tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-280899222024-03-14T03:09:05.388-07:00Lee Drury De Cesare's Casting-Room CouchThe 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 Vidaltwinkobiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07865056039680988073noreply@blogger.comBlogger834125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28089922.post-64692171059555097912011-02-26T17:11:00.000-08:002011-02-26T17:15:31.954-08:00<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <o:officedocumentsettings> <o:allowpng/> </o:OfficeDocumentSettings> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:worddocument> <w:view>Normal</w:View> <w:zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:trackmoves/> <w:trackformatting/> <w:punctuationkerning/> <w:validateagainstschemas/> <w:saveifxmlinvalid>false</w:SaveIfXMLInvalid> <w:ignoremixedcontent>false</w:IgnoreMixedContent> <w:alwaysshowplaceholdertext>false</w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText> <w:donotpromoteqf/> <w:lidthemeother>EN-US</w:LidThemeOther> <w:lidthemeasian>X-NONE</w:LidThemeAsian> <w:lidthemecomplexscript>X-NONE</w:LidThemeComplexScript> <w:compatibility> <w:breakwrappedtables/> <w:snaptogridincell/> <w:wraptextwithpunct/> <w:useasianbreakrules/> <w:dontgrowautofit/> <w:splitpgbreakandparamark/> 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font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;} </style> <![endif]--> <p class="MsoNormal">My function to put these at the bottom off the blog is on the fritiz, so I'm putting them here. lee</p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal">Anonymous has left a new comment on your post "<a href="http://leedrurydecesarescasting-roomcouch.blogspot.com/2011/02/egypts-crooks-in-government-are-not.html">Egypt's Crooks in Government Are Not the Only Loo...</a>":<br /><br />It is good for these crooks on the school board to know that even some people are onto their shenanigans. In the end they could care less, because they are shameless. Already everything you have reported about Tom Gonzalez, the entire school board, and MaryEllen Elia shows that these people are absolutely shameless and have not ethical compass. They probably don't care what others know or don't know. Still it has to be good for the world that they know that a few people know about their bad behavior, and you can bet that God knows. The entire ROSSAC building is probably going to hell one day!<br /><br /><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: gray;"><br /><br />Posted by Anonymous to <a href="http://leedrurydecesarescasting-roomcouch.blogspot.com/">Lee Drury De Cesare's Casting-Room Couch</a> at 10:51 AM<br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: gray;"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <o:officedocumentsettings> <o:allowpng/> </o:OfficeDocumentSettings> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:worddocument> <w:view>Normal</w:View> <w:zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:trackmoves/> <w:trackformatting/> <w:punctuationkerning/> <w:validateagainstschemas/> <w:saveifxmlinvalid>false</w:SaveIfXMLInvalid> <w:ignoremixedcontent>false</w:IgnoreMixedContent> <w:alwaysshowplaceholdertext>false</w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText> <w:donotpromoteqf/> <w:lidthemeother>EN-US</w:LidThemeOther> <w:lidthemeasian>X-NONE</w:LidThemeAsian> 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class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";">From:</span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";"> Anonymous [mailto:noreply-comment@blogger.com]<br /><b>Sent:</b> Saturday, February 26, 2011 3:30 PM<br /><b>To:</b> tdecesar@tampabay.rr.com<br /><b>Subject:</b> [Lee Drury De Cesare's Casting-Room Couch] New comment on Going up the Ladder for Help.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"> </p> <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Anonymous has left a new comment on your post "<a href="http://leedrurydecesarescasting-roomcouch.blogspot.com/2011/01/going-up-ladder-help.html">Going up the Ladder for Help</a>":<br /><br />To the poster above:<br />Let me start by saying I do not personally know April Griffin’s son, or any of the other individuals that were commenting on the forum in which his tirade was spewed. It was publicly posted and I stumbled upon it by accident. This “Zac” could be a serial killer for all I know or care. That wasn’t the purpose of sharing the posts. Chase either did not have enough common sense to know that posting on other people’s FB wall (not marked private) may result in other unintended people reading it, or he didn’t care. That was poor judgment on his part. I assure you that my intent for reposting his rants was not to highlight some immature feud which people could care less about, but to bring light to the type of individual April Griffin has raised. I consider myself very well qualified to assess the values and character of others, as my line of work gives me daily contact with both parents and their children. I have found over my many years of working with young people that their words and actions do most often reflect the character of their parents. (This barring the few with PTS, personality disorders, and organic/biological conditions.) The posts by Chase do reveal an arrogant and spoiled child, who feels entitled to put down and bully others. He also seems extremely desperate for attention, and most likely suffers from some major insecurity in which he feels the strong need to overcompensate by either attacking or acting superior to others. It's not a huge leap to assume this is a result of either poor accountablity at home or faulty modeling. Keep in mind that this forum is for shedding the light on the dark side of the school system. By being a public figure on the school board, April Griffin opens herself up for close examination. This includes family. If Chase is too ignorant to understand the responsibility that brings, then he is either excessively self-centered, or seriously misguided.<br />April would be wise to either cancel or closely monitor his account from this point on. He might not have the self-restraint needed to make the right choices, and she doesn't need another layer of hypocrisy revealed.<br /><br /><a href="comment-moderate-confirm.g?blogID=28089922&postID=1428250803308482987&status=LIVE">Publish</a> </span><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p> <!-- Site Meter XHTML Strict 1.0 --><script type="text/javascript" src="http://s41.sitemeter.com/js/counter.js?site=s41twinkobie"></script><!-- Copyright (c)2006 Site Meter -->twinkobiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07865056039680988073noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28089922.post-83215210677869413622011-02-07T17:46:00.000-08:002011-02-08T10:40:36.835-08:00Egypt's Crooks in Government Are Not the Only Looters of Public Money<div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_dl8vHbrr-vU/TVCjtxAwW7I/AAAAAAAADms/FNPQsgnmH9M/s1600/ape.jpg"><img style="float: right; margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 320px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_dl8vHbrr-vU/TVCjtxAwW7I/AAAAAAAADms/FNPQsgnmH9M/s400/ape.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5571132745703250866" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /><br /><br /><br /></span><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />The</span><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"> NYT</span><span style="font-weight: bold;"> story below on Cuomo's lowering superintendents' sky-high salaries reminds us of the situation in Hillsborough County.</span><br /></div></div><br /><a name="top"></a> <div id="shell"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Elia's salary is a bloated $300,000, The board lowered the <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">Ph</span>.D. to her master's to hire her; it turned down candidates with the requisite terminal PH.D. and plentiful, varied experience.<br /><br />Elia's experience was in the only supervisory jobs she had in the <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">Hillsborough</span> County school system. This supervisory job revealed Elia's having overbuilt classrooms and letting a real-estate scam operate under her nose that a <span style="font-style: italic;"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2">SPT</span></span> reporter walked in off the street, spotted, and wrote about.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">I have asked for Ms. Elia's hiring record and that of Tom Gonzalez. whose $275,000 salary is the highest among the state board attorneys. Gonzalez has no contract: he apparently submits billable hours, and the money comes pouring out of tax coffers with no question. It's like the $5o million a day pouring into Mubarak and his thugs' hands.<br /><br />The SP School Board's attorney makes $175,000 a year, he has a definitive contract of duties, and works an 8-hour day. Gonzalez's having no contract means that he can and does contract other work such as South Florida business.<br /><br />I requested the Elia-Gonzalez hiring information three times of the Public Affairs office. Absolute silence. Finally, I wrote to the attorney general of Florida to complain. The answer to the <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3">AG's</span> inquiry from Ms <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4">Cobbe</span> was that she had never received the requests for public information from me when they sit right now in my computer's files, showing I sent them to her. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Ms. <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5">Cobbe</span> had sent me public information before--sometimes with a little <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_6">snippiness</span> on her part and nudging on mine.</span><span style="font-weight: bold;"> So this behavior puzzled.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">My inference for this lie about the Public Information office's not receiving my requests is that Ms. <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_7">Cobbe</span> is scared to mess with the Elia and Gonzalez employment files because she might get fired for doing so.</span> <span style="font-weight: bold;">Firing for ticking off Elia is a regular ritual in <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_8">ROSSAC</span>. People walk on eggs.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">I infer Ms. <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_9">Cobbe</span> was scared to mess with the Elia or Gonzalez files for fear of losing her job. The law said she should fulfill a citizen's request for information, but her <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_10">ROSSAC</span> experience told her she would be on dangerous ground when she delved into Elia's and Gonzalez's job files. That's how jobs are lost in <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_11">ROSSAC</span>: Ms. Elia throws a lightning bolt at the culprit, and it's curtains.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">The board knows about this ongoing obscenity of vicious treatment of employees and does nothing to rein in Ms. Elia as the public believes the board members do. I further believe that the reason the board looks the other way at termination-of-employees times is that the quid pro <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_12">quo</span> that Elia and the board worked out at Elia's hiring said that Elia wouldn't mess with board perquisites or incumbency and that the board members wouldn't mess with how Elia ran the schools and treated its personnel.</span><span style="font-weight: bold;"> No <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_13">Ph</span>.D. from Columbia, having read and believing Aristotle's <span style="font-style: italic;"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_14">Nichomachean</span> Ethics</span>, would sign off on such thuggish exchange of favors. The ritual is a little like a Mafia practice except that Ms. Elia doesn't tell some <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_15">ROSSAC</span> thug to make the offender sleep with the fishes but instead tells the employee victim to see Mr. <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_16">Otero</span> for termination of employment. The Mafia's ritual is more elegant and venerable. Unfortunately, Florida state law makes the administration and board masters in the employment area.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">This note reminds everybody that there are resources to ensure that you get public information requested. When you have done your best to cooperate with <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_17">ROSSAC</span> and if its minions dig in their heels, squawk. Tattle. Rat out. Go up the chain of command for help.<br /><br />This is America. That is what public officials are for: to help us citizens see that bureaucrats obey the law.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Note the <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_18">NYT</span> article below about <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_19">Cuomo's</span> lowering superintendents' salaries. Elia's is $125,000 over <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_20">Cuomo's</span> limit. I bet the whole <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_21">ROSSAC</span> gang has bloated salaries. Yet the complicit board keeps upping these <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_22">ROSSAC</span> payoffs no matter if the economy is on its last legs, especially Elia's: she gets the "bonus" that Earl the Pearl Lennard set up for his greedy little self for teachers' upping students test scores. God forbid that teachers get a raise. Naturally, the board continued that bonus-for-teachers' work obscenity for La Elia.<br /><br />The money has bought no elegance for Elia. There's a limit to what a St. John knit can do for you. Eliae continues to look like a squat, dumpy Russian peasant woman coming off a barley field after a hard day of shucking--or whatever peasants do to barley.<br /><br />Let's see if one board member has the courage to call for a review of <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_23">ROSSAC's</span> across-the-board loot and make it harmonize with the crippled economy and also demand a review of the reputed order to bus drivers and other low-level employees that a reader wrote me about, which, she says, had their salaries lowered but their work load remained the same.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Information like that makes me want to have somebody sleep with the fishes.</span><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">lee</span><br /><br /><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_dl8vHbrr-vU/TVGM2AkvT3I/AAAAAAAADm0/quiVxjMjXwM/s1600/florence%2Bsmall.jpg"><img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 225px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_dl8vHbrr-vU/TVGM2AkvT3I/AAAAAAAADm0/quiVxjMjXwM/s400/florence%2Bsmall.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5571389073528934258" border="0" /></a>LEE OUTSIDE FLORENCE, WAITING TO GO COMMUNE WITH DAVID AND THEN TO GET MACHIAVELLI TO SIGN HER COPY OF<span style="font-style: italic;"> THE PRINCE</span> AND ASK HIM WHICH CHAPTER TO READ TO LEARN HOW TO DEAL WITH SCHOOL BOARD AND ADMINISTRATION THUGS.<br /><br />GO TO LEEDRURYDECESARESCASTING-ROOM COUCH.BLOGSPOT.COM FOR MORE OF THE SCHOOL BOARD'S AND ROSSAC THUGS' SCANDALS. 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Cuomo." class="meta-per">Andrew M. <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_33">Cuomo</span></a> cast her salary as a prime example of wasteful spending by school districts. </p> </div> <div style="font-weight: bold;" class="articleInline runaroundLeft"> <div class="inlineImage module"> <div class="image"> <div class="icon enlargeThis"><a>Enlarge This Image</a></div> <a> <img src="http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2011/02/07/nyregion/cuomo/cuomo-articleInline.jpg" alt="" width="190" height="177" /> </a> </div> <h6 class="credit">Nathaniel Brooks for The New York Times</h6> <p class="caption">Gov. Andrew M. <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_34">Cuomo</span> suggested that school superintendent salaries were too high. </p> </div> <div class="columnGroup doubleRule"> <h3 class="sectionHeader">Related</h3> <ul class="headlinesOnly multiline flush"><li><h6>Times Topic: <a href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/c/andrew_m_cuomo/index.html">Andrew M. <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_35">Cuomo</span></a></h6></li></ul> </div> </div> <div class="articleBody"> <p style="font-weight: bold;"> Mr. <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_36">Cuomo</span> did not mention Dr. <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_37">Hankin</span> by name in his <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/02/nyregion/02budget.html" title="Times article about the budget.">budget address</a>, but he did offer her salary: $386,868, more than the pay of any other superintendent in the state. “I applied for that job,” the governor joked, adding that he had decided to run for governor, which pays $179,000, only after he had been rejected. </p><p style="font-weight: bold;"> Mr. <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_38">Cuomo</span>’s remarks came as he presented a budget calling for a $2.85 billion reduction in local school aid, a proposal that has already drawn fierce criticism from educators. But the governor offered some criticism of his own for school officials. </p><p style="font-weight: bold;"> Mr. <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_39">Cuomo</span>, a Democrat, said that school districts had enough means to withstand the decline in state financing, and pointedly suggested that they look at whether they are spending too much on their own bureaucracy. </p><p style="font-weight: bold;"> More than 40 percent of New York State’s superintendents earn at least $200,000 each year in salary and benefits, Mr. <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_40">Cuomo</span> said. </p><p style="font-weight: bold;"> “I understand that they sometimes have to manage budgets, and sometimes the budgets are difficult,” he said. “But why they get paid more than the governor of the state I really don’t understand.” </p><p style="font-weight: bold;"> Mr. <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_41">Cuomo</span> repeated his joke about coveting Dr. <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_42">Hankin</span>’s job in encore presentations of his budget plan in Purchase, in <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_43">Westchester</span> County, and in Amherst, near Buffalo. </p><p style="font-weight: bold;"> “We have $500,000 school superintendents,” he told reporters after his appearance in Purchase. “We can’t pay those kinds of salaries.” </p><p style="font-weight: bold;"> Mr. <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_44">Cuomo</span> is not the only governor grappling with deep financial problems who has singled out school district leaders. </p><p> Gov. <a href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/c/christopher_j_christie/index.html?inline=nyt-per" title="More articles about Christopher J. Christie Jr." class="meta-per">Chris Christie</a> of New Jersey is imposing a <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/17/nyregion/17super.html?_r=1&scp=2&sq=christie%20salary%20perez%20pena&st=cse" title="Times analysis of Mr. Christie’s proposal.">cap of $175,000</a> on most superintendents’ salaries, depending on district enrollment, and Mr. <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_45">Cuomo</span>’s criticism raised the specter that he might pursue a similar path. </p><p> A spokesman for Mr. <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_46">Cuomo</span>, John <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_47">Milgrim</span>, declined to discuss whether the governor was considering a cap of his own. Mr. <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_48">Milgrim</span> would say only that despite the proposed school-aid cut, Mr. <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_49">Cuomo</span> believed that layoffs “are not inevitable and that school districts have numerous ways they can bring down costs and be more efficient, including a reining in of salaries of superintendents and other administrative personnel.” </p><p> As attorney general, Mr. <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_50">Cuomo</span> investigated cases of school administrators who earned salaries and pensions simultaneously, a practice known as double dipping. Aides to Mr. <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_51">Cuomo</span> suggested that the governor viewed superintendent salaries as another example of government spending that is far beyond the state’s means given the fiscal conditions. </p><p> But the issue of school administrators’ salaries also offers an alternate villain to parents angry about the governor’s proposed cuts to school aid. </p><p> Whatever Mr. <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_52">Cuomo</span>’s motivation, his comments upset some school superintendents. </p><p> “The state and the schools are facing difficult times that ultimately require strong leadership,” said Robert N. <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_53">Lowry</span> Jr., the deputy director of the New York State Council of School Superintendents. “Superintendents are trying to provide that leadership, and in many districts, they have passed up raises or made other concessions to save money for their districts and also to set an example.” </p><p> Mr. <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_54">Lowry</span> noted that the average salary for a superintendent — about $163,000 last year — was far from the figures Mr. <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_55">Cuomo</span> has been citing. (The national average is about $160,000, according to the Educational Research Service.) </p><p> Mr. <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_56">Lowry</span> added that the dollar savings from reducing superintendent pay would amount to an insignificant sum in comparison with Mr. <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_57">Cuomo</span>’s cut to local school aid. Billy <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_58">Easton</span>, the executive director of the Alliance for Quality Education, which opposes the school-aid cut, sounded a similar note. </p><p> “There is a huge disconnect,” Mr. <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_59">Easton</span> said, “between the governor focusing on the top 1 percent of superintendent salaries and offering a fiscally irrational tax cut to people making the same amount of money, or 10 times that.” </p><div id="pageLinks"><ul id="pageNumbers"><li> 1 </li><li> <a title="Page 2" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/07/nyregion/07cuomo.html?pagewanted=2&_r=1&nl=nyregion&emc=ura1">2</a> </li></ul><a class="next" title="Next Page" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/07/nyregion/07cuomo.html?pagewanted=2&_r=1&nl=nyregion&emc=ura1"></a></div></div></div><br /><div class="columnGroup last"><div class="columnGroup" id="adxSponLink"><table id="adxSponLink_googleAds" class="nytd_google_ads nytd_google_single_ad" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tbody><tr class="header"><td class="left"><br /></td><td class="right"><br /></td> </tr><tr class="listing"><td colspan="2" valign="middle"><br /></td></tr></tbody></table></div> <div class="emailAlertModule module"> <h5 class="sectionHeaderSm"><br /></h5> <form action="https://select.nytimes.com/mem/tnt.html" method="GET" enctype="application/x-www-form-urlencoded"> <input name="retA" value="http://www.nytimes.com//2011/02/07/nyregion/07cuomo.html" type="hidden"> <input name="retT" value="Cuomo, Pushing School Cuts, Offers a Target: Superintendent Salaries" type="hidden"> <input name="module" value="call" type="hidden"> <input name="alert_context" value="1" type="hidden"> <ul class="flush"><li> <input name="topic1" value="Cuomo%2C+Andrew+M" type="hidden"> <input name="topic_field1" value="per" type="hidden"> <a class="inTextReferEmail" href="https://select.nytimes.com/mem/tnt.html?module=call&alert_context=1&topic1=Cuomo%2C+Andrew+M&topic_field1=per&topic1_check=y&retA=&retT=&cskey="></a></li></ul></form></div></div></div></div><div class="cColumn"><div class="columnGroup"><div id="adxSponLinkA"><table id="adxSponLinkA_googleAds" class="nytd_google_ads nytd_google_single_ad" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tbody><tr class="header"><td class="left"><br /></td><td class="right"><a target="popupad" href="http://www.nytimes.com/ref/membercenter/faq/linkingqa16.html" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; 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margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 225px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_dl8vHbrr-vU/TT3G8a1PE_I/AAAAAAAADmg/fqNR6uBb0pU/s400/florence%2Bsmall.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5565823455796859890" border="0" /></a><br /><b><i><span style=";font-family:";font-size:16pt;" ><span style="font-size:130%;">Office of Attorney General<br />State of Florida<br />the Capitol PL-01<br />Tallahassee, FL 32399-1050<br />1/24/11<br /><br />Dear General Bondi:<br /><br />I enclose an open-records request to the Hillsborough county school board’ public affairs director, Linda Cobbe, who is supposed to fulfill these requests.<br /><br />I asked for this information first three months ago and have asked for it three times subsequently. Ms. Cobbe has not acknowledged my requests.<br /><br />Could your office intervene and get the Hillsborough County schools to render the material I have requested?<br /><br />Thank you.<br /><br />Respectfully,<br /><br />Lee Drury De Cesare<br />15316 Gulf Boulevard 802<br />Madeira Beach, FL 33708<br /><br />January 12, 2011<br /><br /><br />Ms. Cobbe:<br /><br />Please provide me with the following public information. This is my 3rd request for these data according to my records:<br /><br />The hiring history of Ms. Elia, including the applications of her competitors as well as the application of Ms. Elia; copies of the advertising done and in what national organs and at what cost to the taxpayers; a copy of the stenographic notes of the board’s exhanges on the hiring of Ms. Elia, especially the conversation about lowering the Ph.D. requirement to a master’s, Ms. Elia’s terminal degree;<br /><br />The hiring history of Mr. Tom Gonzalez, including the advertising of the job and the cost to taxpayers of that required advertising; the applications of Mr. Gonzalez and of other attorneys for the job; any discussion recorded stenographically of the board’s remarks during the attorney’s hiring conference(s); This is my second request for this material;<br /><br />The school’s court records of the Renee Anderson case;<br />this is my second request for these data.<br /><br />Thank you. When you have assembled these documents, please email me, and I will come in from the beach to review them.<br /><br />Lee Drury De Cesare<br />15316 Gulf Boulevard 802<br />Madeira Beach, FL 33708<br /><br /><br />-----Original Message-----<br />From: Tom De Cesare [mailto:tdecesar@tampabay.rr.com]<br />Sent: Monday, January 10, 2011 6:39 PM<br />To: 'foy333@aol.com'<br />Subject: FW:</span></span></i></b><!-- Site Meter XHTML Strict 1.0 --><script type="text/javascript" src="http://s41.sitemeter.com/js/counter.js?site=s41twinkobie"></script><!-- Copyright (c)2006 Site Meter -->twinkobiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07865056039680988073noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28089922.post-29908753132688342702011-01-19T06:59:00.000-08:002011-01-19T20:00:34.004-08:00Behind Closed Doors<div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_dl8vHbrr-vU/TTedJ-O6uBI/AAAAAAAADmI/xrp7q52c3Qg/s1600/Renee%252C%2BPicture%2Blarge.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 343px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_dl8vHbrr-vU/TTedJ-O6uBI/AAAAAAAADmI/xrp7q52c3Qg/s400/Renee%252C%2BPicture%2Blarge.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5564088659289487378" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:180%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Student Renee Anderson, victim of vicious board expulsion process</span></span><br /></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_dl8vHbrr-vU/TTeczkYjgWI/AAAAAAAADmA/Pfu8nlFmdg0/s1600/florence.JPG"><br /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_dl8vHbrr-vU/TTeZ3nkO4lI/AAAAAAAADl4/uwskRWZuErk/s1600/bashers.png"><img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 342px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_dl8vHbrr-vU/TTeZ3nkO4lI/AAAAAAAADl4/uwskRWZuErk/s400/bashers.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5564085045432345170" border="0" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Deadly triplets of sadism: Doretha Edgcomb, board chair; Robert Heilman, Riverview principal; Kenvin Massena, Riverview vice principal</span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:180%;" >Administration Literacy on Web Display</span><br /></div><br /><span style="font-size:180%;"> <span style="font-weight: bold;">Heilmann's resume on the school Web site:</span></span><br /><br /><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:worddocument> <w:view>Normal</w:View> <w:zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:trackmoves/> <w:trackformatting/> <w:punctuationkerning/> <w:validateagainstschemas/> <w:saveifxmlinvalid>false</w:SaveIfXMLInvalid> <w:ignoremixedcontent>false</w:IgnoreMixedContent> 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align="center"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% rgb(247, 240, 233);" align="center"><span style="font-size:180%;"><b><span style=";font-family:";color:black;" ><br /></span></b></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% rgb(247, 240, 233);"><span style="font-size:130%;"><b><span style=";font-family:";color:black;" >Mr. Robert <span class="blsp-spelling-error">Heilmann</span> became an educator in 1972,</span></b><b style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"><span style=";font-family:";" > no comma: splits compound verb </span></b><b><span style=";font-family:";color:black;" >and has taught Elementary </span></b><b><span style=";font-family:";" ><span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);">no cap</span> </span></b><b><span style=";font-family:";color:black;" >PE, Social Studies, </span></b><b><span style=";font-family:";" >No caps</span></b><b><span style=";font-family:";color:black;" > and English. After earning a Masters’</span></b><b><span style=";font-family:";" > l<span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);">owercase</span></span></b><b><span style=";font-family:";color:black;" ><span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);">;</span> </span></b><b style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"><span style=";font-family:";" >singular possessive:</span></b><b style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"><span style=";font-family:";" > </span></b><b style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"><span style=";font-family:";" >apostrophe “s”</span></b><b><span style=";font-family:";color:black;" ><span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"> </span>Degree<span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"> </span></span></b><b style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"><span style=";font-family:";" >lower case</span></b><b><span style=";font-family:";color:black;" > in Counselor Education </span></b><b style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"><span style=";font-family:";" >lower case</span></b><b><span style=";font-family:";color:black;" > and in Educational Leadership</span></b><b><span style=";font-family:";" > <span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);">lower case; double introductory prepositional phrases- comma:</span></span></b><b><span style=";font-family:";color:black;" > he served as a Guidance Counselor<span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"> </span></span></b><b style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"><span style=";font-family:";" >lower case</span></b><b><span style=";font-family:";color:black;" > and was an <span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);">Assistant Principal</span></span></b><b><span style=";font-family:";" ><span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"> </span>lower case</span></b><b><span style=";font-family:";color:black;" > for Student Affairs</span></b><b style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"><span style=";font-family:";" > lower case</span></b><b><span style=";font-family:";color:black;" > at East Bay High School.</span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% rgb(247, 240, 233);"><span style="font-size:130%;"><b><span style=";font-family:";color:black;" ><br /></span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% rgb(247, 240, 233);"><span style="font-size:130%;"><b><span style=";font-family:";color:black;" ><strong><span style=";font-family:";" >When the opportunity to help launch a brand new </span></strong></span></b><strong><span style=";font-family:";" >hyphenated adjective</span></strong><strong><span style=";font-family:";color:black;" > high school arose, Mr. </span></strong></span><span class="blsp-spelling-error" style="font-size:130%;"><b><span style=";font-family:";color:black;" >Heilmann</span></b></span><span style="font-size:130%;"><strong><span style=";font-family:";color:black;" > was instrumental in opening</span></strong><strong><span style=";font-family:";" > <span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">stilted diction: use “helped begin” </span></span></strong><strong><span style=";font-family:";color:black;" >our new </span></strong></span><span class="blsp-spelling-error" style="font-size:130%;"><b><span style=";font-family:";color:black;" >Riverview</span></b></span><span style="font-size:130%;"><strong><span style=";font-family:";color:black;" > High School as the Assistant Principal</span></strong><strong><span style=";font-family:";" ><span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"> lower case</span> </span></strong><strong><span style=";font-family:";color:black;" >for Curriculum. </span></strong><strong style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"><span style=";font-family:";" >lower case</span></strong><strong><span style=";font-family:";color:black;" > After the retirement of </span></strong></span><span class="blsp-spelling-error" style="font-size:130%;"><b><span style=";font-family:";color:black;" >Riverview</span></b></span><span style="font-size:130%;"><strong><span style=";font-family:";color:black;" >’s first principal<span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"> </span></span></strong><strong><span style=";font-family:";" ><span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);">comma:</span> nonrestrictive appositive </span></strong><strong><span style=";font-family:";color:black;" >J. Vince Thompson, Mr. </span></strong></span><span class="blsp-spelling-error" style="font-size:130%;"><b><span style=";font-family:";color:black;" >Heilmann</span></b></span><span style="font-size:130%;"><strong><span style=";font-family:";color:black;" > became principal in January 2001.</span></strong></span><span style=";font-family:";font-size:130%;color:black;" > <b>During his educational career, he has coached baseball, hockey, cross country, and track. He has also officiated high school and college soccer games for 34 years. Mr. <span class="blsp-spelling-error">Heilmann</span> had the distinction of serving on the U.S. international panel of referees</b></span><span style="font-size:130%;"><b><span style=";font-family:";" > capitalize panel's name</span></b><b><span style=";font-family:";color:black;" > for the sport of soccer from 1991-1994 (each country</span></b><b><span style=";font-family:";" > <span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);">possessive before gerund</span> </span></b><b><span style=";font-family:";color:black;" >having only seven officials).</span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% rgb(247, 240, 233);"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% rgb(247, 240, 233);"><span style="font-size:130%;"><b><span style=";font-family:";color:black;" >Guess what subject Heilmann taught once? Would you believe English? Presently, there is a somber ongoing study {courtesy of a misuse of the million-dollar Gates Grant} to examine and codify teachers' pedalogical maneuvers to diagnose good teachers and bad teachers. The administrators conducting the study are the same ones who hired Heilmann to teach English.<br /></span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% rgb(247, 240, 233);"><span style="font-size:130%;"><b><span style=";font-family:";color:black;" ><br /></span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% rgb(247, 240, 233);"><span style="font-size:130%;"><b><span style=";font-family:";color:black;" >Heilmann should never teach English. He should take English. He should enroll at once in one of Riverview's 9th-grade English classes. 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If purpura or petechiae turn up, Tom Gonzalez will run, not walk, to the court house to file charges against the inflicters of these harmless lesions.<br /><br /></span></i></b></span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;"><b><i><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">The charge will be aggravated assault meriting, Tom wil aver, triple damages. Taxpayers will pony up for these suits and any pain-and-suffering extra-goodies charges that Gonzalez can get a jury to buy. Luckily, his court record shows that jurors don't like Le Gonzalez. 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Don let Massena get away with crybaby charges against a female student whom he was trying to pen up in his office" with his 240 pounds of administrative authority.</span><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /></span></span></i></b><div style="text-align: center;"><b><i><span style=";font-family:";font-size:16pt;" ><span style="font-size:130%;">VILLAINS</span></span></i></b><br /><br /><br /></div><b><i><span style=";font-family:";font-size:16pt;" ><span style="font-size:130%;">Doretha Edgecomb, Principal Robert Heilmann, and Kenneth Massena all played roles in the savage suspension of student Renee Anderson, ignoring the handbook suspension rules. I believe that all students suffer in the expulsion gauntlet. But black children suffer expulsion one and one-half times as frequently as do white children. 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Mr. Heilmann had told him to “keep her there so that I can come and suspend her”<br />--The ovrlords gave Renee no chance to defend herself.<br /><br />--Principal Hellmann instead chased Renee across the parking lot of Riverview High School, yelling at her, “Get off my school grounds! 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Principal. Whenever someone does or doesn't do something it is usually for personal gain. In this case she is protecting her daughter. Supposedly, her daughter worked under a principal who got arrested for drugs on campus. Word on the street is that Edgecomb's daughter knew about this and should have reported it but didn't. Corruption lives on! </span></b></span><b><i><span style=";font-family:";font-size:16pt;" ><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /><br /></span></span></i><span style=";font-family:";font-size:16pt;" ><span style="font-size:130%;">This information suggests that the major reason Ms. Edgecomb ran for the board was to protect her daughter’s career. It certainly wasn’t her goal to help black children as the Renee Anderson case and Ms. Edgecomb‘s record of silence on the protection of black children in the schools well demonstrate.</span></span><i><span style=";font-family:";font-size:16pt;" ><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /><br /></span></span></i><span style=";font-family:";font-size:16pt;" ><span style="font-size:130%;">Edgecomb should have protested the Gates grant‘s use for scrutiny of teachers’ classroom performance as if pedagogical style were quantifiable. The data from this exercise will find use as another of the administration’s weapons against teachers--as another way to threaten their jobs if they don’t shut up and never criticize the administration and board. It will not help teachers be better in the classroom but will assist the board and administration’s joint efforts to shut them up and make them ciphers in the system.<br /></span></span><i><span style=";font-family:";font-size:16pt;" ><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /></span></span></i><span style=";font-family:";font-size:16pt;" ><span style="font-size:130%;">Had Edgecomb cared that black children in the schools are suspended at higher rates than white children, are more likely to be labelled retarded, are less likely to earn honors, and less likely to graduate on time<br />one and one half times less likely than white students, she would have insisted that the Gates grant go to investigating this pathology. But Ms. Edgecomb is content to be the board resident Aunt Tom, never mentioning that minority children need her attention and sponsorship.<br /></span></span><i><span style=";font-family:";font-size:16pt;" ><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /><br /></span></span></i><span style=";font-family:";font-size:16pt;" ><span style="font-size:130%;">Jack Lamb also has a daughter in the school system administration whom he hedges round with his board status, I believe. Candy Olson is reputed to arrange jobs for people. I heard that one job Candy engineered was for an exotic dancer who intervened with the police (one dares not speculate why an exotic dancer would have clout with police) in a DUI of one of Olson’s children. Olson was supposed to have gotten this exotic dancer a job as teacher in the system thereafter. If this story is in error, I would like to hear Olson deny it. The board and administration hides and doctors information so assiduously that you have to listen to scuttlebutt to get an idea of what is really going on.</span></span><i><span style=";font-family:";font-size:16pt;" ><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /><br /></span></span></i><span style=";font-family:";font-size:16pt;" ><span style="font-size:130%;">Mr. Lamb sits in morose composure on the board dais. The only time he came alive in my memory was when I spoke against his using school board secretarial help and board stationery to ask the mayor to lower his condo‘s water bill. He came off his seat and would have vaulted the desk to throttle me had he not been too fat for the maneuver. He had to content himself with telling me to “Stay across the bay [my husband and I live on Madeira Beach] and don’t come over here any more.” Le Jack made it sound as if as if I were a wet back swimming to the US from South America.</span></span><i><span style=";font-family:";font-size:16pt;" ><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /></span></span></i><span style=";font-family:";font-size:16pt;" ><span style="font-size:130%;"><br />Hiring scams rank a major perquisite of the board and superintendent job: it consists of hiring no-talent relatives, buddies, and assorted dindongs usually for pricey administrative perches for which they they have not a scintilla of preparation or education.<br /><br /><br />A reader points out how the money bled to hire people as a favor, not as an employment necessity hurts the marginal workers in the system. 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style="font-size:130%;"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:10pt;" > </span></span></p> <p style="font-weight: bold;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:10pt;color:black;" ><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102);">Governor Scott has invited Supt. Elia from Hillsborough County to be his advisor so to speak about education as the SDHC has been so succcessful! What has been kept quiet is that all support personnel such as paraprofessionals, bus drivers, etc. must take a mandatory 3 day pay cut and still work them because the coffers have run dry. Talk about mismanagement! The union is doing nothing about it of course. Because of the economy, no one dares stand up! They always go after the weakest</span>. </span></span></p><br /><b><span style=";font-family:";font-size:16pt;" ><span style="font-size:130%;"><br />And then there is the scam of creating jobs at taxpayer expense. Elia hired the former assistant superintendent Jim Hamilton after he retired to rev up his consulting firm to milk schools he had been in contact with in his years of mooching off the taxpayers as a high-level administrator despite never having learned the difference between “your” and “you’re.”</span></span><i><span style=";font-family:";font-size:16pt;" ><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /><br /></span></span></i><span style=";font-family:";font-size:16pt;" ><span style="font-size:130%;">The marginally literate Hamilton got his Hillsborough County schools lobbying slot without Elia’s justifying it with a needs study. God forbid that the board cared enough to demand a needs study for one of these superfluous buddy jobs that soak taxpayers. But a few respirations past their coming into office, they roll over and assume board group think. Elia’s word is law to these board layabouts.</span></span><i><span style=";font-family:";font-size:16pt;" ><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /><br />I heard “you’re” “your” Hamilton’s pay clocked in at between $64,000 and $94,000 a year. That’s buddy pay. It didn’t come out of Ms. Elia’s pocket but the pockets of the taxpayers. So why should she care?<br /><br />The board never thinks to ask for a needs study for any of Ms. Elia’s jobs-program positions.<br /><br />Hamilton’s wife divorced him because he pushed through then-doxie Connie Mileto’s candidacy for the Tallahassee position despite her being a kindergarten teacher. This was one of those baleful There’s-no-fool-like-an-old-fool sagas, with Ms. Mileto having in addition to her kindergarten certificate a PH.D. in fooling an old fool to climb the ladder to a job for which she lacked credentials.<br /><br />A candidate with a political degree or a history degree should have gotten that job. Now, thanks to Ms. Elia’s hiring him with no competition for the unneeded extra lobbying job which Mileto’s job is supposed to encompass, Hamilton and Mileto are back in Tallahassee as lobbying pas de deux. I guess this means his poor wife, who had remarried the old goat incredibly enough, will now have to divorce him again.<br /><br />Ms. Elia’s job-creation lockdown recently resulted in a job created for the principal Smith in the Alafia brouhaha. The parents refused to have Smith principal any more, and even Elia’s promising them that she would send both Smith and her vice principal to Eckerd for a personality makeover at $4500 a pop of tax money if they would keep Smith did not propitiate them.<br /><br />So because the administration and board couldn’t stand the bad Alafia publicity’s being printed by the usually somnolent press, Elia sent Lie-about-educational credentials GED Griffin and former board member Motel-breath Jennifer Falliero out to Alafia to a secret rendezvous with Smith to lure her to resign her job with the understanding that Elia would create an empty job but at full principal pay and benefits as compensation.<br /><br />GED Griffin suffers the delusion that she is a superior diplomat and that this diplomatic mission to Smith was just one more illustration of how Bismarck should roll over in his grave in envy of her diplomatic acumen. What Griffin engaged in was sneaking, lying, and sticking the taxpayers whom she is supposed to serve with another manufactured, empty job to solve a political problem.<br /><br />The SPT interviewed La Griffin over the Christmas holiday. Not only did it report that she lied to the SPT but also had cheated the state out of the fees she left on the books when she exited several years ago.<br />Stealing money from the taxpayers that pay her a bloated salary for sitting on the dais during monthly meetings is bad enough. But stiffing a community college that runs on tax funds is out-and-out theft. So if GED Griffin does not want to have “thief” added to her resume “liar,” she must pay this tax money to HCC.<br /><br />Griffin should get her degree. With two universities and a community college available, she could do it if she buckled down and stopped blaming her mother’s multiple marriages for her failure to have to have the get up and go to earn her degree. When you are over 40, you must stop blaming your parents for your adult failures. Grown-ups don’t blame their parent for not getting a degree or anything else the person is responsible for.<br /><br />Harsh reader comments on the SPT article in Tampa Bay Online blog on Griffin’s lying about her meager education show this scam did not please the public. Some wrote to say they it shocked them that a school board member lacked a college degree. There are many things one without a college education can do, but board member of a school system is not one of them. Griffin’s true history shows she should not be on a school board because if she does not value her own education, she doesn’t value that of the county’s students.<br /><br />April’s case is worse than not having a college degree. She dropped out of high school and took a GED. Is it good for students that Griffin, who should be a role model for them, dropped out of high school, that she did not bestir herself to go parttime and get her degree, that she lied to the press about her education when she ran for office, and that she stiffed a state-supported junior college at which she attended briefly? No and no and no and no.<br /><br />Then when Griffin lies her way onto the board, she pitches in to help Elia pull off a covert scam that soaks taxpayers and diminishes bad publicity for Elia and board members so that they can keep the public in the dark and retain their power over tax money that pours into ROSSAC and retain such perks as handing out jobs to unqualified relatives, best buds, and peripatetic n’er do wells so that unqualified, lackadaisical people bestrew ROSSAC who, when they can’t do their jobs (recall bus crisis) because of lack of smarts and/or lack of education, must have pricey consultants fly in and teach them their jobs with flash cards. Taxpayers fund this on-the-job training for the unfit in positions with bloated pay without the skills to justify it.<br /><br /><br />The false job offer that GED Griffin and Motel Breath Falliero peddled to Alafia Smith worked. Smith got the pretend job that Elia pulled out of the dirty-tricks hat and is probably sitting somewhere in the book depository now paring her nails.<br /><br />I asked for the job’s description as public information. After about two weeks had given personnel honcho Valdez the time to fake one, I got a copy of the job description; then I asked who inhabited the job before Smith: no answer. QED: it’s an out-of-thin-air job devised by Elia at taxpayer expense to solve a bad-publicity problem. The board has endowed Elia with this create-jobs perquisite as part of the superintendent’s benefits. Board members don’t care enough about taxpayers to stop the Board Consent Agenda rolling belt, lift off the job, and ask for a needs study and other justification for the job. Any board member who did would get the pounding that GED Griffin got from Carol Kurdell and Candy Olson when Griffin, in the first throes of idealism after she joined the board, asked that a non-bid contract come off the Consent Agenda for scrutiny. This request raised he hackles of the board’s two ancient crones who guard the ancient methods of wrongdoing that comprises what Ms. Edgecomb in a rhetorical flight into the nut region of the stratosphere calls “institutional memory.” They gave Griffin a tongue lashing, accusing her of “being disloyal to the staff.” Griffin, not the brightest crayon in the box, lacked the wit and spunk to tell Olson and Kurdell that she served the public, not the staff. So distressed did this Kurdell-Olson make Griffin that she curled up into a protective ball and has never emerged except to do Ms. Elia’s bidding. This roll over apparently occurs in every new board member and the public bedamned.<br /><br />We’re talking about what those in charge of taxpayer money considering it play money that the board and administration use to make up jobs and pass them out to relatives, hangers-on, and sycophants to preen their power by abusing their control of tax monies. For them, tax money is play money.<br /><br />One would say this behavior is unethical and perhaps criminal. But the unspoken rule is that administrators never get punished no matter what they do; but if a teacher had been discovered to know about drug activities of another school employee as was the case alleged about Ms. Etherege’s daughter and if a teacher had failed to report the situation--even it were apocryphal as Edgecomb‘s daughter’s case perhaps was, that teacher would be the object of a lightening-fast Professional Standards Gestapo shake down and would be out the door on unemployment compensation before you could say “administrative perks.”<br /><br />The Edgecomb offspring had not only the tradition of never punishing administrators to rely on in the drug situation but also enjoyed the protection of being a child of a board member. Board attorney Tom Gonzalez would have temporarily ceased slurping soda and chomping chips on the podium and rushed to dip into his mouthpiece bag of tricks to construct a footnote to a footnote to make Elia’s daughter not only guiltless for covering up a dangerous drug situation but also being beatified to boot along with a first Nobel recommendation signed by all the board and administration who have only recently learned what a Nobel<br /><br />One significant way that the board and administration keep teachers oppressed is this tactic of job threats via the Professional Standards gauntlet. I asked for files on teachers’ Professional Standards charges: I got a stack. I asked for administrator files with Professional Standards charged lodged against them: zilch. Thus the board and administration have the power to keep teachers silent with a targeted program of Professional Standards charges making them fear losing their jobs. This sicko sadistic power gives the board and administration the control of teachers’ ability to earn a livelihood. This power renders teachers quiet.<br /><br />The heads of Professional Standards is Linda Kipley, whom I have observed wearing see-through plastic baby dolls on the job. She was principal at Hillsborough High, but she was so bad that teachers refused to go into a conference with her unless equipped with a recorder so likely is Kiplely to lie and manufacture things that have not occurred in an interview.<br /><br />So bad the situation got at Hillsborough that the superintendent and her thugs switched Kipley into the head of Professional Standards. Kipley has a home-ec degree that sunsetted in the Pleistocene Age in the academic world yet Kipley occupies a vital, extravagantly paid position that should require a psychology or criminal justice degree or at least some degree with more academic heft that a home ec certificate. The job description did say it requires a master’s-degree job, but Ms. Elia ignored the formula for a creature she could manipulate to file empty charges against teachers to keep them mum. That was the maneuver Kipley pulled off in my friend Bart Birdsall’s case. He spoke out in the community against the strictures put on gays’ use of the county libraries passed by the Hillsborough County Commission under the urging of Rhonda Storms. Besides, Ms. Elia can overrule any education prerequisite. People crawl out on all fours when leaving her office so powerful is the position she has of not only telling the school employees what to do but also telling her putative pusillanimous board bosses where to get off. So shallow is the board’s mental capacity that it does not know what degrees signify and thus avoid the subject at all costs, going by the instructions of a Ouija board behind the board dais.<br /><br />The Professional Standards head job got no advertising despite the ubiquitous assurance from the board that it is “an equal-employment-opportunity employer.” This lack of competition for job hires violates Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act and violates as well the federal contracts that the school has that all require affirmative action plans for disabled people and equal-opportunity protocols.<br /><br />But what are federal laws when pitted against the fulsome powers of the Hillsborough County School Board and administration quidnuncs?<br /><br />Delusions of grandeur burgeon a side affliction that the board and administration rapidly acquire. We are talking about little people who acquire a little power and don’t know how to handle it.<br /><br />It’s Alice in Wonderland big time in the ROSSAC country on the other side of the looking glass. The superintendent creates buddy jobs ad lib. Not one board member has ever asked for a needs study to prove these empty jobs are needed. Not one has ever suggested that the superintendent can one of these unneeded buddy jobs. Not one board member has ever rebuked Ms. Elia for this money-eating practice either publicly on the board podium or in her yearly evaluation. So the board is complicit in funding bogus jobs that strain the budget and could find use in not reducing the pay of bus drivers and other marginal workers; or it cound find use in supplying student needs.<br /><br />Ldd<br /><br /><br />Email from Doris Raskin, appeal attorney for Renee Anderson:<br /><br />From: Doris Landis Raskin [mailto:dlawraskin@bellsouth.net]<br />Sent: Sunday, November 14, 2010 11:16 AM<br />To: tdecesar@tampabay.rr.com<br />Subject:<br /><br />Renee's case is concluded unjustly and unfairly. The appellate court found a completely new fact, i.e., that the board had offered Renee an alternative placement. If that were true, we would never have filed a case. When a case is decided at the appellate level, the only thing left is an appeal to the Supreme Court. There is no jurisdictional issue for the Supreme Court. The appellate court tanked it by finding a fact not in evidence.<br /><br />Thank you for your kind words. I am not proud of the writing, but I am proud of the content. Cases are not decided on how well the brief is written, but the legal issues, the application of the facts to the issues, and the rule of law. In Renee's case, I believe it was decided on personalities. Susan Bucklew, a favorite of the appellate court, and a former high school English teacher in the defendant school system who had to know all of the good old boys involved, should have recused herself, but didn't. I didn't know about her until I read her wild hair of a decision and did some research.<br /><br />Doris Landis Raskin<br /><br /><br /><br />January 12, 2011<br /><br /><br />Ms. Cobbe:<br /><br />Please provide me with the following public information. This is my 3rd request for these data according to my records:<br /><br />The hiring history of Ms. Elia, including the applications of her competitors as well as the application of Ms. Elia; copies of the advertising done and in what national organs and at what cost to the taxpayers; a copy of the stenographic notes of the board’s exhanges on the hiring of Ms. Elia, especially the conversation about lowering the Ph.D. requirement to a master’s, Ms. Elia’s terminal degree;<br /><br />The hiring history of Mr. Tom Gonzalez, including the advertising of the job and the cost to taxpayers of that required advertising; the applications of Mr. Gonzalez and of other attorneys for the job; any discussion recorded stenographically of the board’s remarks during the attorney’s hiring conference(s); This is my second request for this material;<br /><br />The school’s court records of the Renee Anderson case;<br />this is my second request for these data.<br /><br />Thank you. When you have assembled these documents, please email me, and I will come in from the beach to review them.<br /><br />Lee Drury De Cesare<br />15316 Gulf Boulevard 802<br />Madeira Beach, FL 33708<br /><br /><br />-----Original Message-----<br />From: Tom De Cesare [mailto:tdecesar@tampabay.rr.com]<br />Sent: Monday, January 10, 2011 6:39 PM<br />To: 'foy333@aol.com'<br />Subject: FW:<br /></span><br /></span></i></b> <!-- Site Meter XHTML Strict 1.0 --><script type="text/javascript" src="http://s41.sitemeter.com/js/counter.js?site=s41twinkobie"></script><!-- Copyright (c)2006 Site Meter -->twinkobiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07865056039680988073noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28089922.post-67182059531760746952011-01-19T06:42:00.001-08:002011-01-21T00:01:09.737-08:00Behind Closed Doors<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_dl8vHbrr-vU/TTkwUcg3rvI/AAAAAAAADmQ/15k6zqkZs8c/s1600/florence.JPG"><br /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_dl8vHbrr-vU/TTb5lL0N1OI/AAAAAAAADlg/6GM7i9YjXnY/s1600/bashers.png"><img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 342px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_dl8vHbrr-vU/TTb5lL0N1OI/AAAAAAAADlg/6GM7i9YjXnY/s400/bashers.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5563908806885102818" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">DORETHA EDGECOMB, BOARD CHAIR: “LET’S MOVE THE CONSENT AGENDA WITHOUT EXAMINING IT SO THAT I CAN GET HOME TO WATCH A LAWRENCE Welk RERUN”; ROBERT HEILMAN: RIVERVIEW TO RENEE ANDERSON: “GET OFF MY SCHOOL GROUNDS!” PRINCIPAL; CRYBABY KENNETH MASSENA, “OFFICER THAT BAD GIRL AGGRAVATEDLY ASSAULTED MY DELICATE 240-POUNF BODY.”</span> <span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></span><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_dl8vHbrr-vU/TTkwUcg3rvI/AAAAAAAADmQ/15k6zqkZs8c/s1600/florence.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_dl8vHbrr-vU/TTkwUcg3rvI/AAAAAAAADmQ/15k6zqkZs8c/s400/florence.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5564531942402535154" border="0" /></a> <span style="font-weight: bold;">Lee De Cesare, <span style="font-style: italic;">CRC</span> author, stands outside Florence waiting go go commune with David and then to see Machiavelli, another, Florentine, to have him sign her copy of The Prince and to advise her how to stymie the Hillsborough </span> <span style="font-weight: bold;">County School Board administrative and board thugs in their quest to destroy black student </span> <span style="font-weight: bold;">Renee Anderson in the tangled web of pupil expuslion that discriminates against black students.</span><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:180%;" >BOARD JOBS RACKET</span><br /></div><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">The below comment by the reader adds another dimension to the discussion of board performance. </span> <span style="font-weight: bold;">This information suggests that on reason that Ms. Edgecomb ran for the board was to protect her daughter’s career. 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bold;font-family:georgia;font-size:12pt;" ><span style="font-size:130%;">Edgecomb has one goal, and that is to not make trouble for her daughter who is an</span> <span style="font-size:130%;">Assistant Principal or maybe now a Principal. Whenever someone does or doesn't do something it is usually for personal gain. In this case she is protecting her daughter. Supposedly, her daughter worked under a principal who got arrested for drugs on campus. Word on the</span> <span style="font-size:85%;">street is that Edgecomb's daughter knew about this and should have reported it but didn't. </span><span style="font-size:130%;">Corruption lives on! </span></span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /></span> <span style="font-weight: bold;">Jack Lamb also has a daughter in the school system administration I believe. Candy Olson is reputed to arrange jobs for people. </span> <span style="font-weight: bold;">Mr. Lamb sits in morose inertia on the board dais. The only time he came alive in my memory was when I spoke against his using school board secretarial help and mailing procedures; he came off his seat and would have vaulted the desk to throttle me if he had not been too fat for the maneuver. He had to content himself with telling me to “Stay across the bay [my husband and I live in our condo on Madeira Beach] and don’t come over here any more as if I were a wet back swimming to the US from Mexico or some other Latin outpost.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">The board-and-superintendent hiring scam ranks one of the perquisites of the board and superintendent job: it consists of hiring buddies and hangers on and creating jobs at taxpayer expense. Elia hired the former assistant superintendent Jim Hamilton after he retired, never having learned the difference between “your” and “you’re.” The marginally literate Hamilton got a lobbying slot without justifying Elia’s justifying it with a needs study.<br /><br /></span><span style="font-weight: bold;">God forbid that the board cared enough to demand a needs study for a superfluous buddy job that soaks the taxpayers. I heard the pay was between $64,000 and $94,000 a year. That’s buddy pay.</span> <span style="font-weight: bold;">The board never thinks to ask for a needs study for any of Ms. Elia’s jobs-program positions.<br /><br />Hamilton’s wife divorced him because he pushed through doxie Connie Mileto’s candidacy for the Tallahassee position despite her being a kindergarten teacher. </span> <span style="font-weight: bold;">A candidate with a political degree or a history degree should have gotten that job.<br /><br />At its zenith, this irregular personnel venture was the talk of the schools. Janitors vetted the latest data in mop closets. Grounds keepers traded the latest gossip while tamping down divots. Cafeteria workers explored the most recent post while mopping up the tables.<br /><br /></span><span style="font-weight: bold;">My overview of this saga is incredulity that any woman could think "Your" "Your" Hamilton a suitable swain no matter how many jobs he can hand her. One supposes his hygiene is hit or miss. He schleps around looking like an unmade bed in suits the pants of which bag low and contain nothing. I never saw him pick his nose. But I wouldn't put it past him.<br /><br /></span><h1 id="firstHeading" class="firstHeading"><span style="font-size:130%;">De gustibus non est disputandum.</span></h1><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /><br />Now Hamilton and Mileto are back in Tallahassee as a lobbying pas de deux. I guess this means his poor wife, who had remarried the old goat, will now have to divorce him again.</span> <span style="font-weight: bold;">Ms. Elia’s job-creation lockdown recently resulted in a job created for the dumped principal Smith in the Alafia brouhaha.<br /><br /><br /><br />The Alafia parents refused to have Smith principal any more, and even Elia’s promising them that she would send both Smith and her vice principal to Eckerd for a personality makeover at $4500 a pop of tax money if they would keep Smith did not propitiate </span><span style="font-weight: bold;">lobotomy o because the administration and board couldn’t stand the bad Alafia publicity’s being printed by the usually somnolent press,<br /><br />Elia sent Lie-about-educational credentials GED Griffin and former board member Motel-breath Jennifer Falliero out to Alafia to a secret rendezvous with Smith to lure her to resign her job with the understanding that Elia would create an empty job but at full principal pay and benefits as compensation.</span> <span style="font-weight: bold;">The false job offer worked. Smith got the pretend job and is probably sitting somewhere in the book depository now paring her nails.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">I asked for the job’s description as public information. After about two weeks had given personnel honcho Valdez the time to fake one, I got a copy of the job description; then I asked who inhabited the job before Smith: no answer.<br /><br />QED: it’s an out-of-thin-air job devised by Elia at taxpayer expense to solve a bad-publicity problem. The board has endowed Elia with this create-jobs perquisite as part of the superintendent’s benefits. </span> <span style="font-weight: bold;">Why not? We’re talking about taxpayer play money that the board and administration use to preen their power and solve their personnel problems. For them, tax money is play money.</span> <span style="font-weight: bold;">The unspoken rule is that administrators never get punished no matter what they do; but if a teacher had been discovered to know about drug activities of another school employee as was the case with Ms. Edgcomb’s daughter and if a teacher had failed to report the situation--even it were apocryphal as Edgecomb‘s daughter’s case perhaps was, that teacher would be the object of a lightening-fast Professional Standards Gestapo shake down and out the door on unemployment compensation before you could say “administrative perks.”<br /><br /></span><span style="font-weight: bold;">The Edgecomb offspring had not only the tradition of never punishing administrators to rely on but also enjoyed the protection of being the a child of a board member. Board attorney Tom Gonzalez would have temporarily ceased drinking soda and eating chips on the podium and rushed in his mouthpiece bag of tricks to construct a footnote to a footnote to make Elia’s daughter not only guiltless for covering up a drug danger but also being beatified to boot along with a Nobel recommendation signed by all the board and administration that have only recently learned what a Nobel </span> <span style="font-weight: bold;">is.<br /><br />One significant way that the board and administration keep teachers oppressed is the tactic of job threats via the Professional Standards gauntlet. I asked for files on teachers’ Professional Standards charges: I got a stack. I asked for administrator files with Professional Standards charged lodged against them: zilch. Thus the board and administration have the power to keep teachers silent with a targeted program for fear of losing their jobs. This coercion cancels teachers' free speech rights.<br /><br />This sicko sadistic power gives the board and administration the control of teachers’ ability to earn a livelihood. This power renders teachers quiet.