Rape: Misogynist Pastime with Community College Administrative-Security Support

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This comment is not related your your "sisterhood" post. Yesterday, Trib reported rape at HCC Hawk's Landing "dorm." Hawk's Landing is a hotbed or criminal activity. HCC administrators knew about it (BOT meeting last year), but really did not attack the problem. I feel sorry for young girl raped, article said HCC hand in-house counselor-more like cover up. I hope young rape victim seeks legal help.

Lee, key HCC people behind security mismanagement are: Steve Shields and James Wright. Please contact your media sources to dig up corruption and mismanagement. Sad young girl's life is ruined, and HCC administrators are doing CYA-they need to be held accountable for running a "dorm," which is against state mandate. Please read Trib article online for full story.

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Maribeth; Bob; Rich; Michael; vikisnurr@hcc.fl.us; stevegorham@hcc.fl.us at 5:09 AM

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Dr. Stephenson:

I received the above message about the Hawks Landing rape and read the Tribune Emerson story about it below. I always thought the Hawks Landing dorm was a bad idea: just one more step in HCC's clumsy administrative efforts to turn the college into a commercial venture with projects that have nothing to do with providing an education for area students.

As a 28-year HCC faculty member before retiring, I observed this spreading disassociation of the administration from the educational purpose of the college.

Your leadership has been weak from Day One. Besides being good looking, you bring nothing to the president's leadership role. My first encounter with you was to phone you repeatedly until you finally fired a Dale Mabry administrator who had changed a student's grade over the instructor's head.

Moreover, you brought that hideous guy who surfed for porn on college computers to the college when you came and created an administrative perch for him with a bloated salary. Only after years of his misdeeds did you finally let him go.

You have presided over the further alienation of the faculty from the administration and the further disassociation of the administration from the students' needs and well-being.

This Hawks Landing fiasco with drugs, crime, and rape's playing out is testimony to your continuing bad judgment.

Do something to help that young girl raped in Hawks Landing to recover her mental health. For once forget the furtherance of the Gordon Keller corporate plans that bump up the opportunities for graft and under-the-table payments and help a wounded student.

I haven't worked in the Women's Movement for 45 years to see a woman head of a college ignore the rape of a student in a gaudy apartment adventure in commercial real estate and sit without responding to it in a significant way. Issue some kind of statement of regret and say how you and the protective services plan to prevent Hawks Landing rapes from happening in the future. At a minimum, post a round-the-clock guard on the complex property. Surely that measure is called for.

See that comma after "abuse" in your safety statement online below? It is dead wrong. Send somebody in to remove it.

For your information, this brochure outlines state and municipal laws and College policies concerning alcohol and drug abuse, and sexual assault. Safety tips for your protection and College resources have also been included.

I can't find the board email address on the HCC site. The administration always tries to keep the public, faculty, and students away from the board. As a courtesy to a citizen, please forward this email page regarding the Hawks Landing rape on the board members' watch to all board members.

Respectfully,

Lee Drury De Cesare, retired Professor of English HCC

15316 Gulf Boulevard 802

Madeira Beach, FL 33708

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Vicki:

Good Lord, can't y'all FUSA people exert some moral authority in this hideous rape of a student and at least send a protest to the administration about how louche it's handling of security is in the nest of drugs and drug deals at Hawks Landing, now capped by a rape of a young student?

What amazed me in my years at HCC was that faculty contained people who could quote the Constitution verbatim and even cite whole paragraphs of The Areopagitica by heart. But its erudite, pusillanimous members couldn't summon the moxie and sense of professionalism to push back against the overlords of abuse and wrong direction at Gordon Keller. Everybody knows that Gordon Keller is wall-to-wall C and D students with sleazy credentials from marginal schools and bought-and-paid-for terminal theses. Treat them as such. You're not dealing with equals. Keep that in mind.

You of FUSA leadership should say something public about this poor girl's rape for goodness sake to set a tone of concern. Don't sit there like the German people did and let six million Jewish men, women, and children go to the gas ovens and pretend it's not your affair.

