Get Your Copy of the Kemp "Child-abuse" File by Petitioning Ms. Linda Cobbe for Public Information

Linda, may I have an update on my request for a copy of Steve Kemp's investigation file from Professional Standards?

The page you sent me entitled "Employee Misconduct Complaints" says this in the last paragraph:

"Once the case has closed, a copy of the case can be requested." There are no restrictions on who can request the case copy.

I again ask for a copy of the case from the Professional Standards Office because the case has been closed with Mr. Kemp's reinstatement as Tom Gonzalez revealed at a board meeting at which I brought up the case.

Since you are in charge of getting such public-information data to us in the public, please see that Ms. Kipley responds to this request with a copy of the file.

I shall put this email on my blog so that other people can request a copy of the case file.

lee

PS: Minions of the Light, for more fun, petition the beauteous La Linda Kipley for the file. That will rattle her.

Letter to the Dumbest People in the Hillsborough High Class of '51

Hillsborough High School
Alumni Association
Class of '51
5000 North Central Avenue
Tampa, FL 33603-2299
6/23/2009

Alumni Gentlepeople:

Please consider this a formal nomination of the late Barbara Ward for a posthumous place in the Hall of Fame.

While Barbara was alive, the Ward twins, I understand, could not become Hall of Fame members because they were on the board.

That was a questionable decision that I don't see much sense in.

I hope that Barbara's being deceased will not be an impediment to her becoming a Hall-of- Fame entrant. All kinds of awards are bestowed posthumously including the Medal of Honor. Nobody will argue, I wager, that the Hillsborough High Hall of Fame is more exalted than the Medal of Honor.

Barbara along with Bobbie did incredible amounts of work for the Alumni Association. I don't have to cite these. You know them.

Now don't somebody far gone in dopiness say that this nomination is unsuitable because it has never been done before. That argument could have kept us in caves picking fleas off each other perpetually after our evolving in the four and a half billion years of the earth's existence, during which humans started out as one-celled blobs of pond scum, graduated to rat-sized mammals in the Cretaceous period when the dinosaurs reigned and were wiped out, hooked up with orangutans for a spell, split off from the orangutans five million years ago to become hominids, and now sit as members of the board of the Hillsborough High School Alumni Association, the peak of civilization as everyone knows.

I suggest that the Alumni Association agree to waive an ill-conceived rule and nominate both twins-- one live twin and one dead-- jointly to be enrolled in the Hall of Fame. That will be most suitable. Bobbie will be buried beside Barbara when Bobbie dies. Bobbie can accept the award for both her twin sister and herself.

Pray consider this serious proposal from a member of the Hall of Fame, one of the Gold Terriers or whatever it's called who has donated a thousand dollars to the Alumni Association.

Sincerely,

Lee Drury De Cesare Class of '51

Updating My Attempt to Get Public Information on Dr. Hamilton's Jobs

-----Original Message-----
From: Linda Cobbe [mailto:lcobbe@sdhc.us]
Sent: Tuesday, June 23, 2009 1:32 PM
To: lee
Subject: Re: public information

Am I taking what you wrote wrong, or are you calling me a liar?

Linda E. Cobbe

External Communications Manager

Hillsborough County Public Schools

901 E. Kennedy Blvd.

Tampa, FL 33602

813-272-4602 (O)

813-493-6964 (C)

813-272-4510 (F)

Our mission is to provide an education that enables each student to excel as a successful and responsible citizen.

"lee" <tdecesar@tampabay.rr.com> writes:

Let me see if I have this right. You maintain that Dr. Hamilton did not have a job created for him by Ms.Elia after his retirement was scheduled to begin at the end of his regular career with the school system. You imply he just kept on working.

A clerk told me he did get a new job and that his name was attached to it before it went on the books. In addition, I have the clearest memory that you said Ms. Elia did away with his last job when he left about seven months later.

If his last job was the second in command to Elia, then that would mean Otero's job was done away with. But Otero took Hamilton's job at the time of Hamilton's scheduled retirement date. There was a penciled-in careted insertion of his name over Otero's on the Web site at the time he held that hold-over job.