</span> <span style="font-weight: bold;">The head of Professional Standards is one Linda Kipley, whom I have observed wearing see-through plastic baby dolls on the job. She was principal at Hillsborough High, but she was bad. Teachers refused to go into a conference with her unless equipped with a recorder so likely she is to lie and manufacture things that have not occurred in an interview.<br /><br /></span><span style="font-weight: bold;">So bad the situation got at Hillsborough that the superintendent and his--this was during Earl the Pearl Lennard's hegemony-- thugs switched Kipley into the head of Professional Standards. Kipley has a home-ec degree that went out in the Pleistocene Age in the academic world yet occupies a vital, extravagantly paid position that should require a psychology or criminal justice degree. The job description did say it is a master’s-degree job, but Ms. Elia ignored the formula.<br /><br />Ms. Elia can overrule any education prerequisite. Ms. Elia's puissance is such that she can negate Newton's laws of gravity. She can change Einstein's E equal MC squared to E equal MC quadrupled. She can leap tall buildings in a single bounds. She can deflect bullets with her impervious bullet-beating bracelets. You name it. Ms. Elia can do it.<br /><br />One reason the board members do not challenge Ms. Elia on playing with degrees in such cases as La Kipley's is that they are not sophisticated enough to know what degrees mean in terms of academic heft and suitability ; they don't know the their relative place in the academic scale of gravity. They suspect they are out of their depth and thus avoid degree suitability at all costs, going by the instuctions of a Ouji board behind the board dais in a pinch.</span> <span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /><br />The Professional Standards head job got no advertising despite the ubiquitous assurance from the board that it is “an equal-employment-opportunity employer.” This lack of competition for job hires violates Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act and violates as well the federal contracts that the school has that all require affirmative action plans for disabled people and equal-opportunity protocols.</span> <span style="font-weight: bold;">But what are federal laws when pitted against the fulsome powers of the Hillsborough County School Board and administration quidnuncs?</span> <span style="font-weight: bold;">Delusions of grandeur burgeon, a side affliction that the board and administration rapidly acquire.<br /><br />The rule is that when little people get a little power, they act, well, little.<br /><br />Meanwhile, this jobs-racket abuse is not only hurting taxpayers; it is hurting as well the marginal employees in the school system too timid or too unsophisticated to protect themselves. 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font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;} </style> <![endif]--> <p class="MsoPlainText"> <span style="font-size:180%;">E-mail from Renee's appeals attorney:<br /></span></p> <p style="font-weight: bold;" class="MsoPlainText"><a name="_MailOriginal">-----Original Message-----<br />From: Tom De Cesare [mailto:tdecesar@tampabay.rr.com]<br />Sent: Monday, January 10, 2011 6:39 PM<br />To: 'foy333@aol.com'<br />Subject: FW: </a></p> <p style="font-weight: bold;" class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-size:180%;"><span style=""> </span></span></p> <p style="font-weight: bold;" class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-size:180%;"><span style="">This email below came from the attorney who argued the appellate case for student Renee Anderson.</span></span></p> <p style="font-weight: bold;" class="MsoPlainText"><span style=""> </span></p> <p style="font-weight: bold;" class="MsoPlainText"><span style="">-----Original Message-----</span></p> <p style="font-weight: bold;" class="MsoPlainText"><span style="">From: Doris Landis Raskin [mailto:dlawraskin@bellsouth.net] </span></p> <p style="font-weight: bold;" class="MsoPlainText"><span style="">Sent: Sunday, November 14, 2010 11:16 AM</span></p> <p style="font-weight: bold;" class="MsoPlainText"><span style="">To: tdecesar@tampabay.rr.com</span></p> <p style="font-weight: bold;" class="MsoPlainText"><span style="">Subject: </span></p> <p style="font-weight: bold;" class="MsoPlainText"><span style=""> </span></p> <p style="font-weight: bold;" class="MsoPlainText"><span style="">Renee's case is concluded unjustly and unfairly.<span style=""> </span>The appellate court found a completely new fact, i.e., that the board had offered Renee an alternative placement.<span style=""> </span>If that were true, we would never have filed a case. When a case is decided at the appellate level, the only thing left is an appeal to the Supreme Court.<span style=""> </span>There is no jurisdictional issue for the Supreme Court.<span style=""> </span>The appellate court tanked it by finding a fact not in evidence.<span style=""> </span></span></p> <p style="font-weight: bold;" class="MsoPlainText"><span style="">Thank you for your kind words. I am not proud of the writing, but I am proud of the content.<span style=""> </span>Cases are not decided on how well the brief is written, but the legal issues, the application of the facts to the issues, and the rule of law.<span style=""> </span>In Renee's case, I believe it was decided on personalities. Susan Bucklew, a favorite of the appellate court, and a former high school English teacher in the defendant school system who had to know all of the good old boys involved, should have recused herself, but didn't.<span style=""> </span>I didn't know about her until I read her wild hair of a decision and did some research.<span style=""> </span></span></p> <p style="font-weight: bold;" class="MsoPlainText"><span style="">Doris Landis Raskin</span></p> <p style="font-weight: bold;" class="MsoPlainText"><span style=""> </span></p> <p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="mailto:dlawraskin@bellsouth.net"><span style=""><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none;">dlawraskin@bellsouth.net</span></span></a><span style=""></span></p>twinkobiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07865056039680988073noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28089922.post-41251793003009041932011-01-14T11:42:00.000-08:002011-01-18T06:59:33.913-08:00Students as Board and Administration Punching Bags<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_dl8vHbrr-vU/TTJpbRwuMGI/AAAAAAAADkw/mz8RJYVlnmU/s1600/bashers.png"><img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 342px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_dl8vHbrr-vU/TTJpbRwuMGI/AAAAAAAADkw/mz8RJYVlnmU/s400/bashers.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5562624407101124706" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:180%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Board and administration Villains:<br /><br />Board Chair <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">Doretha</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">Edgcomb</span>; </span> <span style="font-weight: bold;">Riverview Principal Robert <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2">Heilmann</span>;<br />Riverview Vice Principal Kevin <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3">Massena</span></span></span><br />_____________________________<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Overheard patter by an under- the-podium free-lance elf of those supposed to<br />be minding the store</span>:<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4">DORETHA</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5">EDGECOMB</span>, BOARD CHAIR: “LET’S MOVE THE CONSENT AGENDA WITHOUT EXAMINING IT SO THAT I CAN GET HOME IN TIME TO WATCH THE LAWRENCE <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_6">WELK</span> RE-RUN”; <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_7">RIVERVIEW</span> PRINCIPAL ROBERT <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_8">HEILMAN</span>: “GET OFF MY SCHOOL GROUNDS!” TO RENEE ANDERSON: I’<span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_9">VE</span><span style="font-weight: bold;"> GOT TO GO AS REF A </span></span><span style="font-weight: bold;">GAME.”</span><span style="font-weight: bold;"> </span><span style="font-weight: bold;">KENNETH <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_10">MASSENA</span>: </span><span style="font-weight: bold;">"WHERE'S </span><span style="font-weight: bold;">THE GRUB?"</span><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_dl8vHbrr-vU/TTCn7V61ciI/AAAAAAAADjk/2NP4Uzflg5w/s1600/Renee%252C%2BPicture%2Blarge.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 343px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_dl8vHbrr-vU/TTCn7V61ciI/AAAAAAAADjk/2NP4Uzflg5w/s400/Renee%252C%2BPicture%2Blarge.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5562130177740599842" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Renee Anderson, student victim of the <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_11">Hillsborough</span> County School Board and especially victim of Aunt Tom <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_12">Doretha</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_13">Edgcomb</span></span></span><br /></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_dl8vHbrr-vU/TTCny3n_oJI/AAAAAAAADjc/XbhPsraWqXY/s1600/florence%2Bsmall.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 225px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_dl8vHbrr-vU/TTCny3n_oJI/AAAAAAAADjc/XbhPsraWqXY/s400/florence%2Bsmall.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5562130032169558162" border="0" /></a> <a style="font-weight: bold;" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_dl8vHbrr-vU/TTCnnMHa45I/AAAAAAAADjU/WpX3Kl4w6co/s1600/bashers.png">Author Lee on he outskirts of Florence, going to commune with David, then visiting another Florentine, Machiavelli, to get his autograph on her copy of<span style="font-style: italic;"> The Prince</span> and to pick his brains about how to stop the <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_14">Hillsborough</span> County board and administration from savaging suspension victims such as Renee Anderson.<br /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_dl8vHbrr-vU/TTCnb5VwN8I/AAAAAAAADjM/hm4_fPWRtKA/s1600/Ethridge%2Breduced.jpg"><br /></a> <span style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_15">Doretha</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_16">Edgecomb</span>, Principal Robert <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_17">Heilmann</span>, and Kenneth <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_18">Massena</span> and other school leaders cooperated in the suspension of student Renee Anderson. They ignored the suspension rules in the policy handbook.</span> <span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /><br /></span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:180%;" >Never forget the details of Renee Anderson’s crucifixion during her expulsion. They are these:</span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /><br /></span><span style="font-weight: bold;">--Principal <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_19">Heilmann</span> chased her across the parking lot of <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_20">Riverview</span> School, yelling at her, “Get off my school grounds! Get off my school grounds!’</span> <span style="font-weight: bold;">--Renee got no chance to tell her side of the story: that she was trying to break up a fight between two friends.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">--The 240 pound vice principal <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_21">Massena</span> immured Renee in his office, barring the door with his bulk. He prattled to the cops that Renee had committed “aggravated assault” on him as she brushed past to go home as her mother had told her to do in a cell-phone call;</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">--That <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_22">Heilmann</span> had called the cops before he left his office, presupposing Renee’s guilt and alerting them to arrest Renee;<br /><br /></span> <span style="font-weight: bold;">--That Principal <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_23">Heilmann</span> stood by while the cops arrested Renee and cuffed her. forgetting his <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_24">principal's</span> duty to protect a student and see that she gets due process;<br /><br /></span> <span style="font-weight: bold;">---That Renee spent the night in lock-up without anybody’s bothering to hear her side of the story;</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">---That Mr. Kenneth <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_25">Otero</span>, assistant superintendent, claimed he was unable to deliver a notice of the board hearing of Renee’s case because it did not occur to this highly paid, long-<span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_26">serving</span> vice <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_27">superintendent</span> that the <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_28">Waltons</span> had left their forwarding address at the post office when they moved to another city so that Renee could have a more wholesome environment in which to finish her high school degree;<br /><br /></span> <span style="font-weight: bold;">--That the board did not bother to ensure that the <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_29">Waltons</span> and Renee would appear at a hearing that the protocol expulsion procedure guarantees a student;</span> <span style="font-weight: bold;">nor did the board do a follow-up when the </span>W<span style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_30">altons</span> and Renee did not appear at the board hearing.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">--That Ms. <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_31">Edgecomb</span>, the board’s only black member, is especially guilty of the abuse of a black child whom she should have insured got fair treatment because she knew that black children are one and one-half times more likely to be suspended than white children;</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">--that the board treated Renee’s tragedy as just one more consent-agenda item to punch the green button for during the board meeting with no board member’s--especially Ms. <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_32">Edgecomb</span>--bothering to ask where Renee and her parents were for the hearing because board printed board protocols says they are to be at the hearing;</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">--that when Renee returned to school after her ordeal, having done community service, the board and administration offered no follow-up counseling to Renee but instead told her that she would go to an alternative school and could not apply for <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_33">scholarships</span> for college.</span><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:180%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_34">Hillsborough</span> County School Board Jobs Racket</span></span><br /></div><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">The below comment by a Casting-room Couch reader adds another dimension to the discussion of board louche performance.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 51, 153);"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_35">Edgecomb</span> has one goal and that is to not make trouble for her daughter who is an Assistant Principal or maybe now a Principal. Whenever someone does or doesn't do something, it is usually for personal gain. In this case, she is protecting her daughter. Supposedly, her daughter worked under a principal who got arrested for drugs on campus. Word on the street is that <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_36">Edgecomb's</span> daughter knew about this and should have reported it but didn't. Corruption lives on!</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">This information suggests that the major reason Ms. <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_37">Edgecomb</span> ran for the board was to protect her daughter’s career. It certainly <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_38">wasn</span>’t her goal to help black children as the Renee Anderson case and Ms. <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_39">Edgecombe</span>’s record of silence on the protection of this black child’s rights demonstrates.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_40">Edgecomb</span> should have protested the Gates grant‘s use for scrutiny of teachers’ classroom performance as if pedagogical style were quantifiable. The data from this Gates exercise will find use as another of the administration’s weapons against teachers--another way to threaten their jobs if they don’t shut up and never criticize the administration and board. The board has stripped teachers of their free-speech rights by threatening their jobs if they exercise these rights.<br /><br />The Gates exercise will not help teachers be better in the classroom but will assist the board and administration’s joint efforts to shut them up and make them ciphers in the system. The Gates grant should have addressed the pathology of ubiquitous discrimination against black children and its solution.</span> <span style="font-weight: bold;">Or it should have concentrated on the status of free speech in the schools.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Nor only does <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_41">Edgecomb</span> ignore black children's needs in her board position but also ignores making her community a factor in the school system. I have never heard <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_42">Edgecomb</span> in the over two years that I monitored the board suggest a school be named for a black person, which means that the schools get the names of mediocre white guys who can't make their subjects and verbs agree--usually coaches.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Had </span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_43">Edgecomb</span></span><span style="font-weight: bold;"> cared that black children in the schools get suspended at higher rates than white children, are more likely to be labeled retarded, are less likely to earn honors, and less likely to graduate on time than white students, she would have insisted that the Gates grant go to investigating and curing this pathology. But Ms. </span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_44">Edgecomb</span></span><span style="font-weight: bold;"> is content to be the board resident Aunt Tom, never acknowledging that minority children need her attention and support.</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Jack Lamb also has a daughter in the school system administration that he hedges round with his board status and considerable bulk. Candy Olson is reputed to arrange jobs for people.</span> <span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /><br />Mr. Lamb sits in morose composure on the board dais. The only time he came alive in my memory was when I spoke against his using school board secretarial help and board stationery to ask the mayor to lower his condo‘s water bill. He came off his seat and would have vaulted the desk to throttle me had he not been too fat for the maneuver. He had to content himself with telling me to “Stay across the bay [I live on the Gulf of Mexico] and don’t come over here any more.”<br /><br />Le Jack made it sound as if I were a wet back swimming to the US from South America.<br /><br /></span><span style="font-weight: bold;">I should have asked “Dr.” Lamb for a copy of his doctoral dissertation. I suspect that a poor graduate student ghosted it. It I want to do a forensics examination on this <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_45">soi</span>-<span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_46">disant</span> dissertation to prove he did not write it but bought and paid for it.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">An incredible hiring scam ranks one of the perquisites of the board and superintendent job: it consists of hiring no-talent relatives, buddies, and assorted empty-headed </span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_47">ding dongs</span></span><span style="font-weight: bold;"> usually for pricey administrative sinecures for which they have not a scintilla of preparation or relevant education.</span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /><br /></span><span style="font-weight: bold;">And then there is the scam of creating jobs at taxpayer expense. Prime example: Elia hired the former assistant superintendent Jim Hamilton after he retired to rev up his consulting firm to milk schools with which he had been in contact in his years of mooching off taxpayers as a high-level administrator despite never having learned the difference between “your” and “you’re.”</span><span style="font-weight: bold;"> </span><span style="font-weight: bold;">The marginally literate Hamilton got his recent </span><span style="font-weight: bold;" class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_48">Hillsborough</span><span style="font-weight: bold;"> County schools lobbying slot without Elia’s justifying it with a needs study.<br /><br />God forbid that the board cared enough to demand a needs study for one of these superfluous buddy jobs that soak taxpayers. But a few </span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_49">respirations</span></span><span style="font-weight: bold;"> past entering <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_50">ROSSAC</span>, board members’ coming into office roll over and assume board automaton </span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_51">group think</span></span><span style="font-weight: bold;">.<br /><br />Elia’s word is law to these board androids.</span><span style="font-weight: bold;"> </span><span style="font-weight: bold;">I heard that “you’re”-“your” Hamilton’s lobby-lord pay clocks in at between $64,000 and $94,000 a year. That’s buddy pay. It </span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_52">doesn</span></span><span style="font-weight: bold;">’t come out of Ms. Elia’s or the board’s pockets but the pockets of taxpayers. So why should they care?</span><span style="font-weight: bold;"> </span><span style="font-weight: bold;">The board never thinks to ask for a needs study for any of Ms. Elia’s jobs-program positions. They just press the green button and let the good times roll.</span><span style="font-weight: bold;"> </span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /><br />Hamilton’s wife divorced him several years ago because he pushed past qualified candidates then-</span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_53">doxie</span></span><span style="font-weight: bold;"> Connie </span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_54">Mileto</span></span><span style="font-weight: bold;">’s ascension to the Tallahassee position of Chief Government Relations Officer' Her credentials: kindergarten teacher. This romance got attention school wide. Everybody knew about it. Janitors vetted its status by swapping latest tidbits in mop closets; groundskeepers traded data whilst leveling clods; lunchroom workers explored the fine points during lunch preparations.<br /><br />The Hamilton-<span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_55">Mileto</span> tale was one of those baleful There’s-no-fool-like-an-old-fool sagas, with Ms. </span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_56">Mileto's</span></span><span style="font-weight: bold;"> triumphing by having in addition to her kindergarten certificate a PH.D. in bamboozling an old fool to climb the ladder to a job for which she lacked credentials.<br /><br /></span><span style="font-weight: bold;">A candidate with a political degree or a history degree should have gotten that job. Now, thanks to Ms. Elia’s hiring You’re-Your Hamilton with no competition for the unneeded extra lobbying job, which </span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_57">Mileto</span></span><span style="font-weight: bold;">’s job should encompass anyway, Hamilton and </span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_58">Mileto</span></span><span style="font-weight: bold;"> are back in Tallahassee as lobbying pas </span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_59">de</span></span><span style="font-weight: bold;"> </span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_60">deux</span></span><span style="font-weight: bold;">.<br /><br />I guess this meet-up in Tallahassee means his poor wife, who had remarried the old goat incredibly enough when <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_61">Mileto</span> espied younger swains in Tallahassee and dumped him. Now the put-upon wife will have to divorce this Your-you're swain again.</span><span style="font-weight: bold;"> </span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /><br />Did the board intervene in this quaint tale of concupiscence and ambition? Not on your life. They liked trading the latest hot tidbits on the story on the board dais instead of attending to the the dull business of the schools. As a matter of record, at one meeting I went to, the board chorused "ta ta to somebody going to Tallahassee. Several even sang out, "Be sure to tell Jim and Connie 'hello.'"<br /><br />The mystery of this bizarre tale that remains for me is how Hamilton was able to attract any woman, even given his aphrodisac of power in inserting a candidate into a job that she was not qualified for. Hamilton shuffles around looking like an unmade bed; his clothes are rumpled; his pants are rump-sprung, bag low, and contain nothing, and one intuits that Your-you're Hamilton's hygiene is woefully deficient. Go figure.<br /><br />This delectation of on-site concupiscence explains why the board and administration tolerated the affair that Motel Breath <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_62">Falliero</span> carried on with Community Affairs head Marc Hart for two administrations. When it finally seeped out, Ms. Elia directed Buchenwald alumnus Ken <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_63">Otero</span> to fire Hart for drinking on the job. Fornicating on the job: no problem. Drinking on the job: hideous <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_64">immorality</span> and out the door.<br /><br />Mata <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_65">Hari</span> Motel Breath <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_66">Falliero</span> lost her seat in the recent election. I hope I contributed to that outcome by <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_67">writing</span> fundamentalist churches in <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_68">Falliero's</span> district and apprising them of the board Jezebel's activities in vivid language.<br /><br />Exposure is always the answer to these situations. I come from a small Georgia town whose church populations in the ladies guilds who make all the potato salad for the <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_69">church</span> hoedowns do not brook fornication especially when it injures four children as was the case in the <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_70">Falliero</span>-Hart situation.<br /><br /><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_71">Falliero</span> once had me kicked out of the board room in payback for my exposing her adultery after Marc Hart came to my home and showed me relevant <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_72">depositions</span>. She had cooked up a scene with the hulking head of Security to evict me. This gallant law officer snarled at me in the lobby that he was going to have the police come and arrest me. I said, "Go ahead, buster." I would have loved to have sat in jail in the cause of public-office decency. My ten grandchildren would have gone wild with delight if their granny went to jail; my husband of 55 years would have brought me my medications whilst complaining that he was starving to death because he can't boil water. My adventure would have been ritually recited for the next hundred years at all family Thanksgiving summits.<br /><br /><br />Ms. Elia’s job-creation </span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_73">lock down</span></span><span style="font-weight: bold;"> recently resulted in a job created for the principal Smith featured in the </span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_74">Alafia</span></span><span style="font-weight: bold;"> brouhaha. The <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_75">Alafia</span> parents refused to have Smith principal any more, and even Elia’s promising them that she would send both Smith and her vice principal to </span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_76">Eckerd</span></span><span style="font-weight: bold;"> for a personality lobotomy at $4500 a pop of tax money if they would keep Smith did not propitiate them.</span><span style="font-weight: bold;"> </span><span style="font-weight: bold;">Hence, because the administration and board </span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_77">couldn</span></span><span style="font-weight: bold;">’t stand the bad </span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_78">Alafia</span></span><span style="font-weight: bold;"> publicity’s being printed by the usually somnolent press.<br /><br />Elia sent Lie-about-educational-credentials GED Griffin and former board member Motel-breath Jennifer </span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_79">Falliero</span></span><span style="font-weight: bold;"> skulking out to </span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_80">Alafia</span></span><span style="font-weight: bold;"> to a secret rendezvous with Smith to lure her to resign her job with the understanding that Elia would create an empty job but at full principal pay and benefits as compensation.</span><span style="font-weight: bold;"> </span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /><br />GED Griffin suffers the delusion that she is a superior diplomat and that this diplomatic mission to Smith was just one more illustration of how Bismarck should roll over in his grave in envy of her diplomatic acumen. She would also impugn the political skills of Disraeli and Gladstone if she knew who they were.<br /><br />What Griffin engaged in was not diplomacy. It was sneaking, lying, and sticking the taxpayers whom she is supposed to serve with another manufactured, empty job to solve a political problem for the board and Elia.</span><span style="font-weight: bold;"> </span><span style="font-weight: bold;">The </span><span style="font-weight: bold;">SPT</span><span style="font-weight: bold;"> interviewed La Griffin over the Christmas holiday. Not only did it report that she lied to the </span><span style="font-weight: bold;">SPT</span><span style="font-weight: bold;"> about her education but also had cheated the state out of the fees she left on the </span><span style="font-weight: bold;">HCC</span><span style="font-weight: bold;"> books when she exited several years ago. This latter contrtemps ticked me off because I had been a professor at HCC for twenty-eight years before retiring and felt some concern for its financial status.<br /><br /></span><span style="font-weight: bold;">Stealing money from the taxpayers who pay La Motel Breath a bloated salary for sitting on the dais during monthly meetings is bad enough. But stiffing a community college that runs on tax funds is out-and-out theft. Therefore, if GED Griffin does not want to have “thief” added to her resume of “liar,” she must pay this tax money to </span><span style="font-weight: bold;">HCC, or some future intrepid opponent will sock the thief-liar sobriquet on her in a future campaign. Stacy White, the guy who unseated Falliero in the immediately preceding campaign, was not forceful enough to level those accurate charges. But we forgive Stacy because he has an adorable dimple, something sorely needed on a board not noted for its beauty.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Griffin should get her degree. My laid-back grandson just got his. If he can, she can. Thousands of working people tuck in classes around their schedules and finally make it. I used to have these turn up constantly when I taught. These go-getters were inevitably among my best students. With two universities and a community college available, GED Griffin could earn a degree if she buckled down and stopped blaming her mother’s multiple marriages for her failure to have the get up and go to earn her degree. Past 40 as is April, you must stop blaming your parents for your adult failures.<br /><br />Grown-ups don’t blame their parent for not getting a degree or anything else the person is responsible for.</span> <span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /><br />Harsh reader comments on the </span>SPT<span style="font-weight: bold;"> article in <span style="font-style: italic;">Tampa Bay Online</span> blog on Griffin’s lying about her meager education show this scam did not please the public. Some wrote to say they it shocked them that a school board member lacked a college degree.<br /><br />There are many things one without a college education can do, but board member of a school system is not one of them. Griffin’s unedited history shows she should not be on a school board because if she does not value her own education, she </span><span style="font-weight: bold;">doesn</span><span style="font-weight: bold;">’t value that of the county’s students.</span> <span style="font-weight: bold;">Griffin dropped out of high school and later got a GED. A GED is better than nothing. But is it good for students that Griffin, who should be a role model for them, dropped out of high school, that she did not bestir herself to go part-time and get her degree, that she lied to the press about her education when she ran for office, and that she stiffed a state-supported community college which she attended briefly? No and no and no and no.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Then when Griffin lies her way onto the board, she showed her ethics to be lacking when she pitched in to help Elia pull off a covert scam that soaks taxpayers to diminish bad publicity for Elia and board members so that they can keep the public in the dark and retain their power over the tax money that pours into </span><span style="font-weight: bold;">ROSSAC</span><span style="font-weight: bold;"> and retain such perks as handing out jobs to unqualified relatives, best buds, and peripatetic n’er do wells so that unqualified, lackadaisical people bestrew </span><span style="font-weight: bold;">ROSSAC</span><span style="font-weight: bold;">. When these deficient souls can’t do their tasks (recall the bus crisis) because of lack of smarts and/or lack of relevant education, they must have pricey tax-paid consultants fly in and teach them their jobs with flash cards.<br /><br />You will recall that in the bus saga after the situation forced Elia to hire an outside manager, the two replaced incompetents didn't face firing. Elia moved them to another office and continued their pay and benefits at the same rate. Such was the behavior of the financial whiz that Governor Edwards recently invited to help him review such things as school budgets.<br /><br />Taxpayers unknowingly fund this on-the-job training for the unfit in positions with bloated pay without the skills to justify it. The Public Affairs Laundromat sanitizes all information going out on the schools, and Elia and the board fire anybody--especially teachers--who out the dark deeds behind the ROSSAC moat.<br /><br />When the administration hires a person, that person should be qualified. </span> <span style="font-weight: bold;">The false job offer that GED Griffin and Motel Breath </span><span style="font-weight: bold;">Falliero</span><span style="font-weight: bold;"> peddled to </span><span style="font-weight: bold;">Alafia</span><span style="font-weight: bold;"> Smith worked. Smith got the pretend job that Elia pulled out of the dirty-tricks hat and is probably sitting somewhere in the book depository now paring her nails.<br /><br /></span><span style="font-weight: bold;">I asked for the job’s description as public information. After about two weeks had given personnel honcho Valdez the time to fake one, I got a copy of the job description. Then I asked who inhabited the job before Smith: no answer.<br /><br /></span><span style="font-weight: bold;">QED: it is an out-of-thin-air job devised by Elia at taxpayer expense to solve a bad-publicity problem. The board has endowed Elia with this create-jobs perquisite as part of the superintendent’s under-the-table benefits. Board members don’t care enough about taxpayers to stop the Board Consent Agenda's rolling belt, lift off a new job, and ask for a needs study and other justification for it.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Any board member who did ask for a job's justificationwould need the moxie to withstand the pounding that GED Griffin got from Carol </span><span style="font-weight: bold;">Kurdell</span><span style="font-weight: bold;"> and Candy Olson when Griffin, in the throes of idealism after she first joined the board, asked that a non-bid contract come off the Consent Agenda for scrutiny.</span> <span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /><br />This request raised the hackles of the board’s two </span><span style="font-weight: bold;">wild-heath </span><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">Macbeth</span><span style="font-weight: bold;"> cronettes</span><span style="font-weight: bold;">, who guard the venerable methods of wrongdoing that comprises what Ms. </span><span style="font-weight: bold;">Edgecomb</span><span style="font-weight: bold;"> in a rhetorical flight into the nut region of the stratosphere calls “institutional memory.” They gave Griffin a tongue-lashing, accusing her of “being disloyal to the staff.”</span> <span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /><br />Griffin, not the brightest crayon in the GED box, lacked the wit and spunk to tell Olson and </span><span style="font-weight: bold;">Kurdell</span><span style="font-weight: bold;"> that she served the public, not the staff. So distressed did this </span><span style="font-weight: bold;">Kurdell</span><span style="font-weight: bold;">-Olson onslaught make Griffin that she curled up into a fetal ball and has never unwound since except to do Ms. Elia’s bidding.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">This contemptible rollover occurs in every new board member and the public </span></span><span style="font-weight: bold;">bedamned</span><span style="font-weight: bold;">.</span><span style="font-weight: bold;"> </span> <span style="font-weight: bold;">We’re talking among other things about what the board and administration consider taxpayer play money that the board and administration use to make up jobs and pass them out to relatives, hangers-on, and sycophants to preen their power by abusing their control of tax monies.</span> <span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /><br />One would say this behavior is unethical and perhaps criminal. But the unspoken rule is that administrators never get punished no matter what they do.</span> <span style="font-weight: bold;">But if a teacher had been discovered to know about drug activities of another school employee as was the case alleged about Ms. </span><span style="font-weight: bold;">Edgcomb</span><span style="font-weight: bold;">’s daughter and if a teacher had failed to report the situation, that teacher would be the object of a lightening-fast Professional Standards Gestapo shake down and would be out the door on unemployment compensation before you could say “administrative perks.”</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">The Edgecomb offspring had not only the tradition of never punishing administrators to rely on in the not-reporting drug situation but also enjoyed the protection of being a child of a board member.<br /><br />Board attorney Tom Gonzalez would have temporarily ceased slurping soda and chomping chips on the podium under the "No food or beverages in this area" and hied to dip into his mouthpiece bag of tricks to construct a footnote to a footnote to make Elia’s daughter not only guiltless for covering up a dangerous drug situation but also worthy of being beatified to boot, not to mention a first Nobel recommendation signed by all the board and administration, who have only recently learned what a Nobel</span><span style="font-weight: bold;"> is. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">One significant way that the board and administration keep teachers oppressed is the tactic of job threats via the Professional Standards gauntlet. I asked for files on teachers’ Professional Standards charges: I got a stack. I asked for administrator files with Professional Standards charged lodged against them: zilch. Thus the board and administration have the power to keep teachers silent with a targeted program of Professional Standards charges making them fear losing their jobs.<br /><br />This sicko sadistic power gives the board and administration the control of teachers’ ability to earn a livelihood. This power renders teachers silent.</span> <span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /><br />The heads of Professional Standards is Linda Kipley, whom I have observed wearing see-through plastic baby dolls on the job. These babydolls are for sure an objective correlative. Ask T.S. Elliot about the metaphysical aura of plastic see-through babydolls.<br /><br />Kiply was principal at Hillsborough High, but she was so unprofessional that teachers refused to go into a conference with her unless equipped with a recorder so likely is Kiplely to lie and manufacture things that have not occurred in an interview.</span> <span style="font-weight: bold;">So bad the situation got at Hillsborough that the superintendent and his thugs switched Kipley into the head of Professional Standards slot, a move that validates teachers‘ motto of “If you mess up, you move up.”</span> <span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /><br />The superintendent then was Earl the Pearl Lennard. He had emerged from the dungeons where he was vo-tec head to lead the schools. His competitors greatly outranked him in degrees and experience as did Elia's, but Earl the Pearl was the choice because he was on-site and had made venerable stair-well arrangements to mop up the floor with the qualified candidates. There's another thesis I want to do a forensics assessment of. If Lennard wrote his thesis, it would be a bigger miracle than the Hanging Gardens of Babylon.<br /><br />Linda Kipley has a home-ec degree. Such sexist diplomas sunsetted in the Pleistocene Era in the legitimate academic world. Yet Kipley occupies a vital, extravagantly paid position that should require a psychology or criminal justice degree or at least some degree with more academic heft than a home ec certificate.</span> <span style="font-weight: bold;">The job description says head of professional standards indeed ranks a master’s-degree job, but Ms. Elia ignored the standard for a creature she could manipulate to file empty charges against teachers to keep them mum.</span><span style="font-weight: bold;"> Elia later rewarded Kipley for her serivtude by gifting Kipley's husband with an accounting slot for which he had no credentials beyond a high school degree. I reviewed the applicants' application files. At least four had accounting degrees and the cited experience. What they did not have was Linda Kiple as spouse and resident cooker-upper of fake charges against teachers to keep the terrified and mute.<br /><br /></span><span style="font-weight: bold;">That was the genus of the maneuver Kipley pulled off on my friend Bart Birdsall. He spoke out in the community against the strictures put on gays’ use of the county libraries passed by the Hillsborough County Commission under the urging of homophobic Rhonda Storms.<br /><br />The board and administration aim to keep hush-hush the schools’ employing gays to keep pacified the legions of restive fringe folk at the edge of the civilized world hunkered down in the fens and bogs that ring rural fastnesses such as Seffner and Turkey Creek.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Besides, Ms. Elia can overrule any education prerequisite. If she really puts her mind to it, Ms. Elia can rewrite basic scientific formulae or cancel the laws of gravity. What’s Newton’s heft compared to that of the superintendent of the Hillsborough County public schools? Zeus is a pantywaist in comparison. People crawl out on all fours when leaving La Elia’s office so potent is the position she owns and so unfailingly does she use its power in not only telling school employees what to do but also in telling her pusillanimous board bosses where to get off that one shrinks back in terror.<br /><br />It’s a stirring spectacle. Cecil B. Deville needs to record it.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Well known is that board members all have the guts of a butterfly and don‘t let out a peep of rebuke to Ms. Elia.</span><span style="font-weight: bold;"> If one did, the other six would flay the wretch alive and make the skin strips into lamp shades as the Nazis used to do at their more than a hundred death camps during WW II. I would not be a bit surprised if Elia did not propose a school-board death camp for any teacher blabbermouths who turned up. The board go-alongs would green-light the proposal stat.<br /><br /></span><span style="font-weight: bold;">The Professional Standards head job got no advertising despite the board mantra stamped on any surface whatever that blazons, “We are an equal-employment-opportunity employer.” This lack of competition for job hiring violates Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act and violates as well the federal contracts that the school has that all require affirmative action plans for disabled people and equal-opportunity protocols.<br /><br />But Tom Gonzalez, against whom I have filed two ethics charges so far with no penalty from the legal priesthood that occupy the office and protect its own, pulls down $275,000 per annum for such services as assuring the board that the federal laws on nondiscrimination in employment do not apply to the Hillsborough County school board. They didn’t apply to his getting a job that violated federal statute to be sure. So that explains his no-application advocy. He even left out teachers of the bullying law's protection to shield the board from law suits that involved its turning back complaints by teachers because they could use bullying lawsuits to vitiate the Professional Standards cooked-up charges against teachers. So there’s no use to tell the board that the federal statutes on discrimination do indeed apply to the schools because Gonzalez has given the answer they want, and they are sticking by it.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">But what are puny federal laws when pitted against the gigantic powers and hypertrophied egos of the Hillsborough County School Board and administration quidnuncs? Laws are mere thistles in the wind before the gigantic tornado of amour proper that surrounds ROSSAC denizens.</span> <span style="font-weight: bold;">Indeed, delusions of grandeur burgeon in the ROSSAC office suites, a side affliction to which the board and administration inevitably succumb, exacerbated by their occupation of the nether regions of the Stanford Binet.<br /><br />We are talking here about a well-known phenomenon: little people who acquire a little power don’t know how to handle it and go gaga.</span> <span style="font-weight: bold;">It’s Alice in Wonderland big time all the time in ROSSAC country on the other side of the looking glass, east of the sun and west of the moon.</span> <span style="font-weight: bold;">ldd</span><br /><!--[if !mso]> <style> v\:* {behavior:url(#default#VML);} o\:* {behavior:url(#default#VML);} w\:* {behavior:url(#default#VML);} .shape {behavior:url(#default#VML);} </style> <![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:worddocument> 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</span></p><span style="font-size:180%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">The following email came in response to mine to her in which I praised the power of her appeals brief:</span></span><br /><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><b><span style=";font-family:";" >Law Offices of Doris Landis Raskin, P.A.</span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style=";font-family:";font-size:12pt;" ><br /></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size:100%;"><b><span style=";font-family:";" >Legal Experience:</span></b></span><span style=";font-family:";font-size:100%;" > 23 years</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size:100%;"><b><span style=";font-family:";" >Jurisdictions:</span></b></span><span style=";font-family:";font-size:100%;" > Florida </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style=";font-family:";font-size:130%;" >9957 Moorings Drive, Suite 502<br />JACKSONVILLE, FL 32257<br />(904) 287-2295 </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:100%;" ><a href="http://lawyers.justia.com/lawyer/doris-landis-raskin-517800/contact"><br /></a> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size:100%;"><b><span style=";font-family:";" >Overview</span></b></span></p>From: Doris Landis Raskin [mailto:dlawraskin@bellsouth.net]<br />Sent: Sunday, November 14, 2010 11:16 AM<br />To: tdecesar@tampabay.rr.com<br />Subject:<br /><br />Appellate attorney Doris Raskin writes the following in response to my email to her praising her appellate appeal’s strength:<br /><br />Appeallate Attorney Raskin says:<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153); font-weight: bold;">Renee's case is concluded unjustly and unfairly. The appellate court found a completely new fact, i.e., that the board had offered Renee an alternative placement. If that were true, we would never have filed a case.<br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><br />When a case is decided at the appellate level, the only thing left is an appeal to the Supreme Court. There is no jurisdictional issue for the Supreme Court. The appellate court tanked it by finding a fact not in evidence.<br /><br /></span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153); font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size:130%;">Thank you for your kind words. I am not proud of the writing, but I am proud of the content. Cases are not decided on how well the brief is written, but the legal issues, the application of the facts to the issues, and the rule of law.<br /><br />In Renee's case, I believe it was decided on personalities. Susan Bucklew, a favorite of the appellate court, and a former high school English teacher in the defendant school system who had to know all of the good old boys involved, should have recused herself, but didn't.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">I didn't know about her until I read her wild hair of a decision and did some research.</span></span><span style="font-size:130%;"> </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153); font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" >Doris Landis Raskin</span><span style="font-size:130%;"> </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153); font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" >dlawraskin@bellsouth.net</span><br /><p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size:100%;"><b><span style=";font-family:";" >About Doris Landis Raskin</span></b></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:100%;" >B. A. in English and Political Science, University of Tennessee, 1964<br />M.S. in Diagnostic/Prescriptive Teaching, Special Education, Florida International University, 1977.<br />J.D. Nova Center for the Study of Law, k.n.a. Nova Southeastern University, Ft. Lauderdale, FL 1987.<br />Practice concentrated in Education Law and Civil Rights. Extensive Experience in Criminal Defense.<br />Licensed to practice in Florida and Southern District of Florida, Middle District of Florida and 11th Circuit Federal Courts.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size:100%;"><b><span style=";font-family:";" >Practice Areas</span></b></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:100%;" >Civil Rights</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:100%;" >Education Law</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:100%;" >Juvenile Law</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size:100%;"><b><span style=";font-family:";" >Professional Experience</span></b></span></p> <table class="MsoNormalTable" style="" border="0" cellpadding="0"> <tbody><tr style=""> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><span style="font-size:100%;"><b><span style=";font-family:";" >Experience</span></b></span></p> </td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><span style="font-size:100%;"><b><span style=";font-family:";" >Years</span></b></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style=""> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><b><span style=";font-family:";" >Sole Practitioner</span></b></span><span style=";font-family:";font-size:100%;" >, Law Offices of Doris Landis Raskin, P.A.</span></p> </td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:100%;" >2001-<i>Current</i></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style=""> <td colspan="2" style="padding: 0.75pt;"> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:100%;" >Sole practitioner in Jacksonville, FL </span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style=""> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><b><span style=";font-family:";" >Sole Practitioner</span></b></span><span style=";font-family:";font-size:100%;" >, Law Offices of Doris Landis Raskin, P.A.</span></p> </td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:100%;" >1991-2001</span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style=""> <td colspan="2" style="padding: 0.75pt;"> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:100%;" >Sole practitioner in Stuart, Florida </span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style=""> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><b><span style=";font-family:";" >Staff Attorney</span></b></span><span style=";font-family:";font-size:100%;" >, Office of Public Defender Martin County, Florida</span></p> </td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:100%;" >1989-1990</span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style=""> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><b><span style=";font-family:";" >Staff Attorney</span></b></span><span style=";font-family:";font-size:100%;" >, Office of Public Defender Brevard County</span></p> </td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:100%;" >1987-1989</span></p> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size:100%;"><b><span style=";font-family:";" >Legal Profiles</span></b></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:100%;" ><a href="http://lawyers.justia.com/lawyer/doris-landis-raskin-517800" title="Doris Landis Raskin's Justia Profile"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><img src="file:///C:/Users/TWINKO%7E1/AppData/Local/Temp/msohtmlclip1/01/clip_image001.gif" alt="Description: http://lawyers.justia.com/images/ext/justia.gif" width="16" border="0" height="16" /></span>Justia Profile</a></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size:100%;"><b><span style=";font-family:";" >Jurisdictions</span></b></span></p> <table class="MsoNormalTable" style="" border="0" cellpadding="0"> <tbody><tr style=""> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><span style="font-size:100%;"><b><span style=";font-family:";" >Location</span></b></span></p> </td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><span style="font-size:100%;"><b><span style=";font-family:";" >Years</span></b></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style=""> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:100%;" >Florida</span></p> </td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:100%;" >Since 1987</span></p> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size:100%;"><b><span style=";font-family:";" >Professional Activities</span></b></span></p> <table class="MsoNormalTable" style="" border="0" cellpadding="0"> <tbody><tr style=""> <td 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style=";font-family:";font-size:100%;" >Jessica Green Foundation</span></p> </td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:100%;" >2009</span></p> </td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></td> </tr> <tr style=""> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:100%;" >Member</span></p> </td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:100%;" >Florida Bar Education Law Committee</span></p> </td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:100%;" >2008</span></p> </td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></td> </tr> <tr style=""> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:100%;" >Board Member</span></p> </td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> <p class="MsoNormal"><span 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style=";font-family:";font-size:100%;" ><a href="http://lawyers.justia.com/lawyers/civil-rights/florida/nassau-county">Nassau County Civil Rights<span style="font-size:180%;"><br /></span></a></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0in; text-indent: -0.25in; font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:180%;">Postscript</span><span style="font-size:180%;"></span><br /></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:100%;" ><a href="http://lawyers.justia.com/lawyers/civil-rights/florida/nassau-county"><span style="font-weight: bold;">The scary thing about the Raskin comments is that they suggest that even the local judiciary harbous elements of corruption and that Tom Gonzalez's $275,000 highest- pay-in-the-state board job rests in part on his participation in that corrupt system, which circumstance impacts some board-and-administration court decisions such as<br />Renee's. Ms. Raskin's comments suggest that such as Tom Gonzalez and corhorts benefit from partaking of this behind-the-scenes-buddy situation by winning cases such as Renee's appeal that they would have lost in a fair system. People have a strong belirf in the probity of the courts so that these indications of corruption articulated by Raskin, a lawyer with a more priviledged vantage than those of us on the outside ot the legal apparatus, say this citizen faith is misplaced. For the average person, the specter of the public schools' leadership's particpating in a corruption of democracy frightens and dismays. Doing the research on this blog entry that resulted in this information dismays me.<br /></span></a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><br /><span style=";font-family:";font-size:100%;" ><a href="http://lawyers.justia.com/lawyers/civil-rights/florida/nassau-county"><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span></a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:100%;" ><a href="http://lawyers.justia.com/lawyers/civil-rights/florida/nassau-county"><span style="font-weight: bold;">A</span><br /></a></span></p> <!-- Site Meter XHTML Strict 1.0 --><script type="text/javascript" src="http://s41.sitemeter.com/js/counter.js?site=s41twinkobie"></script><!-- Copyright (c)2006 Site Meter -->twinkobiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07865056039680988073noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28089922.post-1194775908235317192010-12-17T07:13:00.000-08:002011-01-18T08:13:19.346-08:00Job Scams Run by the Hillsborough County School Board and Crucifixion of Student Renee Anderson<span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><div align="cente<span style="><strong><span style="font-size:180%;">
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<br /><strong>RENEE ANDERSON AND THREW HER OVER THE SIDE IN A SADISTIC SUSPENSION ORDEAL</strong>
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<br /><span style="font-size:180%;"> <strong face="trebuchet ms">Renee Anderson, Student Victim of Board and Administration</strong><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> </span></span><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:180%;" > SADISM</span>
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<br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><strong><span id="SPELLING_ERROR_0" class="blsp-spelling-error"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_6"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_7">DORETHA</span></span></span></span> <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_1" class="blsp-spelling-error"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_7"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_6"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_8">EDGECOMB</span></span></span></span>, BOARD CHAIR: “LET’S MOVE THE CONSENT AGENDA WITHOUT EXAMINING IT SO THAT I CAN GET HOME IN TIME TO WATCH THE LAWRENCE <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_2" class="blsp-spelling-error"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_8"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_7"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_9">WELK</span></span></span></span> RE-RUN”; <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_3" class="blsp-spelling-error"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_9"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_8"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_10">RIVERVIEW</span></span></span></span> PRINCIPAL ROBERT <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_4" class="blsp-spelling-error"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_10"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_9"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_11">HEILMAN</span></span></span></span>: “GET OFF MY SCHOOL GROUNDS!” SHOUTED AT THE BACK OF STUDENT RENEE ANDERSON AS SHE FLED WHEN HE CHASED HER ACROSS THE <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_5" class="blsp-spelling-error"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_11"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_10"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_12">RIVERVIEW</span></span></span></span> PARKING LOT; CRYBABY <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_6" class="blsp-spelling-error"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_12"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_11"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_13">KINNETH</span></span></span></span> <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_7" class="blsp-spelling-error"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_13"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_12"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_14">MASSENA</span></span></span></span>: “OFFICER, THAT NAUGHTY STUDENT <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_8" class="blsp-spelling-error"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_14"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_13"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_15">AGGRAVATEDLY</span></span></span></span> ASSAULTED MY DELICATE 240-<span id="SPELLING_ERROR_9" class="blsp-spelling-error">POUND</span> BODY. HANDCUFF HER AND TAKE 'ER TO THE SLAMMER.”</strong></span></div><div style="text-align: left;">
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<br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><strong>IF VOTERS KNEW HOW BAD THE PEOPLE ARE WHO RUN THE <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_10" class="blsp-spelling-error"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_15"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_14"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_16">HILLSBOROUGH</span></span></span></span> COUNTY SCHOOLS--HOW DUMB, HOW STUDENT AVERSE, HOW UNETHICAL, THEY WOULD KICK THEM ALL OUT--STARTING WITH THE BOARD AND ESPECIALLY SUCH VILE SPECIMENS OF STUDENT ANTIPATHY AS <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_11" class="blsp-spelling-error"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_16"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_15"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_17">RIVERVIEW</span></span></span></span> <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_12" class="blsp-spelling-error"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_17"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_16"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_18">HEILMANN</span></span></span>,</span> EDGCOMB.</strong></span>
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<br /><span style="font-size:100%;">The below comment by a reader adds another dimension to the discussion of board performance. This reader information suggests that the reason that Ms. Edgecomb ran for the board was to protect her daughter’s career.</span>
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<br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);font-size:130%;" >Edgecomb has one goal and that is to not make trouble for her daughter who is an Assistant Principal or maybe now a Principal. Whenever someone does or doesn't do something it is usually for personal gain. In this case she is protecting her daughter. Supposedly, her daughter worked under a principal who got arrested for drugs on campus. Word on the street is that Edgecomb's daughter knew about this and should have reported it but didn't. Corruption lives on! </span><span style="font-size:130%;">
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<br />It certainly wasn’t the Edgecomb goal to help black children.
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<br />Jack Lamb also has a daughter in the school administration, I believe. Candy Olson is reputed to arrange jobs for people to make herself feel important and to collect chits she can later redeem for favors.
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<br />Jack Lamb usually sits on the board dais in oblivious torpor. The only time I saw him wake up was when I criticized him for using school stationary and clerical help to write a letter to the mayor to lower his condo's water bill. He rose from his seat and would have vaulted the desk to pummel me had he not been too fat for the project. He yelled at me to stay on my side of the bay (I live on the beach) as if I were a wetback swimming in from Mexico.
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<br /></span><span style="font-size:100%;">While Ms. Edgecomb guards her daughter's job, Elia invents jobs to solve</span> <span style="font-size:130%;">personnel problems. She created a job for Alafia principal Smith to get her to resign because Alafia parents would no longer allow her to be in charge of their children. The usually somnolent newspapers were covering the fracas 24-7. The board and administration can't stand bad publicity. It threatens their lockdown of the power of running the schools with the huge state budget entailed.
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<br />So Elia sent as diplomatic team GED Griffin and Motel Breath Falliero out to Alafia to convince Smith to resign in swap for a manufactured job paying her the same principal's salary and benefits with no duties.
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<br />GED Griffin suffers the delusion that she is a superior diplomat, so she undertook this under-the-radar mission to Smith with, since election, ousted board member Jennifer Motel Breath Falliero to convince Smith to quit her job and take a ghost job Elia would create for her.
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<br />What Griffin engaged in was not diplomacy; it was sneaking, lying, and sticking the taxpayers with paying for a ghost job while violating the Sunshine Law. That's undermining taxpayers, not working for them.
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<br />Bismark's reputation is safe.
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<br />The board and administration routinely give no-bid contracts to former administrators. Tom Gonzalez manufactured a new law that says this no-bid scam is legitimate. Pulling laws out of hats or twisting them to fit the board's skulduggery explains why Gonzalez gets the highest pay of any board lawyer in the state--$275,000 a year despite his not being to write literate prose. He is also uncivilized: He chomps chips and slurps cola on the dais during business proceedings despite a sign that says "No food and drink in board room." He thinks he is immune to the law just like members of the Gestapo did. My Southern mother would say Gonzalez was raised in a barn.
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<br />Griffin is not the brightest crayon in the GED box, but she was idealistic when she first arrived on the board. Alas, she lacked wit and spunk sufficient to tell Olson and Kurdell that she served the public, not the staff, when the two barked that Griffin was being "disloyal to the staff" by asking for a no-bid contract to come off the Consent Agenda for discussion. Griffin lacks courage and leadership snap. So distressed did this Kurdell-Olson assault render Griffin that she curled up into the fetal position and has never unwound since except to do Ms. Elia’s bidding.
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<br />This coward's rollover, alas, has occurred in every new board member so far. They cave in and take on the herd instinct. That's what happened to Nazi Germany when Hitler committed atrocities in the German people's name. Any school denizen who resists gets frozen out by Elia et al and wants to come in out of the cold must roll over. A renegade who wants to work for the citizens and students must have character enough to withstand hostility.
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<br />We all wait for a board member to stand up to Elia and the two board harpies Kurdell and Olson. We yearn for a board hero. One should not hold his or her breath, sad to say. I doubt that new member Stacy White will play Batman to Elia's Joker in ROSSAC Gotham City. I never heard of a druggist who wore tights and drove a Batmobile.
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<br />Board-and-administration hiring scams perquisite for board and superintendent allow no-talent relatives and buddies, any stray hangers-on, plus out-of-work layabouts to get jobs in the schools. That's the fact that the evidence supports.
