have anybody want to know what is on the consent agenda.

They think that they are the only elevated beings savvy enough to understand the arcana of high-diplomacy moves such as no-bid contracts for former administrator buddies of Elia and no-advertised hires of home-ec savants, early childhood sages, and kindergarten deep thinkers for jobs in the ROSSAC bunker that pay $130,000 or more. These meagre credentials, of course, don't matter if the holders of them worship Elia and bow down at her altar.

ROSSAC personnel including the board all need a series of electro-shock therapy to reallign their synapses to coincide with reality and not their delusions of grandeur.

Remember that Dr. Johnson said, "Let me hear the man speak that I may know his mind." That goes double for the school board. The magic half- moon dais is the scene of almost nonstop stupidity revealed by the board logorrhea. And board members love to hear themselves talk better than a pig loves mud.

The board led by Chair Falliero bashes free speech as if the board were dictators in a banana republic. And Tom Gonzalez sits there, paring his nails, and does not mention that his clients are stepping on the Constitution, the one they took an oath of office to protect.

These are the specimens that lead the schools. I don't think they are educable. The voters must replace them. I intend to devote myself to providing the information they need about this board to make the decision of whether they want to keep such a crew as guardians of their children's wellbeing in the school system. lee

Help us, Jesus. Better yet, help us Beelzebub. lee