I also recall getting from somebody that the created job for Hamilton after Otero occupied Hamilton's job paid $140,000 a year.

Give me the last three job descriptions he has held, please. with dates.

You say you have them available.

I also want the citation in state regulations about charging citizens for public-information research.

In this job situation with Hamilton, we have an instance in which the citizens must trust to the honesty of a person in your position in the schools. That's why honesty is listed first in your job description. You owe your allegiance in providing truthful information first the citizens, not to the people in ROSSAC.

It doesn't matter whether you like the person asking for the information or not. Your job is to provide truthful information to the public. Your job represents a pubic trust.

lee

-----Original Message-----

From: Linda Cobbe [mailto:lcobbe@sdhc.us]

Sent: Monday, June 22, 2009 1:44 PM

To: lee

Cc: Stephen Hegarty

Subject: Re: public information

Lee - The scenario you describe just did not happen. He wasn't in DROP, so he wasn't scheduled to retire. You have reviewed and/or received every job description Jim Hamilton has had in the last 10 years. There are no position descriptions, salaries, or other records related to his employment with the district that we haven't already provided to you. This is nothing new.

If you do still want these records again, I will have to charge you for my time to duplicate efforts I already made once, plus you'll be charged for the time it takes the folks in payroll to gather everything again. You usually aren't charged for my work, but I have devoted more hours to fulfilling your public records requests than to possibly all others combined. I can't give an exact estimate, but the invoice would be more than $40.

Linda E. Cobbe

External Communications Manager

Hillsborough County Public Schools

901 E. Kennedy Blvd.

Tampa, FL 33602

813-272-4602 (O)

813-493-6964 (C)

813-272-4510 (F)

Our mission is to provide an education that enables each student to excel as a successful and responsible citizen.

"lee" <tdecesar@tampabay.rr.com> writes:

Ms. Cobbe: I resubmit my request for the items listed below. If there are any other linquistic problems, pray reply immediately so that I can clarify them for you.

I expect the answers within 48 hours as is suggested by the attorney general's site on provision of public information by public bodies. lee

-----Original Message-----

From: Linda Cobbe [mailto:lcobbe@sdhc.us]

Sent: Monday, June 22, 2009 9:09 AM

To: lee

Subject: Re: public information

Ms. DeCesare:

At the time of his retirement? That would be when he retired.

Linda E. Cobbe

External Communications Manager

Hillsborough County Public Schools

901 E. Kennedy Blvd.

Tampa, FL 33602

813-272-4602 (O)

813-493-6964 (C)

813-272-4510 (F)

Our mission is to provide an education that enables each student to excel as a successful and responsible citizen.

"lee" <tdecesar@tampabay.rr.com> writes:

Ms. Cobbe: Dr. James Hamilton retired last year. At the time of his scheduled time of retirement, Ms. Elia created a transition job for him with a fancy title and a $140,000 pay rate. A clerk told me his name was on the job before it even went on the books. Here's the sequence. Dr. Hamilton was supposed to retire at a certain date. He stayed on in a new job Ms. Elia created for him. This is the job I refer to below:

I would like this public information about this job:

1, the job description;

2. its salary;

3. the ads placed and in what venues for this job and how long they ran; if there were no ads, please say "none." If they were, cite those and give me the applications of the people who applied for the job in competition with Dr. Hamilton;

4. the length of time Dr. Hamilton held this ad hoc bridge job and what total salary the state paid him for his incumbency in the job;

5. whether Ms. Elia did away with this job when Dr. Hamilton quit to retire and any reasons she cited for abolishing the position;

5. a Was the job listed on the Consent Agenda? Did the board on the dais approve this created job for Dr. Hamilton?

6. the date that Ms. Elia via the board created the current lobbyist job that she awarded to Dr. Hamilton. The official description of this job;

7. the ads and their venues for this lobbyist job that Dr. Hamilton now holds if any and how long the ads ran if the job were advertised; if there was no advertising for the job, say "none";

8, a copy of any other applicants' applications for the lobbying job if it were advertised;

9. the salary for the lobbying job when it was awarded to Dr. Hamilton;

10. whether the rumor is true that Dr. Hamilton has received a boost in the salary for this job to $96,000.