Remember what John Donne said: "Every woman's rape concerns me; for I am involved in womankind."

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Right At Home At HCC

By ADAM EMERSON, The Tampa Tribune

Published: January 4, 2008

TAMPA - As college dorm life goes, this place is posh: deluxe kitchen, washer and dryer, inclusive cable access and high-speed Internet.

Although such amenities are proliferating at apartments near four-year universities, you typically won't find them at a community college. In that sense, developers say, Hillsborough Community College is a pioneer.

On Thursday, HCC officials showed off their newly built apartments, which opened this week to students at the college's Dale Mabry campus.

No other Florida community college offers on-campus living, and developers say that few others do nationwide.

But the interest was great among HCC students, administrators say. And the developer, Atlanta-based Place Properties, found a market among students who want a four-year university experience at a community college.

The apartment complex, at the southwest corner of the campus, can house 420 students at prices below the market rate.

The complex partly made the difference in choosing HCC over St. Petersburg College for first-year student Aurora Clegg. Clegg, a St. Petersburg resident who moved into her new apartment Wednesday, was accepted to the University of South Florida. But with a scholarship, she will pay no tuition at HCC.

"I want the four-year experience, and I don't want to worry about the money," said Clegg, who shares a four-bedroom apartment and pays $505 a month for her own bedroom and bathroom.

Place Properties makes a living running housing for college and university students nationwide. But the complex at HCC, named Hawks Landing, is the company's first venture into a community college.

HCC surveyed its students about two years ago and found that hundreds wanted on-campus housing.

Place Properties Chief Executive Officer Cecil Phillips said he knows of only two other community colleges with on-campus living, one in Illinois and the other in Washington.

State law prohibits Florida's community colleges from owning housing on campus, but that prohibition doesn't apply to a school's foundation.

Last year, the college leased a 7-acre parcel of land to the HCC Foundation, which arranged with Place Properties to build the housing.

The developer financed construction through bonds, not with public money, Phillips said. Place Properties collects development and management fees from a bank trust that collects the rents.

Monthly rates run from $505 for each student willing to share a four-bedroom, four-bathroom apartment to $777 for a one-bedroom apartment with a pool view.

The amenities found at the apartments are increasingly in demand at privately run university housing nationwide, Phillips said. The apartments are fully furnished - including couch, bed and bar stools - with 9-foot ceilings, and the complex has a fitness center and clubhouse.

One difference from a standard apartment is that there will be an on-site academic adviser for students, said Bob Chunn, president of HCC's Dale Mabry campus. The adviser already works on the Dale Mabry campus but will keep office hours at the apartments.

About 50 percent of the apartments have been leased, Phillips said. He expects them to fill by June.

There are no plans yet to expand housing to HCC's other campuses, but that may change depending on the success at the Dale Mabry complex, Chunn said.

All of the one-bedroom apartments have been rented. One of them went to first-year student Paschall Glover, 17, who celebrated her freedom this week in her own apartment and her freedom from the half-hour long trip to school from her mother's home in Riverview.

"The gas price was killing me," Glover said.

Reporter Adam Emerson can be reached at (813) 259-8285 or aemerson@tampatrib.com.

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Getting in Some Licks for the Sisterhood

8/18/2009

Dear Sheriff Gee:

I noted on your online blog the composition of your command staff when I sought information about the Sheriff's Child-Protection services that investigated the psychosexually disturbed administrative toe fondler of male pubescents at King High.

Correct my math below since your degree is in math. All of which I learned of math was in the 4th grade. My deficiency explains why I can't understand one of Newton's formulae and shrink back at the sight of a page of calculus.

Here are your staff equal-employment opportunity data;

You have 20 command-staff people. http://www.hcso.tampa.fl.us/2005_Organizational_Structure/Structure.htm.