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<br />Elia hired buddy former assistant superintendent Jim Hamilton after he retired to hustle his consulting firm's clients among schools he had been in contact with in his years of mooching off taxpayers as a high-level administrator despite never having learned the difference between “your” and “you’re.” He was one of the ROSSAC incomptents on the oversight committee of ROSSAC colluders who rubberstamped the faulty buildiings as ok even though, for instance, of the Blake High School's building that leaked like a sieve. In fact, between his retirement and his departure from the Elysian fields of ROSSAC, Elia created him a bridge job lasting several months so that he continued attached to the umbilical cord to the taxpayers to get paid although retired. A deep throat told me that his name appeared on this ersatz job before it even went on the books. There was a penciled-in caret on the school Web site with Hamilton's name interpolated after Otero's. The villains are so sure of getting away with their scams that they don't even bother not being clumsy.</span></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><span style="font-size:130%;"><b><span style=";font-family:";" > </span></b></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;"><b><span style=";font-family:";" >The marginally literate Hamilton got his Hillsborough County lobbying slot without Elia’s justifying it with a needs study or, indeed, any justification. The board's attitude was "Whatever." God forbid that the board cared enough to demand a needs study for one of these superfluous buddy jobs that soak taxpayers.
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<br />I wrote the University of Florida president and his wife-never underestimate the power of curtain lectures--to complain about the premier university in Florida's allowing a man who couldn't get homophones "your" and "your" straight to purloin a Ph.D. from the thesis committee by skullduggery or graft. I said the university had no right to loose such specimens as Hamilton into the school system. I based my letter to UF president on Le Hamilton's ill-structured, ill-worded, badly punctuated white paper for the board in which he advised its members on professional attire (I am not making this up) when he goes galumphing around looking like an unmade bed.
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<br />If new board member Stacy White wanted to leave his name as board history's hero who helped cleaned crooked board policies, he would invoke Roberts Rules and move that the board must post on its Web site any new job; its description; the venues where it got advertising; the names of the applicants; and their resumes. There would be across the board syncope at this suggestion because putting jobs, their qualifications, applicants and their qualifications for the job would end the scam of passing out jobs to the unfit. Dr. Stevens, Ph.D., computers could coach ROSSAC computer illiterati how to do this task. Our druggist board member could bring in a bushell of Xanax to pass out before the deed went into effect or sodium pentathal for the hard cases.</span></b></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size:130%;"><b><span style=";font-family:";" >A few respirations past their entering office, new board members roll over and assume board group think. They are henceforth Elia's automatons. Whatever she says is gospel to them. Zeig heil.</span></b></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;"><b><span style=";font-family:";" >I heard “you’re” “your” Hamilton’s Tallahassee lobbyist pay clocked in between $64,000 and $94,000 a year. That’s buddy pay that doesn't come out of Ms. Elia’s pocket but that of taxpayers. So it's hey nonny nonny to her.</span></b></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size:130%;"><b><span style=";font-family:";" >The heartbroken Hamilton wife, a principal--a good one by repute, quit her job, fled upstate, and divorced the old coot. Then when Mileto got the job in Tallahassee nailed down with younger legislative prospects to stalk, Hamilton limped away, and his faithful wife re-married the old rascal.</span></b></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size:130%;"><b><span style=";font-family:";" >"Dr." Hamilton had pushed through before he retired then-doxie Connie Mileto’s candidacy for the senior administrative Tallahassee position despite her being an "Eency Weency Spider" kindergarten teacher. This was one of those There’s-no-fool-like-an-old-fool sagas with La Mileto's having in addition to her kindergarten certificate a PH.D in dazzling a dopey dotard to climb the ladder to a job for which she lacked credentials.</span></b></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size:130%;"><b><span style=";font-family:";" >Everybody in the school system knew about this passion-passion spent tale. At its height even janitors discussed it in mop closets and grounds keepers vetted it while smoothing turf lumps.</span></b></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size:130%;"><b><span style=";font-family:";" >Always a mystery to me was how Le Hamilton attracted any female attention at all. One infers that his hygiene protocols are the same as those of knights of the road and observes that he spray-spits when he attempts to pronounce sibilants. He looks like he slept in his clothes. His suits are rump-sprung, bag low, and contain nothing. He galumphs around in a lurching shuffle. I never saw him pick his nose, but I wouldn't put it past him.</span></b></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size:130%;"><b><span style=";font-family:";" >A candidate with a political science or history degree should have gotten the job Mileto snagged as ROSSAC kindergarten Mata Hari. Thanks to Ms. Elia’s now hiring the old dope Hamilton for the unneeded Tallahassee lobbying job duplicating duties which Mileto’s job is supposed to cover, Hamilton and Mileto reunite in Tallahassee as a reignited lobbying pas de deux. They reign the Heloise and Abelard of the lobbying racket.</span></b></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size:130%;"><b><span style=";font-family:";" >Hamilton's job's being handed to him without Elia's advertising it violates the drumbeat board mantra of "We are an equal-employment-opportunity employer." I have heard Tom Gonzalez opine that the schools aren't liable to the equal-opportunity laws. That was when he hinted at suing me for extortion, and I told him he knew he couldn't not only because of the First Amendment but also because of the SLAPP law.</span></b></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size:130%;"><b><span style=";font-family:";" >I guess this lobbying sinecure means Hamilton's poor wife, who one hears had been fool enough to remarry the old goat, will now have to divorce him again.</span></b></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;"><b><span style=";font-family:";" >Because the administration and board couldn’t tolerate the bad Alafia publicity by the usually somnolent press, Elia sent Lie-about-educational-credentials GED Griffin and former board member Motel-breath Jennifer Falliero out to Alafia to a secret rendezvous with Smith to lure her to resign her job with the understanding that Elia would create an empty job but at full principal pay and benefits as compensation equal to the Alafai principal perch.</span></b></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size:130%;"><b><span style=";font-family:";" >It says something about GED Griffin's brain power that she agreed to accompany La Motel Breath Falliero despite Falliero's having threatened to kick Griffin out of the board room because Griffin said something Falliero didn't like when the latter chaired the board.</span></b></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size:130%;"><b><span style=";font-family:";" >The board's unanimous vote had made La Motel Breath chair of the Hillsborough County School Board despite their all knowing of her long-term on-site adultery with Community Affairs head Marc Hart. The administration finally fired him to keep him away from the ravening Jennifer. Board members showed how much they valued the board and parents' concern that their children have ethical role models at school when they voted the resident adulteress as board chair.</span></b></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;"><b><span style=";font-family:";" > </span></b></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size:130%;"><b><span style=";font-family:";" >The false-job offer worked. Smith took the pretend job. She is sitting somewhere in the book depository, feet on the desk now, paring her nails.</span></b></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size:130%;"><b><span style=";font-family:";" >During Elia's empty job creations for the likes of Hamilton and Smith, she balances her budget on the backs of the helpless at the bottom of the pay scale. A reader writes me this: </span></b></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size:130%;"><b><span style="color: rgb(51, 0, 153);">Governor Scott has invited Supt. Elia from Hillsborough County to be his advisor so to speak about education as the SDHC has been so successful! What has been kept quiet is that all support personnel such as paraprofessionals, bus drivers, etc. must take a mandatory 3 day pay cut and still work them because the coffers have run dry. Talk about mismanagement! The union is doing nothing about it of course. Because of the economy, no one dares stand up! They always go after the weakest. </span></b></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><b><span style=";font-family:";" >So bad the situation got at Hillsborough High under Linda Kipley's principalship that the faculty wouldn't attend meetings in her office without a recorder so persistent were Kipley's lies. The superintendent, then Earl the Pearl Lennard, didn't fire Kipley as he should have but switched <span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% yellow;">her</span> to head of Professional Standards at a higher job level and higher pay. This maneuver proved teacher shibboleth that "if you mess up, you move up." </span></b></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><b><span style=";font-family:";" >Kipley has a home-ec degree. College cooking sheepskins sunsetted in the Pleistocene Era in the valid academic world, yet Kipley occupies a vital, extravagantly paid position that requires a psychology or criminal justice degree--or at least some degree with more academic heft than a home ec</span></b><b><span style=";font-family:";" > certificate.
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<br /></span></b><b><span style=";font-family:";" >The job description says head of Professional Standards requires a master’s-degree, but Ms. the administration ignored the formula for a creature who would do the dirty work of filing false charges against teachers to keep them scared and mum.</span></b><b><span style=";font-family:";" >
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<br />That was the maneuver</span></b><b><span style=";font-family:";" > </span></b><b><span style=";font-family:";" >Kipley pulled off on my friend Bart Birdsall. He spoke out in the community against strictures put on gays’ use of county libraries passed by then Hillsborough County Commissioner Rhonda Storms. Bart immediately found himself in the tentacles of the Professional Standards gulag.</span></b></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><b><span style=";font-family:";" >The power the quiescent board yields to Ms. Elia means that she can overrule any education prerequisite such as a master's for the head of Professional Standards. So enamoured is Eilia with power that people crawl out on all fours when leaving her office in deference to her lust for obeisance.
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<br />La Elia was reputed to schedule early-morning conferences with low-level employees to discomfit them as much as possible by the early hour and cursed them out in street argot during these interviews. I wrote her a letter asking if this rumor were true: no answer. No response. Elia's ghost writer must have been out with the mumps. So I asked La Eliar directly in a board meeting about the bruited information that she cursed out low-level people in her office. She didn't raise her head. But I heard no more tales of early-morning curse-0uts of her of lower-level employees.
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<br />The superintendent gets away with outrageous conduct because nobody questions her. Certainly not the board: they are her bosses and can fire her. But the whole board, including the guys, are terrified of this small, dumpy woman of no appreciable talent except chutzpah.
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<br />Not only does La Elia tell school employees what to do but also tells her gutless board bosses where to get off. The board is supposed to make policy, and Elia is supposed to carry it out. Elia does both. So feeble is board members' grasp of their job, its scope and its duties, that members do not know what they should do and should not do or how to do either.</span></b><b><span style=";font-family:";" > When something unusual comes up on the board, all eyes swing to Elia's chair.
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<br /></span></b><b><span style=";font-family:";" >After about two weeks delay had given personnel honcho Valdez time to fake one, I got a copy of the job description of the Smith faux job. Then I asked who inhabited the job before Smith: no answer. Nobody could have inhabited a job that did not exist.</span></b></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;"><b><span style=";font-family:";" >It’s always Alice-in-Wonderland time in ROSSAC country, which exists on the other side of the looking glass. east of the sun and west of the moon, over the rainbow, and in the environs of <i>Something Flew Over the Cucoo's Nest,</i></span></b></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size:130%;"><b><span style=";font-family:";" >QED: the Smith job is an out-of-thin-air job devised by Elia at taxpayer expense that cuts into the meagre pay of the lowest paid in the system cited above by my reader to solve a bad-publicity problem by ponying up an unneeded job for Smith. And also for granting a empty lobbying job for Lady Killer Your-you're Hamilton. Board members don’t care enough about taxpayers' interests to stop the board Consent Agenda's rolling past, lift off the bogus job for scrutiny, and demand from Elia the needs study and other justification for the new job. Board members are too scared of Elia and too contemptuous of taxpayers to do that.</span></b></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size:130%;"><b><span style=";font-family:";" >Any board member who questions things gets the pounding that GED Griffin got from Carol Kurdell and Candy Olson when Griffin, in the first throes of idealism after she joined the board, asked that a non-bid contract to a former administratior come off the Consent Agenda for scrutiny. This request raised the hackles of the board’s two resident monitor crones, who guard the ancient tradition of wrongdoing that comprises what Ms. Edgecomb in one of her rhetorical flights into the nut regions of the stratosphere calls “institutional memory.” The crones gave Griffin a tongue lashing, accusing her of “being disloyal to the staff.”</span></b></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size:130%;"><b><span style=";font-family:";" >If Griffin had a lick of sense and a modicum of guts, she would have stood up, glared down the board dais at her two torturers, and shot back, "I am not working for the staff; I am working for the students and taxpayers."</span></b></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size:130%;"><b><span style=";font-family:";" >There is always hope when a new member arrives at the board that he or she will emerge a swashbuckler for justice. The ubiquitous prayer is that not only does the new member have brains but also has chutpah. Mr. White is under scrutiny. I do not intuit leadership potential there. We are going to have to make do with his beguiling dimple, I fear.</span></b></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size:130%;"><b><span style=";font-family:";" >Would the fates have decreed that the dimpled darling have both dimple and Lancelotian bravery. We can only hope that he will emerge a champion of right and justice. We will not hold our breath.</span></b></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size:130%;"><b><span style=";font-family:";" >The appointment of the no-bid former administrator that Griffin called off the agenda went back on the rolling Consent Agenda after approval of the smirkingly triumphant board majority five to two, Griffin and Valdes dissenting. I believe if there were a leader on the board that these two would follow that leader. But they can't themselves lead. They are not made of the right stuff for leaderhip.</span></b></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size:130%;"><b><span style=";font-family:";" >The unspoken rule is that administrators never gets punished no matter what they do; but teachers even have stuff made up against them for punishment. For example, that Ms. Elia's vice principal daughter was supposed to know about drug activities of a superior and kept mum. If a teacher had failed to report the situation--as was Edgecomb‘s daughter’s case, that teacher would be the object of a lightening-fast Professional Standards Gestapo shake down and out the door on unemployment compensation before you could say “administrative perks.” But since the culprit was daughter of a board member, well then, that is a different kettle of fish.</span></b></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size:130%;"><b><span style=";font-family:";" >To rescue Edgcombe Junior, there would occur a major reshuffling of data and an obscuring of the facts so slick that even Sherlock Holmes would be nonplussed. Indeed that was what occurred: major reshuffling and obscuring facts that made Sherlock throw up his hands and tell Dr. Watson to get him a vodka and tonic, heavy on the vodka.</span></b></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size:130%;"><b><span style=";font-family:";" >And nobody expects the CTA to raise a pinkie--not in this geological age, not in this postlapsarian era. Prevailing wisdom is that CTA exists cheek by jowel with administration. CTA members would be better off banking their CTA dues to hire an attorney if they needed one when the administration frames them with a Professional Standards charge.</span></b></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size:130%;"><b><span style=";font-family:";" >In the drug dust-up, the Edgecomb offspring enjoyed not only the tradition of never punishing administrators in any situation; but she also benefitted as well from the protection of being a board member's child.</span></b></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size:130%;"><b><span style=";font-family:";" >Board attorney Tom Gonzalez must have temporarily ceased slurping soda and chomping chips on the podium and rushed to dip into his mouthpiece bag of tricks to construct a footnote to a footnote to make Elia’s daughter not only guiltless for covering up a dangerous drug situation in the schools but also for having an obligatory Nobel nomination for Elia's child signed by all board and administration sent to the Stockholm Nobel Foundation by private jet paid for by Florida taxpayers, bien sur. The senders will have have only recently learned what a Nobel is.</span></b></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size:130%;"><b><span style=";font-family:";" >Since the significant way that the board and administration keep teachers oppressed is job threats via the Professional Standards gauntlet, I asked for files on teachers’ Professional Standards charges: I got a stack. I asked for administrator files with Professional Standards charged lodged against them: zilch.</span></b></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size:130%;"><b><span style=";font-family:";" >Thus the board and administration have evolved Gestopo ethos to keep teachers silent with a targeted program of Professional Standards charges, making them fear losing their jobs. This sicko sadistic power gives the board and administration control of teachers’ ability to earn a livelihood. This power renders teachers terrified and mute. The situation ranks an offense to the human spirit.</span></b></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size:130%;"><b><span style=";font-family:";" >The head of Professional Standards is Linda Kipley, whom I have observed wearing see-through plastic baby dolls on the job. Wearing plastic see-through baby as work footware is such gaucherie that it qualifies as firing offense. You just know in your bones that when La Linda was principal at Hillsborough High but so dishonest that teachers refused to go into a conference with her unless equipped with a recorder so likely is Kipley to lie that La Linda's trashy see-through babydolls served objective correlaative for her ethics.</span></b></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size:130%;"><b><span style=";font-family:";" >The Professional Standards head job got no advertising, besmirching the the board mantra that it is “an equal-employment-opportunity employer.” This lack of competition for jobs violates Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act and violates as well the federal contracts that the school has that require affirmative action plans for disabled people and equal-opportunity protocols. There are no affirmative action plans extant; I asked. There is no obedience to Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act.</span></b></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size:130%;"><b><span style=";font-family:";" >
<br />I asked for affirmative action plans because a job for accountant opened up and had a number of applicants, one being handicapped. I reviewed the application files. Four applicants, including the handicapped applicant, had the accounting degree and the experience called for in the job description. But of these qualified people, none got the job.</span></b></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size:130%;"><b><span style=";font-family:";" >Guess who did? Mr. Linda Kipley, of course. And guess what credentials he had for the job? Not one. He had a high school diploma, period. I take that gift of a job for Le Kipley to be due to his wife's doing the Professional Standards dirty work of filing false charges against teachers to keep them terrified and not intrepid enough to fight vicious, unfair discrimination.</span></b></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size:130%;"><b><span style=";font-family:";" >Thank God the patriots who rebelled against the repression of King George were fighters. Had they shown the lack of spirit that the county teachers display, we would still be an English colony. Every generation has to renew its liberty. Every group must guard its honor. Every generation has to face down the buggers.</span></b></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size:130%;"><b><span style=";font-family:";" >Such abysmal distortion of the authority to hire the most qualified people--not buddies, family, pets, sycophants, and flatterers---to work for the taxpayers flummoxes one. What vaulting sense of distortion for the authority one holds in the name of the taxpayers can account for such behavior? I believe that it comes from years and years of the school board's not being held accountable for its vicious behavior. Most ignore this behavior. Most ignore the school board.</span></b></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size:130%;"><b><span style=";font-family:";" >People don't pay attention to the school board even though in every opinion poll they aver that education is the most important thing a voter must consider. Even though they will never soar into the upper reaches of the Stanford Binet, the C and D students that people the board and administration caught on early to this lack of oversight years ago and exploited it.</span></b></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><b><span style=";font-family:";" >Ambitious local politicians don't start their political careers at the school board. If they want to go to Tallahassee eventually, they start at the County Commission or even the Tampa City Council, Those who run for the school board are phlegmatic lifers. Getting on the board and remaining there until the end of time is their idea of heaven.</span></b></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size:130%;"><b><span style=";font-family:";" >That nobody cares what the school board does, not the press, not the public, frees the board lifers to exult in their power over billions of tax dollars and the unchallenged right to hire unqualified people and only those qualified by their relationship to the board and administration. These unchallenged privileges against the common good have made the school administration a bailiwick of bad behavior with no concern except for its denizens' petty power and privilege eked out over years of public and press lack of oversight. They persevere to scheme and fight to preserve their booty, the retaining of power over the billions of tax dollars that inhere to the school-board-and-and administration rackets and the right to hire misfits, tra la la.</span></b></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size:130%;"><b><span style=";font-family:";" >The lack of voter interest and voter oversight yields a sense of Olympian privilege to board and administration to act majestically capricious with self-reference as sole gauge. They feel no compunction about not acting for the good of the community in such ways as Ms. Edgecomb's inferred reason for running for the board to shield her daughter's job demonstrates. "Let drugs infest playgrounds to a faretheewell, but keep your hands off my kid, the vice-principal."</span></b></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size:130%;"><b><span style=";font-family:";" > </span></b></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size:130%;"><b><span style=";font-family:";" >Yet all boad members take an oath of office to protect the laws and to serve the community, including hiring capable people in equal-opportunity contests. They don't. So their "we are an equal-employment-0pportunity employer" is Hindenburgian claptrap.</span></b></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size:130%;"><b><span style=";font-family:";" > </span></b></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size:130%;"><b><span style=";font-family:";" >No wonder there is only one Ph.D. in the ROSSAC redoubt. His degree is in computers. I think his name is Stephens. There must have been no relative, hanger-on, or sycophant who could even turn on a computer for the board to have gone to the extreme of hiring a qualified person for a job.</span></b></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size:130%;"><b><span style=";font-family:";" >Delusions of grandeur burgeon as dominant side affliction that the board and administration rapidly acquire. What is fair play, concern for students, respect for taxpayers, and a modicum of ethics compared to delusional thinking? 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<br /></div></div></div></span></span>twinkobiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07865056039680988073noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28089922.post-548954007494038912010-12-15T12:36:00.000-08:002010-12-15T17:26:45.065-08:00Board Shreds the Rights of Student Renee Anderson<a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_dl8vHbrr-vU/TQknyUi1WiI/AAAAAAAADgk/VVPJpYwTDHU/s1600/Renee%252C%2BPicture.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 344px; FLOAT: right; HEIGHT: 400px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5551011761172601378" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_dl8vHbrr-vU/TQknyUi1WiI/AAAAAAAADgk/VVPJpYwTDHU/s400/Renee%252C%2BPicture.jpg" /></a><br /><br /><div align="center"><span style="font-size:180%;"> Villains</span><br />Edgecomb: School Board Member</div><br /><div align="center">Heilmann: River High Principal</div><br /><div align="center">Massena River High Vice Principal </div><br /><div align="center"></div><br /><div align="center">Victim: Renee Anderson<br /> <br /> <br /><br />Hillsborough County School Board Jobs Racket<br /> <br />The comment by the reader in the previous post about board corruption adds another dimension to the discussion. One infers that one reason that Ms. Edgecomb ran for the board was to protect her daughter’s career. It certainly wasn’t her goal to help black children. Jack Lamb also has a daughter in the school system administration I believe. Candy Olson is reputed to arrange jobs for people.<br />One of the perquisites of the superintendent job consists of hiring buddies and hangers on and creating jobs at taxpayer expense. Elia hired the former assistant supervisor Jim Hamilton after he retired, never having learned the difference between “your” and “you’re” for a lobbying slot without justifying with a needs study its need. I heard the pay was between $64,000 and $94,000 a year.<br />The board never thinks to ask for a needs study for any of Ms. Elia’s jobs-program positions. Hamilton’s wife divorced him because he pushed through doxie Connie Mileto’s candidacy for the Tallahassee position despite her being a kindergarten teacher. A person with a political degree or a history degree should have gotten that job. Now Hamilton and Mileto are back in Tallahassee as a lobbying pas de deux. I guess this means his wife, who had remarried the old goat, will now have to divorce him again.<br />Ms. Elia’s job lockdown recently resulted in a job created for the principal Smith in the Alafia brouhaha. The parents refused to have Smith principal any more, and even Elia’s promising them that she would send both Smith and her vice principal to Eckerd for a personality makeover at $4500 a pop of tax money if they would keep Smith did not propitiate them.<br />So because the administration and board couldn’t stand the bad publicity being printed by the usually somnolent press, Elia sent Lie-about-educational credentials Griffin and former board member Motel-breath Jennifer Falliero out to Alafia to a secret rendezvous with Smith to lure her to resign her job with the understanding that Elia would create an empty job but at full principal pay and benefits as compensation. The false job offer worked. Smith got the pretend job and is probably sitting somewhere in the book depository now paring her nails as we speak.<br />I asked for the job’s description as public information. After about two weeks had given personnel honcho Otero the time to fake one, I got a copy of the job description; then I asked for who inhabited the job before Smith: no answer. QED: it’s an out-of-thin-air job devised by Elia at taxpayer expense to solve a bad-publicity problem. The board has endowed on Elia this create-jobs perquisite as part of the superintendent’s benefits. Why not? We’re talking about taxpayer play money that the board and administration use to preen their power and solve their personnel problems.<br />The unspoken rule is that administrators never get punished no matter what they do; but if a teacher had been discovered to know about drug activities of another school employee and failed to report the situation--even it were apocryphal as Edgecomb‘s daughter’s case perhaps was, that teacher would be the object of a lightening-fast Professional Standards Gestapo shake down.<br />But the Edgecomb offspring had not only the tradition of never punishing administrators to rely on but also was a child of a board member. Board attorney Tom Gonzalez would have temporarily ceased drinking soda and eating chips on the podium brought in his mouthpiece bag of tricks to construct a footnote to a footnote to make her not only not liable for covering up a drug danger but also of being beatified to boot along with a Nobel recommendation signed by all the board and administration that have only just recently learned what a Nobel is using flash cards.<br />One significant way that the board and administration keep teachers oppressed is the tactic of job threats via the Professional Standards gauntlet. I asked for files on teachers’ Professional Standards charges: I got a stack. I asked for administrator files with Professional Standards charged lodged against them: zilch. Thus the board and administration have the power to keep teachers silent for fear of losing their jobs. This sicko sadistic power gives the board and administration the control of teachers’ ability to earn a livelihood. This power renders teachers quiet.<br />The head of Professional Standards is one Linda Kipley, whom I have observed wearing see-through baby dolls on the job. She was principal at Hillsborough High, but she was bad. Teachers refused to go into a conference with her unless equipped with a recorder so likely she is to lie and manufacture things that had not occurred in an interview.<br />So bad the situation got at Hillsborough that the superintendent and her thugs switched Kipley into the head of Professional Standards. Kipley has a home-ec degree that went out in the Pleistocene Age in the academic world and occupies a vital, extravagantly paid position that should require a psychology or criminal justice degree. The job description does say it is a master’s degree job, but Ms. Elia can overrule that little prerequisite.<br />The job got no advertising despite the ubiquitous assurance from the board that it is “an equal-employment-opportunity employer.” This lack of competition violates Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act and violates as well the federal contracts that the school has that all require affirmative action plans for disabled people and equal-opportunity protocols.<br />But what are federal laws when pitted against the fulsome powers of the Hillsborough County School Board and administration quidnuncs?<br />Delusions of grandeur are also a side affliction that the board and administration acquire.<br />ldd <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />VICTIM RENEE ANDERSON<br />___________________________<br />Blurb from Riverview school site accompanying Principal Heilmann’s picture with the balloons around his head. This specimen betrays meagre erudition. It is betrayal of the taxpayers that a principal of a high school can’t punctuate at a basic level. This balloon-head tax drain probably makes $70,000 a year nonetheless. The board should be ashamed of rubberstamping the employment of such a ripoff on the public.<br />Mr. Robert Heilmann<br />Principal<br />Mr. Robert Heilmann became an educator in 1972, no comma: splits compound verb and has taught Elementary PE, Social Studies, No caps and English. After earning a Masters’ lowercase; singular possessive: apostrophe “s” Degree lower case in Counselor Education lower case and in Educational Leadership lower case; comma: long introductory prepositional phrase he served as a Guidance Counselor lower case and was an Assistant Principal lower case for Student Affairs lower case at East Bay High School.<br />When the opportunity to help launch a brand new hyphenated adjective high school arose, Mr. Heilmann was instrumental in opening stilted diction: use “helped in the job of launching” our new Riverview High School as the Assistant Principal lower case for Curriculum. lower case After the retirement<br />retore,emtMr.<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />Mr. Robert Heilmann became an educator in 1972, and has taught Elementary PE, Social Studies, and English. After earning a Masters’ Degree in Counselor Education and in Educational Leadership he served as a Guidance Counselor and was an Assistant Principal for Student Affairs at East Bay High School.<br />When the opportunity to help launch a brand new high school arose, Mr. Heilmann was instrumental in opening our new Riverview High School as the Assistant Principal for Curriculum. After the retirement of Riverview’s first principal J. Vince Thompson, Mr. Heilmann became principal in January 2001.<br />During his educational career, he has coached baseball, hockey, cross country, and track. He has also officiated high school and college soccer games for 34 years. Mr. Heilmann had the distinction of serving on the U.S. international panel of referees for the sport of soccer from 1991-1994 (each country having only seven officials).<br />Robert Heilmann became an educator in 1972, and has taught Elementary PE, Social Studies, and English. After earning a Masters’ Degree in Counselor Education and in Educational Leadership he served as a Guidance Counselor and was an Assistant Principal for Student Affairs at East Bay High School.<br />When the opportunity to help launch a brand new high school arose, Mr. Heilmann was instrumental in opening our new Riverview High School as the Assistant Principal for Curriculum. After the retirement of Riverview’s first principal J. Vince Thompson, Mr. Heilmann became principal in January 2001.<br />During his educational career, he has coached baseball, hockey, cross country, and track. He has also officiated high school and college soccer games for 34 years. Mr. Heilmann had the distinction of serving on the U.S. international panel of referees for the sport of soccer from 1991-1994 (each country having only seven officials).<br />retirement of Riverview’s first principal comma: nonrestrictive appositive J. Vince Thompson, Mr. Heilmann became principal in January 2001.<br />During his educational career, he pronoun antecedent has coached baseball, hockey, cross country, and track. He has also officiated at high school and college soccer games for 34 years. Mr. Heilmann had the distinction of serving on the U.S. international panel of referees for the sport of soccer from 1991-1994 (each country apostrophe “s” for noun modifier preceding a gerund having only seven officials). Misplaced modifier: goes after “referees”: ““referees<br />After the retirement of Riverview’s first principal J. Vince Thompson, Mr. Heilmann became principal in January 2001.<br />During his educational career, he has coached baseball, hockey, cross country, and track. He has also officiated high school and college soccer games for 34 years. Mr. Heilmann had the distinction of serving on the U.S. international panel of referees for the sport of soccer from 1991-1994 (each country possessive before gerund having only seven officials).<br /> <br />Just what the schools need as principal: an illiterate jock and bigot making over $70,000 a year who--get this--at one time taught English! What administrative ninny hired him for that job? Don’t the people in ROSSAC have literacy tests for educators before they hire them, and isn’t there anyone in the building who can read them? I want to see Heilmann’s transcipts and<br />Strong Aptitude Test profile.<br />------------------------------------------------------------------<br />Dear Ms. Edgecomb, Board Chair Hillsborough County Schools:<br />After the Professional Standards office framed my friend Bart Birdsall on a cooked-up charge because he participated in the pro-gay community protest of County Commissioner Rhonda Storms’s shutdown of library privileges for gays, I spent over two years sitting in the back of the room observing the board’s behavior. I wanted to know what kind of people sanction such unethical punishment of a school employee.<br />That scrutiny furnished a Baedeker of evidence for the board’s and administration’s running the schools as if these public institutions were their personal bailiwick. They use their board and administration perches to preen their power and prestige with which to strut around Tampa Bay because they control billions of tax dollars. That control means they can dish out contracts to people who do business to the board. That, concluded for the whistleblower law suit filed and won by Mr. Erwin against the board. The administration-- starting at the top with Dr. Lennard--board, and board attorney Tom Gonzalez conducted a campaign to fire him against for reporting to the board shoddy building practices and asking the board to do something to combat the rip-off of the public.<br />I read the court files. The jury did not believe a thing the administration collaborators and board liars said. It found for Mr. Erwin. Tom Gonzalez, not a court-room Fred Astaire, blew the case. This bad response from the jury explains why the administration always asks for bench trial. They know they can’t fool a jury or tap into the judicial collaborators as they did in Renee’s two trials.<br />Mr. Erwin fled to Georgia but can’t get a job because he can’t get the board and administration to give him a recommendation. That’s the kind of petty retaliation at which the board and administration excel. If there were one board member with courage and ethics, that benign renegade would send Mr. Erwin a job recommendation.<br />Mr. Erwin was a principal in the schools for years and universally liked and respected. Earl the Pearl Lennard lured him into the administration and tried to gut him when he turned out to have courage and ethics. Among the petty crooks who run the schools, ethics and courage are bad politics.<br />When Erwin asked the board and administration to clean up the the shoddy work on the schools with their payoffs, instead of an investigation for bribe taking and other unlovely perquisites of power, the administration, starting with Dr. Lennard and including the board’s connivance, tried to make the whistleblower’s professional life a living hell on campus and fire him. If you want further evidence of the irregular practices that won Mr. Erwin the case, check the donar lists of Carol Kurdell and Jack Lamb on the supervisor of elections site of the county. In the quirky politics of the state, then Governor Crist appointed Lennard supervisor of elections when Phyllis Bukanski, an honest politician, died in office.<br />In assessing the board’s conduct, I learned that anyone who threatened this power hegemony--even a lowly gay speaking up for gays in the community as was his First Amendment rights--could expect retaliatory punishment including threatened job loss.<br />The school administration and board have determined to control their image to protect their power incumbency. Both want to eucher the community about their unlovely covert behavior in order to maintain their image in order to keep the public ignorant and ensure both’s continued lock on power.<br />In Bart’s case, his public display of being gay messed up their need to disguise that gays worked in the schools for fear that the Paleozoic homophobes in the fens and bogs at the edge of the county beyond the furtherest reaches of Seffner and Turkey Creek would march on ROSSAC in battle formation with axe handles and pitchforks. If a gay’s employment got out, then citizens would understand that the quidnuncs who run the schools don’t practice perfect discrimination against gays, just enough to keep gays cowed and silent and the Yahoos propitiated.<br />I was eager to see how you, the only black on the board, made sure that black children’s needs got attention, an enterprise not favored by the rest of the board. I wanted also to observe how you used your position to promote community blacks’ participation in the life of the schools.<br />In my two years’ observation, I never heard you mention black children. You didn’t sponsor a single program for them or bring up one statistic that showed them disenfranchised in any way. I also never heard you support an outstanding community black’s having a school named after him or her. The result of the latter assured that school after school got the name of another mediocre white man--most often a coach who can’t make his subjects and verbs agree.<br />Your ignoring significant discrimination against black children as the NAACP’s 2003-2004 black-disparity study shows tells me that you have entered the woebegone ranks of Aunt Toms, who want to distance themselves from their own black race to blend in with the dominant white race. I see that kind of betrayal in the Women’s Movement, with a few of us women doing the heavy lifting and the rest joining the sexist males’ declaring that those few working for women’s rights are jackbooted lesbians. But when we open a door for women, guess who rushes through first?<br />One salient piece of discrimination against black children that took place unchallenged by you is the recent savagery to Riverside High’s black student Renee Anderson. The board and administration railroaded her into expulsion without a fair hearing, including an obligatory hearing before the board.<br />The board and administration apparatchiks closed ranks to maul and kick out Renee Anderson without giving her the chance to tell her side of the story; the administration and board hierarchs expected Renee to go to the preliminary hearing and admit guilt to things she was not guilty of because that was their routine bureaucratic shake-down in the preliminary hearing: they demanded an automatic admission of guilt from the student at the hearing. Most children are scared enough to comply. They don’t have courageous, protective parents as Renee has.<br />In the preliminary hearing, Renee’s stepfather, Mr. Walton, protested that the school persecutors were stripping Renee of her Constitutional rights because the board minions were shuffling through evidence at their desks not provided to Renee in the preliminary hearing and wouldn’t allow Renee to see it when he asked for it.<br />Mr. and Mrs. Walton, along with Renee, thus got kicked out of Renee‘s hearing by the board and administration overlord representatives, including then-board-attorney Crosby Few, for presenting this due-process request to the board biggies. Thus ensued the kick-out. Students don’t get Constitutional rights in the Hillsborough County school system any more than they get filet mignon in the lunch room.<br />Despite the Waltons’ and Renee’s kickout, the hearing overlords recorded Renee‘s having pled guilty to the aggravated assault charge in that hearing from which they ejected her and her parents. They lied for an official record.<br />The board routine of that preliminary hearing requires every student to plead guilty of the charge. Renee later maintained her innocence in her deposition for her court case, filed by her parents to protect her from the slander of expulsion that would contaminate her record and make it hard for her to get a job. The school minions had manufactured the guilty plea in the hearing.<br />The NAACP study asserts “Students of color are being disciplined at higher rates compared to their peers in the Hillsborough schools. For example, in 2003-2004 black students were over three times as likely as their white peers to be suspended out of school, and black elementary school pupils over five times as likely to be suspended out of school.” Renee Anderson ranks as one of those racist statistics.<br />Moreover, says NAACP research, “Racial disparities in suspension are matched by other key educational indicators. In the school year, a black child is more likely to be retained in grade as a white child and more than three times as likely to be identified as retarded, whereas a white child is more than one and one-half times as likely to graduate from high school in four years and more than three times as likely to be identified for a gifted program.”<br /> <br />This NAACP study confirms disparity in such situations as the case of Renee Anderson at Riverview High. It and other cases result in these lopsided, discriminatory statistics unquestioned by the board and surprisingly by the one black on it: you. This case shows Renee’s being expelled for “aggravated assault” on the 240-pound hulk vice principal Kevin Massena. Renee brushed past this administrative specimen to escape his blocking her from leaving his office after school when her mother told her to come home via cell phone.<br />My friend, a teacher of the county school says: “…maybe principals are allowed to block a student's path, b/c I do know that they are now telling teachers not to break up fights and to just call an administrator. Administrators are trained in special restraining techniques to help end a fight safely and pull the kids apart. So maybe principals are also taught how to blocka student. I don't know. I just know that we peons [teachers] are told to never block a student’s path. If the student refuses to sit down or leaves the room, we simply call for administration and write the student up. We are told the school board will not support us if we block and then the student gets hostile and hits or pushes us. I think that puts the school board at legal risk if we block the student’s path.But maybe principals are different. I don't know.”<br />Yes, principals and administrators are different. The Professional Standards office statistics show teachers but never administrators get punished. And in cases of school contretemps, principals such as Heilmann feel free to run after the student and howl, “Get off my school grounds!” Such is the special training for such incidents that principals get but not teachers.<br />This information came from a teacher of many years who would be fired on the spot if I revealed the name.<br />Jiu jetsu Menendez claims Renee Anderson performed aggravated battery upon his person by brushing past him to escape when he had her penned up in his office and blocked her exit.<br />Before we go any further, we must demand that Le Mendez present his scores on the Beery-Buketinic Developmental Test of Visual-Motor skills. These data will tell us whether he is normal in this area as anyone must be who is going to invoke aggravated battery for a student’s bumping into him.<br />Logic says that the administration’s claim that it knows how to handle fights but that the faculty does not requires this test for all administrators: A Menendez-Beery Bukentinic score is pivotal in a claim of aggravated battery as the one Le Menedez cites. Mr. Heilmann must present the most recent Menendez-Berry-Bukentinc score of his battered subaltern: Menendez.<br />Mr. Menendez justifies his claim:<br />-----Original Message-----From: Doris Landis Raskin [mailto:dlawraskin@bellsouth.net] Sent: Sunday, .Doris Landis Raskin<a href="mailto:dlawraskin@bellsouth.net">dlawraskin@bellsouth.net</a><br />-----Original Message-----From: Doris Landis Raskin [mailto:dlawraskin@bellsouth.net] Sent: Sunday, November 14, 2010 11:16 AMTo: <a href="mailto:tdecesar@tampabay.rr.com">tdecesar@tampabay.rr.com</a>Subject:Renee's case is concluded unjustly and unfairly. The appellate court found a completely new fact, i.e., that the board had offered Renee an alternative placement. If that were true, we would never have filed a case. When a case is decided at the appellate level, the only thing left is an appeal to the Supreme Court. There is no jurisdictional issue for the Supreme Court. The appellate court tanked it by finding a fact not in evidence.Thank you for your kind words. I am not proud of the writing, but I am proud of the content. Cases are not decided on how well the brief is written, but the legal issues, the application of the facts to the issues, and the rule of law. In Renee's case, I believe it was decided on personalities. Susan Bucklew, a favorite of the appellate court, and a former high school English teacher in the defendant school system who had to know all of the good old boys involved, should have recused herself, but didn't. I didn't know about her until I read her wild hair of a decision and did some research.Doris Landis Raskin<a href="mailto:dlawraskin@bellsouth.net">dlawraskin@bellsouth.net</a><br />out his desk exit the premises. Even if he has mopped up the floor with the Menendez-Beery Bukentinic test, he must skedaddle.<br />Egged on by a call from Principal Heilmann, the police didn’t wait for Renee’s mother to arrive but crammed her in the patrol car in handcuffs and sped her to lock-up.<br />School officials such as board attorney Tom Gonzalez maintain in PR propaganda that students get solicitous treatment and are given their rights in such situations.<br />Legal hooey.<br />Renee’s case shows the overlords don’t. In answer to the question “Do principas get to monitor interrogations?“ a SPT reporter asked board attorney Gonzales. He reaches into his legal sack of mendacity and reponds that the ing. One wishes this were so. Principal Heilmann was in cahoots with the police to deprive Renee of fair treatment.<br />Then the Board Mouthpiece gilded the PR lie and continued that principals have the duty "if they ever get uncomfortable [with an interrogation]…to” speak up and say, 'You know what, [sic] I think we should wait for that person's parent.'" Absolute hogwash as Renee‘s treatment shows.<br />Renee’s case belies reality for and press preening. Called by the principal’s factotums or himself, the cops motored up to King High just as Renee was walking toward her home across the street from the school. The piney-woods gendarmes jumped out of the patrol car, clamped Renee in handcuffs, and arrested her with Principal Heillmann’s not only failing to monitor the police interrogation because none occurred, but by Heilmann’s running after Renee in the parking lot hollering after her to “get off my campus!“ and “You’ll never come back here again!”<br />Renee’s interrogation by the police probably consisted of the colloquy, “You Renee Anderson?” “Yes.” “Then hold out your hands for these cuffs, sister, and get in the back of the patrol car.”<br />What parent would want a child subjected to this terrorism?<br />The school board’s PR description of the way students facing expulsion get treated as depicted in school-board false policy statenebt and the wat they get treated in reality are two different things. The board knows this and even encourages it. The board counts to the public about these and other matters as routine politics.<br />The board never heard Renee’s case as it was obligated to according to board rules, and you, Ms. Edgecomb, didn’t bestir yourself to ascertain why Renee and her parents did not come before the board as such cases are supposed to.<br />The parents and Renee did not get notice of the board hearing due either to the incompetent hostility of Mr. Otero, vice superintendent, or to the board’s indifference. Instead, board members let this black student slide into expulsion by green-lighting her case on the board see-no-evil consent agenda. Nobody asked what had happened to her. Abused students--especially black ones--are so routine that they do not pique the board’s curiosity and especially not their concern.<br />All board members and involved administrators were culpable in ignoring this black student’s disenfranchisement by the Hillsborough schools’ racist system of lopsided punishment that the NAACP study documents.<br />The board apparatus had misinformed Renee’s parents about the hearing. It never bothered to follow up to find out why they and Renee did not show up. Mr. Otero’s office claimed the board couldn’t get in touch with the Walton parents because they had left no forwarding address when the family moved to take Renee to a more wholesome environment in which to attend school after the staged Riverview fracas in which she was accused of “aggravated assault” on the bloated 240-pound vice principal because she squeezed past him to escape his incarceration of her when her mother told her on the phone to come home.<br />The Walton family had, in fact, left a forwarding address at the post office.<br />This slovenly treatment of a black student’s rights shows a lackadaisical attitude toward black children by the board and administration. It confirms a blithe unconcern for their wellbeing. Had the child Renee been a white child from South Tampa, one can be sure that a sycophantic board would have hopped to it in ensuring that the South Tampa family’s engraved notification of the board hearing was delivered on a satin pillow.<br />I believe that vice-superintendent Otero deliberately mishandled the notification ritual for Renee. The narrative of this case shows that this extravagantly paid public employee showed ignorant of addresses’ being left by departing people at post offices. Yet he gets paid what I suspect is close to $200,000 a year since Ms. Elia pulls down $300,000 and rising since the sycophantic board has no mercy on taxpayers when loading on more and more dolllar bills onto Elia’s already bloated salary.<br />It is not as if Mr. Otero just got off the boat from Bulgaria via the Black Sea and didn’t know the civil rituals of the United States; it is not as if he had no experience in the procedure of forwarding addresses. He has done a plethora in his job of vice principal, ensconced therein since the Pleistocene Age. He should have an advanced degree by now in forwarding letters when students’ families move. Like too many in this C-student administration, Mr. Otero is a slow learner.<br />I reason Le Otero’s slovenliness was due to Renee’s being a black child and that this dereliction betrayed insidious retaliation in sabotaging Renee’s case by the whole administrative system. Why? Because Renee Anderson’s parents fought back at the discriminatory behavior toward Renee and them by the board and administration. The board and administrative bigots expect that such victims as Renee and her family will take the board and administration’s contemptuous behavior lying down whilst groveling with “Yassir, Mahster.”<br />One example of discrimination in Renee’s case exists in the assault claim of vice principal Kevin Messena. Mr. Messena and the administration closed ranks, lied also about Renee’s involvement in a school-grounds fight, didn’t give her a chance to refute the charge of participation or assault on the grounds or on Le Messena, and trapped this black student into an ersatz charge of aggravated battery against the 240-pound functionary when she exited his office.<br />The administrative punishers never allowed Ms. Anderson her Constitutional rights, and the local courts themselves steeped in this complicit punishment choreograph, approved this denial of Renee’s rights in adjudication of the charge up through the appeals court presided over by Judge Bucklew, who was judge in the appeals case had connection with Tom Gonzalez’s wife. I believe that the detective whom Mr. Walton has employed to track down issues in the case may have discovered these data.<br />The people excoriating Renee at every stage of her expulsion seemed to have a connection to each other honed over years of relationships punctuated by irregular pupil expulsions that got the imprimatur of the courts, part of the coreograph, although the courts are supposed to administer justice in these forlorn regions. The folks who handled Renee’s expulsion ritual worked together like bees in a beehive. The judge who presided at the first trial insisted that Renee had pled guilty in the hearing--the one she and her family were kicked out of. It seems that the system allows only a guilty plea in that hearing. To which a logical question would be Then why have the hearing?<br />This judge said “Everybody knows you’re guilty”: Is this judicial language or is it biased language? Renee’s attorney tried to determine Menendez’ degree of racism on the stand by asking him if it were true that he had been heard to use racist language. But the judges slapped the question down. I would have liked to hear the answer.<br />The Heilmann exhortation to Renee to “get off my school grounds!” represents a Freudian slip that lays bare the attitude of the administration and board toward black students.<br />The folks in the ROSSAC big White House believe the schools rank as their property and that field-hand teachers and students--especially black ones--are interlopers on it--tolerated only because students’ and their teachers’ numbers dictate the tax loot the board and administration preside over--loot that undergirds their status as power poseurs in the Bay Area. Scrutiny shows that they are abusers of children--especially black ones--trapped in the expulsion pas de deux.<br />I think it’s significant in your case, Ms. Ethridge, that you do not belong to the NAACP but rather to the Athena Society. Besides this social club of ladies who lunch, you belong to the Florida School Boards Association Board (FSBA) of Directors and are an alternate on both the FSBA Legislative Liaison Committee and the Hillsborough Education Foundation. You as well serve on the board of directors for ChairScholars, Keep Hillsborough County Beautiful, and the Florida Center for Survivors of Torture--for which Renee now qualifies after her mauling by the board, administration, and courts. None of these prissy committees of which you are member has established a record for fighing for black students’ rights in the schools.<br />I am familiar with the ladies-who-lunch Athena club. I knew its founder, Nancy Ford, recently passed away. Forty years ago, Nancy came to my home in Beach Park a couple of weeks after our family including our ancient cat Twink, who disappeared under the house for two weeks in a hissy we moved from New York because she had to sojourn in the luggage part of the plane. Nancy came as ambassador from the bank she worked for.<br />After Title VII nudged banks into hiring women to upper-level jobs, the local bank Machiavellies rigged up vp slots for prominent society women like Nancy. But attenuated sexism meant these to be for show, not regularguy jobs. The ersatz female vice presidents passed out cook books to relocating families. Talk about undignified sexism: this cookbook job was it.<br />My living in South Tampa notwithstanding, forty years ago Bay Area feminists such as I did not represent restrained, ladylike mores, which is the reason that Nancy never had the nerve to join us in the National Organization of Women, which I convened, but set up the women’s-rights-lite club Athena.<br />Meanwhile, NOW picketed; we sat in; we mounted verbal challenges; wrote sassy, abusive letters of protest to the town sexist biggies; ratted out discrimination against women to Washington compliance agencies; and offered instant resistance to any discrimination we spotted against women by the diehards of women’s oppression in Hillsborough County. If we spotted any, we squawked, usually at the scene of the crime.<br />I opened the sheriff’s and the police departments to women by reporting the sexist agencies for refusing to hire women as officers. The EEOC and the Justice Department rode down to the rescue. Sheriff Beard still refuses to occupy the same room with me. Boo hoo.<br />I recall our first street agitprop : NOW challenged the local papers’ sex-segregated job ads. Not content, we followed that up by picketing Wolfe Brothers department store on Franklin Street--since gone out of business--to challenge its policy of charging women, not men, for alterations. The manager’s defense: “Women sew.”<br />Meanwhile, dear Nancy, not able to join us bona fide feminists due to social timidity, nonetheless was bent on doing something to augment achieving women‘s equality. She dared not jeopardize her South Tampa social standing, so she walked on eggs and founded an attenuated form of feminism, the Athena Society. This moniker was ironic since Athena was the goddess of war and would have been president of the local chapter of hell-raising NOW feminists had she been around.<br />Athena’s feminist attitude ranked feeble then as now. It evolved as just another snoot club of women too insecure to speak out to assert their full citizenship and instead became a watered-down organizations such as the Junior League (junior to whom? one wonders. Men, of course) and Athena instead. These parts of the sisterhood occupied the pastel end slot.<br />Nancy asked me to speak at one of Athena’s luncheons on the ERA. I was to discourse on the grittier aspects of the ERA battle to this refined club of ladies engaged in flaccid feminism. Besides being called “jackbooted Lesbos,“ we radical feminists had to contend with such issues as the opposition’s scare tactic that the ERA would force men and women to go to the toilet together. Foes of the ERA were dumb and not high minded. Their concerns about the ERA were not metaphysical; they were physical.<br />So to talk up the ERA among the luke warm, I sallied forth to an Athena elegant luncheon and got the impression that the Athena women weren’t listening to my ERA comments so much as assessing my wardrobe.<br />As a poor teacher, I couldn’t dress in posh Athena duds, and these recidivist fashion groupies immediately picked up on this fact. Clothes to them ranked a major tenet of life--much more important than the ERA. This obsession was and is a major symptom of women’s second-class status in a man’s world.<br />Women pro-feminism remain to this day interlopers in a man’s power keep-out area. Men consider them toxic. Women don’t get past the lock-out by competence but by appearance--enhanced by attire to make them look soigné so that they can trap one of the dominant y-chromosome high-earning critters into the financial security of marriage by the lures of posh attire and giddy behavior.<br />I fended off the sneers that quivered at the corners of Athena doyennes’ mouths at my poor attire. But shazam! I had unexpected protection: I had by chance grabbed one of my big, old Chanel bags that day to stack my notes in. I have about a dozen Chanels picked up over the years during times of prosperity hanging as decorations on my bedroom wall.<br />When I flopped my old Chanel on the table to extract my notes, there was a palpable change of atmosphere in the room.<br />That old Chanel bag was escutcheon of style and class. Chanel stops the conversation. Nobody one-ups Chanel in the fashion marathon. My old Chanel acted my imprimatur of worthiness to make a speech to this soi-disant snoot group of insecure women who could not throw off old values of snobbery and vanity and slavery to men to fight in the streets and if necessary in the gutters to enter a new era of women’s equality. Such poseurs’ plan is to have us crazy radical feminists do the dirty work as storm troopers, and then Athena lady layabouts bestir themselves to move in and mop up the gains.<br />With my old Chanel protecting me like a cross brandished at vampires in old Bela Lugosi movies. I exited the luncheon feeling as if it were a fool-proof shield to be used when I met Athena vampires of snobbery and superannuated feminine behavior whilst they pretended to be committed to women‘s rights.<br />Forty years after my Athena speech and several years since Nancy’s death, Athena continues. It’s feminist-lite program supports “a young Woman of Promise“; how is not clear. Probably it involves a luncheon fundraiser for the young woman’s first-quarter tuition to some snoot-approved women’s college such as Radcliffe, in which she will major in art history.<br />Athena steers clear of the gut-level feminist issues of abortion rights, sexual harassment, and employment discrimination. These are too messy and unladylike for Athena just as was the suffragists’ fighting for the right of women to vote too unladylike for the dingbat x-chomosomers then. These traitors to their sex sneered and Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton and other suffragists and joined men in calling them “hyenas in petticoats.” But the collaborators sped to the voting booth when suffragist Valkyries pushed through women‘s right to vote.<br />In the intervening forty years, Athena has continued its luncheons. Its membership is still by-invitation-only. It has run a campaign of capturing productive community women to adorn its membership marquee such as Betty Castor, Katherine Essrig, and Sandy Freedman.<br />The list includes as well your name, Ms. Edgecomb. You are the token innocuous prominent black woman. Also listed also is the judge that presided in one of Renee’s trials: Susan Bucklew, who ruled against Renee‘s appeal. Now we begin to see through a glass darkly the backroom colleagues who undid Renee.<br />Renee’s hearing and trial record begins to resemble an unspoken conspiracy of Bay Area power bureaucrats sticking together on school expulsions behind the scenes from the school grounds through the courts. The choreograph is “To hell with the kids, especially black ones with parents that, in Renee‘s case, fight for their daughter‘s rights; let’s keep our record unblemished with no messy concessions to justice.”<br /> <br />You belong to Athena, Ms. Edgecomb, not the NAACP. The value system this choice represents does not redound to your credit. Nor does it recommend your being a school board member responsible for the protection and equal treatment of black children in the schools. I understand blacks in the community are proud of your public office. But you don’t deserve their admiration and trust as the Renee Anderson case well shows.<br />The school board, which you now chair, does not protest but fosters the discriminatory statistics of more black than white children’s suffering from the ritual of expulsion and low graduation rates as the NAACP study documents. One would have thought that as the only black on the board, you would have waded in and demanded an in-house committee of board members, administrators, teachers, and parents to plumb the situation and insist on its correction. And you would have thenceforth monitored progress of the committee’s suggestions or the lack of it, making a pest of yourself if necessary. I can testify that nothing beats making a pest of yourself. I excel at this skill. It’s much more effective than whining diplomacy. Women in Florida and elsewhere would do well to make pests of themselves.<br />You have not made a pest of yourself or even let out a peep of protest about discrimination against black children in the schools. You remained serene in your seat on whitey’s board, trying to distract from the fact that you are black by being bland. You are, in fact, a black woman who ignores the punishment of black children in the school system over which you preside. That’s a fact the NAACP statistics undergird. The children suffer while you fantasize.<br />To give some idea of how unfair Renee Anderson’s punishment was, let’s scrutinize the charge of “aggravated assault” responsible for her arrest and incarceration and compare her case with the aggravated assault on students of a King High school administrator. Renee brushed past Assistant Principal Macena, who tried to trap her in his office. This constituted the putative aggravated assault. One should have thought that cooping up a person in an office against a person’s will rings a bell somewhere in the justice system.<br />Renee had called her mother via cell phone and told her Le Messena was holding her against her will.<br />Her mother told her to come home, which was across the street from the school. But the hulking Messena penned Renee in his office on unproved charges of fighting in the schools and cried aggravated assault when she brushed past him. Every time I review this situation, I believe there’s something whacked out about it. A student brushes past a heft administrator, and that’s aggravated assualt. Aw, c’mon.<br />Nobody listened to Ms. Anderson. She had no hearing. She had not been fighting but was trying to break up a fight between friends. But the administration did not want to hear a refutation of its prejudice. Its accusation was freeze-dried and ready for application. Principal Heilmann was not interested in anything but his conviction that another black child had been in a fight and merited punishment. Black children’s fighting was his engrained scenario. Without determining her participation in the fight, the principal screamed twice at Renee, “Get off my school grounds!”<br />The DNA of this Heilmann reaction reaches back to the hanging of black men falsely accused of rape of white women in the Old South. This accusation’s morphology is limitless.<br />Question: why did the upper ROSSACers take this man from his natural habitat of the athletic fields and put him in a principal’s office? Look at his ill-written, badly punctuated resume above. He belongs in a sports venue or janitor duty: he should never take off his cleats.<br />Let’s home in on the charge of unproven “aggravated assault” by student Renee Anderson on the delicate 240-pounder. Unproven “aggravated assault,” later changed to plain assault by the state’s attorney--“The quality of justice is not strained: it droppeth from heaven like the gentle rain” was triggered by a mere call from the principal’s office.<br />This administration call resulted in Renee’s precipitate handcuffing arrest with no principal-attended interrogation. It was incarceration based on nothing but erroneous, bigoted assumptions by the administration and arrogant behavior of the cops. Here is Mr. Messena’s marginally literate statement:<br />I bet this hefty specimen makes at least $70,000 a year without being able to spell in a school system dedicated to infusing litercy skills into its pupils. Somebody who spells “until” as “untill” does not have the brain power to make the fine distinctions a vice principal must master. A meat plant hefting beef carcasses is the place for Mr. Messena.<br />Renee’s case represents insensitive, programmed, prejudiced behavior on the administration’s part toward Renee; it contrasts markedly with another instance of repeated, ignored assaults by an administrator on students:<br />A King High School administrator presided over these scenes of assaults on students at that school.<br />An assistant principal at King ordered pubescent boys into his office, ordered them to close the door, ordered them to remove their shoes and socks, ordered them to present him their feet for him to manipulate and drool over. He especially liked to crack their toes.<br />Other administrators pretended not to note this weird behavior nor tried to stop it. The principal, Carol Bruning, must be more than usually unaware of what is going on in her school.<br />This was the sicko scene of an administrator who produced the “Toecracker” caper, which the administration treated as a prank with an “Oh, isn’t he a card?!” when knowledge of it was forced upon them.<br />One of the boys’ others called the papers to reveal the outrage. The Toe Cracker saga appeared in the SPT.<br />The administration had filed no charges of undoubted aggravated assault against the administrative probable foot fetishist. Administrative minions had not called the cops to arrest him; no handcuffs; no lock-up; The oblivious principal Carla Bruning King went along with the administrator’s weird behavior if, indeed, she were ever aware of what the joker was doing. Such out-to-lunch principal conduct probably means she needed a regimen of No-Doze<br />The disputed charge of “aggravated battery” against Renee got her arrested stat and incarcerated without the administration’s even determining if she were guilty of the charge. It didn’t let her speak. There was no interrogation of Renee which school board attorney Tom Gonzalez airily tells the press any student is entitled to. In contrast, the assistant principal’s repeated, blatant aggravated assault on King’s multiple pubescent boys’ feet probably for psychosexual gratification got ignored or treated as a joke when forced on the administration‘s attention.<br />This case highlights another outrage perpetrated in the schools and unquestioned by the board. Administrators never get fired for bad behavior or incompetence; only teachers do. The Professional Standards files will support this statement.<br />I pleaded at a board meeting to Ms. Elia to have the apparent foot fetishist administrator examined by a psychiatrist to see if he were mentally well or suffered some form of pathology. She didn’t even look up from her calculations of what whopping raise she should ask for next. None of the board moved that the foot fetishist be examined to see if he were a threat to the youngsters in his power. So much for the empty “safety of the children” chorus of the board. So much for courage and morals.<br />How does this lax treatment of a King High administrator’s repeated, overt aggravated-assault fetish on pubescent male students stack up against Renee’s unproven aggravated-assault charge on burly Vice Principal Messena?