Ms. Cobbe: I request the following as public information:


1. A form for or a description of the appeal process for a Professional Standards decision with which I disagree;


2. A description of the Spring program now planned for downloading on the teachers; how much does it cost? Who is the local corporate contact? Who is the administrator in charge of the program?


3. What did the taxpayers pay for the motivational speaker that the board members hired for a seminar recently?


4. What is the ratiionale--legal or administrative--that allows Tom Gallagher to keep his personnel files while all other school employees are housed in the ROSSAC archives? If administrative, could I have a copy of the document granting this unusual privilege to Mr. Gonzalez? If Mr. Gonzalez has described this privilege arrogated to himself, could I have a copy of that statement?


5. The written description of the duties of the chair of the board; a copy of the litany of things a citizen cannot say before the board under penalty of getting kicked out;


6. I want to review the file with the 35 resumes for the job recently awarded to Dr. Pansy I-Have-Forgot-the-Last-Name. I want to see the job description and pay scale. I will come in early on the 19th to see this file in your office. I will pay my late printing fees then.


7. What does the administration policy manual say about a teacher's duties as an employee in the school system as opposed to a teacher's privileges as a citizen? How does the administration and board define these two roles of its teacher-workers? For example, in the Professional Standards case that Ms. Kipley and Ms. Elia mounted against Bart Birdsall, his emails from his home could not be attributed to his school work duties because they were personal emails from his home and were thus a citizen's privilege. So Ms. Elia and Ms. Kipley had to manufacture a trifle for Bart inside the email system of the school to trap him as a violator of the rule not to use the school emails for private purposes. This distinction between teacher as worker and teacher as citizen is so important that the administration or board must have commentary on it in policy manuals. Perhaps the lawyer can locate it for you. Or maybe there is a body--though not large, one would think--that deals with this question of professional responsibilities of the teachers versus a teacher's private rights.

Thank you.
lee