1. One is a woman; women are almost 51 percent of the county's population;
2. 3 have what looks like Hispanic names; Hispanics are 22.8 percent of the population;
3. Three faces tell me they are black men; blacks are 16.6 percent of the population;
4. The rest are white Anglo-Saxon born-in-the-cotton-wadding-of-the-unfair-affirmative-action-plan-for-too-often-dumb white males, titular lords of the universe, not from ability but from cheating.

According to my math that makes your staff .5 percent women;15 percent Hispanics; 6.6 blacks; 78 percent white guys. Those percentages are obscenely out of line with the population distribution.

Does that fact suggest to you that your promotion practices are biased against women, Hispanics, and Blacks and are skewed toward white men? But I doubt that you have ever considered this a problem or have ever thought of changing these patterns in a society that by the middle of the century will have a population predominantly Hispanics. You will not be one of the heroes of this statistic, Sheriff Gee.

On a more personal level, I wonder if any of the four children listed in your biography are female; that your wife is x-chromosome we infer, that it is ditto for your mother; that you have aunts and nieces and cousins who are female. And I don't doubt that you have bannered all over your office stationery "We are an equal-employment-opportunity employer."

Liar, liar, pants on fire, sirrah. You are nothing of the sort. You rank a run-of-the-mill chauvinist bigot as your Command Staff Web page testifies.

I wonder if these white male faces have wives, daughters, mothers, aunts, nieces, and cousins. And I wonder how they justify their benefiting from the racist, sexist promotion practices to which your command staff page testifies . I wonder how they justify their perpetuating and benefiting from such blanket discrimination. This is a moral question in addition to being a legal one. The answer to that question speaks ill of the boss who perpetuates it in the Sheriff's Department and his minions that reap the rewards of discrimination.

Forty-five or more years ago, I founded the Tampa chapter of NOW. I acted discrimination chair. I lived absorbed myself in employment statistics and helped women file charges with the EEOC when I wasn't grading essays from students I taught at HCC as an English professor. The discrimination stories about how men in the county discriminated against women in the legitimate job world but paid women for sex in the illegitimate job world appalled. This equation, I suggest, is the distillation of sexism.

Forty-five years ago, I opened police jobs to women when a young black woman named Thelma asked me to help her get a police job because she needed a better salary than the minimum-wage job she had to support her two children. The father had run off to produce more fatherless children for single women to raise.

Marshall Jesse, the rogue who was Dick Greco's employment head, had "lost" three of Thelma's applications for the police department. Dick Greco, another rascal whom I graduated from Hillsborough High School with, thought that "losing" a woman's employment application for the police department was a hunky-dory way to evade equal employment opportunity. Dick has always been a D student in moral matters.

I leafleted the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission until it investigated the charge and found in Thelma's favor. The key to winning these charges is persistence and determined attack, moving up the line of authority to rat out the wrongdoers at lower levels, naming names and citing instances of discrimination gaucheries. The EEOC buckled to the pressure and made the city produce an Equal Employment Affirmative Action Plan.

Dick ran around the state subsequently saying that his was the first big city in Florida with an Affirmative Action Plan. He didn't say how he got it. And now the most dedicated skirt chaser in the city's political history has a bench named in his honor in downtown Tampa and is rumored to be running for mayor again with law enforcement's help. What a world.

My husband and I attended Thelma's graduation from the Police Academy. We felt proud--as if she were one of our four children--to be there to witness the first female officer graduate from the Police Academy.

Sheriff Beard was more obdurate. I had to appeal to the Justice Department's Compliance Division to bring him to terms. If you have government grants, you pledge to practice equal opportunity as a condition of the grants. Most recipients think that requirement is just verbal fluff. It is until some alert citizen cites it and asks for a compliance review of the recipient. A canny citizen will get his or her senator and representative involved in asking Justice Department for updates of the status of the response to the complaint. That's what I figured out fast.

The Justice Department made the sheriff fall into line. He was mad as the dickens. He hated me so badly that if I entered a room in which he resided, he left. I made him a particular pet for my bon mots thereafter, like issuing a formal request that the Sheriff include a child-care facility in the Ybor new Sheriff's Office. He almost busted a gut.

