I Got a Hit! Pray, Everybody, Pray

Thank you, Penny. Thank God there are people who work for such entities as the
Southern Poverty Law Center. lee

-----Original Message-----
From: Penny Weaver [mailto:Penny.Weaver@splcenter.org]
Sent: Monday, January 26, 2009 12:08 PM
To: lee De Cesare
Subject: Re: Comment on the Center's Work

Lee,

I am forwarding your message to our attorneys working on this issue. Thanks
for writing.

Penny Weaver
Southern Poverty Law Center
400 Washington Ave.
Montgomery, Alabama 36104
www.splcenter.org
334/956-8200




On 1/26/09 10:59 AM, "lee De Cesare [Contact form]"
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> Subject: Comment on the Center's Work
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> Poverty Law
> Center:http://www.splcenter.org/pdf/dynamic/legal/Hillsborough_Complaint.pdf
>
> Do I understand correctly that you have a case currently against the
> Hillsborough County school district for the mistreatment of special-needs
> children?
>
> If so, I think I have some confirmatory data supporting that case.
>
> I am helping a guy named Steve Kemp, who is a special-ed teacher of mentally
> slow students. The special-ed people threw him into a classroom of severely
> retarded students without giving Steve any training for an unfamiliar student
> population. The aide left on account of "burn-out," and he was by himself.
> When two large male students started acting up at once, he hooked the harness
> of one to a stationery object so that he could deal with them one at a time.
>
> We later learned that these harnesses (I guess for the bus) were supposed to
> come off when the students entered the classroom. The people on duty prior to
> Steve who were savvy about the care of these students had not removed the
> harnesses.
>
> While Kemp was dealing with the first student, in came the supervisory team,
> the ones who had given him no training for this unfamiliar work. They said the
> harnessing of one boy to a stationary object was child abuse. Later that day,
> one went to the Sheriff?s office and filed a charge against Steve for child
> abuse.
>
> Despite this extant charge of child abuse, however, the department left Steve
> in the room caring for the children for six more days. The question is this:
> How can Steve be a child abuser when the supervisors left him with the
> children he may have abused? Doesn?t this show poor judgment by the same
> people who were supposed to train him for an unfamiliar area before they put
> him into that environment?
>
> The administration and board oppose free speech and especially teacher blogs
> that discuss problems at schools. The superintendent's, board's, and
> administration's spin is that there are no problems in the schools: none at
> all.
>
> Steve has a blog that is mildly critical of the schools. I believe that this
> unorthodox charge in which the guilty supervisors who gave Steve no training
> for the job but later charged Steve with child abuse is a subterfuge for
> firing a person who has a blog that comments on the schools. I think the six
> days? lapse in time was so that the administration and Ms. Elia could chew
> over whether to use the incident as a pretense to fire Steve.
>
> Supervisor Elia uses the Professional Standards office to cook up cases
> against targeted teachers to get rid of them. The woman heading it up, one
> Linda Kipley, is a fellow sadist that keeps the records and shapes the
> strategies to fire teachers who let out a peep of complaint. This procedure
> means the teachers are terrified of losing their jobs if they complain even
> about the most egregious cases of mistreatment of them by the administration
> and superintendent.
>
> The board pretends it does not know what is going on in order not to be
> responsible for making any decisions.
>
> Would this case buttress you case against the district? If so, I will ask
> Steve to get in touch with the agency.
>
> Lee Drury De Cesare
> 15316 Gulf Blvd. 802
> Madeira Beach, FL 33708
> 727-398-4142
> Posted by twinkobie at 8:04 AM 0 comments

Let's Drink to Free Speech

From: Anonymous [mailto:noreply-comment@blogger.com]
Sent: Monday, January 26, 2009 12:01 PM
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Subject: [Lee Drury De Cesare's Casting-Room Couch] New comment on Help Me, Jesus: Ziggy Is Back.

Anonymous has left a new comment on your post "Help Me, Jesus: Ziggy Is Back":

Maybe Elia is finally feeling guilty about stealing from the taxpayers. Maybe she finally realizes nobody likes her. She is probably pretty lonely at the top with no friends and surrounded by people who want to see her fail. This is probably why she is giving up her bonus this year. She realizes that she's made too many enemies and dropped the f bomb too many times, so she is remorseful and wants to try to buy her way back into Heaven.



Posted by Anonymous to Lee Drury De Cesare's Casting-Room Couch at 7:48 PM

I don’t think Elia’s personality has enough good stuff in it to feel remorse. Some time in her very early life the good stuff got stripped out for some reason. I think her not getting enough praise as a child is what makes her so hungry for it now in the form of adulatory press coverage and bow-down-and-worship-her that she extracts from those below her.

I think she realizes that her raking in tax money at the rate she does causes revulsion from the people who have to pay school taxes only to see them disappear into the pockets of administrators like Mr. Otero, who treated the Alafia mothers like dog pookie when they called him about Ms. Smith’s misconduct that they feared injured their children.

Le Otero had a clerk go to the phone and tell one mother that he had heard enough from the Alafia mothers and wouldn’t talk to her. How’s that for showing contempt for parents?

The board and administration caterwaul about their wanting parents to be involved in their children’s education; then we see how much the administration and board want parents’ involvement in the Alafia debacle. Ms. Elia lauded Smith on the night that the Alafia parents came to the board meeting to protest; she implied the Alafia parents were a bunch of whacked-out trouble makers. Steve Hegarty and April Griffin lobbied the parents to be quiet. I wish the parents had not been susceptible to such manipulation. Hegarty and Griffin were tamping down the parents’ anger so as to save the franchise. Griffin poses as a friend of teachers and students, but that is merely a screen for her allegiance to the board.

