Board Meeting Review
This poster summarized the events of the meeting better than we could do. Their is only one thing that we would like to add. During one speaker's exchange with Dr. McClure, he mentioned to McClure that the board should have talked to everyone involved in the allegations before coming to a decision. In response, McClure stated that he had spoken with Mr Weiler about the situation. We know for a fact that this is not true. McClure did not speak with Weiler or any other blog contributors about these allegations. Unfortunately, he only chose to speak with Alvin Wilbanks and accept his denial of wrongdoing as truth. In doing so, he clearly failed to do the job that the taxpayers elected him to do.
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A Frustrated and Increasingly Concerned Parent said...
For those of you that were afraid to go to the meeting tonight and for those of you that just couldn't make it....not much happened and it was quite disappointing!
No "apparent" media coverage (other than the newspaper reporters that are at every meeting), no picketing lines, etc. were present!
All in all, it was "business as usual" for a typical monthly meeting. One thing the Administration did do that seemed to curtail some of the public speakers is that they started the meeting early which didn't give the general public much opportunity to speak before the general meeting began at 7....smart on their part but quite underhanded!
Dr. McClure was asked by a Speaker to investigate the allegations and to realize that there are 2 sides to every story. McClure stated that he has looked into the allegations and he is confident that there is no wrong-doing.
Two speakers told the Board and Mr. Wilbanks that they should be "above reproach"....it didn't seem to phase them.
McClure said that we are welcome to ask questions; however, I find it contradictive that he said in the AJC that it was "too complicated for us to understand certain aspects of the situation".
Boyce said tonight that she is excited about a project they are working on with three other school systems (Fresno, D.C. and Austin) because they are getting great ideas but yet she didn't (or couldn't) outline what those ideas are. I don't understand why they continue to be so vague in their dialogue with the public - we aren't that stupid!
I've got to say as a parent and taxpayer that I was disappointed in this meeting and walked out at the end of the meeting fairly upset that the Board Member I voted for isn't taking the responsibilities that I entrusted in his/her care to heart!
It was apparent that McClure will do nothing to further investigate our concerns. We need to continue to demand action and not let up. We need to remind them all that they have an obligation to the public, not the administration and they can be removed from office. We need to stay in their faces between now and next month's meeting!
If next month's turnout is like tonight, we won't see any change! We have to take some drastic measures as a group and it is going to have to be done in large groups rather than individually to get any action or for anyone to take notice.
I propose that we attempt to organize another meeting where concerned parents, citizens and taxpayers get together prior to the next Board Meeting to develop a strategy to ensure our desires are heard at the next meeting.
Perhaps a standing meeting the first Tuesday of every month will work to ensure that we are prepared? That would make the next planning meeting January 2 (I know that's not ideal but we have to start somewhere). We can meet at the Gwinnett Justice Center. If people are interested, I will schedule a conference room for the next several months. Please respond if interested so we can move forward. A few great ideas were discussed at the last meeting but there weren't enough people present to implement them....we need numbers openly involved to make change occur!
Please step forward for our children!
posted by The Truth Will Set You Free @ 12/15/2006 12:35:00 AM
37 comments
37 Comments:
The School Board is counting on that interest in the blog will just fade and the blog will go out of existance.
Do not let that happen !
Continue to contribute entries and do not get discouraged.
Real change takes time....
Dear concerned parent,
I too was somewhat disappointed at the turn out last night. Unfortunately I wasn’t able to stay to the conclusion of the meeting but I was there when Dr. McClure addressed the speaker in question. What you have failed to grasp though is that this Board has had years of experience on perfecting their spin on words. To be explicit, what McClure said was he had spoken to Jeff as well as the speaker’s ex-wife. What he did NOT say is that he had spoken to them regarding these issues.
As an old scarred up battle horse that’s seen plenty of action over the years with this group of folks I’ve learned to listen “very carefully” to the exact terminology they use and force them to rephrase answers so that they aren’t so mis-leading. They generally have an excellent way of putting a spin on the words they use. Keep this in mind for future questioning.
You also need to understand that no member of the board would benefit from replacing Wilbanks, so there is no real incentive to do so. Politically they know that 1) voters have a short memory and 2) with less than 20% of voters even willing to show up at the polls historically, they only need to convince about 10% of the registered voters in there district that they are competent. That is easily accomplished through their associations and memberships in the largest churches in the county, granting “favors” and offering do nothing roles on advisory committee’s or school councils.
As for a change in our school system? I do believe the wheels have now been put in motion. And that Alvin’s little political machine will fold from within. It may take awhile but it certainly appears the insurrection has begun. Teachers cannot successfully teach if THEY are not enjoying the process, and the rampant micro managing by "administrators" is killing teacher joy in education. Teachers will be this administrations downfall.
A dear friend once offered me the following advice, which has saved me on several occasions and I now pass on to you.
"Rules of Bureaucracy"
The first rule of Bureaucracy is to recognize that to change a bureaucracy without becoming a martyr you need to use the weight and force of an even larger bureaucracy.