I hope you ponder your promotion practices, Sheriff Gee. Logic says that if those young women coming into the deputy jobs forty-five years ago should have worked themselves up so that we would see of lot of women's faces on that Command staff Web page instead of guys, guys, guys. The one woman on the page in a job that is marginal. She does not hold one of the power jobs.

Keep all the women in your family in mind when you promote. Would you want an outfit to mistreat the females in your tribe as you mistreat women? Those two empty slots cry out for female faces. Filling them with women won't solve the giant problem you have in the area of equal opportunity but it's a start.

Stagnant discriminatory practices in your promotion practices will mean I have to resort to my old buddies at the Justice Department to monitor your compliance with Title VII as a price for keeping your government grants. I hope that will not be necessary.

Ask your wife and any daughters and sons too -- because they will marry liberated women-- to read my letter and give you their assessment. I am counting on the sisterhood of your wife and any girls you have, and the boys today are surprisingly enlightened whether it be homophobia, racism, bigotries of all flavors, or sexism.

The world promises to be a better place since young people's moral compass has improved on such issues. The Sheriff's Department is stuck in promoting affirmative action for white men only. That is Stone Age mentality.

I enclose an article from the NYT reprinted in the SPT on a similar struggle for validation that the women in the armed services have undergone. My husband of 53 years cut it out for me. Husbands of long-time feminists do such things.

I am proud of these armed-services women. I would like to be proud of the women in the Sheriff's Department and can be if you cease your moldy discrimination against them.

Ask your daughter, if you have one, about this issue; let her read about the women who have succeeded in the army. She well could be sheriff in Hillsborough County when she comes of age.

Respectfully,

Lee Drury De Cesare
15316 Gulf Boulevard 802
Madeira Beach, FL 33708

Error, Error on the Walll

See previous post publishing reader's comment and my response on Candy's husband's coming out. lee

Keeping illiteracy at bay This is to Paul Krugman of the NYT. He is as smart as a whip. But he messed up here.

At this point, all that stands in the way of universal health care in America are the greed of the medical-industrial complex, the lies of the right-wing propaganda machine, and the gullibility of voters who believe those lies.

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Mr. Krugman, I always agree with you on economics especially since the the Nobel people knighted you, but I don't always agree on your grammar.

You have a subject-verb agreement error in the above sentence. "Are" should be "is."

lee drury de cesare

Madeira Beach, FL

Linda says that the redaction was on separate paper with the Board's logo at the top. But that does not change the school's undermining the legitimacy of the Sheriff's investigation. That is dumb diplomacy to cover Tom Gonzalez's lazy ass. lee

Linda C0bbe emailed that I was mistaken in saying the Office of Professional Standards redacted the report of the Sheriff.

I respond: From Gradebook: “On 6/22/09, writer spoke with CPI Auza. He advised that he closed his case with Some Indicators for threatened harm.”

On Friday, Kipley's office released a copy of that document, along with That the district described as a "corrected report": "On 6/22/09, writer spoke with CPI Auza. He advised that he closed his case with No Indicators for threatened harm; however, Some Indicators for unusual behavior."

But spokeswoman Linda Cobbe said the district has not received any further documents from the Sheriff's Office revising its initial report. The district has requested a clarification of its conclusions, she said. Lt. Rick Hernandez, a spokesman for the Child Protective Investigations Division of the Sheriff’s Office, would not discuss the specifics of the case. He said the term "some indicators of abuse" typically means that investigators have found some evidence that suggests the possibility of abuse, but not enough to prove such a charge under state law. (end of Gradebook)

Linda, this recital does not say that the "corrected report" had the School Board's imprimatur at the top. Besides, how can you issue a "corrected report" for an investigative agency? It's equivalent to saying, "We don't accept the investigating agency's conclusion; here's what the conclusion should be."

The SB has no right to reword the report to exonerate Mr. Gonzalez for messing up. It looks like to me he either lied on the podium review or was incompetent in assessing the report's conclusion because he did not scrutinize the Child Protection's original report with the care a lawyer should show.