11. notes of discussion that the board held off the board podium in conference with the administration about the creation of both the Hamilton bridge job and also his current lobbying job and the salaries each job garnered initially for Dr. Hamilton;

12. whether the board attorney reviewed these hires of Dr. Hamilton and approved of them; any notes the board attorney made on his decisions relating to these hires;

13. the attorney general cites 48 hours for a citizen to receive requested public information. Since you are on summer schedule, let the information requested have twice that amount of hours on working days for you to send me these data.

Thank you.

lee drury de cesare

15316 Gulf Boulevard 802

Madeira Beach, FL 33708

727-398-4142

tdecesar@tampabay.rr.com

leedrurydecesarescasting-roomcouch.blogspot.com

Slogging, Sllogging, Slogging Through a Public-information Request

No, Linda. I am not calling you a liar. As a citizen, I pray that you are this citizen's and all citizens' advocate to true public information. You are the nexus of truth between the school board and the citizens whom you serve. It's a grave job.

I ask for a record of the last three jobs Hamilton had; their job description, their advertising if any, the competing applicants' submissions if any.

I want to know how Dr. Hamilton's job history ends with the school board. That is my simple aim.

I am convinced that Ms. Elia invented him a job after his official retirement date.

The state of Florida pension people will tell me when he began his pension. That would be his retirement data. A job past that time with the Hillsborough County School Board would be an invented job, the one the clerk told me he was on the job's papers for before it was announced.

Why would the clerk tell me that he got a job before it was listed ? Surely she was not lying . She thought she was just doing her job.

I have written to the pension people for the state as to when Dr. Hamilton began his pension. If he began it before he left HCC (I recall everybody got up and applauded him when it was announced by the board chair that he would be leaving. There was no enthusiastic applause. Dr. Hamilton was not popular.

According to my calculation,l this was seven months after his official retirement date.

Let's keep this businesslike. I will need this information when I appeal to the Secretary of Education for redress in the Kipley, Smiley, Sosa, and Morris Professional Standards cases that you told me Mr Valdez would not process.l

You will always be my source for public information unless the adminstration upper crust fires you. In which case I expect you to come to me for help, and I will help all that I can, and that is a considerable amount.

I have to trust your truthfulness or file a complaint against you. I would prefer the former.

Let's stick simply to the facts of the records. We can get through this one email at a time. lee

