Off with His Head! Everything We Feared Is True About Administration and Board Fascists Confirmed

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From: twinkobie [mailto:tdecesar@tampabay.rr.com]
Sent: Thursday, December 11, 2008 12:37 PM
To: tdecesar@tampabay.rr.com
Subject: [Lee Drury De Cesare's Casting-Room Couch] 12/11/2008 09:02:00 AM

Mr. Tabor:

The Wall blog publisher from her undisclosed location alerted me to your post on free speech and the school board.

You analyzed the bizarre request of Hillsborough County school board member Jennifer Falliero that the Times monitor round the clock and control the blogs that have reported on, among other things, the adultery initiated by her with Board Public Affairs head Marc Hart that ended his marriage, psychologically and financially savaged his two young children, and caused the panicked board and administration to fire Hart on the cooked-up charge of alcoholism.

Hart had a drinking problem for years; if the administration were enforcing alcoholism standards, its quidnuncs would have fired Hart long before. This is standard blind-leading-the-blind administration Keystone Cops protocol: logic gets short shrift in any decision it makes. That’s what comes of having a preponderance of C and D students on the administration rolls with Romper-room degrees from third-tier colleges.

I believe the Smith woman who was principal of Alafia may have been an Elia patronage appointment since I read in the Alafia blog that Elia and her hefty spouse are friends with Smith and her spouse. These patronage networks are a sine qua non for the Hillsborough County administration.

I doubt the two board operatives Falliero and Griffin gave a damn about the Alafia school, its students, and its parents. This board and administration are all for one and one for all if it’s the board and administration are concerned. They don’t want the public to catch on to the racket they are running on the public dime.

I shall request a public-information copy of Ms. Falliero’s email to you—I refer to her as Pole Girl in memory of her floozy seduction of poor chump Marc Hart—and perhaps I shall need an state attorney-general opinion to get a copy of her working draft that she took, I am sure, to the Public Affairs office for redaction since she is I judge functionally illiterate except in making grocery lists and notes to herself about meeting some guy at such and such trysting bar.

I believe it should be of some concern to Brandon citizens that Ms. Falliero can’t write the English language without a coach and yet wants to be their school-board representative. She allegedly got a degree from USF, which confirms my belief that the university is not top of the line, a concern of mine since two of my dear grandsons attend there. I may in the end need to write Dr. Genshaft to question how the university can ever get the Phi Beta Kappa chapter that it has begged for long time if it graduates specimens like Pole Girl Falliero without the ability to write a simple letter to the editor without tax-paid help.

Ms. Falliero is concerned about the blogs, and so are other administration and board outfits around the country. My read is that the whole Hillsborough County School Board and administration would like to shut down the community’s school blogs so that they can continue behind the veil of faux executive privilege to run the schools for the board’s and administration’s power-lust and money benefit.


Here’s a piece below on the situation in Texas. The next time you write on this problem of board and administration hostility to free speech—and write you should since without Free Speech, you and the Times are out of business—you might include data on how the Texas case fares. These data might educate the local school boards on the fact that being elected to a school board does not convey the right to abrogate the Constitution.

The Hillsborough County board attorney, T. Gonzalez, Esquire, is not a lick of help on the First Amendment. He allowed Pole Girl Falliero to kick me out of the board room with escort Jolly Green Giant What’s His Name, the head of security, who menaced me with threats of incarceration as we exited, because I had used a person’s name in my address to the board.

I had to summon ACLU to speak up for the First Amendment to the board after this scene. Gonzalez, I intuited, remained unconvinced of the validity of free speech’s Constitutional protection in the badlands of Hillsborough County. The only thing Gonzalez has firm convictions on is that no-bid contracts are just hunky dory since his law firm has had one for 37 years with the board. I have repeatedly recommended his firing and filed a bar ethics charge against him for, among other deficiencies, abusing commas. But it’s hard to get the legal priesthood to repudiate one of its own. F. Lee Bailey died in good standing with the bar after a lifetime of disgracing the tenets of ethical lawyering. Gonzalez, I predict, will exit with full bar honors.


lee

BY TERRENCE O'BRIEN, POSTED NOV 7TH 2007 AT 5:26PM


As you may have noticed, one way to ruffle our feathers is to try and get down with that whole stifling free speech business. We're not big fans of censorship... in fact we can't think of too many people (outside of some fringe religious elements still fighting the culture wars) who are.

Unfortunately, attempting to quiet those whose speech offends you only often helps bring publicity and credibility to their cause, which is exactly what is happening with a certain case in Galveston, Texas.