<br />Comparison produces the suspicion that invidious discrimination unfolded in the administrative rush to judgment with non-deliberative jocko Principal Hellmann’s anthem of “Get off my school grounds!” to Renee. This administrative big shot didn’t bother to question Student Renee Anderson or give her the benefit of a doubt before he chased her across the parking lot, screaming “Get off my grounds!” into the cops’ arms,<br />Mr. Heilmann had early called the police to clamp handcuffs on the youngster, arrest her, and jail her for aggravated assault. Meanwhile, the bizarre King High footsy-tootsy administrator gets free rein to pursue his probably psychosexually based indulgence, dismissed as mere horseplay by the administration and board. The principal of King snoozed the whole time. The board avoided knowledge of the situation. “We knew nothing about it” is the board’s template fall-back mantra. The truth is they know everything about everything and sit on it.<br />Yet these elected public servants opine ad nauseum on the board dais that they are “concerned about the safety of the children.” Oh, sure. You betcha.<br />Instead of calling the cops to arrest the King High administrator for chronic aggravated assault on the school’s pubescent boys, the administration tolerated and even joked about it--“Ha! Ha! Ha” The higher-ups pretended to never have taken Psychology 101. They stalled until a parent’s outcry against the whacky foot-fetish administrator finally forced the administration to call in a lackadaisical sheriff’s investigator who declared the administration, not the sheriff’s department, should deal with the King High toe cracker. Passing the buck among Hillsborough County community leaders represents template behavior.<br />When I emailed Sheriff Gee to review the situation, he emailed me back and grandly advised, “Consult my staff.” Sheriff Gee is yet another politician who gets elected to office and believes that he has assumed the purple.<br />However, when the King High principal got the threat of a lawsuit from an irate parent after the toe-cracker story appeared in SP Times and when the parent said he would sue the schools unless the toe cracker got a psychiatric examination, the torpid administration broke into attenuated action.<br />Showing their slick, practiced powers of evasion, the administration and board side-stepped this parent’s threat it appears by having an in-house factotum with some ersatz psychology background evaluate the man for pathology. Naturally, the in-house evaluator found the Toe Cracker a model of mental health. Not doing so would have meant the poor wretch’s job.<br />Anybody who knows the least thing about mental illness (I did psychiatric nursing for a time at Seton Institute in Baltimore and spent hours in the hospital library reading, reading, reading, reading) would know a state-certified psychologist or a psychiatrist specializing in sexual disorders should have done the evaluation. Surely school administrators are obliged to be masters of such information.<br />This evasion of parental concern for the children to whom the board and administration act in loco parentis and such disinterest in multiple boys’ abuse refute the board’s claim to have paramount in their consideration the safety of the children. Its members show how lax and indifferent the board and administration are about Hillsborough County school children’s safety when it comes to making an administrator responsible for criminal battery on multiple boys unchecked over a period of time.<br />In contrast, making a student guilty of criminal battery without an examination and locking her up as in Renee’s case gets a shoo-in “of course” and “ho hum” from the board. But an abusive administrator gets a non-professional exam and a pass. Those acts display extant invidious ethics for the Hillsborough County board and administration.<br />Principal Heilmann and his administration distorted and evaded the Student Code of Conduct in its eagerness to strip student Renee Anderson of her rights. In contrast, the board and administration ignored and condoned the criminal battery a King High administrator promulgated on pubescent boys in his power. The administration called the cops for Renee’s arrest, not giving her a chance to refute the charge. They ignored the foot fetishist’s activities until a parent called their bluff. This is what’s known in Aristotle’s Nichomachean Ethics as whacko ethics.<br />Board Policies (mounted on school Web site)<br />Zero tolerance policies should apply equally to all students, Redundant comma: splits a compound verb and are not intended to be rigorously applied to petty acts of misconduct and misdemeanors. This zero tolerance policy does not require the reporting of petty acts of misconduct and misdemeanors to a law enforcement agency, including, redundant comma but not limited to disorderly conduct, disrupting a school function, simple assault or battery (The State’s attorney’s office relabeled Renee’s putative bumping of Messena as simple battery.), affray, theft of less than $300, trespassing, and vandalism of less than $1,000. The District will seek to use alternatives to expulsion or referral to law enforcement agencies unless the use of such alternatives will pose a threat to school safety.<br />This represents sugared lies and the abuse of language in deliberate propaganda used by the board and administration to befuddle people and to disguise the schools’ real behavior.<br />Hitler and Goebbels did not lie any more disingenuously to advance Nazism. Renee’s case refutes the board-policy lie when Mr. Heilmanna’s and Le Macena’s overkill justice on a student for and unproven, petty act.<br />Why did these more humane, civil Board Policy standards not apply in Renee’s case? My hunch says racial discrimination. I suspect that the latent racial sadism in the white double helix goes back to the hanging of innocent blacks in the South for putative rapes. This malignant prejudice pops up from the interstices of the administrators’ double helix and even from that of some teachers in such incidents as Renee’s. Their almost unconscious behavior comes from years of indoctrination in racial injustice and, in Renee’s case, the conviction that no parent will come to the aid of a black son or daughter. A congeries of causes lead them to slap on the toughest, most exaggerated, most vicious accusation possible. Read Faulkner’s That Evening Sun or any of his oeuvre to get an idea of how this prejudice emerged.<br />Where is the Marquis de Sade when we need to consult him on the symtomology of racial sadism?<br />More twaddle promulgated by the board:<br />5611 - DUE PROCESS RIGHTS board handbook<br />The Board recognizes the importance of safeguarding a student's constitutional rights particularly when subject to the District's disciplinary procedures.<br />To better ensure appropriate due-process is provided a student, the Board establishes the following regulations:<br /> <br /> <br />The Superintendent shall ensure that all members of the staff use the above regulations when dealing with students. In addition, this statement of due process rights is to be placed in all student handbooks in a manner that will facilitate understanding by students and their parents.<br />F.S. 1006.07, 1006.09, 1001.51, 1002.20<br /> <br /> <br />Comparing Renee’s treatment to these benign promises shows the board handbook represents deliberate mendacious puffery. I think vice principal Goebbels wrote this folderol. Renee’s appeal attorney argued masterfully for Renee’s being denied due-process rights. Her step-father insisted that the school and administration denied them. But Athena member appeals judge Susan Bucklew found against Renee. She is the judge who has some connection with Tom Gonzalez’s wife.<br />Members of the board and administration not only punctuate badly, they abuse the English language, gutting words of their meaning. It’s criminal that school leaders distort language to disguise their chicanery and protect their power because they are supposed to teach children to use language exactly, not twist it to trap a student into expulsion.<br />I’m now reading how Hitler took over Germany. Hitler was a runaway liar. With propaganda minister Goebbels’ help, Hitler did the same thing the board does in these disingenuous student-handbook statements : the board guts language of its meaning, twisting it not to inform but to obfuscate what they are really doing behind the scenes.<br />This abuse of the English language ranks identifier for C-students who clog administration for undeserved bloated salaries. A-students go from college to the classroom and teach. C-students scamper to administration the minute they graduate with some marginal major because administration’s where the money is.<br />Pop Quiz for all administrators: The quiz will cover standard punctuation and composition of an essay on the implications of the word “affray” as used in the Hillsborough County administration handbook. See Ms. De Cesare in her office for analysis of your test results. Bring your grammar primer for remedial assignments.<br />More hooey from Board policies handbook:<br />Race/Color Harassment<br />Prohibited racial harassment occurs when unwelcome physical, verbal, or nonverbal conduct is based upon an individual's race or color and when the conduct has the purpose or effect of interfering with the individual's work or educational performance; of creating an intimidating, hostile, or offensive working, and/or learning environment; or of interfering with one's ability to participate in or benefit from a class or an educational program or activity. Such harassment may occur where conduct is directed at the characteristics of a person's race or color such as racial slurs, nicknames implying stereotypes, epithets, and/or negative references relative to racial customs.<br />I propose that the conduct of Renee Anderson’s faux fighting and aggravated assault charges was racially prejudices overreaction by the Riverview administration as betrayed in Principal Heillemann‘s twice-repeated “Get off my campus!” to Renee and “You’ll never come back here again!” I propose that racial-discrimination sludge contaminates the psyches of the administration and board--including the psyche of its only black member. You’re suffering from the Stockholm Syndrome as Patty Hearst did.<br />It remains for you, Board Member Edgecomb, to act vigilant gatekeeper to stop the practice of inflicting the punishment of expulsion more frequently on black than on white children. It’s your duty to discover what’s going on that makes black students more liable to be labeled retarded, less likely to graduated on time, less likely to be honor students.<br />The Gates Grant should have supported this kind of investigation instead of the hooha search for the elements of classroom teachers’ pedagogy. Gut intuition suggests the study results will find use by administration in threatening teachers’ jobs if they are too inquisitive or too critical about how the overlords run the schools.<br />If you don’t have the stomach or social courage for this obligation of protecting black children from discrimination, you should resign and make way for a black person from your district who does.<br />Mr. Beefy Messena weighs in on the behavior of Renee that he says equates to aggravated battery on his person:<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />Email to appeal attorney for Renee:<br /> <br /> <br />Ms. Raskin:<br />I have read your appeals brief for Renee Anderson's case against the Hillsborough County schools not one but three times. The date says December 21, 2009.<br />You do an admirable job on the Renee Anderson brief. Take this from a college professor of 28 years who taught writing to freshman and sophomore students. Your strengths are vivid diction, paucity of passive verbs, and emphatic contrary assertions. These give your writing thrust and pace. Run-of-the-mill lawyers such as Tom Gonzalez lapse into the conditional mood, weasel circumlocution, and fusty legal diction. He doesn’t know basic grammar-punctuation. So bad is the Gonzalez writing that I wrote Floida State’s writing faculty to complain about its letting loose such as he on Florida citizens.<br />………<br />-----Original Message-----From: Doris Landis Raskin [mailto:dlawraskin@bellsouth.net] Sent: Sunday, November 14, 2010 11:16 AMTo: tdecesar@tampabay.rr.comSubject:<br />Renee's case is concluded unjustly and unfairly. The appellate court found a completely new fact, i.e., that the board had offered Renee an alternative placement. If that were true, we would never have filed a case. When a case is decided at the appellate level, the only thing left is an appeal to the Supreme Court. There is no jurisdictional issue for the Supreme Court. The appellate court tanked it by finding a fact not in evidence.<br />Thank you for your kind words. I am not proud of the writing, but I am proud of the content. Cases are not decided on how well the brief is written, but the legal issues, the application of the facts to the issues, and the rule of law. In Renee's case, I believe it was decided on personalities. Susan Bucklew, a favorite of the appellate court, and a former high school English teacher in the defendant school system who had to know all of the good old boys involved, should have recused herself, but didn't. I didn't know about her until I read her wild hair of a decision and did some research.<br />Doris Landis Raskin<br /><a href="mailto:dlawraskin@bellsouth.net">dlawraskin@bellsouth.net</a><br /> <br />Lee Drury De Cesare<br />15316 Gulf Boulevard 802<br />Madeira Beach, FL 33709<br /><a href="mailto:Tdecesar@tampabay.rr.com">Tdecesar@tampabay.rr.com</a><br />Leedrurydecesarescasting-room couch.blogspot.com<br /> <br />Renee Anderson, representative of the black children who are more likely to be punished by suspension than white<br />Victim Renee Anderson<br /> <br /> <br /> </div>twinkobiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07865056039680988073noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28089922.post-36741144913621009862010-12-14T20:21:00.001-08:002010-12-14T21:19:16.729-08:00School Board Jobs Program<a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_dl8vHbrr-vU/TQhD02HWVWI/AAAAAAAADgc/UaWtgoxBnZk/s1600/ape.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 400px; FLOAT: right; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5550761115892733282" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_dl8vHbrr-vU/TQhD02HWVWI/AAAAAAAADgc/UaWtgoxBnZk/s400/ape.jpg" /></a><br /><br /><div><br />Hillsborough County School Board Jobs Racket<br /> <br />The comment by the reader in the previous post adds another dimension to the discussion. One infers that one reason that Ms. Edgecomb ran for the board was to protect her daughter’s career. It certainly wasn’t her goal to help black children. Jack Lamb also has a daughter in the school system administration I believe. Candy Olson is reputed to arrange jobs for people.</div><br /><br /><div><br />One of the perquisites of the superintendent job consists of hiring buddies and hangers on and creating jobs at taxpayer expense. Elia hired the former assistant supervisor Jim Hamilton after he retired, never having learned the difference between “your” and “you’re” for a lobbying slot without justifying with a needs study its need. I heard the pay was between $64,000 and $94,000 a year.<br />The board never thinks to ask for a needs study for any of Ms. Elia’s jobs-program positions. Hamilton’s wife divorced him because he pushed through doxie Connie Mileto’s candidacy for the Tallahassee position despite her being a kindergarten teacher. A person with a political degree or a history degree should have gotten that job. Now Hamilton and Mileto are back in Tallahassee as a lobbying pas de deux. I guess this means his wife, who had remarried the old goat, will now have to divorce him again. </div><div><br />Ms. Elia’s job lockdown recently resulted in a job created for the principal Smith in the Alafia brouhaha. The parents refused to have Smith principal any more, and even Elia’s promising them that she would send both Smith and her vice principal to Eckerd for a personality makeover at $4500 a pop of tax money if they would keep Smith did not propitiate them.</div><div> </div><div> </div><div> </div><div> </div><br /><br /><div><br />So because the administration and board couldn’t stand the bad publicity being printed by the usually somnolent press, Elia sent Lie-about-educational credentials Griffin and former board member Motel-breath Jennifer Falliero out to Alafia to a secret rendezvous with Smith to lure her to resign her job with the understanding that Elia would create an empty job but at full principal pay and benefits as compensation. The false job offer worked. Smith got the pretend job and is probably sitting somewhere in the book depository now paring her nails as we speak.<br /></div><br /><br /><div>I asked for the job’s description as public information. After about two weeks had given personnel honcho Otero the time to fake one, I got a copy of the job description; then I asked for who inhabited the job before Smith: no answer. QED: it’s an out-of-thin-air job devised by Elia at taxpayer expense to solve a bad-publicity problem. The board has endowed on Elia this create-jobs perquisite as part of the superintendent’s benefits. Why not? We’re talking about taxpayer play money that the board and administration use to preen their power and solve their personnel problems.</div><br /><br /><div><br />The unspoken rule is that administrators never get punished no matter what they do; but if a teacher had been discovered to know about drug activities of another school employee and failed to report the situation--even it were apocryphal as Edgecomb‘s daughter’s case perhaps was, that teacher would be the object of a lightening-fast Professional Standards Gestapo shake down.<br />But the Edgecomb offspring had not only the tradition of never punishing administrators to rely on but also was a child of a board member. Board attorney Tom Gonzalez would have temporarily ceased drinking soda and eating chips on the podium brought in his mouthpiece bag of tricks to construct a footnote to a footnote to make her not only not liable for covering up a drug danger but also of being beatified to boot along with a Nobel recommendation signed by all the board and administration that have only just recently learned what a Nobel is using flash cards.</div><br /><br /><div><br />One significant way that the board and administration keep teachers oppressed is the tactic of job threats via the Professional Standards gauntlet. I asked for files on teachers’ Professional Standards charges: I got a stack. I asked for administrator files with Professional Standards charged lodged against them: zilch. Thus the board and administration have the power to keep teachers silent for fear of losing their jobs. This sicko sadistic power gives the board and administration the control of teachers’ ability to earn a livelihood. This coercion renders teachers quiet. </div><div><br />The head of Professional Standards is one Linda Kipley, whom I have observed wearing see-through baby dolls on the job. She was principal at Hillsborough High, but she was bad. Teachers refused to go into a conference with her unless equipped with a recorder so likely she is to lie and manufacture things that had not occurred in an interview.<br />So bad the situation got at Hillsborough that the superintendent and her thugs switched Kipley into the head of Professional Standards. Kipley has a home-ec degree that went out in the Pleistocene Age in the academic world and occupies a vital, extravagantly paid position that should require a psychology or criminal justice degree. The job description does say it is a master’s degree job, but Ms. Elia can overrule that little prerequisite.</div><br /><br /><div><br />The job got no advertising despite the ubiquitous assurance from the board that it is “an equal-employment-opportunity employer.” This lack of competition violates Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act and violates as well the federal contracts that the school has that all require affirmative action plans for disabled people and equal-opportunity protocols.</div><br /><br /><div><br />But what are federal laws when pitted against the fulsome powers of the Hillsborough County School Board and administration quidnuncs?<br />Delusions of grandeur are also a side affliction that the board and administration acquire.<br />ldd</div>twinkobiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07865056039680988073noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28089922.post-10586863829725287942010-12-14T17:46:00.000-08:002010-12-14T21:25:46.089-08:00Tax Money Scattered About on Board Jobs Program<div align="left"><br />Hillsborough County School Board Jobs Racket<br /> <br />The comment by the reader in the previous post adds another dimension to the discussion. One infers that one reason that Ms. Edgecomb ran for the board was to protect her daughter’s career. It certainly wasn’t her goal to help black children. Jack Lamb also has a daughter in the school system administration I believe. Candy Olson is reputed to arrange jobs for people.<br /></div><div align="left">One of the perquisites of the superintendent job consists of hiring buddies and hangers on and creating jobs at taxpayer expense. Elia hired the former assistant supervisor Jim Hamilton after he retired, never having learned the difference between “your” and “you’re” for a lobbying slot without justifying with a needs study its need. I heard the pay was between $64,000 and $94,000 a year.<br />The board never thinks to ask for a needs study for any of Ms. Elia’s jobs-program positions. Hamilton’s wife divorced him because he pushed through doxie Connie Mileto’s candidacy for the Tallahassee position despite her being a kindergarten teacher. A person with a political degree or a history degree should have gotten that job. Now Hamilton and Mileto are back in Tallahassee as a lobbying pas de deux. I guess this means his wife, who had remarried the old goat, will now have to divorce him again.</div><div align="left"><br />Ms. Elia’s job program recently resulted in a job created for the failed principal Smith in the Alafia brouhaha. The parents refused to have Smith principal any more, and even Elia’s promising them that she would send both Smith and her vice principal to Eckerd for a personality makeover at $4500 a pop of tax money if they would keep Smith did not propitiate them.<br /></div><div align="left">So because the administration and board couldn’t stand the bad publicity’s being printed by the usually somnolent press, Elia sent Lie-about-educational credentials GED Griffin and former board member Motel-breath Jennifer Falliero out to Alafia to a secret redneck diplomatic rendezvous with Smith to lure her to resign her job with the understanding that Elia would create a pretend job with full principal pay and benefits as compensation. The false job offer worked. Smith resigned, got the pretend job, and is probably sitting somewhere in the book depository now paring her nails or working a crossword puzzle.</div><div align="left"><br />I asked for the job’s description as public information. After about two weeks had given personnel honcho Otero the time to fake one, I got a copy of the job description; then I asked for who inhabited the job before Smith: no answer. QED: it’s an out-of-thin-air job devised by Elia at taxpayer expense to solve a bad-publicity problem. The board has endowed on Elia this create-jobs perquisite as part of the superintendent’s benefits. Why not? We’re talking about taxpayer play money that the board and administration use to preen their power and solve their personnel problems.</div><div align="left"><br />The unspoken rule is that administrators never get punished no matter what they do; but if a teacher had been discovered to know about drug activities of another school employee and failed to report the situation--even it were apocryphal as Edgecomb‘s daughter’s case perhaps was, that teacher would be the object of a lightening-fast Professional Standards Gestapo shake down. </div><div align="left"><br />But the Edgecomb offspring had not only the tradition of never punishing administrators to rely on but also was a child of a board member. Board attorney Tom Gonzalez would have temporarily ceased drinking soda and eating chips on the podium brought in his mouthpiece bag of tricks to construct a footnote to a footnote to make her not only not liable for covering up a drug danger but also of being beatified to boot along with a Nobel recommendation signed by all the board and administration that have only just recently learned what a Nobel is using flash cards.</div><div align="left"><br />One significant way that the board and administration keep teachers oppressed is the tactic of job threats via the Professional Standards gauntlet. I asked for files on teachers’ Professional Standards charges: I got a stack. I asked for administrator files with Professional Standards charged lodged against them: zilch. Thus the board and administration have the power to keep teachers silent for fear of losing their jobs. This sicko sadistic power gives the board and administration the control of teachers’ ability to earn a livelihood. This power renders teachers quiet.<br />The head of Professional Standards is one Linda Kipley, whom I have observed wearing see-through baby dolls on the job. She was principal at Hillsborough High, but she was bad. Teachers refused to go into a conference with her unless equipped with a recorder so likely she is to lie and manufacture things that had not occurred in an interview. </div><div align="left"><br />So bad the situation got at Hillsborough that the superintendent and her thugs switched Kipley into the head of Professional Standards. Kipley has a home-ec degree that went out in the Pleistocene Age in the academic world and occupies a vital, extravagantly paid position that should require a psychology or criminal justice degree. The job description does say it is a master’s degree job, but Ms. Elia can overrule that little prerequisite.<br /></div><div align="left"> </div><div align="left">The job got no advertising despite the ubiquitous assurance from the board that it is “an equal-employment-opportunity employer.” This lack of competition violates Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act and violates as well the federal contracts that the school has that all require affirmative action plans for disabled people and equal-opportunity protocols.</div><div align="left"><br />But what are federal laws when pitted against the fulsome powers of the Hillsborough County School Board and administration quidnuncs?<br />Delusions of grandeur also rank a side affliction that the board and administration have acquired.<br />ldd</div>twinkobiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07865056039680988073noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28089922.post-36703316775015805092010-12-03T12:33:00.000-08:002010-12-15T11:29:32.208-08:00Board and Administration Torture Black Student Renee Anderson<a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_dl8vHbrr-vU/TPxoO-2qtGI/AAAAAAAADgU/WYqQQLDS_EY/s1600/Renee%252C%2BPicture2.jpg"></a><br /><div><br />The comment by the reader below adds another dimension to the discussion. One infers that one reason that Ms. Edgecomb ran for the board was to protect her daughter’s career. It certainly wasn’t her goal to help black children. Jack Lamb also has a daughter in the school system administration I believe. Candy Olson is reputed to arrange jobs for people. </div><br /><div><br />One of the perquisites of the superintendent job consists of hiring buddies and hangers on and creating jobs at taxpayer expense. Elia hired the former assistant supervisor Jim Hamilton after he retired, never having learned the difference between “your” and “you’re” for a lobbying slot without justifying with a needs study its need. I heard the pay was between $64,000 and $94,000 a year.<br /><br />The board never thinks to ask for a needs study for any of Ms. Elia’s jobs-program positions. Hamilton’s wife divorced him because he pushed through doxie Connie Mileto’s candidacy for the Tallahassee position despite her being a kindergarten teacher. A person with a political degree or a history degree should have gotten that job. Now Hamilton and Mileto are back in Tallahassee as a lobbying pas de deux. I guess this means his wife, who had remarried the old goat, will now have to divorce him again.<br /><br />Ms. Elia’s job lockdown recently resulted in a job created for the principal Smith in the Alafia brouhaha. The parents refused to have Smith principal any more, and even Elia’s promising them that she would send both Smith and her vice principal to Eckerd for a personality makeover at $4500 a pop of tax money if they would keep Smith did not propitiate them.<br />So because the administration and board couldn’t stand the bad publicity being printed by the usually somnolent press, Elia sent Lie-about-educational credentials Griffin and former board member Motel-breath Jennifer Falliero out to Alafia to a secret rendezvous with Smith to lure her to resign her job with the understanding that Elia would create an empty job but at full principal pay and benefits as compensation. The false job offer worked. Smith got the pretend job and is probably sitting somewhere in the book depository now paring her nails as we speak.<br />I asked for the job’s description as public information. After about two weeks had given personnel honcho Otero the time to fake one, I got a copy of the job description; then I asked for who inhabited the job before Smith: no answer. QED: it’s an out-of-thin-air job devised by Elia at taxpayer expense to solve a bad-publicity problem. The board has endowed on Elia this create-jobs perquisite as part of the superintendent’s benefits. Why not? We’re talking about taxpayer play money that the board and administration use to preen their power and solve their personnel problems.<br /><br />The unspoken rule is that administrators never get punished no matter what they do; but if a teacher had been discovered to know about drug activities of another school employee and failed to report the situation--even it were apocryphal as Edgecomb‘s daughter’s case perhaps was, that teacher would be the object of a lightening-fast Professional Standards Gestapo shake down.<br />But the Edgecomb offspring had not only the tradition of never punishing administrators to rely on but also was a child of a board member. Board attorney Tom Gonzalez would have temporarily ceased drinking soda and eating chips on the podium brought in his mouthpiece bag of tricks to construct a footnote to a footnote to make her not only not liable for covering up a drug danger but also of being beatified to boot along with a Nobel recommendation signed by all the board and administration that have only just recently learned what a Nobel is using flash cards.<br /><br />One significant way that the board and administration keep teachers oppressed is the tactic of job threats via the Professional Standards gauntlet. I asked for files on teachers’ Professional Standards charges: I got a stack. I asked for administrator files with Professional Standards charged lodged against them: zilch. Thus the board and administration have the power to keep teachers silent for fear of losing their jobs. This sicko sadistic power gives the board and administration the control of teachers’ ability to earn a livelihood. This power renders teachers quiet.<br /><br />The head of Professional Standards is one Linda Kipley, whom I have observed wearing see-through baby dolls on the job. She was principal at Hillsborough High, but she was bad. Teachers refused to go into a conference with her unless equipped with a recorder so likely she is to lie and manufacture things that had not occurred in an interview.<br /><br />So bad the situation got at Hillsborough that the superintendent and her thugs switched Kipley into the head of Professional Standards. Kipley has a home-ec degree that went out in the Pleistocene Age in the academic world and occupies a vital, extravagantly paid position that should require a psychology or criminal justice degree. The job description does say it is a master’s degree job, but Ms. Elia can overrule that little prerequisite.<br /><br />The job got no advertising despite the ubiquitous assurance from the board that it is “an equal-employment-opportunity employer.” This lack of competition violates Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act and violates as well the federal contracts that the school has that all require affirmative action plans for disabled people and equal-opportunity protocols.<br />But what are federal laws when pitted against the fulsome powers of the Hillsborough County School Board and administration quidnuncs?<br /><br />Delusions of grandeur are also a side affliction that the board and administration acquire.<br />ldd<br /><br /><br /><br /></div><br /><div></div><br /><div><br /><br /><br /></div><br /><div align="center"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_dl8vHbrr-vU/TPnDmafWekI/AAAAAAAADf8/ZeEMnswyTOg/s1600/Ethridge%2Breduced.jpg"><span style="font-size:180%;"><strong><img style="margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; width: 246px; float: left; height: 250px;" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5546679480796740162" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_dl8vHbrr-vU/TPnDmafWekI/AAAAAAAADf8/ZeEMnswyTOg/s400/Ethridge%2Breduced.jpg" border="0" /></strong></span></a><strong><span style="font-size:180%;"> The Villains<br /></span><br /></strong></div><br /><div><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></div><br /><div><br /></div><br /><div><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></div><br /><div><strong><br /></strong></div><br /><div><br /><strong><br /><br /></strong><br /><br /></div><br /><div><strong><br /></strong><strong><span id="SPELLING_ERROR_0" class="blsp-spelling-error"></span></strong></div><br /><div><br /><br /><br /><br /></div><br /><div><strong><span class="blsp-spelling-error">Hillsborough</span> County School Board Chair <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_1" class="blsp-spelling-error">Doretha</span> <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_2" class="blsp-spelling-error">Edecombe</span><br /><br /></strong><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_dl8vHbrr-vU/TPnEqEn5C9I/AAAAAAAADgM/m_XGdsj55_k/s1600/massena2.gif"><strong><img style="margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px; width: 100px; float: right; height: 100px;" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5546680643158084562" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_dl8vHbrr-vU/TPnEqEn5C9I/AAAAAAAADgM/m_XGdsj55_k/s400/massena2.gif" border="0" /></strong></a><strong><br /><span id="SPELLING_ERROR_3" class="blsp-spelling-error">Riverview</span> Vice Principal Kevin <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_4" class="blsp-spelling-error">Massena</span><br /></strong></div><br /><div><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;" align="center"><span style="font-family:courier new;font-size:130%;"><span id="SPELLING_ERROR_5" class="blsp-spelling-error">Riverview</span> Principal <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_6" class="blsp-spelling-error">Heilmann</span></span></div><strong><span style="font-family:courier new;"><img style="text-align: center; margin: 0px auto 10px; width: 200px; display: block; height: 303px;" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5546620428910095474" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_dl8vHbrr-vU/TPmN5JEcbHI/AAAAAAAADfc/vU9FshYK1t8/s400/heilsman.jpg" border="0" /></span><br /></strong><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div><span style="font-size:180%;"><strong>Board condones vicious treatment of student Renee Anderson with cooperation from <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_7" class="blsp-spelling-error">Riverview</span> High administration, cops, and corrupt court system; scrutiny shows that this black student did not get justice in the <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_8" class="blsp-spelling-error">Hillsborough</span> County schools or collusive courts.<br /></strong></span></div><span style="font-size:180%;"></span><strong><br /><br /></strong><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><p align="center"><strong><span style="font-size:180%;">VICTIM OF THE BOARD AND <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_9" class="blsp-spelling-error">ADMINISTRATION</span>: STUDENT RENEE ANDERSON</span> <img style="text-align: center; margin: 0px auto 10px; width: 338px; display: block; height: 400px;" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5546619311520069698" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_dl8vHbrr-vU/TPmM4Gd5uEI/AAAAAAAADfU/SKMcwGNlKl4/s400/Renee%252C%2BPicture2.jpg" border="0" /><br />----------------------------------<br /><br /></strong></p><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div><span style="font-weight: bold;"> </span> <span style="font-weight: bold;"></span></div><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span></span><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div align="center"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><strong>___________________________<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Blurb below from <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_10" class="blsp-spelling-error">Riverview</span> school site accompanying Riverview Principal <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_11" class="blsp-spelling-error">Heilmann</span>’s picture with appropriate airhead balloons around his pate. </span><br /><br /><br /><br /></strong><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Mr. Robert <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_12" class="blsp-spelling-error">Heilmann</span> (from his Web blurb)</span><strong><br /></strong></div><span style="font-weight: bold;">Mr. Robert <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_13" class="blsp-spelling-error">Heilmann</span> became an educator in 1972,</span><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;"> no comma: splits compound verb </span><span style="font-weight: bold;">and has taught Elementary <span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">no cap </span>PE, Social Studies, <span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">No caps</span> and English. After earning a Masters’<span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"> lowercase</span>; <span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">singular possessive:</span> <span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">apostrophe “s”</span> Degree <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">lower case</span> in Counselor Education <span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">lower case</span> and in Educational Leadership<span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"> lower case; double introductory prepositional phrases-</span></span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"> comma:</span></span><span style="font-weight: bold;"> he served as a Guidance Counselor <span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">lower case</span> and was an Assistant Principal<span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"> lower case</span> for Student Affairs<span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"> lower case</span> at East Bay High School.</span><strong><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">When the opportunity to help launch a brand new <span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">hyphenated adjective</span> high school arose, Mr. <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_14" class="blsp-spelling-error">Heilmann</span> was instrumental in opening<span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"> stilted diction: use “helped begin” </span>our new <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_15" class="blsp-spelling-error">Riverview</span> High School as the Assistant Principal<span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"> lower case </span>for<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> Curriculum.</span> <span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">lower case</span> After the retirement</span> <span style="font-weight: bold;">of <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_16" class="blsp-spelling-error">Riverview</span>’s first principal </span><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;">comma: nonrestrictive appositive </span><span style="font-weight: bold;">J. Vince Thompson, Mr. <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_17" class="blsp-spelling-error">Heilmann</span> became principal in January 2001.</span></strong><span style="font-size:130%;"> <span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">During his educational career, he has coached baseball, hockey, cross country, and track. He has also officiated high school and college soccer games for 34 years. Mr. <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_18" class="blsp-spelling-error">Heilmann</span> had the distinction of serving on the U.S.</span><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> international panel of referees</span> capitalize</span><span style="font-weight: bold;"> for the sport of soccer from 1991-1994 (each country</span><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;"> possessive before gerund </span><span style="font-weight: bold;">having only seven officials).</span></span></span></div></div><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><p><strong>________________________________________________________________ </strong><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">It is betrayal of taxpayers that a principal of a high school can’t punctuate or show proficiency in grammar and mechanics at a basic level expected of the students.<br /><br />This balloon-head tax drain probably makes $70,000 a year. The board should be ashamed to continue the employment of such a ripoff of the public as this lower-quartile specimen <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_19" class="blsp-spelling-error">Heilmann</span> as principal of a high school the goal of which is to impart literacy to the county's children.</span></span><strong><br /><br /></strong><strong><span style="font-size:180%;"> <br />The schools don't need as principal an marginally illiterate jock and bigot making over $70,000 who--get this--at one time taught English! What administrative ninny hired him for that job? Don’t the <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_20" class="blsp-spelling-error">ROSSAC</span> denizens have literacy tests for educators before they hire them, and <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_21" class="blsp-spelling-error">isn</span>’t there anyone in the building who can read them? I want to see <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_22" class="blsp-spelling-error">Heilmann</span>’s <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_23" class="blsp-spelling-error">transcipts</span> and Strong Aptitude Test profile.</span><br /><br /><br />------------------------------------------------------------------<br /><span style="font-size:180%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Dear Ms. <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_24" class="blsp-spelling-error">Edgecomb</span>, Board Chair <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_25" class="blsp-spelling-error">Hillsborough</span> County Schools:</span></span><br /></strong><span style="font-size:180%;"><br /><strong>After the Professional Standards office framed my friend Bart <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_26" class="blsp-spelling-error">Birdsall</span> on a cooked-up charge because he participated in the pro-gay community protest of County Commissioner Rhonda Storms’s shutdown of library privileges for gays, I spent over two years sitting in the back of the board room observing board behavior. I wanted to know what kind of people sanction such unethical punishment of a school employee.<br /><br />That scrutiny furnished a Baedeker of evidence for the board’s and administration’s running the schools as if these public institutions were their personal bailiwick. They use their board and administration perches to preen their power and prestige with which to strut around Tampa Bay because they control billions of school tax dollars. That control means they can dish out contracts to people who do business with the board.<br /><br />That dishing out of tax dollars with accompanying graft turns up in the <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_27" class="blsp-spelling-error">whistleblower</span> law suit filed and won by Mr. Erwin against the board. One infers where the graft originated when the administration--starting at the top with Dr. Lennard--board, and board attorney Tom Gonzalez conducted a campaign first to run crazy and then to fire <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_28" class="blsp-spelling-error">whistleblower</span> Erwin before he filed his whistleblower lawsuit for retaliation for his reporting to the board shoddy building practices he had unearthed and asking the board to do something to combat the rip-off of the public.<br /><br />I read the court files. There is a box of them in the public affairs office. The jury believed little the administration collaborators and board liars said. It found for Mr. Erwin. He got $165,000 for the board and administration crimes against him--paid by taxpayers.</strong></span><br /></p><br /><span style="font-size:180%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Tom Gonzalez, not a court-room Fred Astaire, lost the case. This telling jury response explains why the administration asks for bench trials. Administration polecats know they can’t fool a jury or tap into the judicial collaborators as they did in Renee’s two trials with the cooked hearing set-up and judicial collaborators who betrayed Renee and justice.</span></span><br /><br /><br /><br /><p><span style="font-size:180%;"><strong><br />Mr. Erwin fled to Georgia after winning the case but can’t get a job because he can’t get the board and administration to give him a recommendation. That’s the kind of petty retaliation at which the board and administration excel. If there were one board member with courage and ethics, that benign renegade would send Mr. Erwin a job recommendation to Georgia.<br /><br />Mr. Erwin was principal in the schools for years and universally liked and respected. Earl the Pearl Lennard lured him into the administration and tried to gut him when he turned out to have courage and ethics. Among petty crooks who run the schools, ethics and courage are bad politics.<br /><br />When Erwin asked the board and administration to clean up the the shoddy work on the schools with its payoffs, instead of investigating for bribe taking and other unlovely perquisites of power, the administration starting with Dr. Lennard with the board’s connivance tried to make the <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_29" class="blsp-spelling-error">whistleblower</span>’s life a living hell on campus and then attempted to fire him.</strong></span><br /></p><span style="font-size:180%;"> <span style="font-weight: bold;">If you want further evidence of the irregular practices that won Mr. Erwin the case, check the donor lists of Carol </span></span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:180%;" id="SPELLING_ERROR_30" class="blsp-spelling-error" >Kurdell</span><span style="font-size:180%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"> and Jack Lamb on the county supervisor of elections site. They have been on the board since the Precambrian Era and are far gone in its culture of the corruption of "You scratch my back, and I'll scratch yours." In the quirky politics of the state, then Governor </span></span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:180%;" id="SPELLING_ERROR_31" class="blsp-spelling-error" >Crist</span><span style="font-size:180%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"> recently appointed Lennard supervisor of elections when Phyllis </span></span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:180%;" id="SPELLING_ERROR_32" class="blsp-spelling-error" >Bukanski</span><span style="font-size:180%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">, an honest politician, died in office.</span></span><br /><br /><br /><br /><p><span style="font-size:180%;"><strong><br />In assessing the board’s conduct, I learned that anyone who threatened its power hegemony--even a lowly gay speaking up for gays in the community as was his First Amendment rights--could expect the retaliatory punishment of threatened job loss.<br /><br />The administration and board have determined to control their image to protect their power incumbency. Both euchre the community about their unlovely covert behavior through the Public Affairs Office to keep the public ignorant and ensure board-and-administration continued lock on power bankrolled by the state. Taxpayers pay to have the board and administration feed them happy talk about how well the board and administration runs the schools.<br /><br />In Bart’s case, his public display of being gay messed up the board-administration need to disguise that gays work in the schools at all for fear that Paleozoic homophobes hunkered down in the fens and bogs at the edge of the county in the <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_33" class="blsp-spelling-error">tenebrous</span> badlands of <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_34" class="blsp-spelling-error">Seffner</span> and Turkey Creek would march on <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_35" class="blsp-spelling-error">ROSSAC</span> in battle formation with axe handles and pitchforks. If the fact of gays’ school employment got out, then these primitive citizens would catch on that the <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_36" class="blsp-spelling-error">quidnuncs</span> who run the schools don’t practice perfect discrimination against gays, just enough to keep gays cowed and silent and Yahoos propitiated.<br /><br />I was eager to see how you, Ms. Edgecomb, the only black on the board, made sure that black children’s needs got attention, an enterprise not favored by the rest of the board. I wanted also to observe how you used your position to promote community blacks’ participation in the life of the schools.<br /><br />In my two years’ observation, I never heard you mention black children. You <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_37" class="blsp-spelling-error">didn</span>’t sponsor a single program for them or bring up one statistic that showed them disenfranchised in any way. I also never heard you support an outstanding community black’s having a school named after him or her. The result of the latter assures that school after school gets the name of another mediocre white man--most often a coach who can’t make his subjects and verbs agree.<br /><br />Your ignoring significant discrimination against black children cited in the NAACP’s 2003-2004 black-disparity study tells me that you have entered the woebegone ranks of Aunt Toms.<br /><br />Aunt Toms want to distance themselves from their own black race to blend in with the dominant whiteys. I met that kind of betrayal in the Women’s Movement in my forty-five years in the ranks. A few women do the heavy lifting, and the Aunt Toms join sexist males in declaring that those struggling for women’s rights are unladylike, jackbooted lesbians. But when we jackbooted lesbians open a door for women, guess who rushes through first?<br /><br />One salient piece of discrimination against black children that took place ignored and unchallenged by you is the recent savagery to Riverside High’s black student Renee Anderson. The board and administration railroaded her into expulsion without a fair hearing, including the obligatory hearing before the board.<br /><br />The board and administration apparatchiks closed ranks to maul and kick out Renee without giving her the chance to tell her side of the story. The administration and board <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_38" class="blsp-spelling-error">hierarchs</span> expected Renee to go to the preliminary hearing and admit guilt to things she was not guilty of because students’ admitting guilt was board-administration routine bureaucratic shake-down of students in the preliminary hearing. Most children are scared enough to comply. They don’t have courageous, protective parents as has Renee.<br /><br />In the preliminary hearing, Renee’s stepfather, Mr. Walton, protested that the school persecutors were stripping Renee of her Constitutional rights because they were shuffling through evidence not provided to Renee in the preliminary hearing and <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_39" class="blsp-spelling-error">wouldn</span>’t allow Renee to see it when he asked for it.<br /><br />Mr. and Mrs. Walton along with Renee thus got kicked out of Renee‘s hearing by the board and administration overlord softening-up crew, including then-board-attorney Crosby Few.<br /><br />The kick-out offense was Renee’s stepfather’s having presented a due-process request to the board biggies to see the papers withheld from Renee. Despite the lies in the Hillsborrough <em>Student Handbook </em>and <em>Board Policy Manual</em>, students don’t get Constitutional rights in the <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_40" class="blsp-spelling-error">Hillsborough</span> County school system any more than they get <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_41" class="blsp-spelling-error">filet</span> <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_42" class="blsp-spelling-error">mignon</span> in the lunch room.<br /><br />After the <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_43" class="blsp-spelling-error">Waltons</span>’ and Renee’s <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_44" class="blsp-spelling-error">kickout</span>, the hearing overlords recorded Renee’s having <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_45" class="blsp-spelling-error">pled</span> guilty to an aggravated-assault charge against a behemoth assistant principal, one Kevin <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_46" class="blsp-spelling-error">Massena</span>, at <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_47" class="blsp-spelling-error">Riverview</span> High. The overlords lied for an official record.<br /><br />When she had a chance to speak on the record in her deposition, Renee maintained her innocence in deposition for her court case, which her parents filed to protect her from the slander of expulsion that would contaminate her record and make it hard for her to get a job.<br /><br />The NAACP study asserts “Students of color are being disciplined at higher rates compared to their peers in the <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_48" class="blsp-spelling-error">Hillsborough</span> schools. For example, in 2003-2004 black students were over three times as likely as their white peers to be suspended out of school, and black elementary school pupils over five times as likely to be suspended out of school.” Renee Anderson ranks as one of those racist statistics.<br /><br />Moreover, says NAACP research, “Racial disparities in suspension are matched by other key educational indicators. In the school year, a black child is more likely to be retained in grade as a white child and more than three times as likely to be identified as retarded, whereas a white child is more than one and one-half times as likely to graduate from high school in four years and more than three times as likely to be identified for a gifted program.”<br /> <br />This NAACP study confirms disparity in such situations as the case of Renee Anderson at <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_49" class="blsp-spelling-error">Riverview</span> High. It and other cases result in these lopsided, discriminatory statistics, unquestioned by the board and surprisingly unquestioned by the one black on it: you, ma'am.<br /><br />This Twilight Zone case shows Renee’s being expelled for “aggravated assault” on the 240-pound hulking vice principal Kevin <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_50" class="blsp-spelling-error">Massena</span>. Renee brushed past this administrative specimen to escape his blocking her from leaving his office after school when her mother told her to come home via cell phone.<br /><br />My friend, a teacher of the county school says: “…maybe principals are allowed to block a student's path, b/c I do know that they are now telling teachers not to break up fights and to just call an administrator. Administrators are trained in special restraining techniques to help end a fight safely and pull the kids apart. So maybe principals are also taught how to block a student. I don't know. I just know that we peons [teachers] are told to never block a student’s path. If the student refuses to sit down or leaves the room, we simply call for administration and write the student up. We are told the school board will not support us if we block and then the student gets hostile and hits or pushes us. I think that puts the school board at legal risk if we block the student’s path. But maybe principals are different. I don't know.”<br /><br />Yes, principals and administrators are different indeed. The Professional Standards Office statistics show teachers but never administrators get punished. And in cases of school contretemps, principals can run after the student and howl, “Get off my school grounds!” as Mr. Heilmann did at Riverview. This is the special training for such incidents that principals get but not teachers.<br /><br />This information above came from a teacher of many years who would be fired on the spot if I revealed the name.<br /><br /><span id="SPELLING_ERROR_51" class="blsp-spelling-error">Jiu</span> <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_52" class="blsp-spelling-error">jetsu</span> <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_53" class="blsp-spelling-error">Menendez</span> claims Renee Anderson performed aggravated battery upon his person by brushing past him to escape when he had her penned up in his office and blocked her exit.<br /><br />Before we go any further, we must demand that Le Mendez present his scores on the Beery-<span id="SPELLING_ERROR_54" class="blsp-spelling-error">Buketinic</span> Developmental Test of Visual-Motor skills. These data will tell us whether he is normal in this area as anyone must be who is going to invoke aggravated battery for a student’s bumping into him when he blocks her path out of his office to escape him.<br /><br />In fact, logic says that the administration’s claim that it knows how to handle fights while the faculty does not requires this test for all administrators: A <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_56" class="blsp-spelling-error">Menendez</span>-Beery <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_57" class="blsp-spelling-error">Bukentinic</span> score is pivotal in a fugitive claim of aggravated battery as the one Le <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_58" class="blsp-spelling-error">Menedez</span> cites. Mr. <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_59" class="blsp-spelling-error">Heilmann</span> must present the most recent <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_60" class="blsp-spelling-error">Menendez</span>-Berry-<span id="SPELLING_ERROR_61" class="blsp-spelling-error">Bukentinc</span> score of his battered subaltern.<br /></strong></span><span style="font-size:180%;"><br /><strong>Egged on by a call from Principal <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_62" class="blsp-spelling-error">Heilmann</span>, the police <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_63" class="blsp-spelling-error">didn</span>’t wait for Renee’s mother to arrive but crammed her into the patrol car in handcuffs and sped her to lock-up.<br /><br />School officials such as board attorney Tom Gonzalez maintain in PR propaganda that students get solicitous treatment and are given their rights in such situations.<br /><br />Hooey.<br /><br />Renee’s case shows the overlords don’t treat the students like human beings. In answer to the question “Do principals get to monitor interrogations?” that a <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_64" class="blsp-spelling-error">SPT</span> reporter posed to board attorney Gonzales prompted the mouthpiece to reach into his legal sack of mendacity and respond that indeed principals do.<br /><br />The reporter question should have been “Do principals attend all police interrogations of students?“ The answer is no. Principal Heilmann was in cahoots with the police to deprive Renee of fair treatment. His office phoned to police and said, “Come pick ‘er up, boys.” Heilmann didn't bother to see that Renee got an interrogation for him to attend. He just handed her over to the cops to be crammed into a patrol car and locked up.<br /><br />Then the Board Mouthpiece Gonzales gilded the PR lie and enlarged it by averring that principals have the duty "if they ever get uncomfortable [with an interrogation]…to speak up and say, 'You know what, [<em>sic</em>] I think we should wait for that person's parent.'" Absolute hogwash as Renee‘s treatment demonstrates.<br /><br />Renee’s case gilds reality for press preening. Called by the Principal Heilmann’s factotums or himself, the cops motored up to King High just as Renee was walking toward her home across the street from the school. The piney-woods gendarmes jumped out of the patrol car, clamped Renee in handcuffs, and arrested her with Principal Heillmann’s not only failing to monitor the police interrogation because none occurred but also by Heilmann’s running after Renee in the parking lot hollering after her to “get off my campus!“ and “You’ll never come back here again!”<br /><br />Renee’s interrogation by the police probably consisted of the colloquy, “You Renee Anderson?” “Yes.” “Then hold out your hands for these cuffs, sister, and get in the back of the patrol car.”<br /><br />What parent would want a child subjected to this terrorism?<br /><br />The schools’ lawyer’s PR description of the way students facing expulsion get treated as depicted in school-board false policy statements and the way they get treated in reality are two different things. The board knows about this sort of cover-up and encourages the scam. The board counts such lies to the public about these and other matters as routine politics.<br /><br />The board never heard Renee’s case as it was obligated to do according to board rules, and you, Ms. Edgecomb, didn’t bestir yourself to ascertain why Renee and her parents did not come before the board as such cases are supposed to.<br /><br />The parents and Renee did not get notice of the board hearing due either to the incompetent hostility of Mr. Otero, vice superintendent, or to the board’s indifference. Instead, board members let this black student slide into expulsion by green-lighting her case on the board see-no-evil consent agenda. Nobody asked what had happened to her. Abused students--especially black ones--are so routine that they do not pique the board’s curiosity and especially not their concern.<br /><br />All board members and involved administrators were culpable in ignoring this black student’s disenfranchisement by the Hillsborough schools’ racist system of lopsided punishment that the NAACP study documents. As the only black board member, you were doubly culpable.<br /><br />The board apparatus misinformed Renee’s parents about the hearing. It never bothered to follow up to find out why they and Renee did not show up.<br /><br />Mr. Otero’s office claimed the board couldn’t get in touch with the Walton parents because they had left no forwarding address when the family moved to take Renee to a more wholesome environment in which to attend school after the staged Riverview fracas in which she was accused of “aggravated assault” on the bloated 240-pound vice principal because she squeezed past him to escape his penning her in his office when her mother told her on the phone to come home.<br /><br />The Walton family had, in fact, left a forwarding address at the post office.<br /><br />This slovenly treatment of a black student’s rights shows a lackadaisical attitude toward black children by the board and administration. It confirms a blithe unconcern for their wellbeing. Had Renee been a white child from South Tampa, one can be sure that a sycophantic board would have hopped to it in ensuring that the South Tampa family’s engraved notification of the board hearing was delivered on a satin pillow.<br /><br />I believe that vice-superintendent Otero consciously mishandled the notification ritual.<br /><br />The narrative of this case shows that this extravagantly paid public employee showed ignorant of addresses’ being left by departing people at post offices. Yet he gets paid what I suspect is close to $200,000 a year since Ms. Elia pulls down $300,000 and rising because this sycophantic board has no mercy on taxpayers when loading on more and more dollars onto Elia’s already bloated salary, not earned by her training, her experience, or her leadership. If she were a leader, she would have responded to the damning NAACP study.<br /><br />It is not as if Mr. Otero just got off the boat from the Old Country, Bulgaria, via the Black Sea and the Gallipoli and didn’t know the civil rituals of the United States; it is not as if he had no experience in the procedure of forwarding addresses. He has done a plethora in his job of vice superintendent, ensconced therein since the Pleistocene Age. He should have an advanced degree by now in forwarding letters when students’ families move. Like too many in this C-student administration, Mr. Otero is a slow learner.<br /><br />I reason as well Le Otero’s slovenliness was due to Renee’s being a black child and that this dereliction betrayed insidious retaliation in sabotaging Renee’s case by the whole administrative system. Why? Because Renee Anderson’s parents fought back at the discriminatory behavior toward Renee and them by the board and administration. They questioned the punishment gauntlet Renee had to run. The board and administrative bigots expect that such black victims as Renee and her family will take the board and administration’s contempt lying down whilst groveling with “Yassir, Mahster.”<br /> <br />A prime example of discrimination in Renee’s case exists in the assault claim of vice principal Kevin Messena. Mr. Messena and the administration closed ranks, lied also about Renee’s involvement in a school-grounds fight, didn’t give her a chance to refute the charge of participation in the fight on school grounds or in an assault on Le Messena. Without valid data, the administration trapped this black student into an ersatz charge of aggravated battery against the 240-pound functionary when she slipped past him at the door of his office. They claimed as well without evidence or without giving her a chance to speak that she was participant in a school-yard fight.<br /><br />The administrative punishers never allowed Ms. Anderson her Constitutional rights, and the local courts, some judges of which are steeped in complicit- punishment choreograph, approved this denial of Renee’s rights in adjudication of the charge up through the appeals court presided over by Athena member Judge Bucklew. This judge in the appeals case had some labyrinthine connection with Tom Gonzalez’s wife. I believe that the detective whom Mr. Walton has employed to track down issues in the case discovered these data.<br /><br />The people excoriating Renee at every stage of her expulsion seemed to have a connection to each other honed over years of bureaucratic coffee-clatch relationships punctuated by behind-the-scenes irregular pupil expulsions that got the imprimatur of the courts, all part of the slowly accruing choreograph.<br /><br />This situation dismays. The courts are supposed to administer justice in these forlorn regions. I suspect instead that the folks who handled Renee’s expulsion ritual worked together like bees in a beehive behind the pretense of due process. The judge who presided at the first trial insisted that Renee had pled guilty in the hearing--the one she and her family were kicked out of. It seems that the system allows only a guilty plea in that hearing. To which a logical question would be this: Then why have the hearing?<br /><br />This first-trial judge said to Renee, “Everybody knows you’re guilty.” Is this judicial language, or is it biased, pile-on language? Renee’s attorney tried to determine Menendez’ degree of racism on the stand by asking him if it were true that he had been heard to use racist language. But the judge slapped the question down. I would have liked to hear the answer.<br /><br />The Heilmann exhortation to Renee to “get off my school grounds!” represents a Freudian slip that lays bare the attitude of the administration and board toward black students. It's hostile. It's rejecting.<br /><br />The folks in the ROSSAC big White House believe the schools rank as their property and that field-hand teachers and students--especially black ones--are interlopers on it--tolerated only because students’ and their teachers’ numbers dictate the tax loot the board and administration preside over--money that undergirds their status as power poseurs in the Bay Area. Scrutiny of the behavior behind the curtain shows that they are abusers of children--especially black ones--trapped in a contaminated expulsion pas de deux.<br /><br />I think it’s significant in your case, Ms. Ethridge, that you do not belong to the NAACP but rather to the Athena Society. Besides this social club of ladies who lunch, you belong to the prosaic Florida School Boards Association Board (FSBA) of Directors and are an alternate on both themoribund FSBA Legislative Liaison Committee and the Hillsborough Education Foundation. You as well serve on the board of directors for ChairScholars, Keep Hillsborough County Beautiful, and the Florida Center for Survivors of Torture--for which Renee now qualifies after her mauling by the board, administration, and courts.<br /><br />None of these prissy committees of which you are member has established a record for fighting for black students’ rights in the schools or a record of anything except supine collaboration. They fight for nothing but having taxpayers pay their dues in these ersatz organizations which gather in flossy hotels in cities around the state on frolics subsidized by tax loot so that the attendees can look important and engage in the exploration of tremendous trifles.<br /><br />I am familiar with the ladies-who-lunch Athena club. I knew its founder, Nancy Ford, recently passed away. Forty years ago, Nancy came to my home in Beach Park a couple of weeks after our family, including our ancient cat Twink, who disappeared under the house for two weeks in a hissy because she had been forced to sojourn in the plane cargo instead of going first class. Nancy came as ambassador from the bank she worked for.<br /><br />After Title VII nudged banks into hiring women to upper-level jobs, the local bank outback Machiavellies rigged up vp slots for prominent society women like Nancy. But sexism meant these to be for show, not regular-guy jobs. The ersatz female vice president society ladies passed out cook books to relocating families, a maneuver undergirding high finance to be sure.<br /><br />Talk about undignified sexism: this cookbook job was it.<br /><br />My living in South Tampa notwithstanding, forty years ago Bay Area feminists such as I did not represent restrained, ladylike mores, which is the reason that Nancy never had the nerve to join us in the National Organization of Women, which I convened, but set up the women’s-rights-lite club Athena.<br /><br />While the Athena ladies lunched, NOW picketed; we sat in; we mounted verbal challenges; wrote sassy, abusive letters of protest to the town sexist biggies; ratted out discrimination against women to Washington compliance agencies; and offered instant resistance to any discrimination we spotted against women by the diehards of women’s oppression in Hillsborough County. If we saw any, we squawked, usually at the scene of the crime like any bona fide jackbooted lesbian would.<br /><br />I opened the sheriff’s and the police departments to women by reporting to the feds these sexist policing agencies for refusing to hire women as officers. The EEOC and Justice Department rode down to the rescue. Sheriff Beard still refuses to occupy the same room with me. Boo hoo.<br /><br />In NOW's first street agitprop, we jack-booted lesbians challenged the local papers’ sex-segregated job ads. Not content, we followed that up by picketing Wolfe Brothers department store on Franklin Street--since gone out of business--to challenge its policy of charging women, not men, for alterations. The manager’s defense: “Women sew.”<br /><br />Meanwhile, dear Nancy, not able to join us bona fide feminists due to social timidity, nonetheless yearned to do something to augment women‘s equality. She dared not jeopardize her South Tampa social standing, so she walked on eggs and founded an attenuated form of feminism, the Athena Society. This moniker was ironic since Athena was the goddess of war and would have been president of the local chapter of hell-raising NOW feminists had she been around.<br /><br />Athena’s feminist attitude ranked feeble then as now. It evolved as just another snoot club of women too insecure to speak out to assert their full citizenship and instead became a nicey-nicey organization such as the Junior League (junior to whom? one wonders. Men, of course). This part of the sisterhood occupies the pastel end slot.<br /><br />Nancy asked me to speak at one of Athena’s luncheons on the ERA. I was to discourse on the grittier aspects of the ERA battle to this refined club of ladies engaged in flaccid feminism. Besides being called “jackbooted lesbos,“ we radical feminists had to contend with such issues as the opposition’s scare tactic that the ERA would force men and women to go to the toilet together. Foes of the ERA were dumb and not high minded. Their concerns about the ERA were not metaphysical; they were physical and often gross.<br /><br />So to talk up the ERA among the luke warm, I sallied forth to an Athena elegant luncheon and got the impression that the Athena women weren’t listening to my ERA comments so much as assessing my wardrobe.<br /><br />As a poor teacher, I couldn’t dress in posh Athena duds, and these recidivist fashion groupies immediately picked up on this fact. Clothes to them ranked a major tenet of life--much more important than the ERA. This obsession was and is a major symptom of women’s second-class status in a man’s world.<br /><br />Women pro-feminism remain to this day interlopers in a man’s power keep-out area. Men consider feminists toxic. Women who believe in equality don’t get past the lock-out via competence but by appearance--enhanced by attire to make them look soigné so that they can trap one of the dominant y-chromosome high-earning critters into the financial security of marriage by the lures of posh attire and giddy behavior so that they can live in South Tampa and join the Junior League.<br /><br />I fended off the sneers that quivered at the corners of Athena doyennes’ mouths at my poor attire. But shazam! I had unexpected protection: I had by chance grabbed one of my big, old Chanel bags that day to stack my notes in. I have about a dozen Chanels picked up over the years during times of prosperity hanging as decorations on my bedroom wall.</strong></span></p><br /><br /><br /><p><span style="font-size:180%;"><strong>When I flopped my old Chanel on the table to extract my notes, there was a palpable change of atmosphere in the room.