That's what lawyers are paid to do: bore in on every little eency, weency word. Is this redaction a precedent for Professional Standards? If not, how many "corrected reports" has the Office of Professional Standards issued in the past where it concerns a report from an outside agency such as the Protective Services?

Redacting other agencies' reports by Professional Standards does not sound ethical or professional to me. It sounds like the SB is insulting the Sheriff's child-protective report. ldd

My Lord, Look What Just Landed in My Mailbox!

Elia's Dog Tiny Tim

I post above the fold on Casting-room Couch the intelligent comment of a reader below in response to Vox's opinions on the coming-out of Candy's husband. I consider it an astute piece of insight into the situation of Candy's late-breaking husband's identifying himself as gay.

I have seen one of the Olson daughters with her mother at Tiger Bay Tampa before I got kicked out of there for being too tough on the politicians. They would whine to the board that they wouldn't appear again if I were there. This Candy daughter I saw went to Harvard and is tall and beautiful. I heard she was enlightened on gays. She will need that resource now to deal with her father's revelation.

The reason Bart and I are buds despite our 40-year age difference is that he is so open and brave about being gay. And he will initiate nutty things like I do at any minute. We are the same mental age in stirring up things.

I think he must have told his mother with his first lisps, "Mom. I'm gay." Yet he suffered growing up because of the negative attitude of the masses to gays. But that attitude is changing, thanks to the young people. My granddaughter who graduated from Plant was a member of the gay-lesbian support group that adulteress Jennifer Falliero tried to make the school authorities report a student's belonging to that club to the parents because Falliero thought being gay or lesbian was immoral. I don't know how she managed to come to any moral conclusions while stalking former Community Affairs head Marc Hart until he divorced his wife and harmed his two young children, one of whom's grades plummeted, the other whose illness exacerbated. Her sexual morals are selective indeed. She dumped Marc Hart when her activities at the administration building got him fired and nobody would hire him in Tampa because he was blacklisted by the ROSSAC thugs. They made Falliero the School Board chair. That's their idea of justice.

Bart is lucky to have wonderful parents. His mother is a tiny wisp of a woman, and his father is a rugged-looking American man of the people who has a sardonic attitude about the denizens who pass his field of vision. Bart's mother ran away at twelve because of an abusive father and earned her bread by doing menial jobs. When she sighted Bart's father, who was in Japan then with the army, she scooped him up. Bart and one sister were the result.

This sister died in an asthma attack on the way to the hospital. Bart grieves her still.

Bart is a good fellow. I have only one son, an engineer with NASA. When he was at Plant, he used to coach all the mediocre boys in physics so that they could get into Gainsville. Those are now all lawyers, so watch out for the brains deficit in the legal eagles hereabouts. Tom Gonzales is one of those. He, by the way, brags of his being born in Anglo Tampa and having lived there all his life. He keeps the Latino community at bay. He doesn't want to be identified with those people.

I always wanted another boy to go with my Leo to balance his three sisters, and Bart is he. As second mother, I stuck by Bart when he got the Scarlet Letter of the Political Standards hell hole of sadism. The ruffians made Bart's "offense" up. This was a case of their taking a small chit of data and turning it into a firing offense.

Vox is in training to be my third son and qualifies by keeping his hair combed, his nails clean, and refusing to let any psychosexually foot-fetishist administrators from fondling his naked feed. Vox has just about taken over my blog, and I may just hand it over to him formally and go back to needlepointing rugs for my granddaughters' weddings, going to opera, and reading, reading, reading.

Apparently all Bart's teacher friends peeled away when Professional Standards tagged him as if he had contracted ROSSAC leprosy. That response was a sad revelation. Teachers are smart and educated. Their students adore them or at least most of them. If teachers can act with such lack of guts and loyalty to coercion by the colony of fascists who occupy ROSSAC, what can the poor souls who don't know their Constitutional rights do when self-appointed overlords like those in the schools try to annihilate them?

