The Police Report Has Arrived

Below is a reader’s posting that I agree with. The people whom the ROSSAC-Board-Attorney cabal rip off can’t believe this can happen. It can. It does. Believe it and fight; don’t stand like a deer in the headlights.

I have had the police report sent to me by someone. I thank that person and won't tell his name presently. I will post the report on my blog when I can figure out how to do it. The report doesn’t transfer with cut and paste.

Goader, you are smart about technology. Fix that police report so that I can post it on my blog.

I want to out these creeps.

Who is Ron Smiley? Is he the one who turned you in?

Notice at the top that the report says “unfounded,” the Professional Affairs people suspended your job anyway. That sounds illegal to me. lee

From: The Special Ed Concierge [mailto:interestedinbestpractices@gmail.com]
Sent: Monday, November 24, 2008 6:15 PM
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The Special Ed Concierge has left a new comment on your post "Another Teacher Crucifixion":

When "Things Don't Make Sense At The Table". it is because the real decision maker isn't sitting at it:


PRO on HCPS: Search results for decision maker:

"I learned a long time ago that when things don't make sense at the table, someone not sitting at the table is the decision maker."

All of us have to challenge:

PRO on HCPS: Search results for decision maker:

"For the one's that end up with problems, [be it] parents [or] teachers, [they] simply have too much trust for the system until they get to the point where they become so angry they lose their ability to advocate. Another dirty secret is, 'the system' understands that and relies upon it. I don't make this stuff up. I have lived it and studied it."

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Posted by The Special Ed Concierge to Lee Drury De Cesare's Casting-Room Couch at 3:14 PM

The “puppet” must be the guy who turned Goader in. lee

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Anonymous has left a new comment on your post "The Police Report Has Arrived":

Ron Smiley
825 Brooker Rd
Brandon Fl.
33511

(In case anyone feels compelled to drop this puppet a line.)

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Posted by Anonymous to Lee Drury De Cesare's Casting-Room Couch at 6:04 PM

This is another piece of data below on the CTA that shows it best to bank the $500 fee to pay a lawyer in times of trouble. The best thing of all to do would be to bring in a new union that serves the members, not the administration. lee

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Well Lee, I am going to get no help from the CTA. Please read my post on goaders blog. The head CTA person took my criticism of her lack of action quite peronally. Her parting shot was:

"I think you should reconsider your approach to problem resolution."

How smug was that?

Thanks for the advice Ms. Lyons, I think I will take your advice and begin by keeping you out of the process for now.






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Posted by Thomas Vaughan to Lee Drury De Cesare's Casting-Room Couch at 5:50 PM

OK: Let's Have Some Ideas

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If we support the notion that crucifixions are associated with Christians, perhaps we can make a case that the district has crossed the line between church and state!

Give "the Gonz" something to keep him busy.

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Posted by cable guy to Lee Drury De Cesare's Casting-Room Couch at 6:07 PM

OK. I am ready to move on this suggestion. Give me some ideas on what to do to keep the Gonz busy. I can always file another charge against him with the Bar Association. Put on your thinking hats and come up with some ideas. What about a charge against him with the Florida Bar for failing to teach Pole Girl the necessary Roberts Rules to lead the board? lee
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From: Thomas Vaughan [mailto:vaughan88@verizon.net]
Sent: Sunday, November 23, 2008 9:02 PM
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Lee

I sent the following to board members, CTA, Ms. Elia, the two reporters you suggested and Gov Crist

Intimidation of teachers is NOT isolated to Alafia. I believe it is endemic and an integral part of the culture here. April Griffin acknowledged as much in response to her being threatened with removal. I am under attack as well and would like to share my story with you.

While discussing a contract violation in my Principals office in my capacity as CTA building rep, I was shown a document that indicated I had missed 18.5 days of school. First of all, this was an inappropriate time to discuss this. We were meeting as equals and any discussion of my employment should be discussed at a time other than when I am representing the legally constituted bargaining agent for the teachers of Hllsborough County.

