The Pigs Continue to Squeal Oink Oink Oink

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Get over the your/you're thing, for Christ's sake The poster clearly suggested that the fee was $340 PER DAY, PER DAY, PER DAY. DOES BLOCK CAPITALS HELP YOU? PER DAY!

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Posted by Anonymous to Lee Drury De Cesare's Casting-Room Couch at 4:44 AM

Dear Huffing-and-Puffing Fulminator:

My goodness, that mere $340 Smith mentoring per day comes out to a measly $1,700 a week. Taxpayers just love to fritter away money that way.

Then there’s the $4500 Eckerd charm school fees for both Smith and her vice principal that Public Affairs cited were on the agenda. And lord knows what else there would have been if Smith had not resigned under pressure. Steve Hegarty. of the Public Affairs office. told the Tribune that other measures were routinely taken to rehabilitate incompetent principals such as Smith. and named the cases from last year. I have asked for the total expenditures on Smith and the other principal-mess-up cases cited in the Tribune. Voters want to know how much and where the school board flings their money around so that they can clear up this matter at election time.

Let’s compare what happens to a teacher who has the slightest infraction or has a case cooked up on him to terrify him or her into silence or fire the poor wretch. Mass terror via job loss is Elia’s control of teachers so that they don’t speak out against the outrages she conducts against them.

A coercion case against media specialist Bart Birdsall was my introduction to the school board reign of terror against teachers with the board’s letting Elia loose to frame people she doesn’t like or wants to kick off the payroll. Steve Kemp now has had a frame-up against him because he has a blog critical of the school administration and board. The board has for years known of the Professional Standards and board coercion machine of teachers and other low-level staff members but pretends it doesn’t know a thing. See no evil and do nothing are board mottos.

Lawyer Gonzalez promised me three times to put together a pamphlet that cites what teachers can do when Professional Standards zeroes in on them. He reneged. I asked the board to urge him to fulfill his promise. The members pretended they didn’t hear me.

The board and Elia don’t want teachers to know how to protect themselves from administration and board coercion to lift that barge and tote that bale like the good field hands they expect them to be so that ROSSAC can sweep in the money teachers and students get for the schools from the state. The board and Elia want to have the power of spending that money in arbitrary and in some cases scandalous ways such as the rehabilitation program for principals demonstrates in the Alafia outrage. However, the administration and board kick teachers when they are in the cross-hairs for some cooked-up or minor infraction. It’s as if the board and administration think administrators are precious and worth saving but that teachers and low-level staff are the scum-bucket proletariat that can be sacrificed without a second look.

The administration spends no money for mentors or accused teachers. The Abu Ghraib Professional cell block with warden Linda Kipley fulfills the role of harassing the teachers and ejecting them from their jobs when possible. That’s why Kipley’s husband got a job recently that he didn’t have the qualifications for and the quailed people had their applications, all of which I read, thrown in the trash can.

Kipley, who sports a home-ec degree but earns $130,000 per year and rising and got the job with no competition, has been known to tell a teacher trapped in her charge that the teacher is not allowed to tell the outside world what was going on in Professional Standards. Compare that First-Amendment-suppression sadism to a teacher to the soothing gloss Elia gave Smith’s dreadful performance at Alafia. In Elia’s announcement of Smith’s resignation at the 9th board meeting, she praised Smith to the skies and said she made the decision to resign when I have a blog posting from a fan of Griffin’s that said Griffin and Faliero did some in-the-dark diplomacy to convince Smith to resign. The board and the superintendent couldn’t stand the press exposure in the Smith debacle of how they run the schools behind the ROSSAC Wizard-of-Oz curtain.

Now Smith will be coddled in an already-announced busy-work faux job at ROSSAC while Elia hustles up Smith a better job than principal of Alafia or cooks one up brand new and unneeded in a time of financial squeeze. The salary will be astronomical compared to what teachers make. And what will the board do when the Smith job rolls by on the consent agenda? What they usually do: noting. The board members will see no evil, speak no evil and do zilch.

This make-work job for Smith will fulfill the school adage, “If you mess up, you move up.” When it comes to the administration comfort and perquisites, taxpayer money goes poof with a hey nonny nonny.

As to your Romper Room rebuke that you sent: Block letters are prominent in the writing of little kids and comic books. Which one are you? Or are you a relative or toady of Elia or Kipley? What $140,000 ROSSAC sinecure are you campaigning for?

It will be a cold day in hell when you shut me up with messages in capital letters, sugarbritches. Dream on.

Lee Drury De Cesare