<br /><br />That old Chanel was escutcheon against snobbery. Chanel stops the conversation. Nobody one-ups Chanel in the fashion marathon. My old Chanel acted my imprimatur of worthiness to make a speech to this soi-disant special group of insecure women who could not throw off old values of snobbery and vanity and slavery to men to fight in the streets and if necessary in the gutters to enter a new era of women’s equality. Such poseurs’ plan is to have us crazy radical feminists do the dirty work as storm troopers, and then Athena lady layabouts bestir themselves to move in and mop up the gains.<br /><br />With my old Chanel protecting me like a cross brandished at vampires in old Bela Lugosi movies, I exited the luncheon feeling as if it were a fool-proof shield to be used when I met Athena vampires of snobbery and superannuated feminine behavior pretending to be committed to women‘s rights, noses in the air.<br /><br />Forty years after my Athena speech and several years since Nancy’s death, Athena continues. Its feminist-lite program supports “a young Woman of Promise“; how is not clear. Probably it involves a luncheon fundraiser with double doilies for the young woman’s first-quarter tuition to some snoot-approved women’s college such as Radcliffe, at which she will major in art history.<br /><br />Athena steers clear of gut-level feminist issues of abortion rights, sexual harassment, and employment discrimination. These are too messy and unladylike for Athena just as was the suffragists’ fighting for the right of women to vote too unladylike for the dingbat x-chomosomers then. Those traitors to their sex sneered at Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton and joined men in calling them “hyenas in petticoats.” But the collaborators sped to the voting booth when suffragist Valkyries pushed through women‘s right to vote. The Virginia mother who did the trick that got the final vote told her legislator son she would not speak to him for the rest of her life if he did not vote for the passage of suffrage.<br /><br />In the intervening forty years, Athena has continued its luncheons. Its membership is still by-invitation-only. It has run a campaign of capturing productive community women to adorn its membership marquee such as Betty Castor, Katherine Essrig, and Sandy Freedman.<br /><br />The list includes as well your name, Ms. Edgecomb. You are the token innocuous prominent black woman. Also listed is the appelate judge that presided in one of Renee’s trials: Susan Bucklew. She ruled against Renee‘s appeal. Another school board member besides you adorns the list. Now we begin to see through a glass darkly the murky network of bureaucrats who undid Renee.<br /><br />Renee’s hearing and trial record begins to resemble an unspoken conspiracy of Bay Area power bureaucrats sticking together on school expulsions behind the scenes from the school grounds through the courts. Their aim is not wellbeing of childen but keeping their records clean. The choreograph is “to hell with the kids, especially black ones with parents that, in Renee‘s case, fight for their daughter‘s rights; let’s keep our record unblemished with no messy concessions to justice.”<br /> <br />You belong to Athena, Ms. Edgecomb, not the NAACP. The value system this choice represents does not redound to your credit. Nor does it recommend your being a school board member responsible for the protection and equal treatment of black children in the schools. I understand blacks in the community are proud of your public office. But you don’t deserve their admiration and trust as the Renee Anderson case well shows.<br /><br />The school board, which you now chair, does not protect black children but fosters the discriminatory statistics of more black than white children’s suffering from the ritual of expulsion, low graduation rates. and fewer gifted identifications. One would have thought that as the only black on the board, you would wade in and demand an in-house committee of board members, administrators, teachers, and parents to plumb the situation and insist on its correction.<br /><br />You would have thenceforth monitored evidence of the committee’s progress or the lack of it, making a pest of yourself if necessary. I can testify that nothing beats making a pest of yourself. I excel at this skill. It’s much more effective than whining diplomacy. Women in Florida and elsewhere would do well to make pests of themselves. Being pests is how we jackbooted lesbians recently convinced the U.S. Weather Bureau to stop calling all hurricanes women’s names because “both are unpredictable and tempestuous.” To shut us up, the bureau buckled to equality and now names hurricanes men’s and women’s names alternately. One small step for womankind.<br /><br />You have not made a pest of yourself or even let out a peep of protest about discrimination against black children in the schools. You remained serene in your seat on whitey’s board, trying to distract from the fact that you are black by being bland. You are, in fact, a black woman who ignores the punishment of black children in the school system over which you supposedly preside. That’s a fact the NAACP statistics undergird. The children suffer while you fantasize.<br /><br />To give some idea of how unfair Renee Anderson’s punishment was, let’s scrutinize the charge of “aggravated assault” responsible for her arrest and incarceration and compare her case with the aggravated assault on students of a King High school administrator.</strong></span><br /></p><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:180%;" >Renee brushed past Assistant Principal Macena, who tried to trap her in his office. This brush-by constituted the putative aggravated assault. One should have thought that cooping up a person in an office against a person’s will rings a bell somewhere in the justice system.</span><br /><br /><br /><br /><p><span style="font-size:180%;"><strong><br />Renee had called her mother via cell phone and told her Le Messena was holding her against her will.<br /><br />Her mother told her to come home, which was across the street from the school. But the hulking Messena penned Renee in his office on unproved charges of fighting in the schools and cried aggravated assault when she brushed past him to obey her mother. Every time I review this situation, I believe there’s something whacked out about it. A student brushes past a hefty administrator blocking her path, and that’s aggravated assualt.</strong></span></p><br /><br /><br /><p><span style="font-size:180%;"><strong>Horse feathers.<br /><br />Nobody listened to Ms. Anderson. She had no hearing. She had not been fighting but was trying to break up a fight between friends. But the administration did not want to hear a refutation of its prejudice. Its accusation was freeze-dried and ready for application. Principal Heilmann was not interested in anything but his conviction that another black child had been in a fight and merited punishment. Black children’s fighting and punishment was his engrained scenario. Without determining her participation in the fight, the principal screamed twice at Renee, “Get off my school grounds!”<br /> <br /> <br />Question: why did the upper ROSSACers take this man from his natural habitat of the athletic fields and sweat lodges and put him in a principal’s office? Look at his ill-written, badly punctuated resume above. Didn't the administration spot that deficiency of literacy? Heilmann belongs in a sports venue or on janitor duty: he should never take off his cleats or should always have a mop in his hands. </strong></span></p><br /><br /><br /><br /><p><span style="font-size:180%;"><strong>Let’s home in on the charge of unproven “aggravated assault” by student Renee Anderson on the delicate 240-pounder. Unproven “aggravated assault,” later changed to plain assault by the state’s attorney--“The quality of justice is not strained: it droppeth from heaven like the gentle rain”--required a mere call from the principal’s office to trigger the charge of aggravated assault with no investigation, no nothing but brutality to a student.<br /><br />This administrative call resulted in Renee’s precipitate handcuffing arrest with no principal-attended interrogation. It was incarceration based on nothing but erroneous, bigoted assumptions by the administration and arrogant behavior of the cops.<br /></strong></span></p><br /><br /><br /><p><span style="font-size:180%;"><strong> <span style="font-style: italic;">5780 - STUDENT/PARENT RIGHTS Board Procedures</span> </strong></span></p><br /><br /><br /><p style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-size:180%;"><strong>The Board recognizes that students possess not only the right to an education but the rights of citizenship as well.</strong></span></p><br /><br /><br /><p><span style="font-size:180%;"><strong><span style="font-style: italic;">The District shall attempt to offer nurture, counsel, and custodial care appropriate to the age and maturity of the student. The District will, at the same time, guarantee that no student is deprived of the basic right to equal treatment and equal access to the educational program, due process, a presumption of innocence, free expression and association, and the privacy of the student's own thoughts.</span> <span style="font-style: italic;">Along with the rights guaranteed to each student, however, are certain responsibilities which include respect for the rights of others, obedience to properly constituted school authority, and compliance with the procedures and rules of the District.</span></strong></span></p><br /><br /><p><span style="font-size:180%;"><strong><em></em> <span style="font-style: italic;">The Board realizes that as students differ in age and maturity so they differ in ability to handle both the rights and responsibilities of citizens. The exercise of each right shall be granted, therefore, with due regard for the degree of responsibility possessed by the student and the student's need for the continuing guidance and control of those responsible for the student's education.</span> <span style="font-style: italic;">F.S. 1002.20</span><br /> <br />I bet the hefty Menendez specimen makes at least $65,000 a year without being able to spell or punctuate in a school system dedicated to infusing these skills into its pupils. Somebody who spells “until” as “untill” as he does on his statement does not have the brain power to make the fine distinctions a vice principal must master. A meat plant hefting beef carcasses is the place for the likes of Mr. Messena.</strong></span></p><br /><br /><br /><p><span style="font-size:180%;"><strong>Renee’s case represents insensitive, programmed, prejudiced behavior on the administration’s and board’s part toward a black student. It contrasts markedly with another instance of repeated, ignored assaults by an administrator on students. A King High School administrator committed these assaults.<br /><br />An assistant principal at King ordered pubescent boys into his office, ordered them to close the door, ordered them to remove their shoes and socks, ordered them to present him their feet for him to manipulate and drool over. He especially liked to crack their toes.<br /><br />Other administrators either pretended not to note this weird behavior or did not try to stop it. The principal, Carol Bruning, must be more than usually unaware of what is going on in her school.<br /><br />This was the sicko scene of an administrator who produced the “Toecracker” caper, which the administration treated as a prank with an “Oh, isn’t he a card?!” when knowledge of it was forced upon them.<br /><br />One of the boys’ mothers called the papers to reveal the outrage. The Toe Cracker saga appeared in the <span style="font-style: italic;">SPT.</span><br /><br />The administration had filed no charges of undoubted aggravated assault against the administrative probable foot fetishist. Administrative minions had not called the cops to arrest him; no handcuffs; no lock-up. The oblivious principal Carla Bruning King went along with the administrator’s weird behavior if, indeed, she were ever aware of what the joker was doing. Such out-to-lunch principal conduct means she needed a regimen of No-Doze.<br /><br />The questionable charge of “aggravated battery” against Renee got her arrested stat and incarcerated without the administration’s even determining if she were guilty of the charge. It didn’t let her speak. There was no interrogation of Renee with the principal present which school board attorney Tom Gonzalez airily tells the press any student is entitled to. In contrast, the King assistant principal’s repeated and blatant aggravated assault on multiple pubescent boys’ feet probably for psychosexual gratification got ignored or treated as a joke when forced to the administration‘s attention.<br /><br />This case highlights another outrage perpetrated in the schools. Administrators never get fired for bad behavior or incompetence; only teachers do. The Professional Standards files will support this statement.<br /><br />I pleaded at a board meeting with Ms. Elia to have the apparent foot fetishist administrator examined by a certified psychiatrist to see if he were mentally well or suffered some form of pathology. She didn’t even look up from her calculations of what whopping raise she should ask for next. None of the board moved that the foot fetishist be examined to see if he were a threat to the youngsters in his power. So much for the empty “safety of the children” chorus of the board. So much for courage and morals.<br /><br />How does this lax treatment of a King High administrator’s repeated, overt aggravated-assault fetish go unchecked; how did he acquire the assumption that he was entitled to manipulate the feet of pubescent male students? How does the Toe Cracker outrage stack up against Renee’s unproven aggravated-assault charge on burly Vice Principal Messena?<br /><br />Comparison produces the suspicion that invidious discrimination unfolded in the administrative rush to judgment with non-deliberative jocko Principal Heillmann’s anthem of “Get off my school grounds!” to Renee. This administrative big shot didn’t bother to question Student Renee Anderson or give her the benefit of a doubt before he chased her across the parking lot into the cops’ arms, screaming “Get off my grounds!”<br /><br />Mr. Heillmann had early called the police to clamp handcuffs on the young woman, arrest her, and jail her for aggravated assault. Meanwhile, the bizarre King High footsy-tootsy administrator gets free rein to pursue his probably psychosexually based indulgence, dismissed as mere horseplay by the administration and board. The principal of King snoozed the whole time. The board avoided knowledge of the situation. “We knew nothing about it” is the board’s template fall-back mantra. The truth is the board knows everything about everything and sits on it.<br /><br />Yet these elected public servants opine ad nauseum on the board dais that they are “concerned about the safety of the children.” Oh, sure. You betcha.<br /><br />Instead of calling the cops to arrest the King High administrator for chronic aggravated assault on the school’s pubescent boys, the administration tolerated and even joked about it--“Ha! Ha! Ha” They pretended to never have taken Psychology 101. They stalled until a parent’s outcry against the whacky foot-fetish administrator finally forced the administration to call in a lackadaisical sheriff’s investigator who declared the administration, not the sheriff’s department, should deal with the King High toe cracker. Passing the buck among Hillsborough County community leaders represents template behavior.<br /><br />When I emailed Sheriff Gee to review the situation, he emailed me back and grandly advised, “Consult my staff.” Sheriff Gee is yet another politician who gets elected to office and believes that he has assumed the purple.<br /><br />However, when the King High principal got the threat of a lawsuit from an irate parent after the toe-cracker story appeared in <span style="font-style: italic;">SP Times</span> and when the parent said he would sue the schools unless the toe cracker got a psychiatric examination, the torpid administration broke into attenuated action.<br /><br />Showing their slick, practiced powers of evasion, the administration and board side-stepped this parent’s threat it appears by having an in-house factotum with some ersatz psychology background evaluate the man for pathology. Naturally, the in-house evaluator found the Toe Cracker a model of mental health. Not doing so would have meant the poor wretch’s job.</strong></span></p><br /><br /><br /><br /><p><span style="font-size:180%;"><strong>Anybody who knows the least thing about mental illness (I did psychiatric nursing for a time at Seton Institute in Baltimore and spent hours in the hospital library reading, reading, reading, reading case files) would know a state-certified psychologist or a psychiatrist specializing in sexual disorders should have done the evaluation. Surely school administrators are obliged to master such information.<br /><br />This evasion of parental concern for the children to whom the board and administration act in loco parentis and such disinterest in multiple boys’ abuse refute the board’s claim to have paramount in their consideration the safety of the children. Its members show how lax and indifferent the board and administration are about Hillsborough County school children’s safety when it comes to making an administrator responsible for criminal battery on multiple boys unchecked over a period of time.<br /><br />In contrast, adjudging a student guilty of criminal battery without an examination and locking her up as in Renee’s case gets a shoo-in “of course” from the board. But the abusive administrator gets a non-professional exam and a pass. Those acts display extant invidious ethics for the Hillsborough County board and administration.<br /><br />Principal Heilmann and his administration distorted and evaded the Student Code of Conduct in its eagerness to strip student Renee Anderson of her rights. In contrast, the board and administration ignored and condoned the criminal battery a King High administrator forced on pubescent boys in his power.<br /><br />The administration called the cops for Renee’s arrest, not giving her a chance to refute the charge. They ignored the foot fetishist’s activities until a parent called their bluff. This is what’s known in Aristotle’s Nichomachean Ethics as whacko ethics.</strong></span></p><br /><br /><br /><p><span style="font-size:180%;"><strong><br /></strong></span></p><br /><br /><br /><p><span style="font-size:180%;"><strong><span style="font-style: italic;">Board Policies (mounted on school Web site).</span> <span style="font-style: italic;">Zero tolerance policies should apply equally to all students, Redundant comma: splits a compound verb and are not intended to be rigorously applied to petty acts of misconduct and misdemeanors. This zero tolerance policy does not require the reporting of petty acts of misconduct and misdemeanors to a law enforcement agency, including, redundant comma but not limited to disorderly conduct, disrupting a school function, simple assault or battery (The State’s attorney’s office relabeled Renee’s putative bumping of Messena as simple battery.), affray, theft of less than $300, trespassing, and vandalism of less than $1,000. The District will seek to use alternatives to expulsion or referral to law enforcement agencies unless the use of such alternatives will pose a threat to school safety.</span></strong></span></p><br /><br /><br /><p><span style="font-size:180%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Oh, monkey vomit. Double monkey vomit.</span></span><br /><span style="font-size:180%;"><strong><span style="font-style: italic;"></span></strong></span></p><br /><br /><br /><p><span style="font-size:180%;"><strong><span style="font-style: italic;"></span> This disingenuous statement represents sugared lies and the abuse of language in deliberate propaganda used by the board and administration to befuddle people and to disguise the schools’ real behavior. </strong></span></p><br /><br /><br /><br /><p><span style="font-size:180%;"><strong>Hitler and Goebbels did not lie any more flagrantly in selling fascism to the German people. Renee’s case refutes the board-policy lie of solicitude for students. This putative board solicitude for students’ wellbeing crumbles with Riverview Mr. Heilmann’s and Le Macena’s overkill justice on student Anderson for an unproven, petty act gets arrest and incarceration.<br /><br />Why did these more humane, civil Board Policy standards not apply in Renee’s case? My hunch says racial discrimination.<br /><br />I suspect that the latent racial sadism in the white double helix goes back to the hanging of innocent black men in the South for putative rapes of white women. This malignant prejudice pops up from the interstices of the administrators’ double helix and even from that of some teachers in such incidents as Renee’s. I think there was even one black school functionary who joined the pile-on of accusing Renee of being in the fight when she wasn't. There's a case of Yes-massah collaboration.<br /><br />This almost unconscious behavior comes from years of accepted slurs against blacks from whites’ indoctrination in racial injustice. In Renee’s case, the conviction that no parent will come to the aid of a black son or daughter figured in the attitude of approved bigotry. The administrative-board bigots felt free to romp. A congeries of psychological causes lead them to slap on the toughest, most exaggerated, most vicious accusation possible on Renee. Read Faulkner’s <span style="font-style: italic;">That Evening Sun </span>or any of his oeuvre to get an idea of how this prejudice emerged and flourished. Faulkner is our greatest writer: he is equal to the task of showing how racism began and since flourished and spread from the South.<br /><br />Where is the Marquis de Sade when we need to consult him on the symtoms of racial sadism?<br /><br />More twaddle promulgated by the board:<br /><span style="font-style: italic;">5611 - DUE PROCESS RIGHTS board handbook</span> <span style="font-style: italic;">The Board recognizes the importance of safeguarding a student's constitutional rights particularly when subject to the District's disciplinary procedures.</span></strong></span><br /></p><br /><br /><br /><br /><p><span style="font-size:180%;"><strong><span style="font-style: italic;">5780 - STUDENT/PARENT RIGHTS</span> <span style="font-style: italic;">The Board recognizes that students possess not only the right to an education but the rights of citizenship as well.</span> <span style="font-style: italic;">The District shall attempt to offer nurture, counsel, and custodial care appropriate to the age and maturity of the student. The District will, at the same time, guarantee that no student is deprived of the basic right to equal treatment and equal access to the educational program, due process, a presumption of innocence, free expression and association, and the privacy of the student's own thoughts.</span> <span style="font-style: italic;">Along with the rights guaranteed to each student, however, are certain responsibilities which include respect for the rights of others, obedience to properly constituted school authority, and compliance with the procedures and rules of the District.</span> <span style="font-style: italic;">The Board realizes that as students differ in age and maturity so they differ in ability to handle both the rights and responsibilities of citizens. The exercise of each right shall be granted, therefore, with due regard for the degree of responsibility possessed by the student and the student's need for the continuing guidance and control of those responsible for the student's education.</span> <span style="font-style: italic;">F.S. 1002.20</span><br /><br />These people are shameless.<br /> <br />Here follow an email from me to Renee's appeals attorney and her response. Ms. Raskin's response summarizes what I suspect of this case. <br /> <br />----</strong><a href="mailto:dlawraskin@bellsouth.net"><strong></strong></a><strong><br /> <br />I have read your appeals brief for Renee Anderson's case against the Hillsborough County schools not one but three times. The date says December 21, 2009.<br />You do an admirable job on the Renee Anderson brief. Take this from a college professor of 28 years who taught writing to freshman and sophomore students. Your strengths are vivid diction, paucity of passive verbs, and emphatic contrary assertions. These give your writing thrust and pace. Run-of-the-mill lawyers such as Tom Gonzalez lapse into the conditional mood, weasel circumlocution, and fusty legal diction. He doesn’t know basic grammar-punctuation. So bad is the Gonzalez writing that I wrote Floida State’s writing faculty to complain about its letting loose such as he on Florida citizens.<br />………<br />Lee Drury De Cesare<br />15316 Gulf Boulevard 802<br />Madeira Beach, FL 33709<br /></strong><a href="mailto:Tdecesar@tampabay.rr.com"><strong>Tdecesar@tampabay.rr.com</strong></a><strong><br />Leedrurydecesarescasting-room couch.blogspot.com</strong></span></p><br /><br /><br /><p><span style="font-size:180%;"><strong><br /></strong></span></p><br /><br /><br /><p><span style="font-size:180%;"><strong>-Original Message-----From: Doris Landis Raskin [mailto:dlawraskin@bellsouth.net]<br />Sent: Sunday, November 14, 2010 11:16 AM<br /><br />To: tdecesar@tampabay.rr.comSubject:<br /><br />Renee's case is concluded unjustly and unfairly. The appellate court found a completely new fact, i.e., that the board had offered Renee an alternative placement. If that were true, we would never have filed a case. When a case is decided at the appellate level, the only thing left is an appeal to the Supreme Court. There is no jurisdictional issue for the Supreme Court. The appellate court tanked it by finding a fact not in evidence.<br /><br />Thank you for your kind words. I am not proud of the writing, but I am proud of the content. Cases are not decided on how well the brief is written, but the legal issues, the application of the facts to the issues, and the rule of law. In Renee's case, I believe it was decided on personalities. Susan Bucklew, a favorite of the appellate court, and a former high school English teacher in the defendant school system who had to know all of the good old boys involved, should have recused herself, but didn't. I didn't know about her until I read her wild hair of a decision and did some research.<br /><br />Doris Landis Raskin<br /></strong><a href="mailto:dlawraskin@bellsouth.net"><strong>dlawraskin@bellsouth.net</strong></a></span><span style="font-size:180%;"><strong> </strong></span></p><br /><br /><br /><p><span style="font-size:180%;"><strong>Ms. Raskin's assessment should haunt you, Ms. Edgecomb. It throws into relief your failure to help a black child in the Hillsborough County schools get justice in a system you are supposed to oversee. Your inaction and supine acceptance of Renee Anderson's abuse does not speak well for your vigilance about the treatment of a part of the school population--black children--whom one expects you protect and nurture against the negative, racist currents in which they try to swim upsteam in which they are a despised minority.</strong></span></p><br /><br /><br /><p><br /><span style="font-size:180%;"><strong></strong></span></p><br /><br /><br /><p><span style="font-size:180%;"><strong>Shame, Ms. Edgecomb, shame for neglecting these children in general and Renee Anderson in particular.</strong></span></p><br /><br /><br /><p style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size:180%;">Lee Drury De Cesare</span></p><br /><br /><br /><p style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size:180%;">15316 Gulf Boulevard 802</span></p><br /><br /><br /><p style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size:180%;">Madeira Beach, FL 33708</span></p><br /><br /><br /><p style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size:180%;">tdecesar@tampabay.rr.com</span></p><br /><br /><br /><p><span style="font-size:180%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">leedrurydecesarescasting-roomcouch.blogspot.com</span></span><br /><span style="font-size:180%;"><strong></strong></span></p><br /><br /><br /><p><span style="font-size:180%;"><strong><br /></strong></span></p><br /><br /><br /><p><span style="font-size:180%;"><strong> </strong></span><span style="font-size:180%;"><strong><br />Hillsborough County NAACP<br />Florida NAACP<br />National NAACP<br />Hillsborough County Children’s Board<br />Tampa Mayor’s Office and Members of the City Council<br />Principal Heilmann<br />Vice-principal Messena<br />All Members of School Board<br />Mr. Otero, vice superintendent<br />The Florida Sentinel<br />The St. Petersburg Times Bill Maxwell<br />Thomas Marshal, SPT<br />Jabel, SPT<br />Tampa Tribune<br />The Florida State Education Department<br />Hillsborough County’s Legislative delegation<br />Plant City Council<br />La Gaceta newspaper<br />Mbrown@tampatribune.com<br />Athena Luncheon Club</strong></span><br /><span style="font-size:180%;"><strong> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />Postscript from the attorney who handled Renee’s appeal:<br /><br /><br />Hillsborough County NAACP<br />Florida NAACP<br />National NAACP<br />The governor’s office<br />Hillsborough County Children’s Board<br />Tampa Mayor’s Office and Members of the City Council<br />Principal Heilmann<br />Vice-principal Messena<br />All Members of School Board<br />Mr. Otero, vice superintendent<br />The Florida Sentinel<br />The St. Petersburg TimesBill Maxwell<br />Thomas Marshal, SPT<br />Jabel, SPT<br />Tampa Tribune<br />The Florida State Education Department<br />Hillsborough County’s Legislative delegation<br />Plant City Council<br />La Gaceta newspaper<br />Mbrown@tampatribune.com<br />Athena Luncheon Club<br />Renee Anderson, representative of the black children who are more likely to be punished by suspension than white children.<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /></strong></span></p><span style="font-size:180%;"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></span><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:180%;"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><strong></strong></span></div><span style="font-size:180%;"><br /><strong>Principal Heilmann Riverview High School“Get off My School Grounds!” screamed Heilmann, principal-jock Riverview High School, to student Renee Anderson.<br /></strong></span><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:180%;"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><strong></strong></span></div><span style="font-size:180%;"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></span><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:180%;"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><strong></strong></span></div><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:180%;"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><strong></strong></span></div><span style="font-size:180%;"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></span><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:180%;"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><strong></strong></span></div><strong><span style="font-size:180%;">Vice principal Kevin Massena, who claimed Renee committed aggravated assault on him: “That girl bumped into to me, officer, and committed aggravated assault on my dainty person</span><br /><br /></strong><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:180%;"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></span></div><span style="font-size:180%;"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></span><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:180%;"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><strong></strong></span></div><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:180%;"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><strong></strong></span></div><span style="font-size:180%;"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></span><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:180%;"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><strong></strong></span></div><strong><span style="font-size:180%;">See-no-evil Doretha Edgecombe Board Chair, Hillsborough County School Board<br />“I move that we approve the Consent Agenda without discussion so that I can get home in time for the Lawrence Welk reruns.”</span><br /><br /></strong><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:180%;"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></span></div><span style="font-size:180%;"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></span><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:180%;"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><strong></strong></span></div><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:180%;"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><strong></strong></span></div><span style="font-size:180%;"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></span><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:180%;"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><strong></strong></span></div><strong><span style="font-size:180%;">Blurb from Riverview school site accompanying Principal Heilmann’s picture with suggestive “airhead” balloons around his pate. This specimen betrays meagre erudition.</span><br /><br /></strong><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:180%;"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></span></div><span style="font-size:180%;"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></span><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:180%;"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><strong></strong></span></div><span style="font-size:180%;"><br /><strong>It is betrayal of taxpayers that a principal of a high school can’t punctuate at a basic level. This balloon-head tax drain probably makes $70,000 a year. The board should be ashamed of rubberstamping the employment of such a ripoff on the public. Mr. Robert Heilmann Principal<br /></strong></span><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:180%;"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><strong></strong></span></div><span style="font-size:180%;"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></span><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:180%;"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><strong></strong></span></div><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:180%;"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><strong></strong></span></div><span style="font-size:180%;"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></span><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:180%;"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><strong></strong></span></div><strong><span style="font-size:180%;">Mr. Robert Heilmann became an educator in 1972, no comma: splits compound verb and has taught Elementary PE, Social Studies, 3 No caps and English. After earning a Masters’ lowercase; singular possessive: apostrophe “s” Degree lower case in Counselor Education lower case and in Educational Leadership lower case; comma: long introductory prepositional phrase he served as a Guidance Counselor lower case and was an Assistant Principal lower case for Student Affairs lower case at East Bay High School. When the opportunity to help launch a brand new hyphenated adjective high school arose, Mr. Heilmann was instrumental in opening stilted diction: use “helped in the job of launching” our new Riverview High School as the Assistant Principal lower case for Curriculum. lower case After the retirement retore,emtMr.<br /><br /><br />Mr. Robert Heilmann became an educator in 1972, and has taught Elementary PE, Social Studies, and English. After earning a Masters’ Degree in Counselor Education and in Educational Leadership he served as a Guidance Counselor and was an Assistant Principal for Student Affairs at East Bay High School. When the opportunity to help launch a brand new high school arose, Mr. Heilmann was instrumental in opening our new Riverview High School as the Assistant Principal for Curriculum. After the retirement of Riverview’s first principal J. Vince Thompson, Mr. Heilmann became principal in January 2001. During his educational career, he has coached baseball, hockey, cross country, and track. He has also officiated high school and college soccer games for 34 years. Mr. Heilmann had the distinction of serving on the U.S. international panel of referees for the sport of soccer from 1991-1994 (each country having only seven officials).</span><br /><br /></strong><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:180%;"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></span></div><span style="font-size:180%;"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></span><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:180%;"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><strong></strong></span></div><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:180%;"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><strong></strong></span></div><span style="font-size:180%;"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></span><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:180%;"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><strong></strong></span></div><strong><span style="font-size:180%;">Robert Heilmann became an educator in 1972, and has taught Elementary PE, Social Studies, and English. After earning a Masters’ Degree in Counselor Education and in Educational Leadership he served as a Guidance Counselor and was an Assistant Principal for Student Affairs at East Bay High School. When the opportunity to help launch a brand new high school arose, Mr. Heilmann was instrumental in opening our new Riverview High School as the Assistant Principal for Curriculum. After the retirement of Riverview’s first principal J. Vince Thompson, Mr. Heilmann became principal in January 2001. During his educational career, he has coached baseball, hockey, cross country, and track. He has also officiated high school and college soccer games for 34 years. Mr. Heilmann had the distinction of serving on the U.S. international panel of referees for the sport of soccer from 1991-1994 (each country having only seven officials).retirement of Riverview’s first principal comma: nonrestrictive appositive J. Vince Thompson, Mr. Heilmann became principal in January 2001. During his educational career, he pronoun antecedent has coached baseball, hockey, cross country, and track. He has also officiated at high school and college soccer games for 34 years. Mr. Heilmann had the distinction of serving on the U.S. international panel of referees for the sport of soccer from 1991-1994 (each country apostrophe “s” for noun modifier preceding a gerund having only seven officials). Misplaced modifier: goes after “referees”: ““referees.</span><br /><br /></strong><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:180%;"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></span></div><span style="font-size:180%;"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></span><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:180%;"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><strong></strong></span></div><span style="font-size:180%;"><br /><strong>After the retirement of Riverview’s first principal J. Vince Thompson, Mr. Heilmann became principal in January 2001. </strong></span><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:180%;"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><strong></strong></span></div><span style="font-size:180%;"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></span><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:180%;"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><strong></strong></span></div><span style="font-size:180%;"><br /><strong>During his educational career, he pronoun reference has coached baseball, hockey, cross country, and track. He has also officiated high school and college soccer games for 34 years. Mr. Heilmann had the distinction of serving on the U.S. international panel cap of referees cap for the sport of soccer from 1991-1994 (each country possessive before gerund having only seven officials).<br />Just what the schools need as principal: an illiterate jock and bigot making over $70,000 a year who--get this--at one time taught English! What administrative ninny hired him for that job? Don’t the people in ROSSAC have literacy tests for educators before they hire them, and isn’t there anyone in the building who can read them? I want to see Heilmann’s transcipts and Strong Aptitude Test profile.</strong></span><strong> </strong><span style="font-size:180%;"><br /><br /></span><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:180%;"><br /><strong>------------------------------------------------------------------<br />Dear Ms. Edgecomb, Board Chair Hillsborough County Schools:</strong></span><strong><br /></strong></div><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:180%;"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><strong></strong></span></div><span style="font-size:180%;"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></span><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:180%;"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><strong></strong></span></div><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:180%;"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><strong></strong></span></div><span style="font-size:180%;"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></span><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:180%;"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><strong></strong></span></div><span style="font-size:180%;"><br /><strong>After the Professional Standards office framed my friend Bart Birdsall on a cooked-up charge because he participated in the pro-gay community protest of County Commissioner Rhonda Storms’s shutdown of library privileges for gays, I spent over two years sitting in the back of the room observing the board’s behavior. I wanted to know what kind of people sanction such unethical punishment of a school employee.<br /></strong></span><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:180%;"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><strong></strong></span></div><span style="font-size:180%;"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></span><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:180%;"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><strong></strong></span></div><strong><span style="font-size:180%;">That scrutiny furnished a Baedeker of evidence for the board’s and administration’s running the schools as if these public institutions were their personal bailiwick. They use their board and administration perches to preen their power and prestige with which to strut around Tampa Bay because they control billions of tax dollars. That control means they can dish out contracts to people who do business to the board. That dishing out of tax dollars with accompanying graft is revealed in the whistleblower law suit filed and won by Mr. Erwin against the board. One infers where the graft originated when the administration--starting at the top with Dr. Lennard--board, and board attorney Tom Gonzalez conducted a campaign first to run crazy and then to fire the whistleblower Erwin for reporting to the board shoddy building practices he unearthed and asking the board to do something to combat the rip-off of the public. </span><br /><br /></strong><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:180%;"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></span></div><span style="font-size:180%;"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></span><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:180%;"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><strong></strong></span></div><span style="font-size:180%;"><br /><strong>I read the court files. The jury believed little the administration collaborators and board liars said. It found for Mr. Erwin. Tom Gonzalez, not a court-room Fred Astaire, lost the case. This telling jury response explains why the administration always asks for bench trials. Its polecat members know they can’t fool a jury or tap into the judicial collaborators as they did in Renee’s two trials with the cooked hearing set up and judicial sympathizers. </strong></span><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:180%;"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><strong></strong></span></div><span style="font-size:180%;"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></span><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:180%;"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><strong></strong></span></div><span style="font-size:180%;"><br /><strong>Mr. Erwin fled to Georgia but can’t get a job because he can’t get the board and administration to give him a recommendation. That’s the kind of petty retaliation at which the board and administration excel. If there were one board member with courage and ethics, that benign renegade would send Mr. Erwin a job recommendation. </strong></span><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:180%;"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><strong></strong></span></div><span style="font-size:180%;"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></span><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:180%;"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><strong></strong></span></div><span style="font-size:180%;"><br /><strong>Mr. Erwin was a principal in the schools for years and universally liked and respected. Earl the Pearl Lennard lured him into the administration and tried to gut him when he turned out to have courage and ethics. Among the petty crooks who run the schools, ethics and courage are bad politics.</strong></span><strong><br /><br /></strong><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:180%;"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></span></div><span style="font-size:180%;"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></span><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:180%;"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><strong></strong></span></div><span style="font-size:180%;"><br /><strong>When Erwin asked the board and administration to clean up the the shoddy work on the schools with its payoffs, instead of investigating for bribe taking and other unlovely perquisites of power, the administration, starting with Dr. Lennard with the board’s connivance, tried to make the whistleblower’s life a living hell on campus and then attempted to fire him. If you want further evidence of the irregular practices that won Mr. Erwin the case, check the donor lists of Carol Kurdell and Jack Lamb on the supervisor of elections site of the county. In the quirky politics of the state, then Governor Crist appointed Lennard supervisor of elections when Phyllis Bukanski, an honest politician, died in office.</strong></span><strong><br /><br /></strong><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:180%;"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></span></div><span style="font-size:180%;"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></span><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:180%;"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><strong></strong></span></div><span style="font-size:180%;"><br /><strong>In assessing the board’s conduct, I learned that anyone who threatened its power hegemony--even a lowly gay speaking up for gays in the community as was his First Amendment rights--could expect retaliatory punishment, prominently threatened job loss.<br /></strong></span><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:180%;"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><strong></strong></span></div><span style="font-size:180%;"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></span><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:180%;"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><strong></strong></span></div><strong><span style="font-size:180%;">The school administration and board have determined to control their image to protect their power incumbency. Both eucher the community about their unlovely covert behavior to keep the public ignorant and ensure board-and-administration continued lock on power.<br />In Bart’s case, his public display of being gay messed up the board-administration need to disguise that gays work in the schools for fear that Paleozoic homophobes hunkered down in the fens and bogs at the edge of the county in the tenenebrous badlands of Seffner and Turkey Creek would march on ROSSAC in battle formation with axe handles and pitchforks. If gays’ school employment got out, then these citizens would understand that the quidnuncs who run the schools don’t practice perfect discrimination against gays, just enough to keep gays cowed and silent and the Yahoos propitiated. </span><br /><br /></strong><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:180%;"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></span></div><span style="font-size:180%;"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></span><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:180%;"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><strong></strong></span></div><span style="font-size:180%;"><br /><strong>I was eager to see how you, the only black on the board, made sure that black children’s needs got attention, an enterprise not favored by the rest of the board. I wanted also to observe how you used your position to promote community blacks’ participation in the life of the schools.<br />In my two years’ observation, I never heard you mention black children. You didn’t sponsor a single program for them or bring up one statistic that showed them disenfranchised in any way. I also never heard you support an outstanding community black’s having a school named after him or her. The result of the latter assured that school after school got the name of another mediocre white man--most often a coach who can’t make his subjects and verbs agree.<br />Your ignoring significant discrimination against black children as the NAACP’s 2003-2004 black-disparity study shows tells me that you have entered the woebegone ranks of Aunt Toms. They want to distance themselves from their own black race to blend in with the dominant whiteys. I see that kind of betrayal in the Women’s Movement. A few women do the heavy lifting, and the Aunt Toms join sexist males in declaring that those few struggling for women’s rights are jackbooted lesbians. But when we jackbooted lesbians open a door for women, guess who rushes through first?</strong></span><strong><br /><br /></strong><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:180%;"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></span></div><span style="font-size:180%;"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></span><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:180%;"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><strong></strong></span></div><span style="font-size:180%;"><br /><strong>One salient piece of discrimination against black children that took place unchallenged by you is the recent savagery to Riverside High’s black student Renee Anderson. The board and administration railroaded her into expulsion without a fair hearing, including an obligatory hearing before the board. </strong></span><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:180%;"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><strong></strong></span></div><span style="font-size:180%;"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></span><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:180%;"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><strong></strong></span></div><span style="font-size:180%;"><br /><strong>The board and administration apparatchiks closed ranks to maul and kick out Renee Anderson without giving her the chance to tell her side of the story. The administration and board hierarchs expected Renee to go to the preliminary hearing and admit guilt to things she was not guilty of because students’ admitting guilt was their routine bureaucratic shake-down of students in the preliminary hearing. Most children are scared enough to comply. They don’t have courageous, protective parents as has Renee.</strong></span><strong><br /><br /></strong><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:180%;"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></span></div><span style="font-size:180%;"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></span><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:180%;"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><strong></strong></span></div><span style="font-size:180%;"><br /><strong>In the preliminary hearing, Renee’s stepfather, Mr. Walton, protested that the school persecutors were stripping Renee of her Constitutional rights because they were shuffling through evidence not provided to Renee in the preliminary hearing and wouldn’t allow Renee to see it when he asked for it.</strong></span><strong><br /><br /></strong><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:180%;"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></span></div><span style="font-size:180%;"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></span><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:180%;"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><strong></strong></span></div><span style="font-size:180%;"><br /><strong>Mr. and Mrs. Walton along with Renee thus got kicked out of Renee‘s hearing by the board and administration overlord softening-up crew, including then-board-attorney Crosby Few. The kick-out offense was Renee’s stepfather’s presenting a due-process request to the board biggies to see the papers withheld from Renee. Directly came the kick-out. Students don’t get Constitutional rights in the Hillsborough County school system any more than they get filet mignon in the lunch room. </strong></span><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:180%;"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><strong></strong></span></div><span style="font-size:180%;"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></span><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:180%;"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><strong></strong></span></div><span style="font-size:180%;"><br /><strong>Despite the Waltons’ and Renee’s kickout, the hearing overlords recorded Renee’s having pled guilty to the aggravated assault charge in that hearing from which they ejected her and her parents. They lied for an official record.<br /></strong></span><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:180%;"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><strong></strong></span></div><span style="font-size:180%;"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></span><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:180%;"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><strong></strong></span></div><strong><span style="font-size:180%;">The board routine of a preliminary hearing requires every student to plead guilty of the charge. When she had a chance to speak, Renee later maintained her innocence in deposition for her court case, filed by her parents to protect her from the slander of expulsion that would contaminate her record and make it hard for her to get a job.</span><br /><br /></strong><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:180%;"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></span></div><span style="font-size:180%;"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></span><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:180%;"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><strong></strong></span></div><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:180%;"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><strong></strong></span></div><span style="font-size:180%;"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></span><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:180%;"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><strong></strong></span></div><strong><span style="font-size:180%;">The NAACP study asserts “Students of color are being disciplined at higher rates compared to their peers in the Hillsborough schools. For example, in 2003-2004 black students were over three times as likely as their white peers to be suspended out of school, and black elementary school pupils over five times as likely to be suspended out of school.” Renee Anderson ranks as one of those racist statistics.</span><br /><br /></strong><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:180%;"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></span></div><span style="font-size:180%;"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></span><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:180%;"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><strong></strong></span></div><span style="font-size:180%;"><br /><strong>Moreover, says NAACP research, “Racial disparities in suspension are matched by other key educational indicators. In the school year, a black child is more likely to be retained in grade as a white child and more than three times as likely to be identified as retarded, whereas a white child is more than one and one-half times as likely to graduate from high school in four years and more than three times as likely to be identified for a gifted program.” </strong></span><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:180%;"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><strong></strong></span></div><span style="font-size:180%;"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></span><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:180%;"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><strong></strong></span></div><span style="font-size:180%;"><br /><strong>This NAACP study confirms disparity in such situations as the case of Renee Anderson at Riverview High. It and other cases result in these lopsided, discriminatory statistics unquestioned by the board and surprisingly unquestioned by the one black on it: you.<br />This case shows Renee’s being expelled for “aggravated assault” on the 240-pound hulk vice principal Kevin Massena. Renee brushed past this administrative specimen to escape his blocking her from leaving his office after school when her mother told her to come home via cell phone. </strong></span><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:180%;"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><strong></strong></span></div><span style="font-size:180%;"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></span><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:180%;"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><strong></strong></span></div><span style="font-size:180%;"><br /><strong>My friend, a teacher of the county school says: “…maybe principals are allowed to block a student's path, b/c I do know that they are now telling teachers not to break up fights and to just call an administrator. Administrators are trained in special restraining techniques to help end a fight safely and pull the kids apart.: “So maybe principals are also taught how to block a student. I don't know. I just know that we peons [teachers] are told to never block a student’s path. If the student refuses to sit down or leaves the room, we simply call for administration and write the student up. We are told the school board will not support us if we block and then the student gets hostile and hits or pushes us. I think that puts the school board at legal risk if we block the student’s path. But maybe principals are different. I don't know.” </strong></span><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:180%;"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><strong></strong></span></div><span style="font-size:180%;"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></span><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:180%;"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><strong></strong></span></div><span style="font-size:180%;"><br /><strong>Yes, principals and administrators are different indeed. The Professional Standards office statistics show teachers but never administrators get punished in the Hillsborough County school system. For instance with Principal Smith of Alafia performed so badly that parents refused to have her supervise their children, Ms. Elia first tried to propitiate the parents by promising to send La Smith and her assistant principal to Eckerd's personality makeover course to get the kinks out of their personalities so that Smith would act like a human being. When te parents balked, former school board member Falliera, who committed adultery after stalking him with Mark Hart that resulted in his firing to put him out of her range and prevent the public's finding out about the outrage, Elia sent this paragon of board ethics along with GED-only fibber April Griffith, who lied to the press about her education, out to Alafia convince Smith to accept a manufactured empty job after she resigned as principal at the same salary and benefits but no duties to cover up the bad-press story unfolding about the situation. Smith now occupies this do-duties job at the taxpayers' expense to hold inviolate the administration and board's discriminatory custom of punishing teachers, never administrators, with Professional Standards charges. </strong></span><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:180%;"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><strong></strong></span></div><span style="font-size:180%;"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></span><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:180%;"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><strong></strong></span></div><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:180%;"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><strong></strong></span></div><span style="font-size:180%;"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></span><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:180%;"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><strong></strong></span></div><strong><span style="font-size:180%;">And in cases of school contretemps, principals run after the student and howl, “Get off my school grounds!” This is the special training for such incidents that principals get but not teachers.</span><br /><br /></strong><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:180%;"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></span></div><span style="font-size:180%;"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></span><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:180%;"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><strong></strong></span></div><span style="font-size:180%;"><br /><strong>This following information came from a teacher of many years who would be fired on the spot if I revealed the name.</strong></span><strong><br /><br /></strong><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:180%;"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></span></div><span style="font-size:180%;"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></span><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:180%;"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><strong></strong></span></div><span style="font-size:180%;"><br /><strong>Jiu jetsu Menendez claims Renee Anderson performed aggravated battery upon his person by brushing past him to escape when he had her penned up in his office and blocked her exit.<br />Before we go any further, we must demand that Le Mendez present his scores on the Beery-Buketinic Developmental Test of Visual-Motor skills. These data will tell us whether he is normal in this area as anyone must be who is going to invoke aggravated battery for a student’s bumping into him.</strong></span><strong><br /><br /></strong><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:180%;"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></span></div><span style="font-size:180%;"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></span><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:180%;"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><strong></strong></span></div><span style="font-size:180%;"><br /><strong>In fact, logic says that the administration’s claim that it knows how to handle fights while the faculty does not requires this test for all administrators: A Menendez-Beery Bukentinic score is pivotal in a claim of aggravated battery as the one Le Menedez cites. Mr. Heilmann must present the most recent Menendez-Berry-Bukentinc score of his battered subaltern.Mr. Menendez justifies his claim.in the tenenemous </strong></span><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:180%;"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><strong></strong></span></div><span style="font-size:180%;"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></span><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:180%;"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><strong></strong></span></div><span style="font-size:180%;"><br /><strong>Any administrator who can’t spell “until” must clean out his desk and exit hallowed school ground. Even if he has mopped up the floor with the Menendez-Beery Bukentinic test, he must skedaddle.</strong></span><strong><br /><br /></strong><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:180%;"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></span></div><span style="font-size:180%;"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></span><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:180%;"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><strong></strong></span></div><span style="font-size:180%;"><br /><strong>Egged on by a call from Principal Heilmann, the police didn’t wait for Renee’s mother to arrive but crammed her into the patrol car in handcuffs and sped her to lock-up.</strong></span><strong><br /><br /></strong><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:180%;"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></span></div><span style="font-size:180%;"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></span><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:180%;"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><strong></strong></span></div><span style="font-size:180%;"><br /><strong>School officials such as board attorney Tom Gonzalez maintain in PR propaganda that students get solicitous treatment and are given their rights in such situations.<br />Hooey.</strong></span><strong><br /><br /></strong><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:180%;"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></span></div><span style="font-size:180%;"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></span><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:180%;"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><strong></strong></span></div><span style="font-size:180%;"><br /><strong>Renee’s case shows the overlords don’t. In answer to the question “Do principals get to monitor interrogations?” that a SPT reporter posed to board attorney Gonzales prompts the mouthpiece to reach into his legal sack of mendacity and repond that the indeed principals do. The right reporter question should have been “Do principals attend all police interrogations of students?“ The answer is no. Principal Heilmann was in cahoots with the police to deprive Renee of fair treatment. His office phoned to police and said, “Come pick ‘er up, boys.”<br /></strong></span><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:180%;"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><strong></strong></span></div><span style="font-size:180%;"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></span><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:180%;"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><strong></strong></span></div><strong><span style="font-size:180%;">Then the Board Mouthpiece gilded the PR lie and continued that principals have the duty "if they ever get uncomfortable [with an interrogation]…to” speak up and say, 'You know what, [sic] I think we should wait for that person's parent.'" Absolute hogwash as Renee‘s treatment shows. </span><br /><br /></strong><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:180%;"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></span></div><span style="font-size:180%;"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></span><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:180%;"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><strong></strong></span></div><span style="font-size:180%;"><br /><strong>Renee’s case gilds reality for and press preening. Called by the principal’s factotums or himself, the cops motored up to King High just as Renee was walking toward her home across the street from the school. The piney-woods gendarmes jumped out of the patrol car, clamped Renee in handcuffs, and arrested her with Principal Heillmann’s not only failing to monitor the police interrogation because none occurred but also by Heilmann’s running after Renee in the parking lot hollering after her to “get off my campus!“ and “You’ll never come back here again!”<br />Renee’s interrogation by the police probably consisted of the colloquy, “You Renee Anderson?” “Yes.” “Then hold out your hands for these cuffs, sister, and get in the back of the patrol car.”<br />What parent would want a child subjected to this terrorism?</strong></span><strong><br /><br /></strong><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:180%;"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></span></div><span style="font-size:180%;"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></span><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:180%;"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><strong></strong></span></div><span style="font-size:180%;"><br /><strong>The schools’ lawyer’s PR description of the way students facing expulsion get treated as depicted in school-board false policy statements and the way they get treated in reality are two different things. The board knows this and even encourages the scam. The board counts such lies to the public about these and other matters as routine politics.</strong></span><strong><br /><br /></strong><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:180%;"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></span></div><span style="font-size:180%;"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></span><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:180%;"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><strong></strong></span></div><span style="font-size:180%;"><br /><strong>The board never heard Renee’s case as it was obligated to do according to board rules, and you, Ms. Edgecomb, didn’t bestir yourself to ascertain why Renee and her parents did not come before the board as such cases are supposed to. </strong></span><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:180%;"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><strong></strong></span></div><span style="font-size:180%;"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></span><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:180%;"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><strong></strong></span></div><span style="font-size:180%;"><br /><strong>The parents and Renee did not get notice of the board hearing due either to the incompetent hostility of Mr. Otero, vice superintendent, or to the board’s indifference. Instead, board members let this black student slide into expulsion by green-lighting her case on the board see-no-evil consent agenda. Nobody asked what had happened to her. Abused students--especially black ones--are so routine that they do not pique the board’s curiosity and especially not their concern. </strong></span><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:180%;"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><strong></strong></span></div><span style="font-size:180%;"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></span><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:180%;"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><strong></strong></span></div><span style="font-size:180%;"><br /><strong>All board members and involved administrators were culpable in ignoring this black student’s disenfranchisement by the Hillsborough schools’ racist system of lopsided punishment that the NAACP study documents. </strong></span><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:180%;"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><strong></strong></span></div><span style="font-size:180%;"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></span><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:180%;"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><strong></strong></span></div><span style="font-size:180%;"><br /><strong>The board apparatus misinformed Renee’s parents about the hearing. It never bothered to follow up to find out why they and Renee did not show up.</strong></span><strong><br /><br /></strong><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:180%;"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></span></div><span style="font-size:180%;"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></span><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:180%;"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><strong></strong></span></div><span style="font-size:180%;"><br /><strong>Mr. Otero’s office claimed the board couldn’t get in touch with the Walton parents because they had left no forwarding address when the family moved to take Renee to a more wholesome environment in which to attend school after the staged Riverview fracas in which she was accused of “aggravated assault” on the bloated 240-pound vice principal because she squeezed past him to escape his incarceration of her when her mother told her on the phone to come home. </strong></span><span style="font-size:180%;"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></span><br /><br /><br /><p><span style="font-size:180%;"><br /><strong>The Walton family had, in fact, left a forwarding address at the post office. </strong></span></p><span style="font-size:180%;"><strong></strong><br /><br /><br /><br /></span><br /><br /><br /><p><span style="font-size:180%;"><br /><strong>This slovenly treatment of a black student’s rights shows a lackadaisical attitude toward black children by the board and administration. It confirms a blithe unconcern for their wellbeing. Had the child Renee been a white child from South Tampa, one can be sure that a sycophantic board would have hopped to it in ensuring that the South Tampa family’s engraved notification of the board hearing was delivered on a satin pillow.</strong></span><strong><br /></strong><span style="font-size:180%;"><strong></strong></span></p><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><p><span style="font-size:180%;"><strong>I believe that vice-superintendent Otero consciously mishandled the notification ritual. He did the deed unconsciously with impulses emanating from his psyche‘s revenge prompting.<br /></strong></span></p><span style="font-size:180%;"><strong></strong></span><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:180%;"><strong>The narrative of this case shows that this extravagantly paid public employee showed ignorant of addresses’ being left by departing people at post offices. Yet he gets paid what I suspect is close to $200,000 a year since Ms. Elia pulls down $300,000 and rising because this sycophantic board has no mercy on taxpayers when loading on more and more dollar dollars onto Elia’s already bloated salary, not earned by her training, her experience, or her leadership. If she were a leader, she would have responded to the damning NAACP study.