My Principal knows full well that I have suffered serious significant health problems since the start of the year. I underwent two shock wave lithotripsy procedures on two different occasions in an attempt to treat excruciatingly painful kidney stones in both of my kidneys. In September I went to my doctor complaining of shortness of breath and mild chest pains whereupon he sent me straight to the emergency room. I was admitted and stayed for 3 days. I underwent a cardiac catherization and a pulmonary function test. I was eventually diagnosed with lung disease. Last week, I underwent a screening procedure for cancer of the colon that was canceled when I went into the hospital. These procedures were far from routine and each required general anesthesia, two of which required intubation. My point is, I had very good reason to be absent. When I asked if she wanted documentation she said that it was not necessary, that she knew of my health issues but that she was "required" to point out the numbers of absences and that I was not in trouble and she was just following instructions and that there were "plenty" of other teachers at Tomlin having similar conversations with her regarding the same issue.

Fast forward to this Friday. I received a memo from my principal in my school mailbox (visible to all) stating that because of my "excessive" absences and the "concern" she related to me earlier, I am to receive an early evaluation. As I pointed out earlier, there was no mention of a "concern" in our original conversation, in fact, my principal acknowledged that I has good reason to be out of work and that I was not in trouble and implying that mentioning my absences was a mere formality.

My questions are this:

Why is this now a "concern"?
Why are my absences now deemed "excessive:?
How will the early evaluation alley her "concerns"?
Why the change in attitude?

I can only answer the last question. It is clear to me that my principal was told to do this. What I can only speculate on is why I was singled out. I think I know why I am being singled out. If anyone is interested in why a successful teacher with 15 years of experience is being treated in this manner, please respond to me email and I will be honored to meet you anytime at your convenience.

Thomas Vaughan

Good. Attack. Don’t wait to be attacked. I like what one of the Civil War generals said (Sherman, I think): “Enemies in front of us; enemies behind us; enemies to the left of us; enemies to the right of us. Situation excellent. We attack at dawn.”

lee

Another Teacher Crucifixion

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Goader and now Tom.

Coincidence? I think not.

Business as usual.

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Posted by Anonymous to Lee Drury De Cesare's Casting-Room Couch at 2:42 PM

Thomas, my advice is to fight the stealth measures of retaliation by outing the culprits.

Write about your retaliation fears to all the board members and ask them for a reply. Name your principal. He or she is carrying out the bidding of ROSSAC and is as scared of being fired as you are.

Write to the press—Letitia Stein and Marilyn Brown—and alert them to the contours of another intimidation-firing scenario under the radar to keep all the teachers in thrall with the fear of losing their jobs.

This is the psychological intimidation that the administration practices and the board allows that replicates the horror that went on in the Erwin crucifixion. They won’t stop until you resist them.

History helps those who help themselves. Don’t sit like a deer in the headlights and bleat about how you can’t believe this inhumane treatment is happening.

It is. Accept that fact and fight back.

Write your principal and tell her that your first interview on you absences because of your illness reassured you that you would get fair treatment. Then ask for a meeting with her with a CTA rep with you to discuss the implications of her second memo and what it says about the schools’ apparent plan to retaliate against you and make an example of you to scare other teachers.

And leaflet the board with emails. Don’t let the members of the board claim they don’t know about what’s going on.

The Professional Standards office is the administration’s Gestapo. You don’t defeat it by cooperating with its sadism. You fight back with exposing it.

And keep a record of your communications and actions. You will need it to recite the history of this retaliation in the future if the administration doesn't back down and stop this nonsense.

Let me know what I can do to help. lee

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Thomas Vaughan has left a new comment on your post "The Plot Thickens":

Lee

I am probably going to need a defense fund myself. While discussing a contract violation in my Principals office in my capacity as CTA building rep, I was shown a document that indicated I had missed 18.5 days due to illness.

