Can You Top This?

Mr. Schmidt is Susan Valdes's opponent.

Mr. Schmidt:

The phone logs of your opponent were a good catch, but I would have been more impressed if you castigated her and the other board members for tolerating the crony hire of Ms. Kipley’s husband for a job with a number of qualified candidates whereas he is not qualified.

The crony hiring of all the administrators and the finding of jobs for their no-talent relatives in the system is a more serious blow to the school system than a board member’s questionable sunshine violation.

The IQ level of the ROSSAC inhabitants will soon be in the lower quartile. Dumb people don’t make good managers. They lack the brain power to be.

lee

Educator of the Year and Other News from the Funny Papers

I forgot to include in the Kappa Delta Pi complaint about Dr. Lamb’s choice as “Educator of the Year” that a blog (I think The Wall) reported Lamb didn’t know what school he is was at for the graduation ceremony. Some educator of the year.

I have pondered why the people on the podium run for public office at all. I believe it comes down to the social and political éclat of gadding about town pretending to be the benefactors of education and the receiving of an endless stream of these education-bureaucracy hyped encomiums for their imaginary contributions to the world of education such as this one from the national education association Ki Delta Pi.

I suggest that we who know the score should alert the national chapters of these organizations to let the top people know the facts on the ground of what goes on in the school system.

All Lamb does is sit on the podium, Buddha in repose and rubberstamper of the Consent Agenda.

The Consent Agenda exists as locus of all the toxic stuff Elia hides in it to whiz past the board unexamined. That the board acquiesces and does not perform its duty to work for the public, the students, and the teachers, not for Ms. Elia, exposes the failure of all board members to do their jobs for the good of education. The board's flaccid performance models a disenfranchisement of the high ideals of education.

Any reasonably alert board member interested in the education of the county’s children instead of their own tinsel la gloire would demand that the items come off the agenda for discussion.

A current item that cries out for scrutiny is the hiring of Mr. Linda Kipley for a job he is not qualified for and which many of the rejected 18 other applicants are qualified for. The Kipleys as a pair will add to the low IQ quotient of the ROSSAC crony pool that comes from the board's collusion with long-time crony hiring practices.

Ms. Kipley has a home-ec degree. Home-ec degrees went out in the Pleistocene Era. No reputable college or university gives home-ec degrees any more. Mr. Linda Kipley has no degree at all but lists on his application that he expects to graduate from USF in 2010. He may as well have projected that he would be a Nobel Laureate in 2010 in addition. The board's lack of vigilance in enacting their equal-opportunity mantra is culpable when one considers the troop of cronies, buddies, and family members that have hunkered down for a fat retirement in ROSSAC.

Given the ethics of the crony hiring protocols, that projected USF degree for Mr. Linda Kipley will be superfluous since he will have by 2010 worked himself up through the ranks to superintendent because the board will have waived his requirement for any degree at all to qualifiy for the superintendency just as its addlepated members waived Ms. Elia’s need for PH.D. and a modicum of experience not to mention overlooking her inability to handle grammar and punctuation at a 10^th-grade level.

Lee Drury De Cesare LeeDruryDeCesaresCasting-RoomCouch.blogspot.com

C: All Board Members

From: lee [tdecesar@tampabay.rr.com]

Sent: Wednesday, May 14, 2008 10:23 AM

Subject: FW: monkeybiz

Kappa Delta Pi
3707 Woodview Trace
Indianapolis, IN 46268-1158
May 14, 2008

Dear National Kappa Delta Pi:

The local chapter of your organization has named School Board Member Jack Lamb as Educator of the Year.

Good lord. If Dr. Lamb is Educator of the year, Mickey Mouse mapped the human genome.

To give you some idea of Dr. Lamb’s ethics, board deportment, responsiveness to citizen complaints that the First Amendment obliges elected officials to hearken to, and indifference to the stealing of school funds, I cite the following:

· Ethics: Dr. Lamb used school-board stationery and school-board office help to write a letter to Mayor Iorio asking her to abate his condo’s water bill. When the reporters caught him, he lied about the deed until backed into a corner; when a citizen rebuked him for this grubby gesture in the board room, he screamed at the citizen and told her she should stay at home.

· Board Deportment: Dr. Lamb rubberstamps such administration outrages as no-bid contracts, the superintendent’s hiring ill-qualified buddies for bloated-salary administrative jobs, and retaining a lawyer for 37 years who got his job by good-ol-boy mutual back scratching with the then-resident superintendent, Earl the Pearl Lennard, the most profoundly mediocre man in Hillsborough County.

· The slothful fellow condones citizens’ abridgement of free speech by sitting stone-faced on the podium when the chair insults citizens and lets them know the board does not want any public comment; le Lamb once admonished a roomful of teachers when he chaired a board meeting that the teachers' clapping for a colleague who spoke at the mike that the clapping violated Roberts Rules.

· Dr. Lamb once screamed at me that he didn’t care what I thought and that he did not want to hear from me ever again at a Tiger Bay luncheon when I told him that I was offended that he and other board member raised their salaries for their part-time job to eight thousand dollars more than the beginning teachers make.

· Dr. Lamb sat on the board dais a potted plant and paid not a whit of attention to the Erwin-reported outrages in which administrator Doug Erwin tried for four years to get the board and administration to stop criminality on school grounds: it included theft in the grounds department of such things as three tractors and a steady stream of supplies to fence; grounds supervisor McClelland’s handing out crooked bids to chums; the board’s awarding bids to contractors who built shoddy schools with ubiquitous water intrusion, leaking roofs, and cracking walls, not to mention its tolerating employees in the grounds department, including supervisor McClelland, who took time off work without docking their pay.

· If Dr. Lamb is the best that the local chapter can find to laud as “Educator of the Year,” the chapter must be bereft of talent.

Please send this missive to the local chapter. Its Web page has no local contact information. That’s smart marketing. Such gesture is resonant of why the chapter voted Dr. Lamb Educator of the Year.

Lee Drury De Cesare

15316 Gulf Blvd. 802

Madeira Beach, FL

C: all members of the school board

Thank you, Ms. Snodgrass. Lee de Cesare

From: Snodgress, Faye [mailto:Faye@kdp.org]
Sent: Monday, May 26, 2008 11:31 PM
To: tdecesar@tampabay.rr.com
Subject: Your correspondence to Kappa Delta Pi

Mr. Lee Drury De Cesare,

Thank you for your correspondence concerning Dr. Lamb and the Tampa Bay Alumni Chapter of KDP. I have forwarded your concerns to Earl Hall, counselor of the chapter.

If I can be of any further assistance to you, please let me know.

Best wishes,

Faye Snodgress, CAE

Executive Director

Kappa Delta Pi

800-284-3167

www.kdp.org