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Name DOE Number District Certification Type Validity Period
Smiley, Ron Warren 799937 Hillsborough Educational Leadership, (all Levels) Professional 7/1/2006 - 6/30/2011
Smiley, Ron Warren 799937 Hillsborough Elementary Education, (grades K - 6) Professional 7/1/2006 - 6/30/2011
Smiley, Ron Warren 799937 Hillsborough English To Speakers Of Other Languages (esol), Endorsement Professional 7/1/2006 - 6/30/2011
Smiley, Ron Warren 799937 Hillsborough Varying Exceptionalities, (grades K - 12) Professional 7/1/2006 - 6/30/2011
Ron, what is your official function in the ESE area? Is it scampering to the Ybor Police Station to rat out teacher Goader, who needed help dealing with two obstreperous special-needs children at the same time, or would it better be to give him the instructions he didn't get when the principal or some obtuse creatures in the boss hierarchy threw him into the assignment with no preparation?
Aren’t you ashamed of yourself, Ron, for being such a collaborator in the vile effort of Ms. Elia to fire Goader because he has a blog critical of the schools?
Instead of going to police to rat out a teacher, you should have been reviewing your grammar primer. The commas after "Leadership" and
"Education" are superfluous. The parentheses replace them. The lower-case “all” gets a capital. “Of “ should be lower case. I believe "esl" gets caps: ESL.
I may have to report you to the Ybor constabulary for mauling the English language.
See me in my office after class.
Lee Drury De Cesare
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The way you describe Elia sounds exactly the way Ellyn Smith is at Alafia. Maybe that is why Smith thinks it is ok to behave the way she does. How can her boss (ELia) get rid of her if she behaves the same way? This has been one of the most disheartening experiences I have ever had as a parent and as a person. To experience the level of deceit that exists in HCPS right now is a tragedy. If you could have seen the meeting with Elia at Alafia, you would have been proud. Parents were yelling and telling her how she was directly responsible for what had happened at our school. Parents called out Sykes and Otero and sited many examples of all of their shortcomings. Elia lost her train of thought several times and was without answers and words most times. It was a joke. We cannot figure out how to get Smith out but the bigger picture causes even more concern for those of us who are willing to see it. Some want to remain blind to it.
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When their children are threatened, even the most timid parent will rise on his or her hindlegs and roar. God bless these parents. The teachers should take a book from their courage. lee
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Elia definitely could teach you how to curse. When she berates one of her ROSSAC people in the privacy of her office she drops the F bomb right and left. The woman would make any sailor blush.
She's not the type to invite to an elegant dinner.
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Posted by Anonymous to Lee Drury De Cesare's Casting-Room Couch at 6:00 PM
Good lord. I hoped the rumors of her cussing were inaccurate. A mullet hair do and now cursing: this is too much to bear. lee
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Anonymous has left a new comment on your post "Drip, Drip, Drip, Drip, Drip, Drip, Drip, Drip, Dr...":
I was watching a tv show on Animal Planet called "It's the dog or me" (or something like that). It is like the Dog Whisperer except that it is a British woman who teaches people how to retrain their unruly dogs.
She says, "The best leaders rule without force!" and she knows her stuff. She goes into a household that is in disarray because the owners have not done the right thing to train their dogs. She leaves with the dog behaving and the people knowing how to take care of their dog so he/she doesn't act up.
Elia has never learned this rule that the best leaders rule without force. It is too bad. She has spent her whole career kicking those underneath her as she climbed to the top so her leadership and cursing out employees in her office as if she were a drunken sailor keep the status quo of leading by intimidation alive in that ROSSAC building.
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This a on-the-mark analogy of Elia’s failing as a leader. I think her problem is psychological. She must be desperate somewhere in the hidden corners of her psyche. Something in her childhood went badly wrong. It has left scars, and she acts them out in her ROSSAC cave to ameliorate them. The reason Claggart is so chilling in Billy Budd is that we don’t know his motives for punishing Billy.
If we knew Ms. Elia’s child, she would be a more sympathetic character but not a leader.