My Principal knows full well that I have had serious health problems since the start of the year, including 3 surgical procedures I have had two Shock Wave Lithotripsies for kidney stones in both kidneys and a Cardiac Cath to investigate the cause of chest pains and shortness of breath that had me hospitalized for 3 days in September. Recently I had a screening procedure all requiring anesthesia. When I asked if she wanted documentation she said that it was not necessary, that she knew of my health issues but that she was "required" to point out the numbers of absences and this not a problem.

Fast forward to Friday. I received A memo on my box (visible to all) stating that because of my "excessive" absences and the "concern" she related to me earlier, I am to receive an early evaluation.

Lee this is an attempt at intimidation.

Someone has told her to do this.

At no point in our earlier conversation did she mention a concern. Now she claims she did. Thank God I had a witness at that meeting who will corroborate the facts. Now it has become a concern. Why?

How can an early evaluation remedy her "concern"?

Trying to scare me, perhaps begin the "papering" process all over again.

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Posted by Thomas Vaughan to Lee Drury De Cesare's Casting-Room Couch at 8:27 AM

The Plot Thickens

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For the most part, our school district is twisted and has been for some time now. Numerous unstable individuals are promoted for the wrong reasons. Bullies run rampant. Communication between different departments is mediocre at best. (Some say it is at an all-time low and the worst they have ever experienced.) Still, I wonder about the few "good ones" that do exist. Are they recognizing what's happening? If so, are they comfortable while remaining silent? It could simply be they are afraid of the possible retaliation they too might face by the higher-ups at ROSSAC? After all, no one can be quite sure what a power-hungry, back-stabbing, toxic administration is truly capable of. If Goader does go down, then let it be the most public, transparent attack possible. I too suggest he starts a fund to support a lawsuit should they get away with it. I would definitely contribute. Ultimately, coercive fear-based power strategies are doomed to fail, as the dysfunction eventually takes over everything.

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Posted by Anonymous to Lee Drury De Cesare's Casting-Room Couch at 8:16 PM

Casting-room Couch Reader:

The board does not know what is going on in the schools and does not care. It cares about the board podium as stage for its drama of See-How-Important-I-Am agitprop. It cares about settling new travel guidelines now that its profligate use of tax money to gad about has come to light. It cares about board snide exchanges between the chair, Polegirl Faliero, whom the board appointed despite knowing of her adultery on school property and on administration trips that broke up a home and will cause the two young children of her paramour life-long psychic pain. Board members care about their pose in the community of being patrons of education and such la-de-da posturing.

Patrons of education, my foot. I’d like to know what worthy book board members are presently reading. They would be like Palin if some intrepid reporter posed that question to them. But there are no intrepid reporters any more. The print press is now in suspended animation because its business is yielding to the onslaught of the Web. Blogs are rapidly replacing print press. Reporters are timid about even breathing much less asking a question for fear they will lose their fading jobs. Anybody with a lick of business sense could have intuited that the print press is a goner.

I believe that the last set-to between Griffin and Chair Pole Girl had to do with a conference Griffin lusted to attend despite its falling outside the new for-show abstemious guidelines. I am glad it did not get approval. Griffin has more urgent business to attend on her home turf. Griffin has not even a bachelor’s degree. Instead of gadding about on the taxpayer dime to conferences where education bureaucrats exchange stale information in sentences whose subjects and verbs don’t agree, she should sign up for night classes at USF and work toward her degree if she is so eager for education.

You can’t lead a school system with validity unless you know the history of the Western world, some of its literature, some of its philosophy, a passing acquaintance with its art and architecture, a modicum of information about the Greeks, and how to write a literate page of prose. I doubt that Griffin can illustrate these bona fides of the educated person ready to lead the schools of a county.

Pole Girl Board Chair Faliero had to get editing help for a page of vitriol she addressed to the Tribune. She alleges she has a USF degree. I shall write the president Genshaft and ask her how come USF graduates people who can’t write a letter-to-the-editor without editing assistance.

