Linda Cobbe:
Please consider this a continuation of my formal complaints against three administrators filed in February of this year (copies below).
I recollect distinctly sending these complaints to Ms. Kipley, so her denying that she got them either constitutes a breakdown in the schools' emails or another whopping lie from the head of Professional Standards.
I have asked you before for the emails of Ms. Kipley for a period surrounding these filings. I amend that request to all of Ms. Kipley's emails for the month of February 09.
I trust that these will not be tampered with, which would constitute a violation of the public-records law.
I request as well--second time--a copy of Ms. Kipley's job description.
I request also a written copy of the disposition of the Professional Standards case against Steve Kemp. The case must have come to an end without the expected hearing.
Mr. Kemp's blog says that he received no formal notification that his case was at an end but discovered his reinstatement from the classroom schedules for next year. This slovenly performance does not speak well of the administration's professionalism or the Board's guarding the rights of teachers to a full record of their school careers as dictated by the administration and Board.
All these data on the Kemp case are now public information. They should be available for other teachers' edification as well as for the public since Mr. Kemp spent a year on suspension from the Professional Standards cook-up case lodged in your office and at the Sheriff's Department.
The Sheriff threw the case out shortly after Ms. Elia dispatched Mr. Smiley to file it
at the Sheriff's office. The sheriff did not honor it with a second glance.
Once a case of Professional Standards is completed, it becomes public information. I invoke that citizen's right for 1. the data that I request on the Steve Kemp case above along with 2. Ms. Kipley's email record for February of 09 and 3. her job description.
I understand that I can resort to the Office of the Attorney General if I do not receive these documents in a timely fashion. I require them before the next board meeting. Thank you.
Lee Drury De Cesare
tdecesar@tampabay.rr.com
leedrurydecesarescasting-roomcouch.blogspot.com
2/11/09
Please consider this a formal complaint against Mr. Ron Smiley, head of Section 5 of Special Ed.
In the matter of the case of Steve Kemp’s alleged child-abuse charge filed by Mr. Smiley at the Sheriff’s Department, I protest its validity on the grounds that Mr. Smiley himself bears guilt in the situation for his not rendering to Mr. Kemp the help that Mr. Smiley’s job description clearly outlines:
• Help teachers develop a strategy for the instruction and assessment of the subject area curriculum so that every student develops to his maximum potential;
• Be responsible for assisting the administration in monitoring absences and arranging coverage of classes when no substitute is present;
• To insure dissemination of information and subject area supervisors to all members of the department and to insure understanding of all directives issued;
• To assist the Principal and Assistant Principal for Curriculum for evaluation of teachers within the department and, when necessary, work with teachers to improve instruction;
• To become a trained classroom observer eligible to serve on Preparing New Educator Teams.
• To work with teachers within the department to produce the highest standards of teaching (This includes visiting classrooms, making helpful suggestions for improving lesson plans, counseling with teachers within the department, and coordinating the work of the group to achieve departmental standards.
Although Mr. Smiley visited Mr. Kemp’s classroom, he spoke not a word to Mr. Kemp in accordance with the above directives. Instead after the lapse of a week, he went to the Sheriff’s Department and filed felony child-abuse charges against Mr. Kemp for his hooking the harness one student had on to a chair while he dealt with another child.
The sheriff’s office has dismissed the felony charge, but the administration continues its baseless charge against Mr. Kemp when it is the supervisory people like Mr. Smiley who should be cited for abuse of Professional Standards.
2/11/09
Professional Standards charge against Principal Marion Ross of Special Ed
Please consider this a formal complaint against Principal Marion Ross of the Special Ed division.
In the matter of the case of Steve Kemp’s alleged child-abuse charge filed by Mr. Smiley. District 5 head, at the Sheriff’s Department, I protest its validity on the grounds that Ms. Ross along with Mr. Smiley and Ms Sosa bear guilt in the situation for their not rendering to Mr. Kemp the help that the three’s job description clearly outlines:
Ms. Ross’s Job Description:
• Proactivity: Demonstrates readiness to initiate action and take responsibility for leading and enabling others to improve the circumstances being faced or anticipated;
• Organizational Sensitivity: Is aware of the effects of his/her behavior and decisions on all stakeholders both inside and outside the organization;
• Oversees and is responsible for school’s instructional program…and its results;
• Oversees and is responsible for the safety and discipline of the school’s students;
• Oversees and is responsible for the accuracy and timeliness of school’s records and reports.
Ms. Ross gave Steve Kemp no assistance that coincides with the above duties of her job in this case. The only thing she said when she entered the room with Mr. Smiley and a physical therapist was that she “didn’t want to lose her job for child abuse.” She gave no help to Steve Kemp before she threw him into a classroom of severely retarded children. Steve had no education in or training to serve this student population. Ms. Ross gave Steve no advice or orientation to help him do the job right... In this lack Ms. Ross was derelict in her duties as a principal; thus I file Professional Standards charges against her.
Date: 2/11/09
Please consider this a formal complain of breech of professional standards by Supervisor Sosa in the Special Ed division. This charge is a refutation of the charge of child abuse against teacher Steve Kemp.
Ms. Sosa assigned Steve to the substitute duty of teaching profoundly retarded children without ascertaining his training.
Mr. Kemp has no academic credentials in caring for profoundly retarded children. His education is in teaching children who have trouble reading to read.
• Ms. Sosa’s job description says that her duties include the following;
• Provide support for ESE teachers at assigned school;
• Assist teachers in monitoring the effectiveness of curriculum and materials used in the classroom;
• Assist teachers in the pre-referral process of intervention strategies, observations, and conferences;
• Provide in-service for general education teachers as needed;
• Provide program-specific orientation and training for newly hired teachers;
• Assist in developing intervention strategies in regard to behavior management and school discipline;
Provide support for parents and function as a liaison to the school, parents, and community agencies.
Supervisor Sosa was derelict in these duties when she and Principal Ross threw Steve as a substitute in a room the population of which was profoundly retarded children. Neither she nor Ms. Ross gave Mr. Kemp any orientation or comments on his conducting this unfamiliar client base, not a word. This is dereliction of Supervisor Ross’s written duties, and I protest her behavior and ask that she be subject to a Professional Standards charge. Mr. Smiley was the Judas who had turned in Steve to the Sheriff’s Office; thankfully, the felony charge of child abuse went poof in the sheriff’s hands. He didn’t buy it. What sensible person not living in the alternative reality of the ROSSAC denizens would not have the same reaction?
1 comment:
Linda Kipley will simply say she never got this new email you sent. When you send another, she will lie about that too. Liars do not change just as tigers don't lose their stripes. She will get hers in the afterlife. Don't worry. She has lots of explaining to do, and she will answer to someone much mightier than herself.
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