</strong></span><span style="font-size:180%;"><strong><br /></strong></span></div><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><p><strong><span style="font-size:180%;">It is not as if Mr. Otero just got off the boat from the Old Country, Bulgaria, via the Black Sea and the Dardnelles and didn’t know the civil rituals of the United States; it is not as if he had no experience in the procedure of forwarding addresses. He has done a plethora in his job of vice superintendent, ensconced therein since the Pleistocene Age. He should have an advanced degree by now in forwarding letters when students’ families move. Like too many in this C-student administration, Mr. Otero is a slow learner.</span> </strong><span style="font-size:180%;"><br /></span><span style="font-size:180%;"><br /><strong>I reason as well Le Otero’s slovenliness was due to Renee’s being a black child and that this dereliction betrayed insidious retaliation in sabotaging Renee’s case by the whole administrative system. Why? Because Renee Anderson’s parents fought back at the discriminatory behavior toward Renee and them by the board and administration. The board and administrative bigots expect that such victims as Renee and her family will take the board and administration’s contemptuous behavior lying down whilst groveling with “Yassir, Mahster.” </strong></span><span style="font-size:180%;"><br /></span><span style="font-size:180%;"><br /><strong>A prime example of discrimination in Renee’s case exists in the assault claim of vice principal Kevin Messena. Mr. Messena and the administration closed ranks, lied also about Renee’s involvement in a school-grounds fight, didn’t give her a chance to refute the charge of participation in the fight on school grounds or in an assault on Le Messena. Without valid data, the administration trapped this black student into an ersatz charge of aggravated battery against the 240-pound functionary when she exited his office as well as participant in a school-yard fight.</strong></span><strong> </strong><span style="font-size:180%;"><br /></span><span style="font-size:180%;"><br /><strong>The administrative punishers never allowed Ms. Anderson her Constitutional rights, and the local courts steeped in the byways of this complicit punishment choreograph, approved this denial of Renee’s rights in adjudication of the charge up through the appeals court presided over by Judge Bucklew, who was judge in the appeals case and who had some labyrinthine connection with Tom Gonzalez’s wife. I believe that the detective whom Mr. Walton has employed to track down issues in the casee discovered these data.</strong></span><strong> </strong><span style="font-size:180%;"><br /></span><span style="font-size:180%;"><br /><strong>The people excoriating Renee at every stage of her expulsion seemed to have a connection to each other honed over years of relationships punctuated by behind-the-scenes irregular pupil expulsions that got the imprimatur of the courts, part of the slowly accrewing choreograph. This situation dismays. The courts are supposed to administer justice in these forlorn regions. I suspect that the folks who handled Renee’s expulsion ritual worked together like bees in a beehive. The judge who presided at the first trial insisted that Renee had pled guilty in the hearing--the one she and her family were kicked out of. It seems that the system allows only a guilty plea in that hearing. To which a logical question would be Then why have the hearing?<br /></strong></span></p><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><p><strong><span style="font-size:180%;">This first-trial judge said to Renee, “Everybody knows you’re guilty.” Is this judicial language, or is it biased, pile-on language? Renee’s attorney tried to determine Menendez’ degree of racism on the stand by asking him if it were true that he had been heard to use racist language. But the judges slapped the question down. I would have liked to hear the answer.</span> </strong><span style="font-size:180%;"><br /></span></p><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><p><span style="font-size:180%;"><strong>The Heilmann exhortation to Renee to “get off my school grounds!” represents a Freudian slip that lays bare the attitude of the administration and board toward black students. </strong></span></p><span style="font-size:180%;"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></span><br /><br /><br /><p><span style="font-size:180%;"><br /><strong>The folks in the ROSSAC big White House believe the schools rank as their property and that field-hand teachers and students--especially black ones--are interlopers on it--tolerated only because students’ and their teachers’ numbers dictate the tax loot the board and administration preside over--loot that undergirds their status as power poseurs in the Bay Area. Scrutiny of the behavior behind the curtain shows that they are abusers of children--especially black ones--trapped in the expulsion pas de deux.</strong></span><strong> </strong></p><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><p><span style="font-size:180%;"><br /><strong>I think it’s significant in your case, Ms. Ethridge, that you do not belong to the NAACP but rather to the Athena Society. Besides this social club of ladies who lunch, you belong to the Florida School Boards Association Board (FSBA) of Directors and are an alternate on both the FSBA Legislative Liaison Committee and the Hillsborough Education Foundation. You as well serve on the board of directors for ChairScholars, Keep Hillsborough County Beautiful, and the Florida Center for Survivors of Torture--for which Renee now qualifies after her mauling by the board, administration, and courts. None of these prissy committees of which you are member has established a record for fighting for black students’ rights in the schools. They fight for nothing but having taxpayers pay their dues in these ersatz organizations which gather in cities around the state on holidays subsidezed by taxpayers so that the attendees can look important and engage in the exploration of tremendous trifles.</strong></span><strong> </strong></p><span style="font-size:180%;"><br /><strong>I am familiar with the ladies-who-lunch Athena club. I knew its founder, Nancy Ford, recently passed away. Forty years ago, Nancy came to my home in Beach Park a couple of weeks after our family, including our ancient cat Twink, who disappeared under the house for two weeks in a hissy when we moved from New York because she had been forced to sojourn in the luggage part of the plane instead of going first class. Nancy came as ambassador from the bank she worked for.</strong></span><strong> </strong><span style="font-size:180%;"><br /></span><span style="font-size:180%;"><br /><strong>After Title VII nudged banks into hiring women to upper-level jobs, the local bank hillbilly Machiavellies rigged up vp slots for prominent society women like Nancy. But attenuated sexism meant these to be for show, not regular-guy jobs. The ersatz female vice presidents passed out cook books to relocating families, a maneuver suited to high finance.<br /></strong></span><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:180%;"><br /><strong></strong></span></div><strong><span style="font-size:180%;">Talk about undignified sexism: this cookbook job was it.</span> </strong><span style="font-size:180%;"><br /><strong>My living in South Tampa notwithstanding, forty years ago Bay Area feminists such as I did not represent restrained, ladylike mores, which is the reason that Nancy never had the nerve to join us in the National Organization of Women, which I convened, but set up the women’s-rights-lite club Athena.</strong></span><strong><br /></strong><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><p><span style="font-size:180%;"><br /><strong>While the Athena ladies lunched, NOW picketed; we sat in; we mounted verbal challenges; wrote sassy, abusive letters of protest to the town sexist biggies; ratted out discrimination against women to Washington compliance agencies; and offered instant resistance to any discrimination we spotted against women by the diehards of women’s oppression in Hillsborough County. If we spotted any, we squawked, usually at the scene of the crime.</strong></span><strong> </strong><br /></p><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:180%;"><strong>I opened the sheriff’s and the police departments to women by reporting to the feds these sexist agencies for refusing to hire women as officers. The EEOC and the Justice Department rode down to the rescue. Sheriff Beard still refuses to occupy the same room with me. Boo hoo. </strong></span><span style="font-size:180%;"><br /></span></div><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:180%;"><br /><strong>I recall our first street agitprop: NOW challenged the local papers’ sex-segregated job ads. Not content, we followed that up by picketing Wolfe Brothers department store on Franklin Street--since gone out of business--to challenge its policy of charging women, not men, for alterations. The manager’s defense: “Women sew.”</strong></span><strong> </strong></div><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:180%;"><br /><strong>Meanwhile, dear Nancy, not able to join us bona fide feminists due to social timidity, nonetheless was bent on doing something to augment achieving women‘s equality. She dared not jeopardize her South Tampa social standing, so she walked on eggs and founded an attenuated form of feminism, the Athena Society. This moniker was ironic since Athena was the goddess of war and would have been president of the local chapter of hell-raising NOW feminists had she been around. </strong></span><br /></div><br /><br /><br /><p><strong><span style="font-size:180%;">Athena’s feminist attitude ranked feeble then as now. It evolved as just another snoot club of women too insecure to speak out to assert their full citizenship and instead became a watered-down organizations such as the Junior League (junior to whom? one wonders. Men, of course) and Athena instead. These parts of the sisterhood occupied the pastel end slot.</span> </strong></p><br /><br /><br /><p><span style="font-size:180%;"><br /><strong>Nancy asked me to speak at one of Athena’s luncheons on the ERA. I was to discourse on the grittier aspects of the ERA battle to this refined club of ladies engaged in flaccid feminism. Besides being called “jackbooted lesbos,“ we radical feminists had to contend with such issues as the opposition’s scare tactic that the ERA would force men and women to go to the toilet together. Foes of the ERA were dumb and not high minded. Their concerns about the ERA were not metaphysical; they were physical and often gross. So to talk up the ERA among the luke warm, I sallied forth to an Athena elegant luncheon and got the impression that the Athena women weren’t listening to my ERA comments so much as assessing my wardrobe.</strong></span></p><br /><br /><br /><p><span style="font-size:180%;"><br /><strong>As a poor teacher, I couldn’t dress in posh Athena duds, and these recidivist fashion groupies immediately picked up on this fact. Clothes to them ranked a major tenet of life--much more important than the ERA. This obsession was and is a major symptom of women’s second-class status in a man’s world.</strong></span><strong> </strong><span style="font-size:180%;"><br /></span><span style="font-size:180%;"></span></p><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><p><span style="font-size:180%;"><strong>Women pro-feminism remain to this day interlopers in a man’s power keep-out area. Men consider them toxic. Women don’t get past the lock-out by competence but by appearance--enhanced by attire to make them look soigné so that they can trap one of the dominant y-chromosome high-earning critters into the financial security of marriage by the lures of posh attire and giddy behavior so that they can live in South Tampa and join the Junior League.</strong></span><br /><span style="font-size:180%;"><br /><strong>I fended off the sneers that quivered at the corners of Athena doyennes’ mouths at my poor attire. But shazam! I had unexpected protection: I had by chance grabbed one of my big, old Chanel bags that day to stack my notes in. I have about a dozen old Chanels picked up over the years during times of prosperity hanging as decorations on my bedroom wall.</strong></span><strong> <span style="font-size:180%;">The good thing is that Chanel bags never change. They styles stay the same ove the years.</span></strong></p><br /><br /><br /><p><strong><span style="font-size:180%;">When I flopped my old Chanel on the table to extract my notes, there was a palpable change of atmosphere in the room.</span></strong><strong> </strong></p><strong></strong><span style="font-size:180%;"><br /><br /><br /></span><p><span style="font-size:180%;"><br /></span></p><strong><span style="font-size:180%;">That old Chanel bag was escutcheon nonpareil. Chanel stops the nattering. Nobody one-ups Chanel in the fashion marathon. My old Chanel acted my imprimatur of worthiness to make a speech to this soi-disant snoot group of insecure women who could not throw off old values of snobbery and vanity and slavery to men to fight in the streets and if necessary in the gutters to enter a new era of women’s equality. Such poseurs’ plan is to have us crazy radical feminists do the dirty work as storm troopers, and then Athena lady layabouts bestir themselves to move in and mop up the gains.</span> </strong><span style="font-size:180%;"><br /><strong></strong></span><br /><br /><br /><p><span style="font-size:180%;"><strong>With my old Chanel protecting me like a cross brandished at vampires in old Bela Lugosi movies, I exited the luncheon feeling as if it were a fool-proof shield to be used when I met Athena vampires of snobbery and superannuated feminine behavior whilst they pretended to be committed to women‘s rights, noses in the air.</strong></span><strong> </strong><span style="font-size:180%;"><br /></span><span style="font-size:180%;"><br /><strong>Forty years after my Athena speech and several years since Nancy’s death, Athena continues. It’s feminist-lite program supports “a young Woman of Promise“; how is not clear. Probably it involves a luncheon fundraiser with doilies for the young woman’s first-quarter tuition to some snoot-approved women’s college such as Radcliffe, at which she will major in art history.<br />Athena steers clear of gut-level feminist issues of abortion rights, sexual harassment, and employment discrimination. These are too messy and unladylike for Athena just as was the suffragists’ fighting for the right of women to vote too unladylike for the dingbat x-chomosomers then. These traitors to their sex sneered at Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton and joined men in calling them “hyenas in petticoats.” But the collaborators sped to the voting booth when suffragist Valkyries pushed through women‘s right to vote. The Virginia mother who did the trick told her legislator son she would not speak to him for the rest of her life if he did not vote for the passage of suffrage.</strong></span><strong> </strong></p><span style="font-size:180%;"><br /><strong>In the intervening forty years, Athena has continued its luncheons. Its membership is still by-invitation-only. It has run a campaign of capturing productive community women to adorn its membership marquee such as Betty Castor, Katherine Essrig, and Sandy Freedman. </strong></span><span style="font-size:180%;"><br /><br /><br /></span><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:180%;"><br /><strong>The list includes as well your name, Ms. Edgecomb. You are the token innocuous prominent black woman. Also listed is the judge that presided in one of Renee’s trials: Susan Bucklew, who ruled against Renee‘s appeal. Now we begin to see through a glass darkly the covert network of bureaucrats who undid Renee. Renee’s hearing and trial record begins to resemble an unspoken conspiracy of Bay Area power bureaucrats sticking together on school expulsions behind the scenes from the school grounds through the courts. The choreograph is “To hell with the kids, especially black ones with parents that, in Renee‘s case, fight for their daughter‘s rights; let’s keep our record unblemished with no messy concessions to justice.”</strong></span></div><span style="font-size:180%;"><br /><br /><br /></span><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:180%;"></span></div><strong></strong><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><strong><span style="font-size:180%;">You belong to</span></strong><strong><span style="font-size:180%;">o Athena, Ms. Edgecomb, not the NAACP. The value system this choice represents does not redound to your credit. Nor does it recommend your being a school board member responsible for the protection and equal treatment of black children in the schools. I understand blacks in the community are proud of your public office. But you don’t deserve their admiration and trust as the Renee Anderson case well shows.</span> </strong><span style="font-size:180%;"><br /></span><span style="font-size:180%;"><br /><strong>The school board, which you now chair, does not protest black children but fosters the discriminatory statistics of more black than white children’s suffering from the ritual of expulsion and low graduation rates as the NAACP study documents. One would have thought that as the only black on the board, you would have waded in and demanded an in-house committee of board members, administrators, teachers, and parents to plumb the situation and insist on its correction.</strong></span><strong> </strong></div><span style="font-size:180%;"></span><br /><br /><br /><p><span style="font-size:180%;"><br /><strong>You would have thenceforth monitored progress of the committee’s suggestions or the lack of it, making a pest of yourself if necessary. I can testify that nothing beats making a pest of yourself. I excel at this skill. It’s much more effective than whining diplomacy. Women in Florida and elsewhere would do well to make pests of themselves. Being pests is how we got the U.S. Weather Bureau to stop callint all hurricanes women’s names because “both are unpredictable and tempestuous.” To shut us up, the bureau buckled to equality and now names hurricanes men’s and women’s names alternately.</strong></span><span style="font-size:180%;"><strong> </strong></span><br /></p><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><strong><span style="font-size:180%;">One small step for womankind.</span><br /></strong></div><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><strong><span style="font-size:180%;">You have not made a pest of yourself or even let out a peep of protest about discrimination against black children in the schools. You remained serene in your seat on whitey’s board, trying to distract from the fact that you are black by being bland. You are, in fact, a black woman who ignores the punishment of black children in the school system over which you preside. That’s a fact the NAACP statistics undergird. The children suffer while you fantasize.</span> </strong><span style="font-size:180%;"><br /></span><span style="font-size:180%;"><br /><strong>To give some idea of how unfair Renee Anderson’s punishment was, let’s scrutinize the charge of “aggravated assault” responsible for her arrest and incarceration and compare her case with the aggravated assault on students of a King High school administrator. Renee brushed past Assistant Principal Macena, who tried to trap her in his office. This constituted the putative aggravated assault. One should have thought that cooping up a person in an office against a person’s will rings a bell somewhere in the justice system.</strong></span><strong> </strong></div><span style="font-size:180%;"><br /><strong>Renee had called her mother via cell phone and told her Le Messena was holding her against her will. Her mother told her to come home, which was across the street from the school. But the hulking Messena penned Renee in his office on unproved charges of fighting in the schools and cried aggravated assault when she brushed past him. Every time I review this situation, I believe there’s something whacked out about it. A student brushes past a hefty administrator, and that’s aggravated assualt. Aw, c’mon.</strong></span><strong><br /></strong><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:180%;"><strong>Nobody listened to Ms. Anderson. She had no hearing. She had not been fighting but was trying to break up a fight between friends. But the administration did not want to hear a refutation of its prejudice. Its accusation was freeze-dried and ready for application. Principal Heilmann was not interested in anything but his conviction that another black child had been in a fight and merited punishment. Black children’s fighting was his engrained scenario. Without determining her participation in the fight, the principal screamed twice at Renee, “Get off my school grounds!” </strong></span><span style="font-size:180%;"><br /><br /><strong>Question: why did the upper ROSSACers take this man from his natural habitat of the athletic fields and put him in a principal’s office? Look at his ill-written, badly punctuated resume above. He belongs in a sports venue or janitor duty: he should never take off his cleats. </strong></span></div><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><strong><span style="font-size:180%;"></span></strong></div><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:180%;"><strong>Let’s home in on the charge of unproven “aggravated assault” by student Renee Anderson on the delicate 240-pounder. Unproven “aggravated assault,” later changed to plain assault by the state’s attorney--“The quality of justice is not strained: it droppeth from heaven like the gentle rain”--required a mere call from the principal’s office to trigger the charge of aggravated assault with no investigation, no nothing but brutality to a student. </strong></span></div><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><strong><span style="font-size:180%;"></span></strong></div><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><strong><span style="font-size:180%;"></span></strong></div><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:180%;"><strong>his administrative call resulted in Renee’s precipitate handcuffing arrest with no principal-attended interrogation. It was incarceration based on nothing but erroneous, bigoted assumptions by the administration and arrogant behavior of the cops. Here is Mr. Messena’s marginally literate statement:<br /><br />I bet this hefty specimen makes at least $65,000 a year without being able to spell "until" or punctuate in a school system dedicated to infusing these skills into its pupils. Somebody who spells “until” as “untill” does not have the brain power to make the fine distinctions a vice principal must master. A meat plant hefting beef carcasses is the place for the likes of Mr. Messena.</strong></span></div><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:180%;"><strong></strong></span></div><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><strong><span style="font-size:130%;">Renee’s</span><span style="font-size:180%;"> case represents insensitive, programmed, prejudiced behavior on the administration’s and board’s part toward a black student. It contrasts markedly with another instance of repeated, ignored assaults by an administrator on students. A King High School administrator committed these assaults. </span></strong></div><span style="font-size:180%;"></span><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:180%;"><br /><strong>An assistant principal at King ordered pubescent boys into his office, ordered them to close the door, ordered them to remove their shoes and socks, ordered them to present him their feet for him to manipulate and drool over. He especially liked to crack their toes.</strong></span><span style="font-size:180%;"><br /></span></div><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:180%;"><br /><strong>Other administrators either pretended not to note this weird behavior; nor did they try to stop it. The principal, Carol Bruning, must be more than usually unaware of what is going on in her school. </strong></span><span style="font-size:180%;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-size:180%;"><br /><br /><br /></span><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:180%;"><br /><strong>This was the sicko scene of an administrator who produced the “Toecracker” caper, which the administration treated as a prank with an “Oh, isn’t he a card?!” when knowledge of it was forced upon them. </strong></span></div><span style="font-size:180%;"><strong><br /><br /><br /></strong></span><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:180%;"><strong><br />One of the boys’ mothers called the papers to reveal the outrage. The Toe Cracker saga appeared in the SPT.<br /></strong></span></div><span style="font-size:180%;"><strong><br /><br /><br /></strong></span><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:180%;"><strong>The administration had filed no charges of undoubted aggravated assault against the administrative probable foot fetishist. Administrative minions had not called the cops to arrest him; no handcuffs; no lock-up. The oblivious principal Carla Bruning King went along with the administrator’s weird behavior if, indeed, she were ever aware of what the joker was doing. Such out-to-lunch principal conduct means she needed a regimen of No-Doze. </strong></span></div><span style="font-size:180%;"><br /></span><span style="font-size:180%;"><br /><br /><br /></span><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:180%;"><br /><strong>The hypertrophie charge of “aggravated battery” against Renee got her arrested stat and incarcerated without the administration’s even determining if she were guilty of the charge. It didn’t let her speak. There was no interrogation of Renee with the principal present which school board attorney Tom Gonzalez airily tells the press any student is entitled to. In contrast, the King assistant principal’s repeated and blatant aggravated assault on multiple pubescent boys’ feet probably for psychosexual gratification got ignored or treated as a joke when forced to the administration‘s attention. </strong></span></div><span style="font-size:180%;"><br /><br /><br /></span><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:180%;"><strong><br />This case highlights another outrage perpetrated in the schools. Administrators never get fired for bad behavior or incompetence; only teachers do. The Professional Standards files will support this statement. </strong></span></div><span style="font-size:180%;"><br /></span><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:180%;"><strong>I pleaded at a board meeting with Ms. Elia to have the apparent foot fetishist administrator examined by a certified psychiatrist to see if he were mentally well or suffered some form of pathology. She didn’t even look up from her calculations of what whopping raise she should ask for next. None of the board moved that the foot fetishist be examined to see if he were a threat to the youngsters in his power. So much for the empty “safety of the children” chorus of the board. So much for courage and morals. </strong></span><span style="font-size:180%;"><br /></span></div><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:180%;"><br /><strong>How does this lax treatment of a King High administrator’s repeated, overt aggravated-assault fetish caused his assumption that he was entitled to manipulate the feet of pubescent male students stack up against Renee’s unproven aggravated-assault charge on burly Vice Principal Messena? </strong></span><span style="font-size:180%;"><br /></span></div><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:180%;"><br /><strong>Comparison produces the suspicion that invidious discrimination unfolded in the administrative rush to judgment with non-deliberative jocko Principal Heillmann’s anthem of “Get off my school grounds!” to Renee. This administrative big shot didn’t bother to question Student Renee Anderson or give her the benefit of a doubt before he chased her across the parking lot into the cops’ arms, screaming “Get off my grounds!” </strong></span><span style="font-size:180%;"><br /></span></div><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:180%;"><br /><strong>Mr. Heillmann had early called the police to clamp handcuffs on the young woman, arrest her, and jail her for aggravated assault. Meanwhile, the bizarre King High footsy-tootsy administrator gets free rein to pursue his probably psychosexually based indulgence, dismissed as mere horseplay by the administration and board. The principal of King snoozed the whole time. The board avoided knowledge of the situation. “We knew nothing about it” is the board’s template fall-back mantra. The truth is they know everything about everything and sit on it. </strong></span><span style="font-size:180%;"><br /></span></div><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:180%;"><br /><strong>Yet these elected public servants opine ad nauseum on the board dais that they are “concerned about the safety of the children.” Oh, sure. You betcha. </strong></span></div><span style="font-size:180%;"></span><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:180%;"><br /><strong>Instead of calling the cops to arrest the King High administrator for chronic aggravated assault on the school’s pubescent boys, the administration tolerated and even joked about it--“Ha! Ha! Ha” They pretended to never have taken Psychology 101. They stalled until a parent’s outcry against the whacky foot-fetish administrator finally forced the administration to call in a lackadaisical sheriff’s investigator who declared the administration, not the sheriff’s department, should deal with the King High toe cracker. Passing the buck among Hillsborough County community leaders represents template behavior. </strong></span></div><span style="font-size:180%;"><br /></span><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:180%;"><strong>When I emailed Sheriff Gee to review the situation, he emailed me back and grandly advised, “Consult my staff.” Sheriff Gee is yet another politician who gets elected to office and believes that he has assumed the purple.<br /></strong></span></div><span style="font-size:180%;"></span><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:180%;"><strong>However, when the King High principal got the threat of a lawsuit from an irate parent after the toe-cracker story appeared in SP Times and when the parent said he would sue the schools unless the toe cracker got a psychiatric examination, the torpid administration broke into attenuated action. </strong></span><span style="font-size:180%;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-size:180%;"><br /><br /><br /></span><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:180%;"><br /><strong>Showing their slick, practiced powers of evasion, the administration and board side-stepped this parent’s threat it appears by having an in-house factotum with some ersatz psychology background evaluate the man for pathology. Naturally, the in-house evaluator found the Toe Cracker a model of mental health. Not doing so would have meant the poor wretch’s job. </strong></span></div><span style="font-size:180%;"><br /><br /><br /></span><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:180%;"><strong></strong></span></div><span style="font-size:180%;"><strong></strong></span><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:180%;"><strong>Anybody who knows the least thing about mental illness (I did psychiatric nursing for a time at Seton Institute in Baltimore and spent hours in the hospital library reading, reading, reading, reading) would know a state-certified psychologist or a psychiatrist specializing in sexual disorders should have done the evaluation. Surely school administrators are obliged to master such information. </strong></span></div><span style="font-size:180%;"></span><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:180%;"><br /><strong>This evasion of parental concern for the children to whom the board and administration act in loco parentis and such disinterest in multiple boys’ abuse refute the board’s claim to have paramount in their consideration the safety of the children. Its members show how lax and indifferent the board and administration are about Hillsborough County school children’s safety when it comes to making an administrator responsible for criminal battery on multiple boys unchecked over a period of time. </strong></span></div><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:180%;"><br /><strong>In contrast, adjudging a student guilty of criminal battery without an examination and locking her up as in Renee’s case gets a shoo-in “of course” from the board. But the abusive administrator gets a non-professional exam and a pass. Those acts display extant invidious ethics for the Hillsborough County board and administration. </strong></span><span style="font-size:180%;"><br /></span></div><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:180%;"><br /><strong>Principal Heilmann and his administration distorted and evaded the Student Code of Conduct in its eagerness to strip student Renee Anderson of her rights. In contrast, the board and administration ignored and condoned the criminal battery a King High administrator forcded on pubescent boys in his power.<br />The administration called the cops for Renee’s arrest, not giving her a chance to refute the charge. They ignored the foot fetishist’s activities until a parent called their bluff. This is what’s known in Aristotle’s Nichomachean Ethics as whacko ethics. </strong></span></div><span style="font-size:180%;"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></span><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:180%;"><br /><strong>Board Policies (mounted on school Web site)</strong></span></div><span style="font-size:180%;"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></span><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:180%;"><br /><strong>Zero tolerance policies should apply equally to all students, <span style="color:#cc0000;">Redundant comma:</span> splits a compound verb and are not intended to be rigorously applied to petty acts of misconduct and misdemeanors. This zero tolerance policy does not require the reporting of petty acts of misconduct and misdemeanors to a law enforcement agency, including, redundant comma but not limited to disorderly conduct, disrupting a school function, simple assault or battery (THE STATE’S ATTORNEY’S OFFICE RELABELED RENEE’S PUTATIVE BUMPING OF MESSENA AS SIMPLE BATTERY.), affray, theft of less than $300, trespassing, and vandalism of less than $1,000. The District will seek to use alternatives to expulsion or referral to law enforcement agencies unless the use of such alternatives will pose a threat to school safety.<br /></strong></span></div><span style="font-size:180%;"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></span><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:180%;"><strong>This represents sugared lies and the abuse of language in deliberate propaganda used by the board and administration to befuddle people and to disguise the schools’ real behavior. </strong></span></div><span style="font-size:180%;"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></span><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:180%;"><br /><strong>Hitler and Goebbels did not lie any more disingenuously in selling fascism to the German people. Renee’s case refutes the board-policy lie of solicitude for students. This putative board solicitude for students’ wellbeing crumbles when Mr. Heilmann’s and Le Macena’s overkill justice on student Anderson for an unproven, petty act gets arrest and incarceration.<br />Why did these more humane, civil Board Policy standards not apply in Renee’s case? My hunch says racial discrimination.</strong></span><strong><br /></strong></div><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:180%;"><strong>I suspect that the latent racial sadism in the white double helix goes back to the hanging of innocent black men in the South for putative rapes of white women. This malignant prejudice pops up from the interstices of the administrators’ double helix and even from that of some teachers in such incidents as Renee’s.<br /></strong></span></div><strong><span style="font-size:180%;">This almost unconscious behavior comes from years of accepted slurs against blacks from whites’ indoctrination in racial injustice. In Renee’s case, the conviction that no parent will come to the aid of a black son or daughter figured in the attitude of approved bigotry. The administrative-board bigots felt free to romp. A congeries of causes lead them to slap on the toughest, most exaggerated, most vicious accusation possible on Renee. Read Faulkner’s That Evening Sun or any of his oeuvre to get an idea of how this prejudice emerged and flourished. Faulkner is our greatest writer: he is equal to the task of showing how racism began and since flourished and spread from the South.</span> </strong><span style="font-size:180%;"><br /></span><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:180%;"><strong></strong></span></div><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><strong><span style="font-size:180%;">Where is the Marquis de Sade when we need to consult him on the symtomology of racial sadism?</span> </strong></div><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:180%;"><br /><strong>More twaddle promulgated by the board:<br /></strong></span></div><strong><span style="font-size:180%;">5611 - DUE PROCESS RIGHTS board handbook</span><br /><br /></strong><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:180%;"><br /></span></div><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:180%;"><strong>The Board recognizes the importance of safeguarding a student's constitutional rights particularly when subject to the District's disciplinary procedures. </strong></span></div><span style="font-size:180%;"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></span><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:180%;"><br /><strong>To better ensure appropriate due-process is provided a student, the Board establishes the following regulations:</strong></span><strong> </strong><span style="font-size:180%;"><br /></span><span style="font-size:180%;"><strong>A. Students subject to suspension etc., etc., pure flapdoodle.<br /><br />A student and a student's parent or legal guardian must be given written notice of the intention to expel and the reasons therefore, and an opportunity to appear with a representative before the Superintendent to answer the charges.<br /></strong></span></div><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:180%;"><strong>Renee did not get this ritual performed before the cops handcuffed her ad took her to lock up.</strong></span></div><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:180%;"><strong></strong></span></div><span style="font-size:180%;"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></span><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:180%;"><br /><strong>More twaddle: The student and/or parent or legal guardian shall also be provided a brief description of the student's rights and of the hearing procedure. The Board shall act on any appeal to an expulsion.<br /><br />The Superintendent shall ensure that all members of the staff use the above regulations when dealing with students. In addition, this statement of due process rights is to be placed in all student handbooks in a manner that will facilitate understanding by students and their parents.F.S. 1006.07, 1006.09, 1001.51, 1002.20 </strong></span></div><span style="font-size:180%;"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></span><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:180%;"><strong></strong></span></div><span style="font-size:180%;"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></span><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:180%;"><strong>These courtesies did occurin Renee's case.<br /><br />This is all monkey pookey piled higher and deeper.<br /><br />Comparing Renee’s treatment to these benign promises shows the board handbook represents deliberate, mendacious puffery. I think vice principal Goebbels wrote this folderol. Renee’s appeal attorney argued masterfully for Renee’s being denied due-process rights. Her step-father insisted that the school and administration denied them. But Athena member appeals judge Susan Bucklew found against Renee. She is the judge who has some connection with Tom Gonzalez’s wife. </strong></span></div><span style="font-size:180%;"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></span><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:180%;"><br /><strong>Members of the board and administration not only punctuate badly, they abuse the English language, gutting words of their meaning. It’s criminal that school leaders distort language to disguise their chicanery and protect their power because they are supposed to teach children to use language exactly, not twist it to trap a student into expulsion. </strong></span></div><span style="font-size:180%;"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></span><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:180%;"><br /><strong>I’m now reading how Hitler took over Germany. Hitler was a runaway liar. With propaganda minister Goebbels’ help, Hitler did the same thing the board does in these disingenuous student-handbook statements : the board guts language of its meaning, twisting it not to inform but to obfuscate what they are really doing behind the scenes. </strong></span></div><span style="font-size:180%;"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></span><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:180%;"><br /><strong>This clumsy abuse of the English language is identifier for C-students who clog administration for undeserved bloated salaries. A-students go from college to the classroom and teach. C-students scamper to administration the minute they graduate with some marginal major because administration’s where the money is. </strong></span></div><span style="font-size:180%;"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></span><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:180%;"><br /><strong>Pop Quiz for all administrators: The quiz will cover standard punctuation and composition of an essay on the implications of the word “affray” as used in the Hillsborough County administration handbook. See Ms. De Cesare in her office for analysis of your test results. Bring your grammar primer for remedial assignments.<br />More hooey from Board policies handbook: </strong></span></div><span style="font-size:180%;"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></span><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:180%;"><br /><strong>Race/Color Harassment<br />Prohibited racial harassment occurs when unwelcome physical, verbal, or nonverbal conduct is based upon an individual's race or color and when the conduct has the purpose or effect of interfering with the individual's work or educational performance; of creating an intimidating, hostile, or offensive working, and/or learning environment; or of interfering with one's ability to participate in or benefit from a class or an educational program or activity. Such harassment may occur where conduct is directed at the characteristics of a person's race or color such as racial slurs, nicknames implying stereotypes, epithets, and/or negative references relative to racial customs.<br /></strong></span></div><span style="font-size:180%;"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></span><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:180%;"><strong>I propose that the conduct of Renee Anderson’s faux fighting and aggravated assault charges was racially prejudiced overreaction by the Riverview administration as betrayed in Principal Heillemann‘s twice-repeated “Get off my campus!” to Renee and “You’ll never come back here again!” I propose as well that racial-discrimination sludge contaminates the psyches of the administration and board--including the psyche of its only black member.</strong></span></div><span style="font-size:180%;"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></span><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:180%;"><strong></strong></span></div><span style="font-size:180%;"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></span><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:180%;"><strong>You, Ms. Edgecomb, are suffering from the Stockholm Syndrome as Patty Hearst did, Ms. Edgecomb. It remains for you, Board Member Edgecomb, to act vigilant gatekeeper to stop the practice of inflicting the punishment of expulsion more frequently on black than on white children. It’s your duty to discover what’s going on that makes black students more liable to be labeled retarded, less likely to graduated on time, less likely to be honor students. </strong></span></div><span style="font-size:180%;"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></span><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:180%;"><br /><strong>The Gates Grant should have supported this investigation instead of the hooha search for the elements of the county’s classroom teachers’ pedagogy. Gut reaction suggests the study results will find use by administration in threatening teachers’ jobs if they are too inquisitive or too critical about how the overlords run the schools. </strong></span></div><span style="font-size:180%;"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></span><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:180%;"><br /><strong>If you don’t have the stomach or social courage for this obligation, you should resign and make way for a black person from your district who does.<br /></strong></span></div><span style="font-size:180%;"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></span><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:180%;"><strong>Postscript: email to and from Renee’s appeals attorney, Ms. Doris Raskin: </strong></span></div><span style="font-size:180%;"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></span><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:180%;"><br /><strong>Ms. Raskin:</strong></span></div><span style="font-size:180%;"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></span><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:180%;"><br /><strong>I have read your appeals brief for Renee Anderson's case against the Hillsborough County schools not one but three times. The date says December 21, 2009.<br /></strong></span></div><span style="font-size:180%;"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></span><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:180%;"><strong>Lee Drury De Cesare</strong></span></div><span style="font-size:180%;"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></span><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:180%;"><strong>15316 Gulf Boulevard 802Madeira Beach, FL 33709</strong></span></div><span style="font-size:180%;"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></span><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:180%;"><a href="mailto:Tdecesar@tampabay.rr.com"><strong>Tdecesar@tampabay.rr.com</strong></a></span></div><span style="font-size:180%;"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></span><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:180%;"><strong>Leedrurydecesarescasting-room couch.blogspot.com<br /><br /><br /><br />Postscript from the attorney who handled Renee’s appeal: </strong></span></div><span style="font-size:180%;"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></span><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:180%;"><strong></strong></span></div><span style="font-size:180%;"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></span><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:180%;"><strong>Lee Drury De Cesare15316 Gulf Boulevard 802Madeira Beach, FL 33708</strong><a href="mailto:Tdecesar@tampabay.rr.com"><strong>Tdecesar@tampabay.rr.com</strong></a><strong>Leedrurydecesarescasting-roomcouch.blogspot.com<br /><br /><br />-----Original Message-----From: Doris Landis Raskin [mailto:dlawraskin@bellsouth.net] Sent: Sunday, November 14, 2010 11:16 AMTo: </strong><a href="mailto:tdecesar@tampabay.rr.comSubject"><strong>tdecesar@tampabay.rr.comSubject</strong></a><strong>:<br /></strong></span></div><span style="font-size:180%;"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></span><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:180%;"><strong>Renee's case is concluded unjustly and unfairly. The appellate court found a completely new fact, i.e., that the board had offered Renee an alternative placement. If that were true, we would never have filed a case. </strong></span></div><span style="font-size:180%;"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></span><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:180%;"><strong></strong></span></div><span style="font-size:180%;"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></span><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:180%;"><strong>When a case is decided at the appellate level, the only thing left is an appeal to the Supreme Court. There is no jurisdictional issue for the Supreme Court. The appellate court tanked it by finding a fact not in evidence. </strong></span></div><span style="font-size:180%;"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></span><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:180%;"><br /><strong>Thank you for your kind words. I am not proud of the writing, but I am proud of the content. Cases are not decided on how well the brief is written, but the legal issues, the application of the facts to the issues, and the rule of law.</strong></span></div><span style="font-size:180%;"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></span><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:180%;"><strong></strong></span></div><span style="font-size:180%;"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></span><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:180%;"><strong>In Renee's case, I believe it was decided on personalities. Susan Bucklew, a favorite of the appellate court, and a former high school English teacher in the defendant school system who had to know all of the good old boys involved, should have recused herself, but didn't. I didn't know about her until I read her wild hair of a decision and did some research.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Doris Landis Raskin<br /></strong><a href="mailto:dlawraskin@bellsouth.net"><strong>dlawraskin@bellsouth.net</strong></a><strong><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Ms. Raskin:</strong></span></div><span style="font-size:180%;"><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><br /><strong>I have read your appeals brief for Renee Anderson's case against the Hillsborough County schools not one but three times. The date says December 21, 2009. </strong></div><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><strong><br /></strong></div><strong></strong></span><span style="font-size:180%;"></span><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:180%;"><strong>You do an admirable job on the Renee Anderson brief. Take this from a college professor of 28 years who taught writing to freshman and sophomore students.</strong></span><span style="font-size:180%;"><br /></span></div><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:180%;"><strong>Your strengths are vivid diction, paucity of passive verbs, and emphatic contrary assertions. These give your writing thrust and pace. </strong></span><span style="font-size:180%;"><br /><br /></span></div><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:180%;"><strong>Run-of-the-mill lawyers such as Tom Gonzalez lapse into the conditional mood, weasel circumlocution, and fusty legal diction. He doesn’t know basic grammar-punctuation. So bad is the Gonzalez writing that I wrote Floida State’s writing faculty to complain about its letting loose such as he on Florida citizens.</strong></span><span style="font-size:180%;"><br /></span></div><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:180%;"><strong>........................</strong></span></div><span style="font-size:180%;"><br /><br /></span><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:180%;"><strong>Lee Drury De Cesare</strong></span></div><span style="font-size:180%;"><strong><br /><br /><br /></strong></span><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:180%;"><strong><br />Renee’s appeal:<br /><br />Lee Drury De Cesare15316 Gulf Boulevard 802Madeira Beach, FL 33708</strong><a href="mailto:Tdecesar@tampabay.rr.com"><strong>Tdecesar@tampabay.rr.com</strong></a><strong>Leedrurydecesarescasting-roomcouch.blogspot.com<br /><br />c: Hillsborough County NAACPFlorida NAACPNational NAACPThe governor’s officeHillsborough County Children’s BoardTampa Mayor’s Office and Members of the City CouncilPrincipal HeilmannVice-principal MessenaAll Members of School BoardMr. Otero, vice superintendentThe Florida SentinelThe St. Petersburg TimesBill MaxwellThomas Marshal, SPTJabel, SPTTampa TribuneThe Florida State Education Department Hillsborough County’s Legislative delegationPlant City CouncilLa Gaceta ;fnewspaper</strong><a href="mailto:Mbrown@tampatribune.com"><strong>Mbrown@tampatribune.com</strong></a><strong>;Athena Luncheon Club;Florida Department of Education;<br /><br />Renee Anderson, representative of the black children who are more likely to be punished by suspension than white children.<br /><br />-----Original Message-----From: Doris Landis Raskin [mailto:dlawraskin@bellsouth.net] Sent: Sunday, November 14, 2010 11:16 AMTo: </strong><a href="mailto:tdecesar@tampabay.rr.com"><strong>tdecesar@tampabay.rr.com</strong></a><strong>Subject:<br />Renee's Appeals Attorney says this:</strong></span></div><span style="font-size:180%;"><br /><br /><br /></span><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:180%;"><strong><br />Renee's case is concluded unjustly and unfairly. The appellate court found a completely new fact, i.e., that the board had offered Renee an alternative placement. If that were true, we would never have filed a case. When a case is decided at the appellate level, the only thing left is an appeal to the Supreme Court. There is no jurisdictional issue for the Supreme Court. The appellate court tanked it by finding a fact not in evidence.<br /><br />Thank you for your kind words. I am not proud of the writing, but I am proud of the content. Cases are not decided on how well the brief is written, but the legal issues, the application of the facts to the issues, and the rule of law. In Renee's case, I believe it was decided on personalities. Susan Bucklew, a favorite of the appellate court, and a former high school English teacher in the defendant school system who had to know all of the good old boys involved, should have recused herself, but didn't. I didn't know about her until I read her wild hair of a decision and did some research.</strong><br /></span></div><br /><br /><br /><p><span style="font-size:180%;">Doris Landis Raskin<br /><a href="mailto:dlawraskin@bellsouth.net">dlawraskin@bellsouth.net</a></span><!-- <--> </p><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><p>Read "When students are suspects, lines blur<br />Police in Florida sometimes go beyond their legal authority when interrogating suspects while they are in school."<br />By TOM MARSHALL and JONATHAN ABEL, Times Staff WritersPublished January 20, 2008<br /></p>twinkobiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07865056039680988073noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28089922.post-59640835895028402662010-11-09T18:50:00.000-08:002010-11-10T21:58:23.627-08:00The Dirty Linen Turns Up<strong><span style="color:#990000;">I have about an eight-inch stack of documents on this case--mostly trials. As soon as my new scanner comes in a few days, I will scan them onto the blog. This is the behind-the-scenes behavior of the moral midgets who run the schools--both administration and board.</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="color:#990000;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="color:#990000;">lee</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="color:#990000;"></span></strong><br /><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;">Ms. Cobbe, the schools do indeed have a file on Renee Anderson. Her father sent me enough information on the case for me to determine that fact.</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;">Among other things, this record involves court cases and hearings on Ms. Anderson with Mr. Gonzalez's participation in them. The public pays Mr. Gonzalez's bloated fees--the highest among Florida school board attorneys, so it is entitled to his work product. If he is keeping these files in his office, he needs to transport them to ROSSAC because they are school property.<br /> <br />This request involves public information. These files present a damaging case for the school board's negligent handling of such students as Renee despite its public-relations podium harping on how concerned it is about the safety of the students.<br /> <br />Another major issue, racism, came to light in the Renee White case. An appellate brief on Renee's case says this: "The requirement that Anderson meet the hearing committee for the sole purpose of admitting the violation is the well-established practice of the Hillsborough County School Board. It is an unconstitutional practice and procedure because it is too little, too late."<br /> <br />I want to see all the school data available on Renee Anderson relevant to this case. I especially want to see the schools' files on Anderson in which Tom Gonzalez had a major role .<br /> <br />The NAACP's "School Discipline Fact Sheet" says that "[The (Hillsborough County Schools'] racial disparities in school discipline are matched by the racial disparities in other key educational indicators in the 2003-2004… For example, black students in 2003 2004 were over three times as likely as their white peers to be suspended out of school, and black elementary schools students were over 5 times as likely to be suspended out of the school."<br /> <br />Surely the school board reviewed and set up procedures to deal with this problem. I want in addition to the Renee Anderson file to see records of any efforts the board has made to deal with the the racism of school discipline. I want to see the results of any efforts by the board following this case to determine whether chief witness Mr. Kevin Messina, who restrained Renee in his office against her will, has a history of racist comments as one of the hearing's proceedings suggests.<br /> <br />This is my 3rd request for data on the Anderson case. The state is about to get a new attorney general. She may be interested in knowing about the dilatory fashion that the Hillsborough County school system deals with citizen requests for public information. She also may be concerned with the institutional racism cited by the NAACP study of the Hillsborough County school system.<br /> <br />Please send a copy of this email to Stacy White if he still has no board email address.<br /> <br /> <br /> <br />lee drury de cesare<br />15316 Gulf Boulevard 802<br />Madeira Beach, FL 33709<br /></span></strong><a href="mailto:tdecesar@tampabay.rr.com"><strong><span style="font-size:180%;">tdecesar@tampabay.rr.com</span></strong></a><br /><a href="http://leedrurydecesarescasting-roomcouch.blogspot.com/"><strong><span style="font-size:180%;">leedrurydecesarescasting-roomcouch.blogspot.com</span></strong></a><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;"> <br />mail copy sent to Hillsborough County NAACP Empowerment Center</span></strong>twinkobiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07865056039680988073noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28089922.post-28145459497871910602010-10-31T21:02:00.001-07:002010-10-31T21:14:36.098-07:00Readers' CommentsMs. Elia with her mullet shaved and a wig replacing it. She is saying, "Off with their heads!"<br /><br /><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_dl8vHbrr-vU/TM49uH-jrvI/AAAAAAAADfM/GfdEmvLCh0Y/s1600/Helena+Bonham+Carter+as+The+Red+Queen.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 270px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 400px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5534428854709628658" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_dl8vHbrr-vU/TM49uH-jrvI/AAAAAAAADfM/GfdEmvLCh0Y/s400/Helena+Bonham+Carter+as+The+Red+Queen.jpg" /></a><br /><br /><div><strong><span style="font-size:180%;">Read the comments on my previous entry about the girl whom the administration worked over.</span></strong></div><br /><br /><div><strong><span style="font-size:180%;"></span></strong></div><br /><br /><div><strong><span style="font-size:180%;">I think the writer is right who said that a poor white girl could be just as mistreated. These administrative sadists get off on bullying kids they don't think can strike back: whatever their color. I notice that the board didn't have her arrested but ran that through the State's Attorney's office. The board would never let their names be attached to this vicious behavior that they don't investigate themselves or own up to tolerating. </span></strong></div><br /><br /><div><strong><span style="font-size:180%;"></span></strong></div><br /><br /><div><strong><span style="font-size:180%;">In answer to the person's question about what the girl did, I am not sure. She was alleged to have got into a fight; then I heard that, no, she wasn't in a fight but witnessed it and that the administration wanted her to identify the combattants and she wouldn't.<br /></span></strong></div><div><strong><span style="font-size:180%;">When does insisting on keeping your mouth shut merit a court case? This is sadistic overkill carried out by the principal and vice principal. When the girl got back to school after the community service sentence, the administration piled on her and told her they could and might send her to a special school and that she had lost her right to apply for scholarships. How's that for solicitude for a student? </span></strong></div>twinkobiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07865056039680988073noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28089922.post-88498541811595088502010-10-27T13:19:00.000-07:002010-10-27T13:24:25.308-07:00Asleep at the Switch Board Members<strong><span style="font-size:180%;">Hillsborough County Board Members:<br /><br />I have just read the court case of student Renee Anderson. </span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;">What strikes me is the absence of a school representative to follow the case, to be in the court room to see that the victim wasn't bullied, let her know that the school board is watching out for her in loco parentis, not just backing up the icy administrative attack on her. </span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;">This negligent behavior on the board's part ill confirms its constant chorus of being "concerned about the safety of the children." Renee's case is that of a misbehaving black student faced with a hostile white administration in this incident who needs the school board's oversight and concerned care greatly. The board should not guard only the safety of the children who don't misbehave. The at-risk children are the ones who require their safety's being guarded more urgently.<br /><br />After the trial, the school authorities jumped on Renee Anderson and told her she could be sent to an alternative school and could not apply for scholarships. Who thought up this sadistic conduct for school authorities? Renee Anderson performed community service ordered by the court. Why should the school board, concerned with "the safety of the children." pile on for more punishment of this student? </span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;">What would the in-house psychologist who said the Toecracker's fondling pubescent boys' feet behind the closed doors of his office to satiate his foot fetishism say about the board-sponsored treatment of Renee?</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;">On top of the court's punishment as a result of the gang-up of the administration against Renee, the board chimes in with its sadistic treatment of her when she returns to school with the alternative-school, no-privilege-to-apply-for-scholarships dicta. Where was the board-ordered counseling that she needed to migrate back into the school community? Shame on the board for neglecting its primary duty to students--both good ones and especially ones in trouble?<br /><br />I want to see the rationale that says the board should pile on to the punishment of a student whom the courts have already punished. That is public information. I have requested it from the Public Affairs Office. The board should tell Ms. Cobbe to send it to me.<br /><br />I want to see any file that the board kept on this student's ordeal. That is public information as well. Don't say this involves student privacy. I will ask her father to legitimize my request.<br /><br />Ms. Anderson's father wants her record cleared. That apparently is why he continues to pursue his daughter's case. The board should offer its help to him in getting the juvenile authorities to clear her record. They are supposed to do that after a period. The board's inquiry about whether it were done would motivate these bureaucrats to clear Ms. Anderson's record as a juvenile. I believe that would satisfy the father.<br /><br />Renee has her life ahead of her. She is today attending college despite this setback. The board should add its weight to the effort to help Renee to become a stellar citizen. One counselor's written testimony says Renee is a gifted student with an attitude problem.</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;">I was a college teacher for 28 years. I know about attitude problems of students; I also know how pivotal the oversight of students with problems is to turn them into the right paths of social participation. A school board and administration's piling on students such as Renee in addition to the legal ordeal she has undergone is not the formula to rescue troubled students.<br /><br />I am not surprised that the counselor states that Renee had an attitude problem. Most blacks have an attitude problem in a society that puts blacks down in all areas of life. </span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;">The board shouldn't pile on to a student by augmenting this malignant policy to kick talented school-age black children out into the never-never land of marginal social participation when they grow up by crippling them with alternative-school threats and no-right-to-apply-for scholarships dicta.<br /><br />Lee Drury De Cesareleedrurydecesarescasting</span>-roomcouch.blogspot.com</strong>twinkobiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07865056039680988073noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28089922.post-2303164822283543682010-10-26T17:28:00.000-07:002010-10-26T17:29:48.524-07:00Reader Endorsement of Bartels<a name="_MailOriginal">From:</a> Cable Guy [mailto:noreply-comment@blogger.com] Sent: Tuesday, October 26, 2010 5:24 PMTo: tdecesar@tampabay.rr.comSubject: [Lee Drury De Cesare's Casting-Room Couch] New comment on School-Board-Election Monkey Biz.<br /><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;">Cable Guy has left a new comment on your post "</span></strong><a href="http://leedrurydecesarescasting-roomcouch.blogspot.com/2010/10/school-board-election-monkey-biz.html"><strong><span style="font-size:180%;">School-Board-Election Monkey Biz</span></strong></a><strong><span style="font-size:180%;">":</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;"> Having worked for Bartel's, he is the ONE person who has been a successful classroom teacher, AP Student Affairs, AP for Curriculum, and then Principal. Two "A" schools attests to that.He has held his administration to levels of performance matching his own. Taking slackers thru the system - often times because other admins ignored them. He always supported his teachers. During the 6 of 7 furor, when a teacher asked him about going in front of the Board, he encouraged them to exercise their 1st Amendment rights. "Just get your facts straight and be logical", he told us. Ya gotta love it!I'm sure Stacey White is OK - but would you elect ME to the Board of Pharmacy review simply because I have filled a dozen prescriptions?I'm pulling for Bartels. He has earned my respect - and that ain't easy!</span></strong><br /><br /> <a href="http://www.blogger.com/comment-moderate-confirm.g?blogID=28089922&postID=1812922873731386397&status=LIVE">Publish</a> <a href="http://www.blogger.com/comment-moderate-confirm.g?blogID=28089922&postID=1812922873731386397&status=TRASHED">Delete</a> <a href="http://www.blogger.com/comment-moderate-confirm.g?blogID=28089922&postID=1812922873731386397&status=SPAM">Mark as spam</a> <a href="http://www.blogger.com/comment-pending.g?blogID=28089922">Moderate</a> comments for this blog. Posted by Cable Guy to <a href="http://leedrurydecesarescasting-roomcouch.blogspot.com/">Lee Drury De Cesare's Casting-Room Couch</a> at 3:23 PMtwinkobiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07865056039680988073noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28089922.post-1944250029827447012010-10-24T20:07:00.000-07:002010-10-24T20:36:15.896-07:00School-Board-Election Monkey Biz<div align="left"><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;">School board run-off candidates and others not on life-support:<br /><br /><br />I have written about April Griffin's mendacity before. Next to Motel Breath Falliero, April is the most addicted liar on the board--and the remainder is no slouches in the bending-the-truth department. One day they are ordinary truth-telling citizens; the next day they get elected to the school board and become serial liars since they sense getting elected is a bona fide occupational qualification for good standing on the board.<br /><br />They also succumb to delusions of grandeur. I don't know what it is about becoming an elected official--even of a low-end political berth such as member of the Hillsborough County School Board--that makes ordinary human beings, even those on the nether reaches of the Stanford-Binet such as April Griffin--assume Great-Chain-of-Being royal privileges as if that be the reason why voters elected these C students. It's a wonder that democracy survives such faux public-office delusions of society's dimwits. I don't think it survives well in the democratic badlands of Hillsborough County. In these forlorn regions, we are far gone. We confront the danger of becoming acolytes of elected dumb-asses who pretend to be God's Chosen.<br /><br />When I wanted to evict Adultery Queen Jennifer Falliero from the board, I wrote to the churches in her district and told them that as guardians of morals in the community, they were obliged to oppose her continued incumbency on the school board. Using Ulysses' "Molly's Soliloquy" as rhetorical model , I wrote in rhetorically clear sentences why I believed so. I wasn't born in a postage-stamp-sized Georgia town with a Winn Dixie, a Target, a half dozen filling stations, and a dozen born-again churches for nothing. If you want the news to get out and for something to be done about a community outrage, you send written heralds to the churches' ministers and in addition to the contingent women's sodalities that make all the potato salad for church dinners on the grounds. I don't know why it is, but people in little towns of the South can and do write elegant Standard English squibs to be distributed from the filling stations in community upheavals and do so with prolix gusto. It's a cultural gift. I have seen dozens of specimens testifying thereto. It makes me proud to be a hillbilly.<br /><br />I don't know for sure if my effort helped in the Falliero defeat. But Fallieres is out, thank you, Jesus, whatever reason. I played the Women's Sodality in Hillsborough County.<br /><br />Now we have at this time a specimen under the microscope who wants re-election but who is a habitual liar: La April Griffin. I have but a few days left before the election to notify the churches that they must unseat the school-board fibber, but I don't think they would respond as vigorously to Griffin's lying as to Falliero's fornicating. The former is not in the Ten Commandments. So I am maybe going to let this slide and see if the challenger has the chutzpah to cut Griffin off at the pass by presenting the facts of her shoddy board incumbency. I catalog them in my blog. I know I could do the job of defeating April were I the opposing candidate. I would begin by leafleting her neighbors.<br /><br />But you know what? I don't think the voters care much about the ethical sleaziness of a board member who supervises their children's lives despite their nattering about how education is the most important subject in politics and blah, blah, blah. So much for the sanctity of hypocrisy among the electorate.<br /><br />I doubt that the challengers will do diddly to kick Griffin out of office. The pas-de-deux will follow the usual opponent choreograph; he or she will hunker down and pray that fate favors the challenger on election day. Griffin's opponent, Sally, would make a promising board member. Sally chirps right up and so might move some exotic democratic motion on the board dais such as discussing in full view of the public why teachers are turned in and turned out of a job with terrorizing procedures conducted with Elia's guidance in the Professional Standards Office with marginal or made-up charges against the teachers but that administrators, were they to murder the Pope in the parking lot on the job, would never get fired or even rebuked and board attorney Tom Gonzalez would represent them in court. The Alafia principal case of Ms. Smith proves this thesis. MS Smith was not fired. Elia, Griffin, and Falliero cozened her into not squawking about withdrawing with the swap of a made-up job with an equivalent principal's salary and benefits. Her price was to be quiet about her situation with a new job that paid the same as her old principal job. La Smith should have been fired. Ms. Elia with Griffin's and Falliero's assistance, bought her off and billed the taxpayers.<br /><br />I don't have much hope for druggist White, who looks likely to be elected. He doesn't answer citizen calls or emails even before election, so we know he will be mum afterward. White has counted too many tetracycline pills to depart from protocol. Druggists take pill-counting courses to get their degrees and never encounter The Federalist Papers, the Areopagitica, or Plato's dialogues on government. Their Web site reels off a stream of platitudes of ancient political vintage. They have no data that entitles them to deserve public office. But people trust the person who counts out their blood- pressure or thyroid pills, so Stacy, alas, is a shoo-in and will enter the board bowing down to the crook who acts superintendent who got her job from school-system politics, not from ability. If somebody were to take Mr. White's vital signs as he slumps in his board chair at meetings, he or she would find the druggist board member is a candidate for cardiac perk-up cables.<br /><br />Mr. Bartels, Falliero's replacement, was a principal. We will see whether his synapses kick in to administrative loyalty from that job history or whether he has the cojones to speak up from his status of highest-level insider no longer wedded to the system and with concern sufficient for voters and students to protest the evils he is bound to know about already or can spot in a nanosecond. One will see whether he will make motions on the board podium that will panic Ms. Elia and her mini-Mafia Outback administration. The synapse pattern here is everything. Will Bartels cave into his ancient automatic obedience pattern from his principal days, or will he clamp his jaws firmly and oppose schools status quo malevolence? That would be Nobel-price behavior.<br /><br />But don't hold your breath.<br /><br />Pivotal Question: Is democracy better than military juntas whose leaders appoint their illegitimate offspring to high office, or is it six of one, half dozen of the other? <br /><br />The performance for the new school board in Hillsborough County, Florida, will answer that question. ldd </span></strong></div><div align="left"><strong><span style="font-size:180%;"></span></strong> </div><div align="left"><strong><span style="font-size:180%;">copies to the board, La Elia, the press, the board candidates and all the ships at sea.