tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28089922.post6469217105955509791..comments2023-10-26T01:40:32.914-07:00Comments on Lee Drury De Cesare's Casting-Room Couch: twinkobiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07865056039680988073noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28089922.post-65523031879352502202011-04-05T20:23:15.588-07:002011-04-05T20:23:15.588-07:00I agree the kid is a reflection of his mother. She...I agree the kid is a reflection of his mother. She is arrogant and scary. Top down behavior.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28089922.post-79538395726637601352011-03-15T15:48:24.497-07:002011-03-15T15:48:24.497-07:00The following sounds like Hillsborough's schoo...The following sounds like Hillsborough's school board, except instead of a board member bullying everybody it is the Superintendent in Hillsborough. <br /><br />School Board Bully Bentley Retaliates<br /><br />UPDATE 9<br />…the continuing saga of Hesperia Unified School District Board president, Chris Bentley, and his assault on the employees in his narcissistic pursuit of his self-declared “passionate” advocacy for things that matter more to him than that benefit the students. Go here to read about the misdeeds of this elected public official that lead to the present.<br />When the school board pres is the bully and Board bully goes Latin<br />At the Jan 24 public Board meeting, the chief of the HUSD police, Mike Graham, described an election season encounter with Bentley during which Bentley intimated to Graham that he would be made to pay for supporting a candidate that Bentley did not support. Graham countered this “Godfather-like” threat with an entirely proper rebuff, and the bully Bentley left Graham alone after that. Watch the video.<br /> <br />Jump to 2011 when Bentley attempted a baseless coup of Assistant Superintendent Matt Spencer through Bentley’s cowed Superintendent Mark McKinney. Spencer enraged Bentley by granting an interview with the local paper about his commitment to eliminating workplace bullying in K-12 education (something honed before working at Hesperia). Bentley, as a bully, recognized the threat that a little public education could reveal him for who he is, and had the story killed (it posted, but was actually pulled from the newspaper’s website).<br />Fearless Spencer chose to launch a counter-offensive by telling the four other Board members what staff in the schools had been telling him about Bentley’s chronic disrespectful mistreatment of school personnel. Bentley deflected personal responsibility for the alleged conduct and started quoting Cicero and Aristotle in his rambling, editorial replies published in the newspaper. He characterized Spencer as a complaining employee, when, in fact, he is a responsible executive daring enough to confront problems experienced by District staff. Bentley retaliated against Spencer with interior decorating. In the Board chamber he moved Spencer and all the Assistant Superintendents (the “cabinet”) to a table in the rear of the room, behind public seating. There, he really showed them who’s boss!!! It’s not a public school district, it’s “Bentley’s district.”<br />Spencer was the lone voice to speak truth about the Oz-like fraud Bentley — until January 24. Mike Graham strode to the public lectern and spoke up. Bentley thereafter made known his intent to eliminate the district police force. Board member Anthony Riley connected the dots and stated in public session (at the next meeting), that the timing of the move to eliminate Graham and the others led reasonable people to see that Bentley was retaliating against Graham.<br />This is a classic bullying tactic. Board member Eric Swanson tried feebly, but failed, to excuse Bentley. [You can see all the Board members here.]This is also predictable. Bullies surround themselves with sycophants and toadies. Toadies hover in orbit around the bully hoping that their alliance will protect them from the harm bullies inflict on others. Sychophants are mostly followers who respond with uncritical loyalty to the more direct and aggressive bully. Bentley, puppetmaster, has McKinney and Swanson on strings he can pull at will. Watch Survivor on TV to see how repeat player Russell and Bentley both use deceit and Machiavellian strategies — lots of parallels.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28089922.post-14088509608496151042011-03-03T18:56:29.182-08:002011-03-03T18:56:29.182-08:00The kids have an excuse. They are immature at that...The kids have an excuse. They are immature at that age. What is the school board's and school administration's excuse? They are selfish, rude, immature, and greedy. These people are nothing but filth.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28089922.post-35043789145157583232011-03-03T08:17:18.127-08:002011-03-03T08:17:18.127-08:00What teenager is not "excessively self-center...What teenager is not "excessively self-centered" as you call it? I know a lot of great people whose children have taken major misteps in their life. I know how hard these parents have worked and what they sacrificed to keep their children on the straight and narrow. As far as elected officials, I look at their record to judge them.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28089922.post-50851664864713483202011-02-28T18:21:15.769-08:002011-02-28T18:21:15.769-08:00It is irrelevant what two kids chatted about. Let&...It is irrelevant what two kids chatted about. Let's get back to discussing the criminal behavior of the school board and ROSSAC building.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com