-----Original Message----- From: Linda Cobbe [mailto:lcobbe@sdhc.us] Sent: Tuesday, June 23, 2009 1:32 PM To: lee Subject: Re: public information Am I taking what you wrote wrong, or are you calling me a liar? Linda E. Cobbe External Communications Manager Hillsborough County Public Schools 901 E. Kennedy Blvd. Tampa, FL 33602 813-272-4602 (O) 813-493-6964 (C) 813-272-4510 (F) Our mission is to provide an education that enables each student to excel as a successful and responsible citizen. "lee" writes: Let me see if I have this right. You maintain that Dr. Hamilton did not have a job created for him by Ms.Elia after his retirement was scheduled to begin at the end of his regular career with the school system. You imply he just kept on working. A clerk told me he did get a new job and that his name was attached to it before it went on the books. In addition, I have the clearest memory that you said Ms. Elia did away with his last job when he left about seven months later. If his last job was the second in command to Elia, then that would mean Otero's job was done away with. But Otero took Hamilton's job at the time of Hamilton's scheduled retirement date. There is a penciled-in careted insertion of his name over Otero's on the Web site at the time he held that hold-over job. I also recall getting from somebody that the created job for Hamilton after Otero occupied Hamilton's job paid $140,000 a year. Give me the last three job descriptions he has held, please. with dates. You say you have them available. I also want the citation in state regulations about charging citizens for public-information research. In this job situation with Hamilton, we have an instance in which the citizens must trust to the honesty of a person in your position in the schools. That's why honesty is listed first in your job description. You owe your allegiance in providing truthful information first the citizens, not to the people in ROSSAC. It doesn't matter whether you like the person asking for the information or not. Your job is to provide truthful information to the public. Your job represents a pubic trust. lee -----Original Message----- From: Linda Cobbe [mailto:lcobbe@sdhc.us] Sent: Monday, June 22, 2009 1:44 PM To: lee Cc: Stephen Hegarty Subject: Re: public information Lee - The scenario you describe just did not happen. He wasn't in DROP, so he wasn't scheduled to retire. You have reviewed and/or received every job description Jim Hamilton has had in the last 10 years. There are no position descriptions, salaries, or other records related to his employment with the district that we haven't already provided to you. This is nothing new. If you do still want these records again, I will have to charge you for my time to duplicate efforts I already made once, plus you'll be charged for the time it takes the folks in payroll to gather everything again. You usually aren't charged for my work, but I have devoted more hours to fulfilling your public records requests than to possibly all others combined. I can't give an exact estimate, but the invoice would be more than $40. Linda E. Cobbe External Communications Manager Hillsborough County Public Schools 901 E. Kennedy Blvd. Tampa, FL 33602 813-272-4602 (O) 813-493-6964 (C) 813-272-4510 (F) Our mission is to provide an education that enables each student to excel as a successful and responsible citizen. "lee" writes: Ms. Cobbe: I resubmit my request for the items listed below. If there are any other linquistic problems, pray reply immediately so that I can clarify them for you. I expect the answers within 48 hours as is suggested by the attorney general's site on provision of public information by public bodies. lee -----Original Message----- From: Linda Cobbe [mailto:lcobbe@sdhc.us] Sent: Monday, June 22, 2009 9:09 AM To: lee Subject: Re: public information Ms. DeCesare: At the time of his retirement? That would be when he retired. Linda E. Cobbe External Communications Manager Hillsborough County Public Schools 901 E. Kennedy Blvd. Tampa, FL 33602 813-272-4602 (O) 813-493-6964 (C) 813-272-4510 (F) Our mission is to provide an education that enables each student to excel as a successful and responsible citizen. "lee" writes: Ms. Cobbe: Dr. James Hamilton retired last year. At the time of his scheduled time of retirement, Ms. Elia created a transition job for him with a fancy title and a $140,000 pay rate. A clerk told me his name was on the job before it even went on the books. Here's the sequence. Dr. Hamilton was supposed to retire at a certain date. He stayed on in a new job Ms. Elia created for him. This is the job I refer to below: I would like this public information about this job: 1, the job description; 2. its salary; 3. the ads placed and in what venues for this job and how long they ran; if there were no ads, please say "none." If they were, cite those and give me the applications of the people who applied for the job in competition with Dr. Hamilton; 4. the length of time Dr. Hamilton held this ad hoc bridge job and what total salary the state paid him for his incumbency in the job; 5. whether Ms. Elia did away with this job when Dr. Hamilton quit to retire and any reasons she cited for abolishing the position; 5. a Was the job listed on the Consent Agenda? Did the board on the dais approve this created job for Dr. Hamilton? 6. the date that Ms. Elia via the board created the current lobbyist job that she awarded to Dr. Hamilton. The official description of this job; 7. the ads and their venues for this lobbyist job that Dr. Hamilton now holds if any and how long the ads ran if the job were advertised; if there was no advertising for the job, say "none"; 8, a copy of any other applicants' applications for the lobbying job if it were advertised; 9. the salary for the lobbying job when it was awarded to Dr. Hamilton; 10. whether the rumor is true that Dr. Hamilton has received a boost in the salary for this job to $96,000. 11. notes of discussion that the board held off the board podium in conference with the administration about the creation of both the Hamilton bridge job and also his current lobbying job and the salaries each job garnered initially for Dr. Hamilton; 12. whether the board attorney reviewed these hires of Dr. Hamilton and approved of them; any notes the board attorney made on his decisions relating to these hires; 13. the attorney general cites 48 hours for a citizen to receive requested public information. Since you are on summer schedule, let the information requested have twice that amount of hours on working days for you to send me these data. Thank you. lee drury de cesare 15316 Gulf Boulevard 802 Madeira Beach, FL 33708 727-398-4142 tdecesar@tampabay.rr.com leedrurydecesarescasting-roomcouch.blogspot.com