"Por todas partes, la victoria, va los hombres jóvenes delanteros"
Dr. Davis:
I would like to know how many direct hires from Puerto Rico resulted from your two taxpayer funded trips there... Are there any ? By the way what did you think of the rum and the beaches?
How many Teachers employed at GCPS are direct African Immigrants, give us the numbers or refund the system and the taxpayers for the cost of these expensive trips!!!
How was the wild Animal Safari you went on ?
Will you try to next recruit teachers from Barbado's or Bermuda this winter? I heard the beaches are nice !
Watch the GCPS Travel Budget folks!!!
I have a joke for you, remember those $800 wrenches bought by the Department of Defense, how about >$600 per PC for delivery and set-up paid to IBM by GCPS!!!
Neither were jokes unfortunately...
The real jokes are McClure and Wilbanks et al!
I read your comment to see how things went last night. It is apparently a personal situation due to unpleasant former work relationships. The BOE must continue to work on current matters now. Thanks for your interest in our children. Now move on.
Happy Hanukah to the Gwinnett Jewish Community which begins tonight. Wonder if any School Offices display a Menorah in respect of the Jewish Holiday Season, other than the elaborate Christmas decorations which are displayed?
I am sure that many did not attend because of fear. Employees fear they will be blackballed or lose their job if they have any thing negative to say about the leadership of Gwinnett. There is no union to make the employees feel safe and secure in speaking out. Some even fear that if they post on the blog, the school district can track this. Of course, this isn't the case.
Author: Donald F. Valtman
Subject: Re: Will he just ever shut up?
In reply to: jim 's message, "Will he just ever shut up?" on 07:44:20 12/11/06 Mon
Excellent letter to the editor! Unfortunately, expecting some local/state mover-and-shaker to voluntarily undertake a professional investigation and "let the chips fall where they may" is an unrealistic expectation. They will offer all kinds of excuses for inaction such as 'I didn't know anything about these allegations'; 'if they (Wilbanks et al) did break any laws, they didn't mean to do so'; 'the whistleblowers are malcontents and miscreants, therefore they're not to be believed' (even though whistleblowers were/are central to virtually all cases brought against corporate executives by government agencies); etc.
Other than the Gwinnett DA, the rest of the "movers and shakers" have been conspicuously silent. To counteract their use of any of the above excuses, interested Gwinnettians/groups need to (1) collectively write elected or appointed local/state/federal officials and organizations, (2) advise them of the existing charges and the seriousness of the charges, (3) remind these officials and organizations of their oaths of office, job duties, missions of their respective divisions/departments, (4) their campaign promises (if recently elected), and (5) DEMAND that they actively promote a professional investigation into this situations so as to assure Gwinnett voters that their tax supported public education system is being operated in a law-abiding manner. A partial list of who to write might include:
Governor Perdue
Lt. Governor Cagle
Georgia Attorney General
Georgia Auditor
Inspector General, Federal Dept. of Education
Internal Revenue Service
U.S. Rep. Charlie Norwood, Jr., Chair, Education &
Workforce Sub-Committee
Chairs - Georgia House Education Committee
Georgia Senate Education Committee
Georgia Superintendent of Education
Georgia Professional Standards Commission
Your Gwinnett County state Representative and Senator
Gwinnett County Grand Jury
Gwinnett County Board of Commissioners
Gwinnett County School Board
CCs to:
AJ/C Gwinnett News
Gwinnett Daily Post
ABC, CBS, Fox and NBC Investigative Reporters
Neal Boortz
Georgia Gang
Lastly, send any "dear john" responses you may get to the CC group. And remember such "dear john" responses come the next election.
The White Rose Society/TAG needs to team up with us and attend these planning meetings, which are a very good idea ! Please indicate your interest via a post on the Blog and participate....
For the Kids Sakes...
The Central Office is definitely Anti-Jewish and Anti-People of Color. Yes, Miss Davis has hired a few, but they are her close friends. The district is also anti-gay. There are only 15% or less minorities in the Central Office and schools, even though the student population is approximately 60% minority. They do not reflect in any way shape or form the population they are serving. A large percentage of minorities apply, but they do not hire them.
So what did Gwinnett County's Attorney General say about this? He refused to view this blog and told us the only way Gwinnett County would investigate is if we filed a police report. This does not seem like the due diligence that I would expect from public official.
FYI not only did GCPS give money to the church, they for a number of years supplied them with a computer and onsite technical support.
I was personally ask (by my supervisor) to go to the church after business hours and help them sort computers so that the church could get rid of some of the obsolete items.
Ernie Smith,
Former GCPS Coordinator of Technical Support Services"
So much for not using public money to support religious institutions?
