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 a board meeting, 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 superintendent.

· Trashing the First Amendment: 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; he once told a roomful of teachers when he was chair at a board meeting that their clapping for a colleague who spoke at the mike violated Roberts Rules.

· Dr. Lamb once screamed at me at Tiger Bay
that he didn’t care what I thought and that he did not want to hear from me ever again 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.

· Paying no attention to stealing from the schools: Dr. Lamb sat on the board dais a potted plant and paid not whit of attention to the Erwin scandal 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 the supervisor McClelland’s handing out crooked bids to chums, awarding bids to contractors who built shoddy schools that leaked and whose walls cracked, allowing employees in the grounds department, including supervisor McClelland, to take 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