The biggest lie has always been to keep quiet; and the best life-enhancer is to provoke, unsettle, rile – in short, to make people face the truth.
Gore Vidal
Victim: Steve Kemp, teacher; Bullied by all school board members, Ms. Elia, and Attorney Gonzalez.
BullyingBureaucracy:
Please do me the courtesy of letting me know what the status of my bullying case against the above three school bullies is. The new bullying law covers all three, and they are liable to it.
Your reporting section is misleading. It cites all the schools only. Any student or person working for the schools is liable to the bullying statute. Please revise this reporting section so that its language is coincident with the law's language.
The pest is back. He's up past his bedtime looking for something to do besides using his Play Do supplies to construct high rises.
You would think more lively concerns would attract him than beating up on a helpless, aged granny. He not only beats up on girls but old girls. Shame! Shame!
The little devil is smart. I am a teacher and can recoginize this quality in a nanosecond.
Pest: Read this article to stretch your horizons beyond ripostes; this is the kind of stuff I like to read:
And yes, my old man was an honest politician. So lay off him.
How do you know I am right? Because I don't lie, Sugarbritches.
Now go to your room and read the above article: every bit of it will be on a pop quiz the next time you email me. lee
Dan:
My faithful SPT reader husband cut out today's column me.He liked it even though he is not your fan, calling your writing "convoluted."
It's my baby daughter, who still lives in Beach Park, who adores you.
I think this column on Dick Greco is one of your best.I say that from vantage of having known the rogue for over fifty years.We graduated Hillsborough High School together.My theory says that he secretly married the prettiest girl in the Class of '51 in the waning months of the 12th grade, Dana Hepinstall, so he could get a head start on running around on her.
I think one reason Dick Greco is so addicted to politics is that it ranks a premier way to pick up chicks.
The magic of today's column is that it pokes gentle, melancholy, days-of-yore fun at Dick that reveals his character. That's high art.You aren't Swift, but you are the closest we've got in the Bay Area. I am glad the Times picked you up from the Tribune. We would have lost a talent had it not.
The Tribune, I think, is on death watch.
But the bell tolls for all newspapers. They soon pass into history.
I said so over fifteen years ago when the former publisher of the Times What's His Name opined as featured speaker of the ACLU local awards dinner that the computer press was an aberration that would soon fade.Wrong.
The NYT just laid off a hundred people.That's a death knell when the premier newspaper of the US if not the world begins to reduce force.
That little shit Steve Hegarty, who can neither punctuate nor write a coherent sentence yet makes over a hundred thousand a year in the School Board rip-off of the tax payers, said to me recently at a School Board meeting, "I got out just in time." I called him a rat desertng a drowning ship.
Le Hegarty refers to his getting the Public Affairs top job after the School Board fired Marc Hart, former holder of that post, to save the "reputation" of Board Member Jennifer Falliero in the long-running adultery scandal of the two.The Board made Falliero board chair while Hart got the sack.To propitiate the Motel 8 commissioner, Hart had divorced his wife and caused his two little children great pain. The little boy's grades plummeted; the little girl's congenital disease worsened.After Falliero dumped Marc post divorce because she had found fresh fodder for her illicit sex fun and games, he can't get a local job.
The school underground has blackballed him in the jobs market. So his wife struggles to support the children by herself.
I wish you would try your satirical art on members of the School Board of Hillsborough County.They are prime fodder for satire.In fact, the entire political community of the Bay Area is.But so are the national pols as well. Show me a politician, and I will show you a funny person. I discovered from attending state political conferences with Tom as the family-values show-and-tell spouse when he was the longest-serving mayor of our little beach town that the political class is a bunch of third-rate hustlers obsessing about la gloire and the chances for kickbacks.Tom I except.He was honest and industrious in his service, or I would have gone on some media outlet to howl protest about my old man. He quit when a new bevy of commissioners wanted to throw its weight around by firing the best attorney the Madeira Beach Commission ever had.
On a slow week, take a whack at our Hillsborough County school board as a group or singly.They are comedic fodder.
In Egypt, where else? The camel drivers told my husband that he should get rid of that "skinny old white woman and get yourself several plump harem girls." Women are slightly below camels in status in Egypt. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- National School Boards Association:
One notes that Broward County's schools have been one of your winners for excellence. Hillsborough County Schools have won the top award in the past.
One wonders in addition how in the world your organization selects such undeserving winners of your top awards.
Broward County schools are now under investigation for corruption by the federal government. So far a school board member has been arrested for taking bribes. The Miami Herald says more arrests for school corruption are expected.
Hillsborough County schools have long-term hiring irregularities. It cites but doesn't follow its equal-employment-opportunity mantra. The board and administration hire buddies, relatives, and sycophants to administrative jobs with bloated salaries. A prime example is that the head of the Professional Standards office makes $150,000 a year and has only a home ec degree; recently the board and administration hired her husband with a high school degree to an accounting job for which he had neither the education nor the experience called for in the job description. I examined the applications thanks to the Florida open records law. Four candidates had the requisite degrees and experience. One was a handicapped woman.
The schools are supposed to have affirmative action plans for the handicapped if they receive federal funds. Hillsborough County Schools lacks such plan.
The board attorney, Tom Gonzalez, hinted in public board meeting that he could sue me for extortion if I asked the federal grant givers for a compliance review of the administration's and board's compliance with the equal-opportunity hiring that federal grants require. Mr. Gonzalez thought I didn't know that the SLAPP law prevents public officials' lawyers from suing citizens for criticism of officials' conduct of their office.
Ms. Kipley, the head of the Professional Standards Office, acts as ringmaster of the administration and board's campaign to keep teachers intimidated and thus silent for fear of losing their jobs so that the power of the board and administration is not threatened by public exposure. The Professional Standards Office acts the tool to accomplish this situation. If teachers speak out or have an education blog, their jobs are in jeopardy of having a cooked-up Professional Standards charge filed against them to shut them up.
Surely your organization has the resources to review closely the school candidates for the awards you give out. Otherwise, you do more harm than good and sanctify corruption in school systems with awarding honors to school districts such as those in Broward and Hillsborough County.
Lee Drury De Cesare 15316 Gulf Boulevard 802 Madeira Beach, FL 33708 tdecesar@tampabay.rr.com leedrurydecesarescasting-roomcouch.blogspot.com
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