</span></strong></div>twinkobiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07865056039680988073noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28089922.post-61355097661269411902010-10-24T00:14:00.000-07:002010-10-24T00:15:30.926-07:00PANTS-ON-FIRE GRIFFIN<div style="margin-left: 2.25pt;" id="main-wrapper"> <div id="main"> <div id="Blog1"> <div> <div><div> <div> <div style="border-width: medium medium 2.25pt; border-style: none none solid; border-color: -moz-use-text-color -moz-use-text-color rgb(247, 232, 216); padding: 0in; margin-bottom: 10.5pt; margin-left: 15.75pt; margin-right: 6pt;"> <h3 style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% rgb(247, 240, 233);"><a name="3445859418805332055"></a><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif'; font-size: 16pt;"><a href="http://leedrurydecesarescasting-roomcouch.blogspot.com/2010/10/pants-on-fire-griffin.html"><span style="color: windowtext;">Pants-on-Fire Griffin</span></a> </span></h3> <div> <p style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% rgb(247, 240, 233);" class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif'; font-size: 24pt; font-weight: normal;">Tom Marshall of the <i>SPT</i> cites School Board candidate April Griffin's lying tendency in a recent </span></strong><span class="blsp-spelling-corrected"><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif'; font-size: 24pt;">piece</span></span><strong><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif'; font-size: 24pt; font-weight: normal;"> in the </span></strong><span class="blsp-spelling-error"><i><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif'; font-size: 24pt;">SPT</span></i></span><strong><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif'; font-size: 24pt; font-weight: normal;">. My husband cut it out for me and commented, "She's not a very good liar."</span></strong><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif'; font-size: 16pt;"><br /><br /></span><strong><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif'; font-size: 24pt; font-weight: normal;">That's not because she hasn't practiced. I have written before about April's lies. She is dumb to lie to the press. It never forgets and never forgives.</span></strong><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif'; font-size: 16pt;"><br /><br /></span><strong><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif'; font-size: 24pt; font-weight: normal;">I think April's worst lie involved her getting Elia to comb through an employee's file who had written a negative comment about </span></strong><strong><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif'; font-size: 26pt; font-weight: normal;">Griffin on his blog </span></strong><strong><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif'; font-size: 24pt; font-weight: normal;">so that she, April, could be revenged on him.</span></strong><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif'; font-size: 16pt;"><br /><br /></span><strong><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif'; font-size: 24pt; font-weight: normal;">She lied to Marshall that "an informer" had called her about the employee's infraction of his stepson's authoring the blog for the emigrant program the guy worked for and the critical blogger's not reporting this fact to the personnel office. Hence, he had committed a "conflict-of-interst" booboo. That putative elf informer, I believe, was a cover-up lie. Instead of blasting the blog critic back in the comment section of his blog, Griffin petitioned Elia to demote the guy and reduce his pay. Just a breath away from petit Mafia status, Elia complied.</span></strong></p> <p style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% rgb(247, 240, 233);" class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif'; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-size: 24pt; font-weight: normal;"> </span></strong></p> <p style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% rgb(247, 240, 233);" class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif'; font-size: 24pt; font-weight: normal;">Yet Griffin claims to believe in free speech. No, she believes in sneaking around and using her insider position to get back at an <span style="color: black;">employee who exercised his Constitutional right to critiqe an elected official.</span></span></strong><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif'; font-size: 16pt;"><br /><br /></span><strong><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif'; font-size: 24pt; font-weight: normal;">What strikes me as vile citizenship is </span></strong><strong><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif'; font-size: 24pt;">Marshall's reporting of</span></strong><strong><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif'; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-size: 24pt; font-weight: normal;"> </span></strong><strong><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif'; font-size: 24pt; font-weight: normal;">Griffin's not paying her fees at </span></strong><span class="blsp-spelling-error"><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif'; font-size: 24pt;">HCC; these were extant when the college</span></span><strong><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif'; font-size: 24pt; font-weight: normal;"> purged her from the </span></strong><span class="blsp-spelling-corrected"><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif'; font-size: 24pt;">rolls</span></span><strong><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif'; font-size: 24pt; font-weight: normal;"> in '06. Yet she is still claiming to the press five years later that she is pursuing a degree currently. She was dumb enough to put that fib in her newspaper bio. The press can be lax, but occasionally it awakens to fact-check a candidate's claims. The <i>SPT</i> found that April was lying about pursuing a degree. </span></strong></p> <p style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% rgb(247, 240, 233);" class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif'; font-size: 24pt; font-weight: normal;"> </span></strong></p> <p style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% rgb(247, 240, 233);" class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif'; font-size: 24pt; font-weight: normal;">That nonpayment represents another of April's lies that steals from the public. HCC is a government-supported institution. So </span></strong><strong><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif'; font-size: 24pt;"> Griffin<span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125);"> </span>cheated</span></strong><strong><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif'; font-size: 24pt; font-weight: normal;"> </span></strong><strong><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif'; font-size: 26pt; font-weight: normal;">the taxpayers<span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125);"> </span></span></strong><strong><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif'; font-size: 24pt; font-weight: normal;">by refusing to pay her fees at the college. These are the same taxpayers she begs to vote her into office again.</span></strong><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif'; font-size: 16pt;"><br /><br /></span><strong><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif'; font-size: 24pt; font-weight: normal;">These evaded fees<span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125);"> </span>echo the sloppy ethical attitude </span></strong><strong><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif'; color: black; font-size: 26pt; font-weight: normal;">that La Griffin displayed</span></strong><strong><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif'; font-size: 26pt; font-weight: normal;"> </span></strong><strong><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif'; font-size: 24pt; font-weight: normal;">when she helped Elia to set up </span></strong><span class="blsp-spelling-error"><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif'; font-size: 24pt;">Alafia</span></span><strong><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif'; font-size: 24pt; font-weight: normal;"> principal </span></strong><span class="blsp-spelling-error"><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif'; font-size: 24pt;">Smith</span></span><strong><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif'; font-size: 24pt; font-weight: normal;"> with an empty job after the parents of </span></strong><span class="blsp-spelling-error"><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif'; font-size: 24pt;">Alafia</span></span><strong><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif'; font-size: 24pt; font-weight: normal;"> children refused to suffer Smith as principal any longer. That fake job to shut up Smith cost<span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">s</span> taxpayers $70,000 a year in parallel principal's salary and includes in addition benefits for even more money from taxpayers for a nonperforming employee in a<span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125);"> </span>manufactured job that violated Title VII's requirement to advertise all jobs so that all interested applicants could apply. There was no advertising of this scam job, of course, for a principal who should have been fired.</span></strong></p> <p style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% rgb(247, 240, 233);" class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif'; font-size: 24pt; font-weight: normal;">The rubberstamping of this fake job for a failed principal because the board never fires an administrator, no matter the defection, stands in contrast to the board's stamping hither and yon "We are an equal-employment-opportunity employer."</span></strong><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif'; font-size: 16pt;"><br /><br /></span><strong><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif'; font-size: 24pt; font-weight: normal;">That waste of tax money to bribe a principal to be quiet about her move from </span></strong><span class="blsp-spelling-error"><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif'; font-size: 24pt;">principalship</span></span><strong><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif'; font-size: 24pt; font-weight: normal;"> to an empty chair is something Griffin </span></strong><span class="blsp-spelling-corrected"><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif'; font-size: 24pt;">endorsed</span></span><strong><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif'; font-size: 24pt; font-weight: normal;"> and helped Elia to set up by visiting Smith with Motel Breath Jennifer Falliero to wheedle Smith into accepting the fake job for her resigning as Alafia principal so as to quiet the press attention to the matter. Such ethics as Griffin displayed in convincing Smith to swap a scam job for her resignation as preincipal of Alafia make Board Candidate Griffin a financial hazard to taxpayers whom they should turn out of office<span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125);"> </span>so that she can attend school fulltime to get her elusive degree.</span></strong><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif'; font-size: 16pt;"><br /><br /></span><strong><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif'; font-size: 24pt; font-weight: normal;">Griffin has an opponent in this election named, I think, Sue. I hope Sue beats her: April squanders tax money in both her private life--fees to a public institution that she did not pay-- and also in her public life--scamming taxpayers by assisting Ms. Elia in putting on the books a fake job for the failed principal Smith, who should have been fired. Griffin also violated the Title VII federal laws that she swore to uphold when she took the oath of office.</span></strong></p> <p style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% rgb(247, 240, 233); margin-right: 6pt;" class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-size: 11pt; font-weight: normal;"> </span></strong></p> <p style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% rgb(247, 240, 233);" class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif'; font-size: 24pt; font-weight: normal;">Griffin does not deserve another term. I hope Sue wins. </span></strong><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif'; font-size: 16pt;"><br /><br /></span><strong><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif'; font-size: 24pt; font-weight: normal;">lee </span></strong><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif'; font-size: 16pt;"></span></p></div> <div> <div> <p style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% rgb(247, 240, 233);" class="MsoNormal"><span class="post-author2"><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif'; color: rgb(200, 171, 143); font-size: 9.5pt;">Posted by </span></span><span class="fn"><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif'; color: rgb(200, 171, 143); font-size: 9.5pt;">twinkobie</span></span><span class="post-author2"><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif'; color: rgb(200, 171, 143); font-size: 9.5pt;"> </span></span><span class="post-timestamp2"><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif'; color: rgb(200, 171, 143); font-size: 9.5pt;">at <a title="permanent link" href="http://leedrurydecesarescasting-roomcouch.blogspot.com/2010/10/pants-on-fire-griffin.html">8:46 AM</a> </span></span><a title="'Email Post'" href="email-post.g?blogID=28089922&postID=3445859418805332055"><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt; text-decoration: none;"><img id="Picture_x0020_7" alt="Description: Description: http://img1.blogblog.com/img/icon18_email.gif" src="cid:image001.gif@01CB72A2.C8264210" border="0" width="18" height="13" /></span></a><a title="'Edit Post'" href="post-edit.g?blogID=28089922&postID=3445859418805332055"><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt; text-decoration: none;"><img id="Picture_x0020_6" alt="Description: Description: http://img2.blogblog.com/img/icon18_edit_allbkg.gif" src="cid:image002.gif@01CB72A2.C8264210" border="0" width="18" height="18" /></span></a><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif'; color: rgb(200, 171, 143); font-size: 9.5pt;"></span></p></div></div></div> <div style="border: 1pt solid rgb(240, 224, 206); padding: 8pt; margin-bottom: 10.5pt; margin-left: 21.75pt; margin-right: 12pt;" id="comments"> <p style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% rgb(245, 237, 228);" class="MsoNormal"><a name="comments"></a><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif'; color: black; font-size: 14.5pt;">0 comments: </span></p> <p style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% rgb(245, 237, 228);" class="comment-footer"><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif'; color: black;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=28089922&postID=3445859418805332055">Post a Comment</a> </span></p></div></div></div></div></div><br /></div></div></div> <div style="margin-right: 2.25pt;" id="sidebar-wrapper"> <div id="sidebar"> <div style="margin-bottom: 15pt;" id="Image1"><br /><p style="line-height: 16.8pt; background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% rgb(247, 240, 233);" class="MsoNormal"><a title="'Edit'" href="rearrange?blogID=28089922&widgetType=Image&widgetId=Image1&action=editWidget" target="'configImage1'"><b><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none;"><img id="Picture_x0020_3" alt="Description: Description: http://img1.blogblog.com/img/icon18_wrench_allbkg.png" src="cid:image003.png@01CB72A2.C8264210" border="0" width="18" height="18" /></span></b></a><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif'; color: black; font-size: 11pt;"></span></p></div></div></div><!-- Site Meter XHTML Strict 1.0 --><script type="text/javascript" src="http://s41.sitemeter.com/js/counter.js?site=s41twinkobie"></script><!-- Copyright (c)2006 Site Meter -->twinkobiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07865056039680988073noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28089922.post-11833999461546383522010-10-13T09:58:00.000-07:002010-10-14T22:35:46.146-07:00Public Information Request<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-large;">Ms. </span></b><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-large;">Cobbe</span></b></span><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-large;">:<br /><br />I request as public information the file of black student Rene Anderson that records that assistant principal Kevin Messena of Riverview High School two years ago charged Ms. Anderson with assaulting him for brushing past him to escape from his office after his indecent proposal to her.<br /><br />The board subsequently prosecuted the 16-year-old Ms. Anderson in Mr. Messena's behalf for his charge of her assaulting Mr. Messena. The court upheld the charge, and Ms. Anderson spent time on community service as a result.<br /><br />The administration told her that she, an honors student, could not apply for scholarships and might be sent to an alternative school. They said it was the rule. May I see a copy of that rule?<br /><br /> She had to pay court costs of $3,000 despite her parents' not being rich.<br /><br />To shield her from further retaliation by the board, the family moved to another city for her to finish high school. She is now in college, presumably without a scholarship.<br /><br />The attorney general says that 48 hours is a reasonable time in which a public institution should respond to a public-information to a citizen.<br /><br />Email me when you have the data in your office, and I will drive from the beach to see it or have you copy it with my payment if it is not too large a file.<br /></span></b><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-large;"><br /></span></b></div><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-large;"></span></b><br /><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-large;">Lee </span></b><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_16"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-large;">Drury</span></b></span><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-large;"> De Cesare</span></b></div></div><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-large;">15316 Gulf Blvd. 802</span></b></div><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-large;">Madeira Beach, FL 33708</span></b></div><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-large;">tdecesar@tampabay.rr.com</span></b></div><div><br /></div>twinkobiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07865056039680988073noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28089922.post-12485940499657334912010-10-06T09:41:00.001-07:002010-10-08T17:03:51.108-07:00Public Information Request to the Hillsborough County School Board<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_dl8vHbrr-vU/TK-xWTBq6cI/AAAAAAAADes/DkklEw0JRqU/s1600/Untitled.png"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_dl8vHbrr-vU/TK-xWTBq6cI/AAAAAAAADes/DkklEw0JRqU/s400/Untitled.png" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5525830264429406658" /></a><br /><span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><div><span style="font-weight: bold;">Hillsborough County School Board:</span></div><div><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></div>I have been trying for some time to get public information on two subjects : Ms. Elia's hiring and Mr. Gonzalez's written record of his services to the board. I have not got either yet.<br /><br />The Public Information office's Ms. <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">Cobbe</span> is a conscientious public employee who tries to do her job well, so I don't blame her for my not getting the public data I have requested. She says the Elia hiring data is "in a box" and that Gonzalez's output with her is always verbal.<br /><br />First, the data on Ms. Elia's hiring: the employment of the chief administrator of the schools making $300,00o a month is important public information. A competent administration would have a stenographer to record the board comments in their discussion of the hiring. That is what I want to see. My belief is that it will clear up why the board lowered the <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">Ph</span>.D. requirement to Ms. Elia's master's when all the other candidates had the required <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2">Ph</span>.D. the ad must have said was basic.</span></span><div><span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span><span style="font-weight: bold;">The stenographer's record would also clear up how the board accepted Ms. Elia's meagre experience as sufficient. I reviewed the <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3">applications</span>. One of the candidates had a broad background in dealing with minority student populations. All competitors has better, more varied <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4">experience</span> than Ms. Elia, whose <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5">experience</span> was all in the local schools and consisted of her heading up a department in which she overbuilt classrooms that later had to be absorbed by shuffling students, a process that discomfited both them and their family; a second untoward incident of Ms. Elia's local experience was a real-estate scam that she allowed to go on under her nose and that a <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_6">SPT reporter</span> walked in off the street and discovered, then wrote an expose on it.<br /></span></span><!-- Site Meter XHTML Strict 1.0 --><script type="text/javascript" src="http://s41.sitemeter.com/js/counter.js?site=s41twinkobie"></script><!-- Copyright (c)2006 Site Meter --><div><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">Ms. </span><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_7"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">Cobbe</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"> says her contact with Mr. Gonzalez is all vocal. That may be true. But he must have written files on all the work he has done for the hypertrophied salary he gets. Those files belong not to him but to the citizens who paid him to produce them. I would like to see those, too, please.</span></b></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></b></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><b>lee <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_8">drury</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_9">de</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_10">cesare</span></b></span></div></div>twinkobiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07865056039680988073noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28089922.post-20216828682258527172010-09-06T06:46:00.000-07:002010-09-27T10:03:00.270-07:00The Election Saga of April Griffith<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_dl8vHbrr-vU/TJIpzeHWO0I/AAAAAAAADec/UqhCwCWJ7O8/s1600/Untitled.png"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; width: 400px; float: right; height: 400px; cursor: pointer;" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5517518457716226882" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_dl8vHbrr-vU/TJIpzeHWO0I/AAAAAAAADec/UqhCwCWJ7O8/s400/Untitled.png" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:180%;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /><br /><br /></span></span><div style="text-align: right;"><div style="text-align: right;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_dl8vHbrr-vU/TIz5U2KakUI/AAAAAAAADeU/0vDjqpazsvM/s1600/junk+room+2.jpg"><span style="font-size:180%;">April Griffin's Unsuitability for Re-election to the School Board</span><img style="text-align: center; margin: 0px auto 10px; width: 400px; display: block; height: 370px; cursor: pointer;" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5516057780153913666" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_dl8vHbrr-vU/TIz5U2KakUI/AAAAAAAADeU/0vDjqpazsvM/s400/junk+room+2.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /></div><br /></div><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">The financial reports of District 4's school board run-off candidates, April Griffin and Sally Harris, show an advantage for Griffin in contributions: $46,000 versus $14,000. Griffin has more commercial donations than does Harris, the usual attraction to an incumbent of the business community. A member of the board approves contracts and controls other business opportunities on the school board. The Erwin case testifies that the board and administration are vulnerable to payoffs and under-the-table remunerations.</span></b></div><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><br /></span></b></div><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">I believe the Erwin case has left its DNA in the board and administration conduct. Erwin's <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_0" class="blsp-spelling-error"><span id="SPELLING_ERROR_0" class="blsp-spelling-error"><span id="SPELLING_ERROR_0" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">whistle blower</span></span></span> lawsuit taught them to be careful not to put anything incriminating in print: the off-the-record business that involves unorthodox <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_1" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">maneuvers</span> to keep themselves in power, which includes, of course, bribes and graft. does not appear in the records. If you want to get a flavor of how this system works, ask for some personnel files: you will find them stripped to the bone. Anything in writing is public information, and a taxpayer who requests it must get a copy. So to evade this stricture, dicey <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_2" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">maneuvers</span> don't appear in writing.</span></b></div><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><br /></span></b></div><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">This defensive system means that anyone interested in what is really going on in the administration and board must listen to rumors and whiffs of information that circulate about this hidden agenda.</span></b></div><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><br /></span></b></div><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">If you want to see what a long incumbency on the board garners in commercial donations, you should go to the Carol <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_1" class="blsp-spelling-error"><span id="SPELLING_ERROR_3" class="blsp-spelling-error"><span id="SPELLING_ERROR_1" class="blsp-spelling-error"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">Kurdell</span></span></span></span> financial report on the Supervisor-of-<span id="SPELLING_ERROR_2" class="blsp-spelling-error">Elections</span> site. You will see that the corporate donations are lavish and frequent.<br /><br /></span></b></div><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"></span></b></div><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">Ms. <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_3" class="blsp-spelling-error"><span id="SPELLING_ERROR_4" class="blsp-spelling-error"><span id="SPELLING_ERROR_2" class="blsp-spelling-error"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">Kurdell</span></span></span></span> sat on the board when the Erwin case unfolded; so did Jack Lamb and Candy Olson. These three and other then board members did everything to discourage Mr. Erwin's complaints about crime in the schools and nothing to encourage him to keep up the good work. This <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_4" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">pillorying</span> of Erwin by the board and administration points to cover-up of something illegal: I infer it was bribes and under-the-table payouts. The sadism toward Erwin emanated from Lennard headquarters. That says to me that he and other administrators and board members were on the take.</span></b></div><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><br /></span></b><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">The April Griffin Web biography does not cite her education credentials: I thought her having only a high school education was bad enough for a person purporting to sponsor education of the community's children. Now I hear she has a mere G.E.D. An email to Griffin to confirm or deny the GED information got no response, so the GED story must be true.<br /><br /></span></b></div><div><strong></strong> </div><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"></span></b></div><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">A board member's having only a GED represents an ad for high <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_5" class="blsp-spelling-error"><span id="SPELLING_ERROR_5" class="blsp-spelling-error"><span id="SPELLING_ERROR_3" class="blsp-spelling-error"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2">schoolers</span></span></span></span>' dropping out. One marvels that <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_6" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">April</span>, dares to run on that diminished credential. If she didn't think a diploma was worth her own efforts, how can she convince students that it is as a board member? Hers must be a "Do as I say do, not as I do" approach.<br /><br /></span></b></div><b></b><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><br /></span></b></div><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">The reason that the school administration and board get away with the <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_7" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">skulduggery</span> they use to run the schools is that nobody asks them about it or probes to find out. The open records law makes possible getting information if you are persistent, but the problem is that the real business of the board and administration does not get committed to paper. Only sanitized show files are kept. The things that do not lend themselves to public exposure are unwritten and remain whispers amongst the insiders.<br /></span></b></div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><br /></span></b><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">Griffin's opponent, Ms. Sally Harris, does not cite her education on her Web site. She says in a phone interview that she graduated from <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_8" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">Robinson</span>, and we take her word for it. Her online biography mentions that she was an occupational specialist in a Florida school system. But she concedes that she does not have a bachelor's degree. She has taken enough credits sporadically to equal a two-year degree she thinks. Ms. Harris has a business <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_9" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">called</span> Circle C Ranch Academy. It's a fancy child-care facility is my inference. She says it is worth a million dollars. That has to be hyperbole.<br /></span></b></div><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><br /></span></b></div><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">Ms. Griffin claims in her board bio to have been an administrator in a successful business. That claim turns out to be bogus since she refers to a business she and her husband launched which went bankrupt. I don't know whether it is still in bankruptcy.<br /><br />I early discovered April's penchant for lying when I supported her in her first run for the board. When she first ran, she claimed </span></b><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">to be a Boys and Girls club executive. The press caught this lie. I advised that she never to lie to the press, that it would remember and never forgive her. But she has continued to handle the truth loosely in her board career. I infer this represents a life-long habit. Not being able to trust what Griffin says diminishes her value in a public office. People who lie to make themselves look better suffer from low self-esteem or some kind of personality disorder. I infer that April falls into that untrustworthy category.</span></b></div><div><div><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><br /></span></b></div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><br /></span></b><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">Not surprisingly, Ms. Griffin in office has not been the paragon she promised voters to be when she ran for the job four years ago.</span></b></div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><br /></span></b><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">If you seek them out, featured in her record are serial anti-voter, anti-taxpayer behaviors after she rapidly succumbed to pressure and became a board <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_10" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">round heels</span> who obeyed every Elia command,</span></b></div><div></div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><br /></span></b><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">Griffin had one shining moment of pro-voter behavior when she first came on the board. She asked that the no-bid contract awarded a former school administrator come off the agenda for discussion.<br /><br /></span></b></div><div><strong></strong> </div><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"></span></b></div><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">Instantly Carol <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_11" class="blsp-spelling-error"><span id="SPELLING_ERROR_6" class="blsp-spelling-error"><span id="SPELLING_ERROR_4" class="blsp-spelling-error"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3">Kurdell</span></span></span></span> and Candy Olson, two of the board's double-double-boil-and-trouble witch copies from <i>Macbeth</i>'s heath scene, jumped on Griffin for being "disloyal" to the staff, which was responsible for putting forward a former administrator for the job.<br /><br />Since he had himself a no-bid contract, board attorney Tom Gonzalez joined in to say that handing out no-bid contracts to buddies--or by extension, one infers, graft contributors-- was a perfectly legal thing for the school board to endorse. Gonzalez fits his legal opinions not to the law but to the fool-the-taxpayer desires of the board and administration.<br /></span></b><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><br /></span></b></div><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">At the let's-hire-the-former-administrator-buddy board meeting, Griffin crumpled before the board's let's-do-illegal-business-as-usual board stalwarts Olson and <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4">Kurdell</span>. She slumped under her desk and henceforth hewed to the party line of ignore-the-law-if-it-disagrees-with-our-practices.<br /><br /></span></b></div><div><strong></strong> </div><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"></span></b></div><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">April lacked the guts to tell Les Griffin and Olson that she worked for the voters, not for the school-board staff.<br /><br />Besides lying, another of April' character flaws <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_12" class="blsp-spelling-error">is </span> lack of courage, for which she substitutes lies or capitulation. The vote to retain the no-bid contract for the former administrator was 2 to 5, with only Griffin's and <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_13" class="blsp-spelling-error"><span id="SPELLING_ERROR_7" class="blsp-spelling-error"><span id="SPELLING_ERROR_5" class="blsp-spelling-error"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5">Valdes's</span></span></span></span> voting no. Yet April's election Web site says she is responsible for doing away with this practice. I judge that to be another lie. I doubt that statement's accuracy. After that board-meeting meltdown of April, Ms. Elia hired former administrator Dr. Jim Hamilton as <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_8" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">lobbyist</span> at $65,000 a year without advertising the job. Somebody told me the salary has increased to $95,000.<br /></span></b></div><b></b><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><br /></span></b><div></div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><br /></span></b><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">Since that initial painful public roll-over. April has become a faithful party member of the <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_14" class="blsp-spelling-error"><span id="SPELLING_ERROR_9" class="blsp-spelling-error"><span id="SPELLING_ERROR_6" class="blsp-spelling-error"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_6">ROSSAC</span></span></span></span> <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_15" class="blsp-spelling-error"><span id="SPELLING_ERROR_10" class="blsp-spelling-error"><span id="SPELLING_ERROR_7" class="blsp-spelling-error"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_7">reischteig</span></span></span></span>. La Elia has only to snap her fingers for April to come running like a faithful board pooch. Woof! Woof!</span></b></div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><br /></span></b><div></div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><br /></span></b><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">After promising voters in her oath of office to uphold the national and state laws, Griffin has since broken them with a hey <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_16" class="blsp-spelling-error"><span id="SPELLING_ERROR_11" class="blsp-spelling-error"><span id="SPELLING_ERROR_8" class="blsp-spelling-error"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_8">nonny</span></span></span></span> <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_17" class="blsp-spelling-error"><span id="SPELLING_ERROR_12" class="blsp-spelling-error"><span id="SPELLING_ERROR_9" class="blsp-spelling-error"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_9">nonny</span></span></span></span>. Elia directed her and RIP <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_18" class="blsp-spelling-error"><span id="SPELLING_ERROR_13" class="blsp-spelling-error"><span id="SPELLING_ERROR_10" class="blsp-spelling-error"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_10">Falliero</span></span></span></span> to go out to <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_19" class="blsp-spelling-error"><span id="SPELLING_ERROR_14" class="blsp-spelling-error"><span id="SPELLING_ERROR_11" class="blsp-spelling-error"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_11">Alafia</span></span></span></span> and soothe Principal Smith into resigning her position since PTA parents would not accept the toxic Smith as principal at the school. Elia had conducted several papal visits to <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_20" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">harangue</span> the <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_21" class="blsp-spelling-error"><span id="SPELLING_ERROR_15" class="blsp-spelling-error"><span id="SPELLING_ERROR_12" class="blsp-spelling-error"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_12">Alafia</span></span></span></span> parents into keeping Smith principal, even promising parents to send Smith and her vice principal to <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_22" class="blsp-spelling-error"><span id="SPELLING_ERROR_16" class="blsp-spelling-error"><span id="SPELLING_ERROR_13" class="blsp-spelling-error"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_13">Eckerd's</span></span></span></span> for a personality make-over seminar at $4,500 a pop if <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_23" class="blsp-spelling-error"><span id="SPELLING_ERROR_17" class="blsp-spelling-error"><span id="SPELLING_ERROR_14" class="blsp-spelling-error"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_14">Akafia's</span></span></span></span> parents would consent for Smith to continue principal The parents said no way. Elia's voice is powerful only inside the schools, where she can fire anybody who disagrees with her. Parents can't be fired.</span></b></div></div></div></div><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><br /></span></b></div><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">Griffith's and RIP <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_24" class="blsp-spelling-error"><span id="SPELLING_ERROR_18" class="blsp-spelling-error"><span id="SPELLING_ERROR_15" class="blsp-spelling-error"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_15">Falliero's</span></span></span></span> under-cover-of-darkness task was to wheedle Smith into resigning and taking an Elia-manufactured job with the same salary that she made as principal so that the negative publicity trained on the schools from the usually somnolent press would die down.<br /><br /></span></b></div><div><strong></strong> </div><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"></span></b></div><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">RIP <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_25" class="blsp-spelling-error"><span id="SPELLING_ERROR_19" class="blsp-spelling-error"><span id="SPELLING_ERROR_16" class="blsp-spelling-error"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_16">Falliero</span></span></span></span> and Griffin did their task behind closed doors: they convinced Smith to take a job made up by Elia to seat Smith somewhere in the school system with no duties but full salary and benefits at principal level. I understand that Smith is <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_26" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">ensconced</span> in the book depository, probably </span></b><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">paring her nails on a <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_27" class="blsp-spelling-error"><span id="SPELLING_ERROR_20" class="blsp-spelling-error"><span id="SPELLING_ERROR_17" class="blsp-spelling-error"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_17">principal's</span></span></span></span> salary coughed up <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_28" class="blsp-spelling-error"><span id="SPELLING_ERROR_21" class="blsp-spelling-error"><span id="SPELLING_ERROR_18" class="blsp-spelling-error"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_18">malgre</span></span></span></span> <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_29" class="blsp-spelling-error"><span id="SPELLING_ERROR_22" class="blsp-spelling-error"><span id="SPELLING_ERROR_19" class="blsp-spelling-error"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_19">lui</span></span></span></span> by the unsuspecting taxpayers.</span></b></div><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><br /></span></b></div><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">None of this <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_30" class="blsp-spelling-error"><span id="SPELLING_ERROR_23" class="blsp-spelling-error"><span id="SPELLING_ERROR_20" class="blsp-spelling-error"><span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_20">skulduggery</span></span></span></span> appeared in writing; I would not have guessed it myself had not one of Griffin's admirers wrote me a sassy email saying I would have to withdraw my critical comments on Griffin after she and RIP <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_31" class="blsp-spelling-error"><span id="SPELLING_ERROR_24" class="blsp-spelling-error"><span id="SPELLING_ERROR_21" class="blsp-spelling-error"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_21">Falliero</span></span></span></span> had pulled off the <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_32" class="blsp-spelling-error"><span id="SPELLING_ERROR_25" class="blsp-spelling-error"><span id="SPELLING_ERROR_22" class="blsp-spelling-error"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_22">Alafia</span></span></span></span> Smith coup.</span></b></div><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><br /></span></b></div><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">But I figured that there had to be a job description of a job that the accountants paid out of tax funds, so</span></b><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"> I asked for a job description from the Public Affairs office. After about two weeks to give Personnel viceroy Mr. Valdez time to manufacture a job description, I <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_33" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">received</span> it. Then I asked the Public Affairs office who had held the job before. No answer. Hence, we know the job was the Elia invention to house Ms. Smith on the public dime with no duties or only ones for show.</span></b></div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><div><br />It says something about April's character that she would team up with Motel Breath <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_34" class="blsp-spelling-error"><span id="SPELLING_ERROR_26" class="blsp-spelling-error"><span id="SPELLING_ERROR_23" class="blsp-spelling-error"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_23">Falliero</span></span></span></span> for this task. Not only did <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_35" class="blsp-spelling-error"><span id="SPELLING_ERROR_27" class="blsp-spelling-error"><span id="SPELLING_ERROR_24" class="blsp-spelling-error"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_24">Falliero</span></span></span></span> tell Griffin in a staff meeting shortly after April came onto the board that she should quit if she <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_36" class="blsp-spelling-error"><span id="SPELLING_ERROR_28" class="blsp-spelling-error"><span id="SPELLING_ERROR_25" class="blsp-spelling-error">couldn</span></span></span>'t get with the program the others obeyed without question. This admonition sent April stomping out of the room, slamming the door behind her. April doesn't fight. She runs.<br /><br />In a later hostile gesture toward Griffin, Chair <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_37" class="blsp-spelling-error"><span id="SPELLING_ERROR_29" class="blsp-spelling-error"><span id="SPELLING_ERROR_26" class="blsp-spelling-error">Falliero</span></span></span> waved the gavel and screamed at April that she would kick her out of the board room because Griffin said something <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_38" class="blsp-spelling-error"><span id="SPELLING_ERROR_30" class="blsp-spelling-error"><span id="SPELLING_ERROR_27" class="blsp-spelling-error">Falliero</span></span></span> didn't like.<br /><br /></div><div></div><div>The board had voted <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_39" class="blsp-spelling-error"><span id="SPELLING_ERROR_31" class="blsp-spelling-error"><span id="SPELLING_ERROR_28" class="blsp-spelling-error">Falliero</span></span></span> chair despite knowing of her long-term on-site adultery <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_40" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">with</span> Marc Hart, head of Public Information, conducted over two administrations with their complicity. Marc Hart showed me the deposition that confirmed the adultery.<br /><br />The <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_32" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">aggressor</span>, Ms. Motel Breath, practically lived in Mr. Hart's office, claiming she was there for his "mentoring."<br /><br /></div><div></div><div>Mr. Valdez later fired Hart on a trumped-up charge when Ms. Elia wanted to remove Hart as a temptation to Motel Breath <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_41" class="blsp-spelling-error"><span id="SPELLING_ERROR_33" class="blsp-spelling-error"><span id="SPELLING_ERROR_29" class="blsp-spelling-error">Falliero</span></span> to evade disclosure and bad publicity</span>. The official reason for Hart's being run out on a rail was alcoholism.<br /></div></span></b><br /><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">Let's look more closely at the behavior that brought about that "victory" in the <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_42" class="blsp-spelling-error"><span id="SPELLING_ERROR_34" class="blsp-spelling-error">Alafia</span></span> Mission <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_43" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">Impossible</span> caper. April's conduct in this venture violated laws that April swore to uphold when she took office. I don't doubt that April did not understand the laws she violated. That's one penalty for not going to school and settling for a GED. You <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_44" class="blsp-spelling-error">don't</span> learn history and civil data to teach you what a citizen does and the rules of law for which an elected official stands responsible.</span></b></div><br /><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">The <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_35" class="blsp-spelling-error">Alafia</span> Smith case is testimony to the board and administration's refusal to fire an administrator or even rebuke him or her with a Professional Standards charge. A professional-standards charge simply is not done in case of administrator misconduct. This weird protection of administrators' misdeeds is a peculiar feature of the board and administration. Its origin lies buried in the bowels of time.<br /><br /></span></b></div><div><strong></strong> </div><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"></span></b></div><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">The unspoken code demands that teachers get nailed by Professional Standards with a marginal or made-up charge that threatens their job if they speak out against the board and administration. Administrators go free no matter what they do.</span></b></div><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><br /></span></b></div><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">Teacher Steve Kemp's and the King administrator <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_45" class="blsp-spelling-error"><span id="SPELLING_ERROR_36" class="blsp-spelling-error">Toecracker's</span></span> simultaneous cases set the paradigm of invidious punishment of administrators versus teachers. Mr. Smiley, head of special-ed, cooked up a case against Steve Kemp when the latter was substituting in the special-needs class. My read is that the little administrator twerp Smiley thought nailing a teacher on the Professional Standards watch list for having an education blog would advance his climb up the ladder to the nirvana of <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_46" class="blsp-spelling-error">ROSSAC</span>, the Mt. Olympus of the board and administration gods.<br /><br /></span></b></div><div><strong></strong> </div><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"></span></b></div><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">If you are wondering if Dr. Lamb, with the girth of a whale, is the board Jove lookalike, he would pass without close inspection. <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_47" class="blsp-spelling-error">Kurdell</span>, of course, is Hera. Jove seduced her in the guise of a cuckoo bird. That sounds like something Le Lamb would do. He often poses as a cuckoo bird.<br /><br />Candy Olson, who on her triumphant election post statement said she wanted to be the institutional advisor of new board members plays board Tiresias.</span></b></div><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><br /></span></b></div><div><strong><span style="font-size:180%;"></span></strong></div><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">Candy is type cast as Tiresias, tattle tale of the realm of the dead. If Candy wants to play this Tiresias <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_48" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">eminence</span> <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_49" class="blsp-spelling-error">grise</span>, however, she is going to have to do something about the improbable Dolly <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_50" class="blsp-spelling-error">Parton</span> tint of her hair. <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_51" class="blsp-spelling-error">Tiresias's</span> is lank and grey. She will also have to memorize without Cliff notes T.S. Eliot's "The Wasteland," the poem that explores the land of the nether regions. Susan <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_52" class="blsp-spelling-error">Valdes</span>, April Griffin, and <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_53" class="blsp-spelling-error">Doretha</span> <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_54" class="blsp-spelling-error">Ethridge</span> are the three <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_55" class="blsp-spelling-error">Eyrinyes</span>. of course. These are the mythic <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_56" class="blsp-spelling-error">harpies</span> that track down and punish sinners. They are connoisseurs of sin, steeped in it themselves.</span></b></div><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><br /></span></b></div><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">A picture of the <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_57" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">junk room</span> that served as classroom for the special-ed children appears at the head of this message. I sent it to the Poverty Law Center, to which I am a contributor and which I understand has a special-ed case instituted by the local <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_58" class="blsp-spelling-error">Hillsborough</span> County NAACP against the schools.</span></b></div><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><br /></span></b></div><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">Le Smiley pranced down to the sheriff's office and filed a child abuse charge against Steve in line with Smiley's hidden agenda. He filed the <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_59" class="blsp-spelling-error">de</span> <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_60" class="blsp-spelling-error">rigueur</span> Professional Standards charge as well. Steve stayed on suspension while Ms. <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_61" class="blsp-spelling-error">Kipley</span>, home-<span id="SPELLING_ERROR_62" class="blsp-spelling-error">ec</span> <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_63" class="blsp-spelling-error">degreed</span> head of Professional Standards. dragged the investigation out for a year to make sure Steve squirmed sufficiently about losing his job to the maximum of his squirming abilities; <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_64" class="blsp-spelling-error">Kipley</span> <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_65" class="blsp-spelling-error">et</span> <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_66" class="blsp-spelling-error">al</span> also made sure that the case got wide circulation in the schools to serve as a warning to other teachers who might think of challenging the administration and place their job in jeopardy. </span></b><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">Rumor <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_67" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">circulated</span> that the board was thinking of purchasing a medieval torture rack to extract whatever confessions from the poor pedagogic wretches the administration fancied.<br /><br /></span></b></div><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"></span></b></div><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">Steve's lackadaisical union-furnished attorney and Gonzalez finally reached a settlement in which Steve was to go on unpaid punitive leave for three days (in addition to the year's suspension that he had already served) as the price for resuming his job.<span class="Apple-style-span"> Corrective note from Steve says the suspension was five days. </span></span></b></div><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><br /></span></b></div><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">Then Steve, offended at the disproportionate punishment <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_68" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">allotted</span> to him as compared to no punishment to the King High administrative Toe Cracker foot fetishist, complained publicly to the board of the invidious treatment of him as compared to that of the King High administrator Toe Cracker. Over a period of time with no <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_69" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">interference</span> from his supervisors, this administrator sicko had been ordering pubescent boys into his office; ordering them to close the door; ordering the boys to take off their shoes and socks; then ordering them to present him their feet to fondle and crack their toes. His superiors did not intervene. Their attitude was, "Isn't he a card?"</span></b></div><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><br /></span></b></div><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">As coercion to Steve for questioning the invidious treatment of him and the Toe Cracker, Hired Gun Gonzalez threatened Steve with taking away his settlement. </span></b></div><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><br /></span></b></div><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">Meanwhile, the board, whose every other sentence concerns "the safety of the students," ignored the pathology of the administrator guy's preying on pubescent boys at King and did not have an outside psychiatrist examine him for the pathology of this habit. Then a parent whose representative called me alerted the press.<br /><br /></span></b></div><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"></span></b></div><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">When it won't report on a new cure for cancer, the antic print press will catalogue toe-cracking and its delicious sexual aura. So the story hit the papers. An indignant parent visited the King principal and told him that if the board did not have the Toe Cracker examined by a psychiatrist, he was going to sue the schools for failure to protect the students. </span></b></div><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><br /></span></b></div><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">The way the administration got around having the Toe Cracker undergo a valid examination by an outside state-qualified psychologist or psychiatrist was to have somebody on staff with some psychology credits interview the Toe Cracker and pronounce him sound and no danger to the students. By that time the press's short attention span had run out, so the public never knew of this scam.</span></b></div><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><br /></span></b></div><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">Such evasive flimflam is what the board and administration consider adept politics in administering the schools. The board, which did not intervene and did not pause in its perpetual salute to the safety of the children, sat mute. </span></b></div><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"></span></b></div><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">Ms. April Griffin was fully involved in ripping off the children's safety in the schools in this ugly incident to nail teacher Steve Kemp with a manufactured child-abuse charge because he had an education blog and since the board and administration fear blogs because they may tell the truth about how they run the schools. La Griffin did not bother to visit the junk-choked classroom (picture at the top of these comments) despite her anthem of safety for the children and did not insist on an outside psychiatrist to examine the Toecracker for pathology that threatened the boys he preyed on. I personally challenged La Elia in a board meeting about this lack of an outside psychiatrist to examine the King administrator sicko. She remained tranquil on her board throne of power and ignored me. I am sure she whispered to Steve Gonzalez, who sits by her, that I was crazy. If you question the standard criminal behavior of public officials, you get the label of crazy. It was ever thus. Ask Galileo.<br /><br /><br />For the sake of exposing Griffin's attitude toward the laws that she is supposed to carry out and not subvert as board member, let's look more closely at the offenses against her position as one elected to uphold the laws and the taxpayers' right to expect a public servant to perform this duty that April evaded in the Smith foray.<br /></span></b></div><b></b><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><br /></span></b></div><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">A pair of school-board agents' creeping over to Alafia to hold an an out-of-the-sunshine rendezvous in a closed office with an errant principal to offer her a secret manufactured job so that this principal would fade away and not talk publicly made Ms. Elia, Griffin, and Motel Breath Falliero believe that the controversy would come to an end. RIP Falliero and Griffin's conduct violated the state's government-in-the- sunshine law. Of course, the Elia administration constantly violates the government-in-the-sunshine law by deciding everything in closed meetings in La Elia's Star Chamber and plopping the decisions on the rolling Consent Calender for the board to rubberstamp.</span></b></div><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><br /></span></b></div><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">Had April been serving the public instead of the board-and-administration juggernaut that insured they ruled everything and kept the power that goes with managing the millions of tax dollars poured into this large school district, she would have continued to call for items to come off the agenda for discussion. Susan Valdes would have given Griffin a second, and Roberts Rules says the two could have discussed the hidden items to a fare-the-well and let the public in on the board-and-administration. campaign against the public's right to know. </span></b></div><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><br /></span></b></div><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">Since the board surrendered to her the non-equal-opportunity hiring racket, Elia has hired untrained buddies and sycophants to go on the public-education dole with frail credentials and few talents. This scam insures that the taxpayers don't get their money's worth. April and Susan could have brought up in a public board meeting the situation in which an accounting job had emerged and which Linda Kipley's husband got despite his not having the accounting degree and experience it called for. This Kipley-husband employment despite lack of credentials was payback to Kipley for all her dirty work in Professional Standards to gouge teachers and keep them servile and quiet or face the loss of their jobs.</span></b></div><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><br /></span></b></div><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">La Kipley's husband has a high school diploma and no accounting experience. I examined the application files for the job under government-in-the-sunshine rules. Four applicants had accounting degrees and requisite experience in accounting. One woman had a handicap that placed her under the protection of the federal requirement that any entity that receives government funds must have an affirmative-action plan for the handicapped. I checked. The school board does not have an affirmative-action plan for the handicapped.</span></b></div><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><br /></span></b></div><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">I tried to get the handicapped woman whose application the school turned down to file a charge with the federal government for discrimination, but she declined. Very few people will fight discrimination. I know this for a fact since I founded the local chapter of NOW forty-five years ago and worked as its employment discrimination chair. I did not have luck with getting women who had suffered terrible discrimination to file charges with the EEOC and the federal offices that supervised various types of discrimination. These people are like the teachers in the Hillsborough County school system who won't file bullying charges against the administration or speak out about the invidious treatment of teachers.<br /><br />In my NOW work, </span></b><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">I was able to get a black woman, Thelma, to file charges against the police department for constantly "losing" her application to be a police officer, and I convinced another woman, Marsha, to file charges against the sheriff's department for giving her the runaround when she applied to be a sheriff's deputy.</span></b></div><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><br /></span></b></div><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">The EEOC processed Thelma's complaint and made the police department hire her. She was the first female police officer in Tampa. My husband and I went to her graduation at the police academy.<br /><br />I filed charges with the Justice Department to make Sheriff Malcolm Beard hire women deputies or lose his government grants. Marsha got her deputy job and proceeded to smash her patrol car into telephone poles on a regular basis, hence was let go on legitimate grounds. But Marsha's entrance into the deputy ranks opened that job for many other local women. When I see women officers on the street today, I feel like a proud mother whose child has won a Nobel laureate.</span></b></div><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><br /></span></b></div><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">I am now revving up to file with the federal government for the school board's history of allowing Ms. Elia to hire incompetent buddies at sky-high salaries subsidzed by taxpayers, who are not getting their money's worth.</span></b></div><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><br /></span></b></div><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">If April had enough education to know the requirements of the federal statutes she swore to uphold in office and if she cared about the financial and ethical interests of the taxpayers that this corrupt hiring system the local board has allowed Ms. Elia to carry on, she would have in the interest of community open government insisted that all jobs and their descriptions appear on the Board Web site along with hyperlinks to the job seekers' applications for these jobs. Then citizens could see whether Ms. Elia were hiring the best qualified person or awarding the job to her buddies or hangers on.</span></b></div><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><br /></span></b></div><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">Citizens are entitled to know about their publicly supported institutions' business such as hiring. The board and administration assisted by two of the board's renegade members April Griffin and RIP Jennifer Falliero did an unethical, illegal deed by wheedling Principal Smith into resigning with the lure of an Elia-created job. This behind-the-scenes use of tax money and job selling violated the state law and federal law. The administration and board covered it up, so they participated in the secret process as well. If April and RIP Jennifer had obeyed the state law that they swore to uphold when they took office, they would have held these proceedings in the board room at a regular meeting so that the public would know that the board and Ms. Elia abuse their positions to control their image so that they can continue in power.<br /><br />The board, if it had respect for the citizens that elected it, would also provide on the Board Web site citizen information listing job descriptions with applicants' biographies so that citizens can read online whether the board and administration follow the state and federal laws that the board members take an oath to uphold when they are sworn into office. </span></b></div><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><br /></span></b></div><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">April Griffin has not honored her oath of office. She should not get another term to break the law she swore to uphold.</span></b></div><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><br /></span></b></div><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">RIP Falliero, one of the culprits, got the sack from voters this election. I hope my informing the churches in her district of her adultery unchecked on school grounds during two administrations contributed to that happy eventuality at the polls. Voters don't have to be quiet. They can blab to their heart's content with the blessing of the First Amendment. Anybody can. This is America.<br /></span></b></div><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><br /></span></b></div><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">Other laws that April broke in skulking over to cut a deal with Ms. Smith were Title VI and VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act. The board did not advertise the job Ms. Elia created for Principal Smith so that all interested applicants could apply for it. The board thus shut out all these prospective applicants.</span></b></div><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><br /></span></b></div><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">April seems to believe that she is an adept in diplomacy and apparently believed this illegal pas-de-deux she executed with Jennifer Falliero qualified as high diplomacy. Wrong. Tallyrand's reputation is safe. April and Jennifer's sneaking quest to evade the state sunshine law and the national equal-employment laws did not demonstrate diplomacy. It illustrated stupidity and culpability for evasion of the laws these two board members swore to uphold.<br /><br /></span></b></div><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"></span></b></div><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">Anybody who learns about this scam pulled off by elected officials and the superintendent can claim he or she would have liked to have had the chance to apply for this ghost principal job and can file charges with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and ask the federal government to cut off funds to the school for discrimination.</span></b></div><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><br /></span></b></div><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">And they should pay no attention to board attorney, Tom Gonzalez; he gives out wrong legal information to cover up his own case's violation of the equal-employment-opportunity laws.</span></b></div><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><br /></span></b></div><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">Yet the board stamps on everything not nailed down "We are an equal-employment-opportunity employer." This constant lie by the board represents contempt for the job it holds and disregard for the people who voted the board members into office. This behavior is hypocrisy in public office that defies belief. April is knee-deep in the deception and fools herself that she is a diplomat because she thinks she is a slick liar. She not only lies to others; she also lies to herself.</span></b></div><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><br /></span></b></div><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">April represents herself as a paragon of fiscal responsibility. Colluding with Ms. Elia to pull off a voter scam that awards a phantom job, its, pay, and its perquisites from public money to a failed principal who should be fired is not fiscally responsible. Nor is the overpayment of the board lawyer, Tom Gonzalez.</span></b></div><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><br /></span></b></div><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">Mr. Gonzalez makes $275,000 a year, the highest among state school lawyers. He does not deserve this bloated salary. First, he got his job from Earl the Pearl Lennard with a good-ol'-boy wink and a nod, not from a competitive process that would have ensued had the board insisted that it wanted to advertise the job to comply with Title VII and to get a competitive process that gave the board a chance to select the best-qualified person for the post.<br /><br /></span></b></div><div><strong></strong> </div><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"></span></b></div><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">The board considered Dr. Lennard the ultimate in superintendent quality. He in fact had emerged from the basement as school administrative apparatich. In the basement, he engaged in the academic mysteries of vo tech. That vo tech occupation was the sum of his administrative experience. He, when superintendent, became the head of the ROSSAC gang savaging Mr. Erwin for outing crime in the schools; so you have to infer Lennard and his administration thugs were on the receiving end of the bribes and graft under the table. </span></b></div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"></span></b><br /><p><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"></span></b></p><p><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">I would like to do a forensics exam of Dr. Lennard's USF thesis. I am sure it is ghosted and that the thesis committee was asleep at the switch or on the take. Dr. Lennard could not write a university-level thesis if his life depended on it.</span></b><br /></p><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">Not only did the board evade Title VII when it hired Gonzalez, but it did not require him to have a contract, so he has over the years of his employment submitted whatever figure comes to his mind each month to the tax kitty. The money comes rolling out without anyone's checking his loot's legitimacy. The Pinellas County attorney has a contract. He works full time for the board for a hundred thousand dollars a year less than Gonzalez. I have the contract online in one of my posts. You can get it yourself from the Pinellas School Board.</span></b><br /><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><br /></span></b><br /><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">And the Pinellas County attorney not only has his duties spelled out on paper in his contract, he works full-time on this job while Gonzalez flits in and out of the board room and has business with other entities in the area. He has, for example, a contract with USF. I wrote to USF and got a copy. A Dempsey dumpster must back up to Gonzalez's office every month to unload his loot from all these tax-supported clients.</span></b><br /><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><br /></span></b><br /><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">Tom Gonzalez does not deserve the highest pay to a school attorney in the state. He did not attend Yale, the Number One law school in the country's ranking; he attended Florida State's law school, Number 56 in the country's ranking of law schools. He writes so badly--grammar-punctuation errors abounding and a style of fusty, flatulent legalese that is almost impenetrable--that I wrote the Florida State Law writing faculty to rebuke its members for graduating him. Taxpayers deserve an attorney who can write plain English without remedial-English grammar-punctuation errors.