What a world. lee

Anonymous has left a new comment on your post "My Lord, Look What Just Landed in My Mailbox!":

Vox,
I appreciate your saying that about me. I didn't expect that! Thank you! I think that the man in question is from another generation than I am. I don't quite understand what took him so long to figure out what he likes. Part of me feels for his wife, if all this is true, because I don't think it is right for gay men to get married if they have an inkling. Maybe he was in such denial that he did not admit it to even himself. I went through that in high school.
Anyway, I am from a newer generation, so I don't quite understand it, but I do think a lot of gays have major problems admitting it to themselves and to others. We do grow up sort of knowing but sort of in denial, and it is hard to finally admit to yourself and others, because you think you're going to lose friends and get cut off from family. You think you're going to lose all respect.
But personally I find it tragic to come out later in life, because your looks are fading. The gay community is very youth oriented. Gay men face what women face in regular society. We have very limited shelf life.
Bart

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Reader email: My bitchy neighbor who is being nice currently just called me and told me the Candy Olson scoop. Apparently, John Olson came out of the closet and sent an email telling the whole Gasparilla Krewe that he belonged to that he is gay and has never been happier in his life, etc. She is going to try to get me a copy of the letter. I think he says that his daughters are coming to terms with it.

Supposedly, Candy and he were sort of separated for a long time, even when they were living together.

Lee: I almost fell over when I read this email. Killers like this have to see publication.

I had tea with some buds from my old South Tampa neighborhood a few weeks ago. They say Candy has had to sell her house in South Tampa and has put a contract on a condo in the Hyde Park shopping district; but she has seen another condo that she likes better and is trying to wiggle out of the contract.

I had hopes that Candy's divorce would mean she moved to another district; no such luck. With her divorce a fact, she will cling to the School Board perch even more tenaciously. Woe betide the Hillsborough County children. She does not give one itty bitty damn for them. I could tolerate the bad duds she affects but not her indifference to the children's needs and her everlasting filibusters on the podium. lee

Social Chair of Ye Mystique Krewe:

I have received the following email on my blog leedrurydecesarescasting-roomcouch.blogspot.com.

Please comment on its accuracy. Has John Olson notified the Krewe that he is gay and "never been happier" and that his daughters are "coming to terms with the situation"?

If so, a cover-up is not in the community's interest nor, indeed, in the Krewe's interest.

Please respond to this question.

lee drury de cesare

Call the Law!

Linda: I will check. Is this a regular practice of the Professional Standards office to redact, or is this the first time a redaction has been done? Where in the manual does it define and circumscribe this practice?

Tom has made an enemy of that reporter, I bet. Not smart. I learned when I did PR for the Women's Movement that you don't question a reporter's accuracy. It is the one major vanity of the press that it does not make mistakes in facts. A person who has no better sense than to challenge an article's accuracy has made himself a press foe. And the press has a long memory and paid research staff. Smart people don't make enemies of the people who buy ink by the barrel. lee

Mr. Gradebook Solochek:

I went combing through your site for the column on the Professional Standards redaction of the Sheriff's Child Protection summary sent to the Board after the case was closed. I can't find it. Please send me the article.

I noted that you have a veritable festival of teacher-student sex articles. But you did not have the guts to report the Board Member Jennifer Faliero's haunting of Marc Hart's Public Affairs Office until she seduced him, catalyzed his divorce, and made his two little children suffer from the divorce the fool got from his wife: the little boy's one's grade's plummeted, the girl's illness exacerbated.

The administration fired Hart on a trumped-up charge of drunkenness; the board made Falliero its chair.

Even after Hart had showed me the divorce deposition that proved Falliera had an affair with him so I could expose the affair, the press tippytoed away from the story. You were too busy cataloging teacher sex. Teacher sex the press is not prissy about: just board sex. Administrator and Board Member sex is too hot for the traditional press to handle. Teacher misconduct is the template misconduct press piece. Reason: no guts.

lee drury de cesare

-----Original Message-----
From: Linda Cobbe [mailto:lcobbe@sdhc.us]
Sent: Sunday, August 16, 2009 11:06 AM
To: lee
Subject: Re: Inquiry to Sheriff Gee

Lee, you got some facts wrong. I don't have the report-in-question with me, but no one made any changes to the CPI report. The original and "corrected" documents both say at the top that they are professional standards documents. I believe there is a link to both on the Times Gradebook blog.