You are not the first person who has said Ms. Elia curses out people in her office. My parents wouldn’t let us children curse, so I am trying to catch up my old age in the ability to use expletives. I have made a little progress. My area of expertise is language; expletives are part of it and must be mastered for rhetorical competence. Maybe I should ask Ms. Elia to give me a few lessons.
All that anger can’t be good for her mind and body. I understand that Ms. Elia has had ovarian cancer, that she has a blind son, and has a daughter who is not beguiling. I have heard nothing about her husband except that he makes donations to the people who run for office who are Elia plants. He needs to lose some weight if his pictures are accurate. The gentleman is a walking heart attack. I doubt widowhood will improve Ms. Elia’s leadership style.
My observation says that leaders of anything—schools or nations—too often use the power of their position to work out psychological problems that dog them. Look at Bush’s almost ruining the country by trying to outdo his father in an Oedipal presidency.
I saw a news clip the other day of Obama holding his mother-in-law’s hand. I am sure she reminds him of “Peep,” the grandmother who raised him for much of his young life. I thought that tableaux was a good sign for the country. Things will right themselves under this brilliant granny-handholding man’s leadership.
My husband just came in to tell me that General Motors is at five and a half. I bought some shares at a dollar fifty the other day. I am back in the market after swearing off for a while.
Bush leaves on January 20th. Bad leaders don’t last forever. This is true of Elia too. Although don’t expect this feckless board to vote her out. Every one of them should depart with Ms. Elia and check into a convert to fast and pray for forgiveness for violating the public trust of the citizens and for abusing the teachers and students in their lousy stewardship by rubberstamping Elia.
C: all members of board, administration, and Ms. Elia: may she cut back on the expletives today.
lee
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The way you describe Elia sounds exactly the way Ellyn Smith is at Alafia. Maybe that is why Smith thinks it is ok to behave the way she does. How can her boss (ELia) get rid of her if she behaves the same way? This has been one of the most disheartening experiences I have ever had as a parent and as a person. To experience the level of deceit that exists in HCPS right now is a tragedy. If you could have seen the meeting with Elia at Alafia, you would have been proud. Parents were yelling and telling her how she was directly responsible for what had happened at our school. Parents called out Sykes and Otero and sited many examples of all of their shortcomings. Elia lost her train of thought several times and was without answers and words most times. It was a joke. We cannot figure out how to get Smith out but the bigger picture causes even more concern for those of us who are willing to see it. Some want to remain blind to it.
Elia definitely could teach you how to curse. When she berates one of her ROSSAC people in the privacy of her office she drops the F bomb right and left. The woman would make any sailor blush.
She's not the type to invite to an elegant dinner.
I know you're upset that Smiley mauls the language, but be consistent. Tell Thomas Vaughan to use some apostrophes now an then.
[A mullet hair do and now cursing: this is too much to bear. lee]
Oh, and a complete sentence precedes a colon. Review your grammar primer.
To the Alafia parent: this is probably why Elia won't get rid of that principal. They probably know each other well, and Elia probably coached her how to be. So she can't fire someone who followed her directions and advice about being a principal. There is a culture of sadism at the ROSSAC building. They all fled the classroom, because they could not handle the students, and they sit in their ivory tower telling teachers how to teach, when they couldn't hack it themselves, and they stab each other in the backs. It must be worse than hell to work in the ROSSAC building.
Lee you need to clear the cob webs. Out of one side of your mouth you berate Elia for leading by force. From the other side you berate April for taking a behind the scenes approach (i.e. Not leading by force).
You can't have it both ways. Well actually I guess you can, but it reveals your hypocrisy and demeans you.
I think your problem with April is that she is independent and more importantly she is not your puppet. Stop being a petulant old fart and back her up would you. Set your bruised ego aside for the greater good.
Watch for some interesting developments with Ellyn Smith at Alafia this week. As I understand it, April and Jeniffer coordinated some resolution behind the scenes (Without having to act like raving lunatics as you would have them do). If this is true, it would paint April in a very different light than you try to cast her. It would reveal her as a shrewd and powerful leader who is not leading by force.
I could say something nice about Jeniffer too I suppose, but I won't because I don't like her.
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