</span></b><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"> Gonzalez should enroll in one of the 9th-grade English classes in the schools.<br /></span></b><br /><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">Le Gonzalez pays no attention to the board's business. So contemptuous is he of his job that he swills soda and munches chips on the board dais during session. No board member rebukes him for this unprofessional behavior. My Southern mother would say he was raised in a barn.<br /><br />I once observed Gonzalez's response to the board's questions about why it (the taxpayers) had to pay for the replacement of a fallen wall in a new school. Gonzalez hemmed and hawed, shucked and jived, recounted incidents in the professional life of his uncle contractor, and finally confessed that the school--i.e. the taxpayers--must pay for the wall replacement because he, in effect, didn't have the professional sense to tell the board to get the right amount of insurance for the project. In other words, he didn't read the fine print of the contract. Why should he? Nobody checks up on him. The board members are too intimidated by his third-rate law degree and his bluster to nail him down.<br /><br />RIP Falliero was chair then. She kept caterwauling about how mad she was at the contractor. It did not occur to her to be mad at the attorney and quiz him on his dereliction. The voters are right to have turned out Falliero on other grounds than adultery on the job--stupidity, for example.</span></b><br /><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><br /></span></b><br /><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">Not only does Gonzalez not pay attention to contracts, he can't even master simple things like getting the reading of sheriff's reports right. Teacher Steve Kemp and the King High administrative Toecracker got identical notices from the sheriff. Gonzalez filed his assessment with Professional Standards saying their notices were different--only to discover that the SPT reporter had published in the paper that the sheriff's reports on the two were identical. Gonzalez confronted the reporter and called him wrong.<br /><br />The reporter stood his ground and repeated the story in the paper. Gonzalez tardily read the reports and raced to file a redaction of his submission to the Professional Standards office. I don't know how he justified it, but Linda Kipley would have joined in the cover-up with her customary participation in covering up administration error.<br /><br />One is not surprised. You know that a woman like Kipley who wears see-through plastic baby-doll stilettoes to work is ready for criminal sprees that involve falsifying documents.</span></b><br /><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><br /></span></b><br /><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">I witnessed Gonzalez misrepresent the bullying law as not including teachers at the behest of Candy Olson, who does not like teachers and does not want them to have the protection of the bullying law as a buttress against false Professional Standards office charges to threaten their jobs if they speak out. Gonzalez twisted the law to say that it excluded teachers while at other school districts teachers were already using the bullying law. Everything is ad hoc in the administrative methods of the board, and Gonzalez buttresses this unorthodox, slap-dash conduct by ignoring or twisting of the law.</span></b><br /><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><br /></span></b><br /><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">With her hustings concern for economy in the schools, has April ever asked Mr. Valdez to do a survey of board attorney salaries in the state? Has she asked him to collect a representative sampling of contracts of board attorneys? Has she asked for a review of the hiring procedure that produced Mr. Gonzalez as attorney? No. No. And No. April tells political lies easily. She, in fact, lies when something inconvenient disturbs her. She would lie if one asked her these questions about the Gonzalez scam on the public.</span></b><br /><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><br /></span></b><br /><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">Griffin's worst lie is unproven but so resonant of her habit of lying that I put it in April's lies category.</span></b><br /><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><br /></span></b><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><b>A guy named, I think, Dave Schmidt has a blog on which he criticized April. She says she believes in free speech, so if she were displeased, she should have blasted him back in his comment section. Instead, she got Elia to have her staff sift through his personnel file to find a gnat with which to trap him. With customary mendacity, she claimed that a handy elf had turned up and whispered Dave's sin in her ear. Oh, sure. The old elf scam. We know it well.<br /><br />The gnat turned out to be that Schmidt's stepson had constructed the Web page for the language-for-emigrants program that Mr. Dave worked in; somewhere in the small print, there is a proviso that one must report any employment by a relative in the schools or be charged with a conflict of interest. Dave was so charged. Rewarding her faithful board pooch Griffin, Ms. Elia demoted Mr. Dave and reduced his salary. This retaliation against free speech summarizes Griffin's pathology: a meanness of spirit and a flaw in her character. Fortunately, this story made the paper.<br /><br />This trap is a standard terror tactic to cow employees into being drones for the board and administration. I suggest April should be ashamed of herself. She's not tough enough for public office and acts like a big, spoiled baby when criticized.<br /><br />Ms. Elia is so steeped in corruption that she has long passed the boundary of shame into the wilderness of blasted souls such as trod the wasted moors where Macbeth's three witches hold court. I believe she is growing warts with hairs sticking out of them as we speak. Her latest caper that a reader wrote me about is that she threatens to apply for some superintendent job in Nevado, or some western state where the buffaloes roam. The read on this gesture is that she is using it to bump up her salary in Hillsborough County and that the board is dumb enough to go along,</b></span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><b><br /></b></span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><b>Now as to April's claim that she loves teachers: Let's look at her record. </b></span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><b>When Steve Kemp had been on suspension for a year on the child-abuse charge that the supervisor of the special-needs children, an insidious viper named Smiley, lodged against him with the Sheriff's office, I suggested that Steve make an appointment with April Griffin to see if there were anything she could do to make things right. April met with him. That's to her credit. But at the end of the conversation she told him not to tell anyone that they had met and to be patient "because good things are happening behind the scenes."</b></span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><b><br /></b></span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><b>Question: why should Kemp have to keep things quiet about meeting with a board member? Are teachers toxic or what? Don't they deserve the attention of board members? And why should things be happening "behind the scenes"? Why aren't they happening on the board dais so that the public can review the situation? April is addicted to out-of-the-sunshine board monkey business so that nobody but the board and Ms. Elia's Star Chamber cohorts know what's really going on. This behavior violates government in the sunshine and violates April's claim to foster free speech.<br /><br />And if Griffin values teachers so much, why does she not ask for a blanket review of the Professional Standards charges on file? I asked for teacher charges from Professional Standards; I got a whole stack. I asked for administrator charges: not one did I get. We are talking shameless invidious enforcement here despite the State Education Web site's saying both teachers and administrators are liable for professional standards charges. No administrator ever gets a Professional Standards charge. That was the invidious situation with Steve Kemp and the administrator Toecracker foot fetishist whom the administration tolerated until a parent finally complained to the press.<br /><br />So why, if she respects teachers, hasn't Griffin asked for a review of the charges over, say, a five-year period for professional standards violations to check for parity between teachers and administrators? Because Griffin is totally in tune with the administration's aim to use the Professional Standards office as a trap for teachers that threatens their jobs to shut them up. Griffin knows this ugly fact. She does nothing about it. She endorses it.<br /><br />To tie the ribbon on this truth of Griffin anti-teacher bias, there's this: I wrote her and Susan Valdes asking for a settled place on the agenda for teachers and students to speak. Neither answered me.<br /></b></span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><b><br /></b></span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><b>Another Griffin First Amendment suppression occurred when I heard her in the back of the board room where the Alafia mothers had gathered to speak to the board about the Alafia situation. I overheard Griffin tell these Alafia mothers who came to confront the board about their refusal to accept Ms. Smith as the principal of their children's schools that they would be "injuring the schools" if they testified before the board on the Alafia case.</b></span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><b></b></span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><b>Why wouldn't instead these mothers exemplify the best tradition of the freedom of citizens to address the elected members that represent them in a public forum? The Constitution calls the process appealing for redress of grievances. When I went up to blast some other evil practiced by the board and administration, I said that the mothers had a perfect right to address the board, that their doing so was in the best tradition of democracy.</b></span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><b></b></span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><b>The mothers had given me one of their defiant t-shirt rebukes to the board, and I wore it draped around my shoulders when I addressed the board.<br /><br /> Unhappily, the mothers succumbed to April's anti-free-speech lie that their addressing board about Alafia's vile principal would harm the schools while it, in fact, would harm only the indifferent board and administration and make them more responsive to the public that they purport to serve.<br /><br />A young man came up as spokesperson for the Alafia parents and made an ass of himself by sucking up to the board. That is the wrong approach. This attitude of citizens is what inflates naive board members self-regard and causes them to be contemptuous of voters. The equation should be the other way around. Parents should keep in mind that board members such as April, who has a GED and a penchant for lying as credentials, are public servants. They should keep in mind that public servants such as board members should serve the public, not the other way around.</b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><b><br /></b></span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><b>If I knew what April's church was, I would send its women's sodality a record of her deficient service on the board. Not knowing her church affiliation, I might send a message to all the churches in Seminole Heights, where she has her home. It would be the Christian thing to do. Maybe the church activists could call on her serially and give her ethics lectures. I, by the way, am Episcopal. Turn me in to the hierarchy at any time. I will fight back with leafleting the major Episcopal church in the district.<br /><br />I see the Web has eight or nine pages of churches in Hillsborogh County. Maybe all of these should get information on April's louche performance as board member during her incumbency. Churches are the locales where a community's morals are under concentrated attention. I doubt that April's board performance would merit their approval. I have left out the synagogues and Muslim religious. I don't know if there are any Buddhists in Hillsborough County. We must include them too.</b></span> <span style="font-weight: bold;">They all need to know what a vile, unethical board member Le Griffin has been.</span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><b><br /></b></span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><b>The time has come to give another candidate a chance at a board slot. I suggest that Sally Harris should replace Griffin. I have talked to Sally. I sense she is a person who may have the chutzpah not to cave in to the evils of the board and administration. I even see her bringing up issues under Roberts Rules on the dais in board time with which the other members will have to wrestle in the public eye.<br /><br />We can hope that Salyt will pipe up on the dais and say, "Madam Chair, I move that we discuss the disparate numbers of teachers as compared to administrators charged by the Professional Standards office so that we can suggest a remedy to this unfair situation." </b></span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><b><br />To see if this motion gets a second so that the discussion can begin will be delicious. I think there's hope that Susan will second the motion and immediately go on the revenge list of Ms.Elia's Star Chamber retaliation brigade. I would not be surprised if Ms. Ethridge seconded the motion. There must be some shred of rebellion in the psyche of a woman whose race has suffered centuries of savaging in the Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave.<br /><br />Or Board Member Sally could say, "Madam Chair, I move that we request Mr. Valdez and his personnel apparatus to review Board Attorney Tom Gonzalez's pay, contract obligations, and work product and then compare them to those of similarly situated board attorneys across the state."<br /><br />We can then judge whether Sally serves taxpayers by tackling some of the evils that I have pointed out that Griffin has ignored or participate in or whether citizens have to tough out Sally's incumbency of four years before moving on to another prospect.<br /><br />Meanwhile, I am clicking through the lists of churches in Hillsborough County. I shall also see if there are temples and any mosques. The religious community is the repository of ethics and morality in any community. Maybe it needs to hear that a board member in charge of the community's children is ripping off the First Amendment, telling lies by the bushel, and cheating the tax payers of money by giving it to a former principal for a manufactured job who should have been fired.<br /><br />Not only religious ethics but secular ethics also condemn April's lying to the public that she ran for office saying she would protect. From Aristotle's </b><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Nichomachean Ethics</span><b> to Dear Abbey, all moral commentary on Ms. Griffin's behavior in public office would feature condemnation.<br /><br /></b></span><br /><br /><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><br /></span></b>twinkobiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07865056039680988073noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28089922.post-83388894374796318102010-09-03T17:48:00.000-07:002010-09-03T17:55:37.174-07:00Latino LiteratureSusan, in the Labor section of <i>La <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">Gaceta</span></i> this week, there is an announcement that Norton has just published a Latino literature anthology.<!-- Site Meter XHTML Strict 1.0 --><script type="text/javascript" src="http://s41.sitemeter.com/js/counter.js?site=s41twinkobie"></script><!-- Copyright (c)2006 Site Meter --><div><br /></div><div>Higher education widely uses Norton anthologies.</div><div><br /></div><div>You and all the board can get an examination copy from the local salesperson of Norton.</div><div><br /></div><div>Then you can talk to the English department heads about introducing an introductory course in Latino literature for talented 12-grade students as an elective.</div><div><br /></div><div>I will help nag<i> La <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">Gaceta</span></i> to publish some of the students' essays. lee <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2">de</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3">cesare</span></div>twinkobiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07865056039680988073noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28089922.post-80200725639467255062010-08-29T09:36:00.001-07:002010-08-31T09:53:43.909-07:00Run-off Candidates<div><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"> The run-0ff candidates in RIP </span><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">Falliera's</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"> district are White 37 percent and </span><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">Bartels</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"> 30 percent.<br /></span></strong><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><br /><br /><br /></span></b></div><div><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">In the run-off for this RIP Jennifer </span><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">Falliero</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"> seat, there are Stacy White</span></strong><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></b><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"> 37 percent and </span><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">Bartels</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"> 30 percent. </span></strong></div><div><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></strong></div><div><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"> Mr. </span><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">Bartels</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"> appears on </span><em><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">Facebook</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">.</span></em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"> He says that he is "tanned, rested, and ready." One is happy to hear this benign condition. Pharmacist White has a Website: therein a picture shows him to be spruce in white uniform of his calling as a </span></strong><strong><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_6"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">de </span></span><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_7"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">riguer</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"> pharmacist should be. Ms. Manners says so.</span></strong></div><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></b><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">Dr. White gets off to a bad start with his banner of "Honesty, Integrity, and Accessibility." That is a fusty logo of ancient political vintage. It takes most candidates a little time before they </span></strong><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">revert to such threatbare rubrics of politics-as-usual. </span></strong></div><div><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></strong></div><div><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">An apparent political adept, Dr. White jumps into the political melee with his standard spiel all ready. He trumpets that his is a candidacy of "accessibility, honesty, and integrity." Such political shibboleth should make voters' hairs on the back of their necks stand up in a Darwinian response to danger.</span></strong></div><div><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></strong></div><div><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">First, Le White is not accessible. I called him directly after his announcement and asked him to call me back so that I could quiz him on his platform. He didn't return my call.</span></strong></div><div><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></strong></div><div><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">There goes the claim of "</span><span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_9"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">accessibility</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">" down the chute. Moreover, it's dishonesty to claim accessibility and not be </span><span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_10"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">accessible</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">. So Dr. White's has killed two birds with one stone: accessibility and honesty. He also claims to have "integrity." I doubt if this connoisseur of scripts and pills could define the word. It means "adherence to moral principles; soundness of character, honesty."</span></strong></div><div><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></strong></div><div><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"> Dr. White has already blown "honesty" and "accessibility," so by default he cannot claim integrity. In fact, were I his client, I might feel the need to count my pills for one of Dr. White's prescriptions.</span></strong><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><br /><br /></span></b><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">Dr. White goes from bad to worse in continuing his spiel on his Web site. It is gaseous hokum of the type that a person presents when he is too unsophisticated and too dishonest and too contemptuous of voters to say in plain English what he would do on the school board. We must watch the gentleman with a jaundiced eye.</span></strong><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><br /><br /></span></b><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">In his favor is Dr. White's handsome family: Barbie, his pretty wife, two adorable little girls, and one precious little boy. How </span><span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_11"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">fortunate</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"> is this school-board </span><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_12"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">obfuscator</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"> to have such a family if not accessibilty, honesty, and integrity.<br /></span></strong><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></b><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">I don't think Dr. White knows anything at all about the immoral running of the schools by the current board despite his having served his local schools in various capacities. My guess is that he does not want to know. He shows all the signs of being a congenital </span><span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_13"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">round heels. If he</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"> gets on the board, going along to get along and obeying Ms. Elia's edicts without blinking an eye will be his trademark. </span></strong></div><div><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></strong></div><div><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"> I bet Le White doesn't know that the board pays the board attorney, Tom Gonzalez. $275,000 a year, highest in the state.</span></strong></div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></b><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></b></div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></b><div><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">Le Gonzalez does not deserve this astronomical pay from taxpayers; he is mediocre at best. He did not graduate from the Number One school in the country, Yale; he graduated from the 56</span><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_14"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">th</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">: Florida State. His writing is so bad--grammar-punctuation errors that would flunk a </span><span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_15"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">ninth</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"> grader, not to mention a style of flatulent </span><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_16"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">lawyerese</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"> featuring fusty diction: Gonzalez never uses one word when he can cram in ten: the more words, the higher taxpayer shakedown. So badly does the board attorney write that I rebuked the Florida State law school's writing faculty for graduating him to prey on the Florida populace.</span></strong><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><br /><br /></span></b><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">All three board members during Gonzalez's hiring still hunker on the board--Olson, Lamb, and </span><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_17"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">Kurdell. They </span></span><span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_18"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">rubber stamped</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"> Gonzalez's employment by Earl the Pearl Lennard. Earl the Pearl hired this third-rate legal specimen with no competition. The board did not advertise the job. The Pearl simply handed the board-attorney plum to Gonzalez with a wink and a nod in good-</span><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_19"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">ol</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">-boy fashion.</span></strong></div><div><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></strong></div><div><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"> Yet board members piously opine on every piece of paper that circulates in the whirlwind of memos churned out in </span><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_20"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">ROSSAC</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"> that it is "an equal-employment-opportunity employer." Maryellen Elia, who is running an F in Ethics 101, has continued Gonzalez's employment. My judgement says La Mary Ellen is not only unethical but lazy and so pusillanimous under her bluster that she fears challenging a past mess-up in hiring by her </span><span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_21"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">predecessor</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">, Earl the Pearl. She probably calls Earl the Pearl at the Supervisor of Election sinecure to which </span><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_22"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">Crist</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"> appointed the rascal to get permission to go to the bathroom.</span></strong><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><br /><br /></span></b><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">Three board members who were </span><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_23"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">original</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"> </span><span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_24"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">rubber stampers</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"> of this legal C student's employment --Olson, Lamb, and </span><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_25"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">Kurdell</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">--have never questioned Gonzalez's bloated pay. Nor have the four others, who have since joined the board and continued this </span><span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_26"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">outrageous</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"> misuse of public funds: Griffin, </span><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_27"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">Valdes</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">, RIP </span><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_28"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">Falliera</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">, and </span><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_29"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">Ethridge</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">. Not one has demanded a review of Gonzalez's employment because they suspected the board was overpaying him and wanted an accounting of the situation plus an accounting for the violation of the equal-employment opportunity laws in his hiring that they aver they follow. No board member has asked Mr. Valdez to do a salary study of state board attorneys to compare what Gonzales gets to what other school board attorneys get.</span></strong></div><div><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></strong></div><div><strong><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_30"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">Etheridge</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"> was a principal in the schools so well knows what is going on from viewing it close up for years. She and Dr. Lamb are also double dippers in the retirement system and think it's just swell to rape the tax kitty for fun and profit whether for themselves or in overpaying the attorney.</span></strong><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></b><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">This behavior does not bespeak a high level of ethics. </span><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_31"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">Ethridge</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"> is the only black on the board. She has not used that position to do diddly for black children. She's bucking to be an honorary whitey.<br /></span></strong><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></b><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">I have observed Mr. Gonzalez's </span><span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_32"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">performance</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"> for over two years. I recall a case's dealing with a wall's falling down in a newly built school. Apparent was that Gonzalez did not read the fine print of the contract so did not advise the board to get sufficient insurance. Who paid for that piece of legal carelessness? the taxpayers, of course.</span></strong></div><div><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></strong></div><div><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">RIP </span><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_33"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">Falliera</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"> was board chair then, voted in by a board all of whom knew of her long-running adultery on school grounds and considered this background suitable for a school board chair. The dimwitted </span><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_34"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">Falliera</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"> raged about how mad she was at the builder for the fallen wall. It did not occur to her to demand of Le Gonzalez: "And why didn't you advise us about this insurance situation, sir?"</span></strong><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><br /><br /></span></b><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">It's not just whopping tax payouts for his louche legal advice with which taxpayers get stuck. Mr. Gonzalez messes up smaller things as well. Teacher Steve Kemp's job was on the line via a false Professional Standards charge for "child abuse," filed with the sheriff's office</span></strong><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">.</span></b><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"> At the same time, an administrator at King High who called pubescent boys into his office, ordered them to take off their shoes and socks, and demanded that they present him their feet to fondle would have got away with this outrage but for some fortuitous circumstances. The ToeCracker--probably because of a newspaper story-- had a sheriff's charge filed against him too.</span></strong></div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></b><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></b></div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></b><div><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">If the administration could have gotten away with not filing any charge against the </span><span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_35"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">administrator</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"> ToeCracker with the sheriff , it would have. </span></strong><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"> But a parent complained. So the board had to mime a virtue though its members had it not. The board and administration have an unspoken policy that no Professional Standards charge is ever filed against an administrator--only against teachers to shut them up from complaining about the vile ways the administration and board run the schools. The board and superintendent don't want the bad publicity this information's leaking out to the </span><span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_36"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">citizens</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"> might cause. </span></strong><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><br /><br /></span></b><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">When the charges--one with a professional-</span><span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_37"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">standards</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"> charge against teacher Kemp, one without a professional-standards charge against the administrative Toe Cracker came back from the sheriff, the sheriff's recommendation was identical for both the Toe Cracker Fetishist and Teacher Kemp. But Mr. Gonzalez's not reading even these brief pieces of school-business prose resulted in his maintaining they were different. This outback mouthpiece got into an argument with the </span><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_38"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">SPT</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"> reporter who had written that the Kemp and Toe Cracker charges were identical.</span></strong></div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></b><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></b></div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></b><div><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"> Then Mr. Gonzalez found out the reporter was right and rushed to file a redaction with the Professional Standards office.</span></strong><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></b><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">What makes me think that<br />Alley </span><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_39"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">OOp</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"> Gonzalez did not apologize to the reporter?</span></strong></div><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></strong><div><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><br />The administration refused to have the Foot Fetishist </span><span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_40"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">Administrator</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"> get a valid psychological examination until a parent told the King principal he would file a lawsuit against the schools for negligence of children's safety if the administration did not have such an examination of the </span><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_41"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">ToeCracker</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">.</span></strong></div><div><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></strong></div><div><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">The ruse the board and administration pulled off to circumvent a valid examination by an outside psychiatrist was to have an in-house cipher with a some </span><span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_42"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">psychology</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"> credits conduct the examination. The result said the Toe Cracker had no foot-fetishism pathology. Had the in-house psychology factotum said otherwise, the wretch would have lost his or her job pronto. Hence, another board-administration rip-off of probity against the taxpayers and disinterest in the children's safety.</span></strong><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><br /><br /></span></b><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">The </span><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_43"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">Pinellas</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"> County school board attorney makes $175,00 a year and has a contract that outlines his duties. He is a full-time employee. Gonzalez does his work on the hourly plan whose rate he sets himself and then feeds into the tax-money machine the bloated amount he claims he has earned with no board supervision. Gonzalez has a written contract with </span><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_44"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">USF</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"> and lord knows whom else. But the </span><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_45"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">Hillsborough</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"> County school system is too naive and too indifferent to wasting tax money to require a lawyer contract to protect itself and citizens' money. And the board lets this legal leech suck money from the taxpayers without oversight.</span></strong><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><br /><br /></span></b><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">I don't believe Gonzalez reads the board-related work on which he should to render valid opinions. Why should he? Nobody checks. I have been trying to get the folder under public information to read his opinions and work record for the schools. So far the excuse is that it does not exist, that he does everything orally. Does that make sense to the average citizen? A</span></strong><strong><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_46"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">ren't</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"> taxpayers entitled to a written record to catalog this guy's claim of $275,000 per </span><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_47"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">annum</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"> for his "work"? I will pursue this situation further under public information. Thank God for the public-</span><span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_48"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">records</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"> laws. </span></strong></div><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></b><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">If the </span><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_49"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">Hillsborough</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"> County board discharged Mr. Gonzalez, advertised the job as Title VII requires, and picked the best candidate, there is no reason why the taxpayers would not save at least $100,000 a year and get better legal representation. So much for the board's chorus of "saving every penny of taxpayer money."</span></strong></div><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></b></div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></b><div><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">I wonder if any of the board run-off candidates have the courage, the information, and the care for taxpayer rights to insist on this revelation in their election campaign? I heard that the board members and opponents discussed piffle at the Tiger Bay board program. Piffle is their milieu, not serious board business.</span></strong></div><div><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></strong></div><div><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">It seems that the only people who run for the school board are a bevy of mediocre wannabes who lust to occupy a public office for its social eclat and will go along to get along if elected. The educational backgrounds of board members are not impressive. </span><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_50"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">Valdes</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"> and Griffin have no college degree at all; the rest have vapid degrees from outback institutions of no distinction whatsoever.</span></strong></div><div><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></strong></div><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></b><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">The board members make more than beginning teachers while claiming that they want teachers to get adequate compensation. Many school districts throughout the United States have school-board members serve as a community service. Try that protocol in </span><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_51"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">Hillsborough</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"> County, and you will have a board </span><span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_52"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">ruckus</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"> </span><span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_53"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">explode</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"> about how they deserve to make more than teachers. The only time the late RIP </span><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_54"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">Falliero</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"> exploded </span><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_55"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">publicly</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"> </span><span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_56"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">occurred</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"> when a Tallahassee legislator threatened to lower school-board salaries.</span></strong></div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></b><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></b></div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></b><div><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"> I once confronted Jack Lamb, backed up by Candy Olson, at Tiger Bay to say that I objected to the recent board salary hike that put board members above teachers in pay. While Candy stood by and smirked--too gutless to pitch in herself--, Jack Lamb told me, in effect, to go back across the bay to the beach, where I now live, as if I were a wetback, intruding on Tampa Good </span><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_57"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">Ol</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">' Boy politics. Candy stood by and beamed approval of Lamb's blasting me. She doesn't have the guts to fight herself.</span></strong></div><div><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></strong></div><div><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">Between White and Bartels, I would choose Bartels. Go to the Bartels biography online to see what success he had as principal of Freedom High School. Here is a partial excerpt:</span></strong></div><div><strong><!-- Content --> <div id="content"><!-- Posts --> <div class="post"> <div class="options"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div> <h2 class="post-title"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">Biography</span></h2> <div class="entry"> <p><span style="COLOR: #000080"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">For over 100 years the nation, the city of New York, and the state of Florida have all benefited from my family’s long and rich tradition of public service. My Grandfather was a NYC firefighter; my Uncle and Cousin were veterans of the NYPD. My father, a veteran of three wars, served this nation for over twenty-three years while another uncle served his country as a Special Agent for the FBI.</span></span></p> <p><span style="COLOR: #000080"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">I decided to enter this School Board race in order to make a difference and to serve the community in which I have lived since 1966. I offer a proven record of accomplishment and service as an instructional leader. In 2006 the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (SACS) Quality Assurance review team said of my leadership at Freedom High School, </span><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">“</span><em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">Mr. Bartels is a highly qualified, strong and decisive individual with a vision for academic excellence.</span></em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">”</span></strong></span></p> <p><span style="COLOR: #000080"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">I am a native of Brooklyn New York; the son of a career serviceman, I lived in the Far East for five years. I attended military dependent schools in Japan and Okinawa, as well as public schools in Pennsylvania and Texas.</span></span></p> <p><span style="COLOR: #000080"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">I earned my bachelors (BA) degree from the University of Tampa and my masters (MA) degree from the University of South Florida. I did additional graduate work at USF earning certification in Educational Leadership.</span></span></p> <p><span style="COLOR: #000080"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">For nearly fourteen years I taught a myriad of Social Studies courses in the Hillsborough County Schools. In 1984 I was appointed Dean of Students at East Bay High School. Three years later, I was selected to become the first Assistant Principal for Curriculum at Bloomingdale High School. The then Superintendent, Dr. Earl Lennard, asked me to transfer to King High School, where I was appointed to the principalship.</span></span></p> <p><span style="COLOR: #000080"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">During the 1,000 days that I served as Principal, King High School accomplished the following:</span></span></p> <p><span style="COLOR: #000080"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">1) Newsweek ranked King as one of the top 100 schools in the nation.</span></span></p> <p><span style="COLOR: #000080"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">2) Our school grade improved from a “C” to an “A” in 2001.</span></span></p> <p><span style="COLOR: #000080"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">3) Additional Advanced Placement (AP) and Dual Enrollment courses were added and the curriculum was strengthened.</span></span></p> <p><span style="COLOR: #000080"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">4) Daily student attendance improved from 86% to 93%.</span></span></p> <p><span style="COLOR: #000080"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">5) A Naval JROTC program was established</span></span></p> <p><span style="COLOR: #000080"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">6) Enrollment in the International Baccalaureate (IB) program increased with 78% of IB graduates earning an IB diploma.</span></span></p> <p><span style="COLOR: #000080"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">In 2002 I was selected to become the charter principal of Freedom High School. During my tenure Freedom accomplished the following:</span></span></p> <p><span style="COLOR: #000080"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">1) Newsweek ranked us as one of the top schools in the Nation.</span></span></p> <p><span style="COLOR: #000080"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">2) Our school grade improved from a “B” to an “A” in 2008.</span></span></p> <p><span style="COLOR: #000080"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">3) Twenty Advanced Placement (AP) courses were offered.</span></span></p> <p><span style="COLOR: #000080"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">4) A Naval JROTC program was established.</span></span></p> <p><span style="COLOR: #000080"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">5) Freedom’s school newspaper was selected as the best HS paper in the Southeast.</span></span></p> <p><span style="COLOR: #000080"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">6) 10 Million dollars in academic, athletic, and Performing Arts scholarships were awarded in 2008.</span></span></p><p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">The only problem I see with the Bartels candidacy is that he was part of the school system while the board and Dr. Earl the Pearl were savaging Mr. Erwin for asking them to do something about the crime he had discovered emanating from ROSSAC. Mr. Erwin got no support from anybody in the schools. Members of the school family were scared to utter a peep of protest or to contact Mr. Erwin and at least give him verbal support. Courage is the least prominent virtue of the human race. After spending my professional life in colleges and universities, I can attest that high intelligence does not equate to high courage. The good news, however, is that without any inside support, Mr. Erwin won his whistleblower law suit against the schools, got $165,000 for the board's and the Pearl's crimes against him--paid by the taxpayers, of course, and escaped to the arcadian fields of bliss in South Georgia. </span></p><p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">Tiger Bay kicked me out for asking harsh questions of the pols who showed up and for being "unladylike." lee<br /></span></p><p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></p></div></div></div></strong></div><div><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">I will discuss the April Griffin run-off next. Lord help us if she gets re-elected. lee</span></strong></div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></b><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></b></div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></b><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></b></div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></b><p><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></b></p><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></b><p><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></strong></p><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></strong><div><strong><br />.</strong><br /></div><strong></strong>twinkobiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07865056039680988073noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28089922.post-15353045407085646742010-08-25T21:20:00.000-07:002010-08-29T09:35:46.297-07:00I Don't Think This Is John<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_dl8vHbrr-vU/THXsv8_vfII/AAAAAAAADd0/l7udst2DtbQ/s1600/image001.png"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: pointer" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5509570027729157250" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_dl8vHbrr-vU/THXsv8_vfII/AAAAAAAADd0/l7udst2DtbQ/s400/image001.png" /></a> 8/29/10 John is alive and has sent a lauche comment below. He is mad at me for not publishing him. I thought I had. Here, John, I have published you. There, there. lee<br /><br /><br /><br /><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:';font-size:14;color:black;">Gentle Readers: Whoever wrote this below piffle is too gutless to sign his name.<span style="font-size:0;"> </span>I don’t know if he is a hack for the pharmacist in the run-off with Griffin or a grammar maniac on the loose.<span style="font-size:0;"><br /></span></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:';font-size:14;color:black;"><span style="font-size:0;"></span>I recall that the druggist got a so-so review from Patrick Manteiga in <i>La Gaceta</i>.<span style="font-size:0;"> </span>If the fellow has as much <span style="font-size:0;"></span>writing awareness as he displays in his unsigned squib to me, Patrick should have given<span style="font-size:0;"> </span>him a higher evaluation.<br /></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:';font-size:14;color:black;"><br /></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:';font-size:14;color:black;">His writing shows he has a brain—if the jagged essay is his writing: a constipated brain with misfiring synapses but better than nothing.</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:';font-size:14;color:black;"><br /></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /><b><span style="font-family:';font-size:14;color:black;"><?xml:namespace prefix = o /><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:';font-size:14;color:black;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:';font-size:14;color:black;">What I think is that this bozo is a ghost writer for the druggist. The druggist may not know language well enough to speak it and can only count pills. <span style="font-size:0;"></span>Dr. Pill Pusher may have got his degree online from Placebo U. But I wish the druggist indeed knew language well and got elected.<span style="font-size:0;"> </span>He would be the most literate person prowling the halls of ROSSAC, and I would have someone on the board to banter with about the abuse of language.</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:';font-size:14;color:black;"><br /></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:';font-size:14;color:black;"><span style="font-size:0;"></span>If he reviews April Griffin’s blog, he will see a passel of grammar-punctuation errors.<span style="font-size:0;"> </span>April has no college degree and is proud of it. She wants to turn the county high schools into tech emporiums.<br /></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:';font-size:14;color:black;">Then the graduates would be as bereft of learning as she is.</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:';font-size:14;color:black;"><br /></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /><b><span style="font-family:';font-size:14;color:black;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:';font-size:14;color:black;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:';font-size:14;color:black;">If Dr. Pill Chit wants to beat April, <span style="font-size:0;"></span>he will have to be more forthcoming than he has been so far in the campaign.<span style="font-size:0;"> </span>He must have the guts to confront Griffin on her trashing government in the sunshine by agreeing to everything’s being decided in the superintendent’s star chamber, put on the rolling consent agenda, and rubberstamped by the potted-plant board.<span style="font-size:0;"> </span>He will also insist that Griffin confess to <span style="font-size:0;"></span>helping Elia create an empty job for the Alafia principal—the one whom parents rejected.<span style="font-size:0;"> </span>The deal was that the failed principal would get the same principal salary <span style="font-size:0;"></span>as she made as Alafia principal in the created perch if she would only resign.<span style="font-size:0;"> </span>Elia needed her to resign quietly to stop the bad press Elia was getting about the situation. April helped Elia in this dirty deal by going out to Alafia with Motel Breath Falliero to convince Principal Smith to resign.<span style="font-size:0;"><br /></span></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:';font-size:14;color:black;"><span style="font-size:0;"><br /></span></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:';font-size:14;color:black;"><span style="font-size:0;"></span>If April were representing the taxpayers <span style="font-size:0;"></span>Instead of shilling for Elia , she would have acted like a <span style="font-size:0;"></span>good school board member and insisted that the superintendent fire the failed principal.<span style="font-size:0;"> </span>This failed principal now sits in the book depository, paring her nails at taxpayers’ expense on a principal’s salary thanks to the collusion of Candidate Griffin and Motel Breath Falliero. Motel Breath will no longer adorn the board say the election results.<span style="font-size:0;"> </span>I believe I contributed to her demise. I would like to think so.</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /><b><span style="font-family:';font-size:14;color:black;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:';font-size:14;color:black;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:';font-size:14;color:black;">I don’t think the druggist has the right stuff for politics.<span style="font-size:0;"> </span>He didn’t answer my call when he first announced.<span style="font-size:0;"> </span>A real pol answers calls no matter from whom the call is.<span style="font-size:0;"> </span>And he has insufficient <span style="font-size:0;"></span>guts to sign his name to a critical email such as the foregoing. John indeed. Nothing to admire in this quarter.<span style="font-size:0;"> </span>That’s the kind of people who run for the school board.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:';font-size:14;color:black;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:';font-size:14;color:black;">lee<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><script type="text/javascript" src="http://s41.sitemeter.com/js/counter.js?site=s41twinkobie"></script>twinkobiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07865056039680988073noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28089922.post-57648877529755200912010-08-24T20:48:00.000-07:002010-08-24T23:55:35.728-07:00Whoopee!<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_dl8vHbrr-vU/THS-TIaQnoI/AAAAAAAADdU/ggy1De_l6WI/s1600/Untitled.png"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_dl8vHbrr-vU/THS-TIaQnoI/AAAAAAAADdU/ggy1De_l6WI/s400/Untitled.png" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5509237480065375874" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_dl8vHbrr-vU/THS6rUBzCbI/AAAAAAAADdE/ru9qJfM4gUQ/s1600/falliero.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 168px; height: 156px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_dl8vHbrr-vU/THS6rUBzCbI/AAAAAAAADdE/ru9qJfM4gUQ/s400/falliero.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5509233497454348722" /></a>Motel Breath Falliero, late board member RIP<div><br /></div><div><br /><p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><u>Dr. White:</u> There are no specifics to your general comments on your candidate page. They are very high-sounding and abstruse.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Are you sure you aren’t a school administrator with a degree in early childhood?<o:p></o:p></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><br /></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><o:p> </o:p></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">I would like a specific answer to this question.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>I was taught English at HCC for 28 years.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>The incoming freshman from local schools did not know grammar and punctuation basics.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>They did not know how to structure and develop the standard five-paragraph essay.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>It’s hard to teach <i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">Hamlet </i>and Yeats to students of this caliber.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>There is nothing the college teacher can do but to take time out that should be devoted to higher-level writing and literature and teach the students what they did not learn in high school.<o:p></o:p></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><br /></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><o:p> </o:p></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>What specifically will you do if you win the run-off for the board to deal with this problem of the schools’ graduating marginally literate students? Would you be courageous enough to require an exit essay that demonstrated competence in grammar, punctuation, and construction of a standard five-paragraph essay?<o:p></o:p></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><br /></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><o:p> </o:p></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">Lee Drury De Cesare<o:p></o:p></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><br /></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><o:p> </o:p></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><u>Mr. Bartels:</u> I assume that you and Dr. White are the run-off candidates.<o:p></o:p></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><br /></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><o:p> </o:p></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">Your platform is a mystery except for your promise to support the arts.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>I believe you specifically cite music.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>I am for that impulse.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>I do not get the impression that the current board is much interested in the arts. They are mostly interested in ripping off tax payers with flying around the country on larks for the ostensible purpose of boning up on how to be a superlative board member but really to lark about and investigate the ins and outs of room service in swank hotels; this they do while the poor children in the county can’t afford school supplies to participate in class. So you will<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>be the leader in this arts quest if you can get it past the current traveling board harpies.<o:p></o:p></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><br /></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><o:p> </o:p></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">I see a picture of you on your site with flags draped around a stage that looks as if you are set to preside over a hoedown.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>That’s fine.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>I am fond of hoedowns.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>My Georgia family likes nothing better than a hoedown, and my daddy played the “fiddle,” i.e. the violin.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>He thought it pretentions to speak of a fiddle as a violin.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>All his witty relatives would have accused him of “getting’ above his raisin’.”<o:p></o:p></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><br /></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><o:p> </o:p></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">I myself like opera.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Not the Grand Ol variety but the Wagner kind.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>If there is a Ring Cycle any place in the US or Canada, I am on a plane to get there for the 20 hours or so of the performance. I hope you will sponsor a <u>Ring</u> in the schools to testify to your love of music. <span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>That would represent real devotion to the arts.<o:p></o:p></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><br /></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><o:p> </o:p></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">If you win against the druggist, I will be interested to see how brave you are.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>The board members are entrenched in their ways, and I have seen Ms. Olson and Ms. Kurdell slap a board member silly for suggesting that it is not ethical to award no-bid contracts.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>To an average citizen, giving no-bid contracts to buddies and former administrators sounds like crime.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>But the board has its own protocols of crime.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>You will see if you survive in November and have the effrontery to think you have a right to your own opinion and represent citizens’ interests, not the administration’s and board’s, <span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>and won’t be slapped flat and shut up by the entrenched board commandos. I will be watching your performance, sir.<o:p></o:p></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><br /></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><o:p> </o:p></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">Lee Drury De Cesare <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"></b></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><br /></b></p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: 900;"><u><br /></u></span></div>twinkobiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07865056039680988073noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28089922.post-79504902882433911902010-08-18T10:54:00.000-07:002010-08-18T19:45:02.875-07:00A Lick for the Young Sisters<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_dl8vHbrr-vU/TGwfmToqx7I/AAAAAAAADc0/QEnzRiQwYqU/s1600/Florence.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_dl8vHbrr-vU/TGwfmToqx7I/AAAAAAAADc0/QEnzRiQwYqU/s320/Florence.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5506811187333613490" /></a><b><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-large;">Outside Florence on my way to see David</span></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-large;"><br /></span></b></span></div></b><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">Gentle Readers: I am now composing a letter to the Civil Rights Commission that covers Florida to have it do a compliance review of the crimes committed in the Hillsborough County school system. Never despair. The wheels of justice grind slowly, but they grind.</span></b><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><br /></span></b></div><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><br /></span></b><!-- Site Meter XHTML Strict 1.0 --><script type="text/javascript" src="http://s41.sitemeter.com/js/counter.js?site=s41twinkobie"></script><!-- Copyright (c)2006 Site Meter --><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><br /></span></b></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">To: Brian Dunn, CEO and President of Best Buy</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><br /></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">From: Lee Drury De Cesare</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><br /></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"> </span></b></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">I have been a customer of Best Buy for some time: a frequent customer of the Geek squad at the 66</span></b><sup><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">th</span></b></sup><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"> Street St. Petersburg, FL, store. </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><br /></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"> </span></b></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">The squad features pleasant, knowledgeable young men. Two in particular, both named Michael, at the 66</span></b><sup><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">th</span></b></sup><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"> street store have been helpful. There are four Michaels at the site, but the two I refer to are the one who is an Iraq veteran and has an aeronautical engineering degree and the second is a Russian: I mean from Russia. He knows the literature of the country as well as the lore of the Cossacks. One does not expect a Geek to know the works of Chekov, but so it is. The company is lucky to have such employees.</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><br /></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"> </span></b></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">I have two complaints: overcharging and sexism. </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><br /></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><br /></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"> </span></b></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">I took my old computer in because it was on the fritz. The Geek diagnosis was the hard drive had died. I paid $69 for that diagnosis and had the Geek squad put in a new hard drive. That did not fix the problem. So the Geeks went back and rediagnosed the problem: they said it was the mother board, which made me buy a new computer. </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><br /></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"> </span></b></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">The problem is that the manager of the department, whose name I don’t know, insisted I pay another $69 for the redone diagnosis. He was impervious to my argument that the Geek Squad had misdiagnosed my problem the first time and that I should not have to pay for that mistake. He is not managerial material: no charm, no flexibility, and rather surly. The Russian geek or the engineering Michael should replace him.</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><br /></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"> </span></b></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">I ask that you refund the unfair second $69 charge for the first misdiagnosis on my Best Buy account.</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><br /></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"> </span></b></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">I have another concern. The picture that appears at the top of the Geek desk in the store has all guys depicted: no women. When I complained to the Geeks, one said defensively, “We have three females in this unit.” I don’t know why men can’t bring themselves to call women “women.” “Females” has the negative connotation of not really wanting an alien species to invade their realm.</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><br /></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"> </span></b></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">The “female” Geek who helped me discover that I was hooking up the computer incorrectly when I hauled in my computer yesterday for diagnosis said that she had saved her babysitting money when she was 14 and bought herself her first computer. She learned on her own. All girls need is Geek pictures that include them. That would up your women Geek population.</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><br /></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"> </span></b></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"> I note also that the store salespeople are almost all men.</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><br /></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"> </span></b></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">This will never do, Mr. Dunn. How can our daughters and granddaughters aspire to be Geeks and Best Buy sales people when they get this “men only” message from your Geek pictures and nearly all-male store personnel? I request Geek pictures with women in them henceforth to send the message to girls that they too can be Geeks.</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><br /></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"> </span></b></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">A young woman (in the minority) told me where I bought my I-phone that there is a Geek Squad summer camp for young people. She said she thought it was held in the Sheriff’s department. That is the wrong place to support equality. The sheriff’s department has always been a nest of sexism. I had to get the Justice Department to threaten to cut off the Sheriff’s department’s funds to get Sheriff Malcolm Beard to admit women as deputies. </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><br /></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"> </span></b></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">Get the Girls and Boys clubs to sponsor the Geek summer camp for youngsters. That organization could reach both boys and girls without sexism. The Geek summer camp is a wonderful idea. I comment Best Buy for it.</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><br /></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"> </span></b></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">The champion Geek of my Geek experiences is Brian H. of the online Geek squad. He worked several hours for the $49 fee to restore my HP all-in-one printer. Brian is as smart as a whip and customer friendly. He did not show irritation or make me feel dumb. But, alas, I see only one woman’s face in the Geek online squad. That should be rectified as well.</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><br /></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"> </span></b></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">Sincerely,</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><br /></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"> </span></b></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">(Ms.) Lee Drury De Cesare</span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">Best Buy Customer and</span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">Geek patron</span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">15316 Gulf Boulevard 802</span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">Madeira Beach, fl 33708</span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">tdecesar@tampabay.rr.com<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"> </span></b></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"> </span></b></o:p></p></div></div>twinkobiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07865056039680988073noreply@blogger.com4