No Answer from His Highness Valdez

If you ever want some public information that the state law says you are entitled to, get ready to dig in and repeat, repeat, repeat the request. Now I have to get the state to tell me when Hamilton started getting his pension. Linda Cobbe now says that Ms. Elia did not create him a job. His name was on the Web when he had the second job inserted over Otero's who replaced him. Lee

Linda: this is public information. Ask Mr. Otero when he or somebody erased the name of Dr. Hamilton off the Web page with administrators' names. It was careted with pen after Mr. Otero's while Dr. Hamilton held the post-retirement job. lee

6/22 Please respond, Mr. Valdez. lee drury de cesare

Mr. Valdez: the Attorney General's comments on the Sunshine law say that 48 hours is a reasonable time in which to expect a response for public information. I repeat my request for you to reveal to me whether you intend to handle my Professinal standards cases against Ms. Kipley, Ms. Sosa, Ms. Morris, and Mr. Smiley.

lee drury de cesare
From: lee [mailto:tdecesar@tampabay.rr.com]
Sent: Wednesday, June 17, 2009 2:58 PM
To: 'Linda Cobbe'
Cc: 'carol.kurdell@sdhc.k12.fl'; 'SUSAN.VALDES@sdhc.k12.fl.us'; 'APRIL.GRIFFIN@sdhc.k12.fl.us'; 'DORETHA.Edgecomb@sdhc.k12.fl.us'; 'JACK.LAMB@sdhc.k12.fl.us'; 'JENNIFER.FALIERO@sdhc.k12.fl.us'; 'goader@es-kay.net'; 'William Birdsall'; 'thomas.vaughan@sdhc.k12.fl.us'; 'FOY333@aol.com'; 'goader@es-kay.net'; 'genesiudut@lagacetanewspaper.com'; 'angiemanteiga@lagacetanewspaper.com'; 'Patrickmanteiga@lagacetanewspaper.com'
Subject: FW: [Lee Drury De Cesare's Casting-Room Couch] Turn About Is Fair Play

Ms. Cobbe: I faxed this document to the board and Mr. Valdez. I am still mastering my new fax. Please tell me if the message to both came through, especially to Mr. Valdez. Thank you. ldd

-----Original Message-----
From: lee [mailto:tdecesar@tampabay.rr.com]
Sent: Wednesday, June 17, 2009 1:21 AM
To: tdecesar@tampabay.rr.com
Subject: FW: [Lee Drury De Cesare's Casting-Room Couch] Turn About Is Fair Play

Mr. Valdez: Please consider this a formal professional-standards complaint against Linda Kipley, Director of Professional Standards. Somebody else must guide this case rather than Ms. Kipley because she is the subject of the charge. I debated whether to send the complaint directly to the office of the Secretary of State to the committees of Professional Practices and Ethics but decided to send it to you first to see if as director of personnel you can deal with my charges--this one against Ms. Kipley and the one I filed on February 2, 2009, against three special-ed administrators.

I believe most people are of the opinion that only teachers are liable for professional standards charges. That is the attitude that the Hillsborough County Board and administration convey.

The Secretary of Education's Web pages say that not only teachers but also administrators are liable and that either category can lose his or her teaching license be the charge is serious enough.

The ROSSAC Community Affairs office informed me that one must have standing to file a charge and that I did not have standing.

This stranding restriction did not appear in any of the requested data that the Community Affairs office sent me on the operation of Professional Standards.

The Secretary of Education's site features no mention of restrictive standing to file a charge that I could discover. In fact, I found no impediments listed in the Department of Education's Web site to a citizen's filing a charge for professional or ethical lapses of administrative or teaching personnel.

I therefore charge Ms. Kipley with unprofessional conduct in her treatment of my charge against Mr. Smiley, Ms. Morris, and Ms. Sosa of the Special Needs Children's Division. I charge that she failed to acknowledge the charge and failed to process the case.

Beyond the unfair punishment of Mr. Kemp by the three administrators, there is an extension of their behavior that encompasses the offense of child abuse because not only did this trio of administrators punish Mr. Kemp undeservedly, but they also behaved in ways that threatened children's safety.