Sent from my BlackBerry® wireless device

8/15/2009

Dear Sheriff Gee:

After the children's protection division of your department investigated a case of an administrator's cracking five pubescent boys' toes at King High School behind closed door in his office, your child-protection agency issued a report that said that there were "some indications of abuse." (The report was closed with "Some indicators of abuse, neglect, or abandonment.")

Tom Gonzalez, Board attorney, lied or misread the report for on the board dais in his official position he asserted that the report said there was no abuse. You can see his presentation on the education channel. He told a few of us citizens in the lobby after his statement on the board dais that the Times was wrong when it said the final report of the Sheriff's children's protection department said there were "some indications of abuse."

Mr. Marshall, Times reporter covering the issue, stood by his story and added more details in a subsequent column that showed Professional Standards went revised the report's original words to cover up the lawyer's lie or incompetence. This redaction Ms. Kipley called a "correction" did not say it came from the Professional Standards office, not reissued from the children's division of the Sheriff's office.

The Board never punishes administrators for professional breaches such as lying and redacting an official document from the Sheriff's child-abuse division; it saves punishment only for teachers' minor or made-up offenses to scare them about losing their jobs because Ms. Elia and the board cannot bear criticism.

The most severe punishment goes to teachers who speak out against administrative and board misdeeds or teachers who have a blog commenting on educational issues. If the Board Professional Standards criteria applied to administrators, both Mr. Gonzalez and Ms. Kipley would be charged with offenses that would merit dismissal in any agency which applies standards to all personnel.

The Times reporter re-investigated and found that the Professional Standards Office had redacted the Sheriff's report to cover Mr. Gonzalez's lie or mess-up concerning the wording of the Sheriff's Children's Protection services' report on the "some-indications-of-abuse" summary.

The Professional Standards revision neglected to say that the "corrected" report did not come from the child-protective department of the Sheriff's office. The Professional Standards office via Ms. Kipley made the corrections to fuzz-up the lawyer's lie and exonerate him.

Please tell me if you allow the employees of the places investigated by the Sheriff's Child-protection Services to correct the wording of the official report to cover up a lie or a stumble by one of the principals of the investigated agency, the Board lawyer in this case.

Respectfully,

Lee Drury De Cesare

15316 Gulf Boulevard 802

Madeira Beach, Fl 33708

My God, Look at That Outfit!

Ms. Valdez and Mr. Otero:

You are hereby appointed to the post of Fashion Police for the board and administration, being as you two are the best dressers in an ill-dressed administrative outfit.

See what you can do to subdue the egregious fashion-mode of Board member Candy, effulgent fashion displays' being her bete noire.

Linda Kipley, foot-fetishist bimbette, requires your astringent scrutiny and corrective action as well. Do not be nice.

And do not forefend to take the aesthetic measure of the whole administrative group, none of whom, alas, demonstrates the fashion excellence that one would expect from people with minimal credentials in academic requisites but hypertrophied salaries in administrative ripoffs that could purchase classy duds if they were able to recognize them.

Alas, the adminsitrative fashion dummies demonstrate the shibboleth that you can bump up an aesthetic dumbasses's pay grade, but you can't correct his or her bad taste either in duds or in ethics.

Ms. Valdez, rely on Mr. Otero to take notes and offer support as long as he thinks no one on the board notices him. Men never have and will never have an understanding of the importance of clothes in signaling authority.

Pray publish this as a Board of Hillsborough-County-citizen commentary to lay bare the administration's and board's fashion deficiencies, which rival their ethical deficiencies, so help you God.

Lee Drury De Cesare, South-west Florida Aesthetics and Fashion Guardian Extraordinaire