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Castle Park Middle School principal punches back!!
anniej - my 'who cares' response was in reply to the post from someone else about grocery workers being unionized which attempted to imply that Shirley was in the union. It was not in reply to Shirley's post about her experience.. Why it now appears where it does is a mystery to me. I certainly meant no offense to her and regret the post if it did. Regards— February 8, 2014 6:09 p.m.
Castle Park Middle School principal punches back!!
Who cares? This is about the corrupt (indicted) board members and others who are supposed to be in charge of the Sweetwater District.— February 8, 2014 2:54 p.m.
Castle Park Middle School principal punches back!!
first paragraph last sentence should read ....'turning CPM into a Charter school.'— February 8, 2014 12:56 p.m.
Castle Park Middle School principal punches back!!
It is evident to me that the strategy of Brand, Bleisch and their followers is to throw the teachers under the bus in order to blame them for failed strategies at CPM and their dubious goals (Alliant, housing a charter elementary school, turning CPM into a middle school.) To repeat: the CORRUPTION THAT IS AT THE HEART OF THE SUHSD DYSFUNCTION IS AT THE TOP. The teachers and their union are really hapless victims in this whole scenario. While there may be some teachers who are deficient in some ways, THIS is NOT ABOUT THE TEACHERS OR THE TEACHERS UNION. The attempt to divert the conversation's focus from the CORRUPTION to the Union is a strategy designed to elicit support for the Corrupt ones by those who fear the unions. Our job as informed community members who want to rid the District of the corruption is to clarify that topic for the people we speak to. Please do not allow the discussion to be focused on the teachers and their union...that is not where the evil lurks!— February 8, 2014 10:36 a.m.
Castle Park Middle School principal punches back!!
I don't believe Brand and Bleisch ever think their ideas are good for the people they are supposed to be serving. I believe they think their ideas will generate money for their own pockets and interests. and are passionate ONLY about those schemes that will land them in higher places in their next professional lives. I don't believe the board members (except now perhaps Bertha) ever bother to think about what ideas might be 'good' for the SUHSD, which they have sworn to protect as public trustees, but only about what might be 'good' for their own bottom lines and future political opportunities. What is "good" for the SUHSD and what is "good" for Brand, Bleisch, Cartmill, McCann, Quinones, et al. are entirely two separate matters. We have the grand jury transcripts to show us that there is absolutely no correlation between what is good for the SUHSD and its students and what those so-called leaders have been up to.— February 7, 2014 2:55 p.m.
Castle Park Middle School principal punches back!!
steviejanowski - I agree with anniej....FIRST we need to remove the BAD Board Members and Administrators who need to leave the profession. We know their motive, and it is self-dealing. They are ineffective at what they are sworn to do.....preserve the public trust. Don't blame teachers for the mess SUHSD is in....they are on the receiving end of the bad leadership, just as our kids are, and we as taxpayers are. Pointing fingers at teachers is only an attempt to deflect the blame away from the true perps.— February 7, 2014 10:24 a.m.
Castle Park Middle School principal punches back!!
If you think that by procuring and printing emails obtained legally through the Public Records Act of those who are employed in positions of public trust is a personal attack, you are entitled to that opinion. However, Ms. Luzzaro has really taken the high road and writes what she is entitled to write. Good investigative journalism does not 'attack', nor does Ms. Luzzaro. If you really believe that 'students are first' as your screen name would imply, I would think you would see that those who are involved in the actions documented in Ms. Luzzaro's narratives are not putting students first. Rather, they are helping themselves first.— February 6, 2014 1:36 p.m.
Castle Park Middle School principal punches back!!
How disgusting! Do not Bleisch and Galleher realize that we concerned members of the public they serve are paying their salaries? Do they not realize that our Constitutional rights of speech and assembly are not suspended just because Ed and Co don't like what we have to say? Bleisch and Galleher's communications indicate more than a casual disregard of their public duty. I'd say that with every passing day, more is revealed, and more community members (read taxpayers and voters) become more aware of the perfidy and dereliction of duty. Call me what you will, I still vote --- and will try to convince others not to vote for the status quo. Word of mouth is an incredibly potent strategy. Tick Tock.— February 6, 2014 1:08 p.m.
Judge España goes easy on Southwestern College VP
I would hope Truther would understand that our collective sense of outrage has been more than tweaked. The outrage is amplified because these admitted crooks have taken what is not theirs from the public funds that were supposed to go to the public benefit -- our schools and our kids' education. What is it about crimes against the public that the judge finds so benign? Is it that there is no one identifiable victim and she is unable to consider the concept of the public as victim? Perhaps she should tour the schools, meet some of the kids, and the students at Southwestern who so want an education, in order to put faces on the victims when she next considers a proper sentence. Perhaps parents should bring their students to the courtroom so Judge Ana can see the faces of those who have been victimized. Otherwise, it seems she will continue to view the crooks as the victims of circumstance, not as perpetrators of crimes of greed and perfidy against the public and the public trust they were supposed to uphold.— February 5, 2014 12:11 p.m.
Judge España goes easy on Southwestern College VP
I do hope Judge Espana can handle so many perps at once. She should have enough tissues on hand to wipe the tears from her eyes as they recount their sob stories.— February 4, 2014 5:04 p.m.