By extension, Ms. Kipley's refusal to process my charge or even acknowledge that she had gotten it includes collusion in ignoring the safety of the children involved. Ms. Kipley's failure to notify me that she had received my charge prevented my immediately filing the charge with the office of the Secretary of Education.

The Secretary of Education's site says that anyone who knows of child abuse should report it.

I thought Ms. Kipley's failure to acknowledge my charge against Smiley, Sosa, and Morris unorthodox, but I inferred that she would do her duty that taxpayers pay her to do and investigate and assess my charge.

But when three months had elapsed and I had heard nothing, I emailed Ms. Kipley at least twice for the status of the charges:

5/4/09 I request that you send me your findings on the unprofessional conduct of the three administrators involved in dereliction of duty in the Kemp set-up case to scare him into giving up his education blog and to frighten all other teachers in the school system with Kemp's example so that they will not dare criticize the administration.

I asked Ms. Cobbe to find out the status of the charge when I didn't hear from Ms. Kipley.

-----Original Message----- From: lee [mailto:tdecesar@tampabay.rr.com] Sent: Wednesday, May 13, 2009 9:21 PM To: 'Linda Kipley' Cc: 'MaryEllen Elia'; 'Candy Olson'; 'carol.kurdell@sdhc.k12.fl'; 'jennifer.falliero@sdhc.k12.fl.us'; 'Jack Lamb'; 'Susan Valdes'; 'April Griffin'; 'Patrickmanteiga@lagacetanewspaper.com'; 'geneliudut@lagacetanewspaper.com'; 'Stein@sptimes.com'; 'Marilynbrown@tampatrib.com'; 'Linda Cobbe'; 'Ken Otero'; 'Dan Valdez'; 'Lewis Brinson'; 'Gretchen Saunders'; 'Wynne Tye'; 'Cathy Valdes'; 'Connie.'; 'David Steele'; 'Gwen.Luney@sdhc.k12.fl.us'; 'Stephen Hegarty'; 'William Birdsall'; 'FOY333@aol.com'

Subject: RE: professional standards charges against Smiley, Sosa, and Morris

Referring to Ms. Kipley's distorted response below, Ms. Cobbe told me that Ms. Kipley did not have the information I asked for. She apparently did not read my email to Ms. Kipley.

I wrote Cobbe: I emailed it directly to Linda Kipley, Ms. Cobbe. If she says that she didn't get the charges, she is as usual lying. I cc'd people.

I know the last name of the top administrator: it was Smiley. I cannot recall the names of the principal and lower-level administrator involved.

Their names should be on the child-abuse charge that Ms. Kipley and Ms. Elia filed against Steve Kemp. Please send me those three names and the job descriptions of each one so that I can refile the charges.

And don't tell me I have run out the clock. I filed in a timely fashion, and somebody found it convenient to lose charges against administrators instead of teachers. Lee Drury De Cesare

5/14/09 Ms. Cobbe: Please provide me with a list of Linda Kipley's emails from 2/9/09 to 2/15/09. ldd

5/28/09 Ms. Kipley: Please render your decision in my complaint against the three administrators involved in the Steve Kemp case. Lee Drury De Cesare

Ms. Kipley: Pray substitute this Professional Standards charge for the one you said you lost. Please note that I have changed one of the names because I got it wrong on the original charge. lee drury de cesare

Ms. Kipley finally returned this enigmatic reply that took a phrase out of context from my 5/4 email:
Dear Ms. DeCesare: In response to your request for this office's "findings on the unprofessional conduct of the three administrators involved in the dereliction of duty" in the "Kemp-case," no such records exist.

This is where the administration's hiring a home-ec teacher for an executive position that appears on the school stationery with the board's and superintendent's names reveals itself unwise.

Ms. Kipley quotes a piece of my sentence. An ethical, educated writer knows to put ellipsis marks before "findings" and after "duty." Ms. Kipley's not doing so is deliberate distortion of the sentence's original meaning.