The Galveston Independent School District (GISD) is attempting to sue Sandra Tetley, the mother of a student in the district, for defamation. Tetley runs the blog GISDWatch.com, which tracks and comments on the activities of the local school board.

The GISD is demanding that Tetley remove 16 postings from the blog, which the District's lawyers have identified as libelous. The postings in question throw around some hefty accusations, charging that Superintendent Lynne Cleveland, the board of trustees, and school administrators lied to the people of the Galveston. They are also being accused of falsifying budget numbers, using their positions for personal gain, and spying on employees, among other things.

Tetley has so far refused to take down any of the postings, citing her right to post her opinion.

In 2002, an appeals court ruled that school districts could not sue for defamation, so the GISD has had to change its strategy a bit. Instead of filing suit on behalf of the district, lawyers are suing on behalf of the individual members of the administration and board. The legal fees will still come out of the district's budget however, meaning the citizens of Galveston are now paying for several personal defamation suits.

We have a feeling this whole thing is going to come crashing down on their heads

From Slashdot and The Galveston County Daily News
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Posted By twinkobie to Lee Drury De Cesare's Casting-Room Couch at 12/11/2008 09:02:00 AM
nds of the Smiths. Apparently Les Griffin and Falliero went undercover to cajole Smith to quit. They wanted to get the board and administration off the hook for Elia’s

BY TERRENCE O'BRIEN, POSTED NOV 7TH 2007 AT 5:26PM


As you may have noticed, one way to ruffle our feathers is to try and get down with that whole stifling free speech business. We're not big fans of censorship... in fact we can't think of too many people (outside of some fringe religious elements still fighting the culture wars) who are.

Unfortunately, attempting to quiet those whose speech offends you only often helps bring publicity and credibility to their cause, which is exactly what is happening with a certain case in Galveston, Texas.

The Galveston Independent School District (GISD) is attempting to sue Sandra Tetley, the mother of a student in the district, for defamation. Tetley runs the blog GISDWatch.com, which tracks and comments on the activities of the local school board.

The GISD is demanding that Tetley remove 16 postings from the blog, which the District's lawyers have identified as libelous. The postings in question throw around some hefty accusations, charging that Superintendent Lynne Cleveland, the board of trustees, and school administrators lied to the people of the Galveston. They are also being accused of falsifying budget numbers, using their positions for personal gain, and spying on employees, among other things.

Tetley has so far refused to take down any of the postings, citing her right to post her opinion.

In 2002, an appeals court ruled that school districts could not sue for defamation, so the GISD has had to change its strategy a bit. Instead of filing suit on behalf of the district, lawyers are suing on behalf of the individual members of the administration and board. The legal fees will still come out of the district's budget however, meaning the citizens of Galveston are now paying for several personal defamation suits.

We have a feeling this whole thing is going to come crashing down on their heads

From Slashdot and The Galveston County Daily News

Sent: Thursday, December 11, 2008 7:02 AM
To: lee de cesare
Subject: Hillsborough is probably compiling a list like this

Retaliation: California School Administrators Develop an "Enemies List"

The Association of California School Administrators (ACSA) represents over 14,000 California school administrators. This group surveyed their membership to identify groups and parents who had been critical of schools.

The School Administrators Association organized the survey responses into a secret Enemies List. This document included the name of the group, and names of parents who were identified with the groups, and name of superintendant. There was a section for comments about the parents' subversive activities - what actions they took that earned them a place on the Enemies List.

Someone leaked the Enemies List to the press.

The Association of California School Administrators was confronted with their Enemies List,. The Association said they were just trying to identify "disruptive" individuals and groups.

A copy that was circulated shows that the report is organized by district, with columns for the name of the superintendent, the name of the group, followed by names of the parents involved in the group. There was also a section for comments describing the activities of the groups and what they did to earn a place on the list.

Targeted parents were guilty of "disruptive" acts that included questioning special education placements, filing complaints with the Office of Civil Rights, and objecting to the way Parent Advisory Groups were set up.

"The existence of such a list confirms the worst fears of many parents - that schools single out parents who advocate for their children. It further suggests an adversarial and repressive attitude towards these parents - a precursor to the retaliation reported by many."

NOTE: If you have questions about the California School Administrator's enemies list, we do not have the list. We suggest that you contact the Sacramento chapter of the Learning Disabilities Association for more information.

Retaliation: A Primer, originally published in the The Observer, a newsletter published by the Sacramento LDA chapter, describes the "Retaliation Triangle" that progresses from Level I of using passive tactics to delay, Level II with the goal of frightening parents, to Level III with overt hostility with the goal of punishing parents.

Revised: 12/18/06

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