The press was onto the case, and Ms. Elia can’t stand bad press.

Mr. Otero is or was in charge of Ms. Smith, the runaway principal. He was responsible for listening to the mothers who called him so that he could figure out how to deal with Ms. Smith. He turned the mothers away and disrespected them. Not one board member rebuked him.

What does Otero think the state pays him to do? Does the state pay him to see to the needs of the students and parents, or does it pay him to loll around on the taxpayers’ dime and insult frantic parents of students?

Two years ago I stood in the back of the room when the teachers converged on the school board to complain about Elia’s downloading on them an extra class without pay or without even consulting them. I asked the ones I stood close to what they thought of Elia as superintendent. They said that the only administrator who would have been worse than Elia would have been Otero. I was skeptical at first, but now I begin to believe them after hearing of Mr. Otero’s mistreatment of the Alafia mothers. lee

Vox Populi has left a new comment on your post "The Moon Is in Its Bring-Out-the-Dopey-Twits Phase...":

I have to differ strongly with one point. There is NO WAY that Elia is THE MOST HATED person in Hillsborough County. I realize she strove mightily. I do 'git git git' that. BUT, there is NO WAY.

There is such stiff competition for this title that I fear that EVEN the evil la elia-essence could only place perhaps somewhere between twenty five and fifty. NO WAY.

My god there's brian blair, david gee, ken hagan, kevin white .... among women there is ronda storms, pam iorio, janet weaver-coats ....

COME ON, the competition is FIERCE.
Anyone know why Clarence Holley is suing her???



Posted by Vox Populi to Lee Drury De Cesare's Casting-Room Couch at 11:03 AM

Don't Miss a Chance To Try Anything That Looks Promising--or Even Unpromising-- To Thwart the Barbarians That Run the Schools

Poverty Law Center:http://www.splcenter.org/pdf/dynamic/legal/Hillsborough_Complaint.pdf

Do I understand correctly that you have a case currently against the Hillsborough County school district for the mistreatment of special-needs children?

If so, I think I have some confirmatory data supporting that case.

I am helping a guy named Steve Kemp, who is a special-ed teacher of mentally slow students. The special-ed people threw him into a classroom of severely retarded students without giving Steve any training for an unfamiliar student population. The aide left on account of "burn-out," and he was by himself. When two large male students started acting up at once, he hooked the harness of one to a stationery object so that he could deal with them one at a time.

We later learned that these harnesses (I guess for the bus) were supposed to come off when the students entered the classroom. The people on duty prior to Steve who were savvy about the care of these students had not removed the harnesses.

While Kemp was dealing with the first student, in came the supervisory team, the ones who had given him no training for this unfamiliar work. They said the harnessing of one boy to a stationary object was child abuse. Later that day, one went to the Sheriff’s office and filed a charge against Steve for child abuse.

Despite this extant charge of child abuse, however, the department left Steve in the room caring for the children for six more days. The question is this: How can Steve be a child abuser when the supervisors left him with the children he may have abused? Doesn’t this show poor judgment by the same people who were supposed to train him for an unfamiliar area before they put him into that environment?

The administration and board oppose free speech and especially teacher blogs that discuss problems at schools. The superintendent's, board's, and administration's spin is that there are no problems in the schools: none at all.

Steve has a blog that is mildly critical of the schools. I believe that this unorthodox charge in which the guilty supervisors who gave Steve no training for the job but later charged Steve with child abuse is a subterfuge for firing a person who has a blog that comments on the schools. I think the six days’ lapse in time was so that the administration and Ms. Elia could chew over whether to use the incident as a pretense to fire Steve.

Supervisor Elia uses the Professional Standards office to cook up cases against targeted teachers to get rid of them. The woman heading it up, one Linda Kipley, is a fellow sadist that keeps the records and shapes the strategies to fire teachers who let out a peep of complaint. This procedure means the teachers are terrified of losing their jobs if they complain even about the most egregious cases of mistreatment of them by the administration and superintendent.

The board pretends it does not know what is going on in order not to be responsible for making any decisions.

Would this case buttress you case against the district? If so, I will ask Steve to get in touch with the agency.

Lee Drury De Cesare
15316 Gulf Blvd. 802
Madeira Beach, FL 33708
727-398-4142

One Cesspool at a Time

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Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2009 10:30 PM
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Subject: [Lee Drury De Cesare's Casting-Room Couch] New comment on Here We Go Again.

Anonymous has left a new comment on your post "Here We Go Again":

These districts must be as corrupt as Hillsborough. There is no hope. They are all dumb and corrupt.

Publish this comment.

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Posted by Anonymous to Lee Drury De Cesare's Casting-Room Couch at 7:30 PM

I hope that we do not have 39 corrupt school boards and administrations in addition to Hillsborough’s to sanitize. Let’s keep our eye on the ball and work on this one. One cesspool at a time shall be our motto. lee

posted by twinkobie @ 10:38 PM 0 Comments
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To Linda Cobbe, Public Information

Linda, I received the job descriptions. Thank you. I will pay you when I come to the board meeting.

What is the status of my request for the procedures manual of the Special Ed division? I understand it exists in great numbers.

Also, what have you been able to learn about the funds spent on the Alafia incident involving Principal Smith?

Please confirm for me that her mentor, Ms. Ippolito, got $340 a hour for her work. How many hours did she work? What was her total pay?

lee