Ms. Kipley's is not only unprofessional but ignorant: she demonstrates ignorance of the basic protocols of punctuation. Such people don't merit executive positions in school administrations. I wonder who in the world hired her.

Mr. Kipley's not thinking of the children's welfare exacerbates her unprofessional, unethical conduct. The three administrators against whom she did not accept or investigate charges threatened the profoundly retarded children in their care. Their conduct trumps the "abuse" by Mr. Kemp.

Ms. Kipley knew that the three administrators against I filed charges were not only guilty of sadistic treatment of Mr. Kemp but also culpable for indifference to the safety of retarded children in their care by assigning an untrained teacher as their teacher and by making their classroom a junk-filled room with the walls filled with unstable, heavy material that could topple over and injure them when they tried to investigate the material as Mr. Kemp says they did.

Administrators Smiley, Sosa, and Morris have no excuse for their behavior. They had extensive training and incumbency in the field; they were versed in the laws and rules that apply to teaching Profoundly Mentally Handicapped students. Yet they placed in the classroom of these children, an apparent junk room with hazardous piles of material on the walls, an untrained teacher and gave him not a word of orientation.

Mr. Kemp was not even minimally trained to care for such children. He knew none of the intricacies of working with some of the most severely challenged students the schools have. He had to learn or guess on his own from the time he stepped into the classroom. These administrators were well versed in restraint law; Mr. Kemp did not know it even existed.

And I have never had an explanation of how hooking one child to a desk with his in-place restraint, one infers from the bus ride, to chase another child--a big fellow weighing 175 pounds--who was trying to get out of the room is child abuse. If it's not child abuse to restrain a child on the bus, why is hooking the restraint to a chair in a classroom emergency child abuse worthy of filing a felony charge with the Sheriff's Department, especially since Mr. Kemp got no briefing from the administrators on restraint protocol?

The administrators placed Mr. Kemp into an environment without any prior notification nor any special training. The highly trained responsible administrators are more culpable than Mr. Kemp for their dereliction of duties to ensure the children's safety and not to make inappropriate instructional assignments. Then one ponders the significance of waiting six days before reporting the alleged felony child abuse to the sheriff.

The report should have cited the three highly trained and experienced administrators who waited six days before reporting it. Irrational too is their keeping Mr. Kemp in the same classroom for the ensuing six days despite their labeling him a "child abuser." These administrators' behavior shows to be unprofessional, reckless, and indifferent to the children's safety or Mr. Kemp's professional right not to be expected to function a classroom of profoundly retarded children when he was unacquainted with the protocols of the children's care. __________________________________________________________________________ To: Linda Kipley, Professional Standards From: Lee Drury De Cesare, citizen 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 Mr. Smiley's job description. Instead after the lapse of a week, he went to the Sheriff’s Department and filed felony child-abuse charges against Mr. Kemp after the administration had kept him in the class with these children six days after they had observed the "child abuse."

The sheriff’s office 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.

_ To: Linda Kipley, Professional Standards From: Lee Drury De Cesare, citizen 2/11/09

Professional Standards charge against Principal Sharon Morris of Special Ed

Please consider this a formal complaint against Principal Marion Morris 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. Morris 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. Morriss’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 guidelines 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.

To: Linda Kipley, Professional Standards From: Lee De Cesare, citizen 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?

I request that my cases against the Special-ed administrators be continued and that Ms. Kipley's violation of her duties as head of Professional Standards, which are her contribution to the endangerment of the Special-ed children's safety from the unprofessional and reckless behavior of Smiley, Sosa, and Morris, her unprofessional, juvenile behavior in not responding to my queries, and her violation of academic standards by taking a piece of one of my sentences and not indicating elisions in order to return to me what she considered a witty and subversive answer to my legitimate queries. These offenses constitute unprofessional behavior and child abuse.

Please email me that you have received this charge; please tell me as soon as possible whether you will investigate it as a Professional Standards charge.

Lee Drury De Cesare
15316 Gulf Boulevard 802
Madeira Beach, FL 33708
tdecesar@tampabay.rr.com
727-398-4142
http://www.leedrurydecesarescasting-roomcouch.blogspot.com


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