05-20-2009, 08:00 AM
Connections - JUSTWONDERING you hit it on the head with your statement, "Oops, we have screwed up hiring at the high school once again, but if we admit it, we will look incompetent." That is EXACTLY the boards mentality as reported to me. Deputy Superintendent Gaudin reported to me that in our case the board stated to him that we were, "Just trying to embarass the board" when we pointed out that they had forged time sheets and falsified paperwork when our claim to them arrived just a week before the arrests of Williams and Artley were publicly announced. He went on to say that even if our report that Executive Director Richard Pattison had lied to them, the board stated, "Even if Executive Director Richard Pattison HAD LIED TO THEM ABOUT EVERYTHING during the termination, it didn't rise to the level of being a problem". In other words the board's mentality was , "Oops, we have screwed up again, but if we now follow FLSA, state law and federal law and if what we did was based on a terrible lie by an Executive Director WE JUST HIRED, WE WILL LOOK INCOMPETENT so we are going to do NOTHING".
Connections - WHEN THE SENIOR ADMINISTRATION AND BOARD ARE MORE CONCERNED ABOUT HOW THEY WILL LOOK THEN FOLLOWING THE LAW IN OUR CASE OR THE QUALITY OF YOUR CHILDREN'S EDUCATION IN YOUR CASE - IT'S TIME TO PUBLICLY HOLD THE ENTIRE BOARD AND SENIOR ADMINISTRATION ACCOUNTABLE FOR EVERYTHING THAT GOES ON AT THE SCHOOL.
Connections - WHEN THE SENIOR ADMINISTRATION AND BOARD ARE MORE CONCERNED ABOUT HOW THEY WILL LOOK THEN FOLLOWING THE LAW IN OUR CASE OR THE QUALITY OF YOUR CHILDREN'S EDUCATION IN YOUR CASE - IT'S TIME TO PUBLICLY HOLD THE ENTIRE BOARD AND SENIOR ADMINISTRATION ACCOUNTABLE FOR EVERYTHING THAT GOES ON AT THE SCHOOL.
Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere / Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter / Injustice must be exposed, with all the tension its exposure creates - Martin Luther King Jr.