And as chair, the resident Pole Girl didn’t bother to master Roberts Rules, so she made a spectacle of herself stumbling around as chair and using the gavel instead of invoking the rules to guide the discussion. And God forbid it occur to Pole Girl to query layabout board attorney Gonzalez about which rule applied. He hasn’t argued a case before the Supreme Court, but he should at least know Robert’s Rules. His firm has had the board sinecure for 37 years on a good-ol-Bay-Area-boy handshake. The board lacks the guts and the smarts to fire Mr. Gonzalez and open up the job to other Bay Area attorneys who would not spend their board duty examining their cuticles

If there were ever a potent illustration of the board’s not caring about anything but its petty squabbles and posturing, let one call attention to the fact that a couple of days ago a board member had not heard about the Buchenwald Professional Standards Office’s charges against Stephen Kemp, a sociology teacher, soas to deprive him of his job. Here’s the précis of the situation written by Mr. Kemp alluding to his restraining a special-needs students after he was left to take care of a room of such students by himself:


There was no orientation for summer school and I received no training in dealing with students who are severely or profoundly mentally handicapped. My area of expertise is in teaching students with learning disabilities. This is a totally different area of special education compared to teaching students with severely or profoundly mental handicaps.


It is analogous to specialties in the medical field. A brain surgeon is a physician as is a family physician, but you would not expect a family physician to be familiar with brain surgery. Brain surgery is a specialty field for physicians.


Likewise, teaching severely or profoundly mentally handicapped students is a specialty field for special education teachers. I had no, nor did anyone offer, training in teaching severely or profoundly mentally handicapped students.


Therefore, unbeknownst to me at the time, the department head and principal had no business placing me in a severely or profoundly mentally handicapped class.

This is the kind of under-the-radar execution that the Professional Standards gulag carries out to keep teachers and staff in terror of losing their jobs. Ms. Elia doesn’t tolerate a whiff of criticism of the way she runs this outlier of Buchenwald. The superintendent lusts for good press. Anybody who criticizes her or the administration eventually goes to Professional Standards. Kemp has a blog under the name of Goader. He has criticized the way the schools run. Hence, he has for ages been on a “Trap Him for Firing” list. The Professional Standards thugs were bound to trap him sooner or later.

The supervisor who tossed teacher Kemp in this situation should be the one who should have his or her job in jeopardy, not Kemp. Yet the Auschwitz Professional Standards cell run by Home-ec Camp Warden Kipley rushed to file charges that will cost the teacher his job post-haste without any publicity of the situation if Ms. Elia has her way. The firing is planned to go on under the radar before anybody knows about it—or will admit to knowing about it. The ultimate board-ROSSAC device to escape responsibility for doing board members’ and administrators’ jobs is pretend lack of knowledge of the horrors unfolding in plain view. That method was the fall-back device during the several years that the crucifixion of Mr. Erwin was unfolding.

One of the board members who sat on the board and tolerated the Erwin crucifixion without intervening was Dr. Jack Lamb, whose board chair bottom is covered with lichen so long has he occupied it. Instead of asking for a full report on the teacher Kemp impending firing, Le Jack nominates a second board member for chair to compete with Susan Valdes, who is not one of the board Potted Plant team that automatically rubberstamps anything Ms. Elia puts before it. Valdes is due the chair job that Gonzalez after someone wrings the gavel from the hand of Pole Girl Faliero.

I must remember to ask Dr. Lamb for his thesis so that if it is illiterate or shows infalliable signs of being bought and paid for, I can wade into the USF administration enablers of illiteracy for handing out EDDs to academic dingdongs.

The police by accident left the name of the squealer who turned in Goader on its report that it sent to Kemp. He declines to release the name.

Doggone.

If you want to get a copy of the report, it is public information and housed at the Ybor City Police Department. Then you can tell me the name. Will I post it on this blog? Gentlepeople, is the Pope Catholic?

This missive has been sent to all board members and all administration members
lee