Two more things
December 12, 2007 at 1:27 pm by Wayne Garcia- The Hillsborough School board can’t agree on secular vs. non-secular holidays but didn’t have any problem naming a new high school for what passes for a hero and celebrity in Tampa Bay: NY Yankees partner George Steinbrenner. The Boss was convicted of felony charges in connection with illegal campaign contributions made to Nixon in the 1970s, and he was later pardoned. The Boss has done lots of charity work in our area, no doubt, but his offer to snitch on other political wrongdoers back in the 1970s is perhaps more insightful as to whether he should have a school named after him.
- Why is everyone in a snit about Mitt Romney’s failure to address the wackier aspects of his religion to the exclusion of any questioning of how evangelical Christians have/would run this country (see: Bush, George W., and Huckabee, Mike)
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December 12th, 2007 at 3:17 pm
I don’t know if you’ve read Lee De Cesare’s blog post this morning, but it contains this gem:
“I fear your tendency is to cave to bigots or people with narrow views. That was what you did when the no-nothings attacked the *Muslin children* as *”towel heads”* in the religious-holiday controversy.”
(emphasis mine)
December 12th, 2007 at 11:10 pm
I didn’t see it, and could only find this graf on her Casting Room Couch blog this AM, directed at Jennifer Faliero (wonder if she revised it??):
“The only admirable thing I am aware of that you have done on the board is not to throw the Muslim children to the wolves in the religious-holiday fracas. The bigots emerged from the fens and the bogs of ignorance on the outer banks of Wimauma to howl imprecations at the “towelheads” for besmirching Christianity. God forbid that Jesus had to depend on these unlovely specimens. Ms. Elia buckled to the bigots instantly.”
December 13th, 2007 at 1:19 am
It’s in the second paragraph from the top. But unintentional humor aside, Lee makes an excellent point. The rumors about Jennifer Faliero have apparently been floating around for a while. It would be relatively easy to verify them (divorce judgments, talking to witnesses, and so forth - investigations 101) and now that Jennifer is on the record denying it, she may have just implicitly resigned her seat.
That’s a sideshow, however. The thing I would love to know is where all the money comes from and where it goes - in other words, a real honest-to-god audit with compliance standards and receipts and a full public report for everybody to digest. I would love, for example, to know how much the district really makes from its misbegotten Voyages math cirriculum that so many parents and teachers loathe.
I would also love to know how many contractors got no-bid contracts with the district and how much money could have been saved by putting them out to bid. Maybe it would have been enough to let our teachers have their second planning period so they could, you know, plan.
December 22nd, 2007 at 1:18 am
If the rumors about Faliero are true, and Lee DeCesare claims to have proof that they are true from Mark Hart, I feel that Faliero should resign. That would mean that she lied at the board meeting when she told Lee it was untruthful and slanderous. I don’t care what someone does in their private life on their own time, but this supposedly started, I believe, on school district property, school time, using school resources/personnel. And if she lied about it at the last school board meeting that adds to it all. Our leaders should not lie. I believe this should be investigated, and if the other school board members knew about this, they should be asked why they did nothing. I believe everything trickles down from the top. When employees and students hear about top people misusing their positions, the whole system looks like a joke.