The link to the Office of the Inspector General's Complaint Form, US. Department of Education, for your use:
http://www.ed.gov/about/offices/list/oig/hotlineform.html
Reading and posting to a blog will not bring about change! It will take activism on the part of the general public. Letters need to be written to elected officials, phone calls made and the Board and public officials need to continue to be questioned. Hopefully this is just the beginning of a growing movement for change in Gwinnett County!!!
Remember it is ultimately about the children and how your tax dollars are being spent on their behalf....
Mismanagement and Stupidity are not yet crimes....
However they are good reasons not to reelect GCPS Board Members!!!
The General Public tends to be apathetic to most things that go on right under their noses until they are personally bitten...
Thank you...
Statement from The Society of the White Rose & Teachers' Alliance of Gwinnett (TAG)
December 15, 2006
Dear Friends,
The TAG thanks that small band of community activists who have been fighting the forces of arrogance and corruption within G.C.P.S. We realize that you are badly outnumbered and outgunned at this point by the 'bullyboys'. Someday, the community at large in Gwinnett County will come to understand that you are owed a tremendous debt of gratitude for the efforts made, on behalf of our kids and public education, to expose the dishonorable and destructive agenda of J.Alvin Wilbanks & Associates.
Nothing that this cartel of profiteers and powerbrokers has control of is even remotely undertaken for the sake of students. They have proven this claim over and over again with their secret deals, cynical disregard for parent concerns, brutal and unprofessional treatment of teachers and staff, and their amateurish and laughable attempts to craft academic excellence - about which they know nothing and could really care less.
The T.A.G. believes that everyone employed by G.C.P.S. must cease being ruled by fear and must stand-up to the autocrats. Everyone must realize that in UNITY there is great STRENGTH. There are thousands and thousands of certified and classified employees working hard to provide top schools for Gwinnett's students. Massive resistance (even passive resistance where necessary) will completely paralyze the ability of the bullyboys to manipulate, intimidate and get their way.
Teachers... you are trained on how to deal with schoolyard bullies. They must be met with overwhelming force to convince them to stop. Then, we can proceed to work on "behavior modification" once the bullies have no other choice except to listen and comply.
The White Rose/TAG continues to organize and mobilize forces for what we hope to be a January 2007
'rollout'. This campaign to save our schools will require patience, persistence, leadership and discipline from all involved in winning back our schools. No individual or personal agendas must cloud the important task-at-hand.
We do not think that storming scheduled school board meetings will be effective as the oligarchy has learned masterfully how to manipulate these meetings and spin the truth to their advantage while creating the appearance that their opponents are bug-eyed radicals harboring unreasonable accusations and demands.
Instead, we believe that the bullyboys - given that they are shielded by political and business interests in the community that profit handsomely from SPLOSH money and influence peddling - can only be defeated through a determined effort by lots of school personnel, concerned parents, and community groups of activists uniting to pursue a disciplined strategy that includes:
1) taking legal action whenever feasible (GCPS almost always loses in court because they fail to respect and follow civil statutes and constitutional mandates)
2) supporting new citizen groups which organize to identify, encourage and fully support candidates with integrity to challenge the incumbent school board members when re-election time rolls around
3) enlisting outside sources of support, including leading professors in prestigious colleges of education in Georgia and beyond; legal aid groups; state and national teacher associations; etc.
4) raising funds and gathering other resources in order to support and sustain a viable organization that will bring fresh ideas and solutions to GCPS leadership in order to give them an opportunity to right previous wrongs and charter a new course for the schools.
The White Rose/TAG will need your help and continuing support to make this effort succeed. We will need members, donations, some materials, some specialized knowledge (such as more attorneys), and teacher-leaders in EVERY public school in Gwinnett.
Please spread the word and be ready to assist in some capacity if you really care about the direction of our schools. We teachers and allied support staff would prefer that Mr. Wilbanks opt to negotiate a solution to the serious problems created by his previous policies and practices... but we assume that he will not view doing so as in his best interest, nor do we think he will realize that it would be in the best interests of all concerned to compromise with a group of professional educators and their supporters - even though they lack the requisite and exclusive dining rights at the 1818 Club atop the Chamber of Commerce building on Sugarloaf Parkway that normally would attract the attention of the Gwinnett Superintendent and C.E.O. of Schools.
STAY TUNED FOR MORE... Thankyou
It is apparent that the lack of people present last night is indicative that
1-These 70,000 hits to this site are the rumblings of less than 2 dozen people who have a distaste for Mr. wilbanks.
or
2-Most of these hits and comments on this site are current employees who are speaking some truth but work in fear and intimidation that if they are known they will be fired.
As one of the latter I know if I made any comments to anyone above in my chain of command I would find my email disabled by the afternoon and my resignation asked for. What most of the division chiefs fail to understand that most (easily 90%) of the directors and coordinators that report to them DO feel a change is needed. They do feel waste is rampant. They are tired of friends of these "Chiefs" getting jobs they are not qualified for. They are tired of certain vendors getting huge payoffs. They are tired of seeing kids NOT being the focus as claimed by the upper cabinet.
Regardless of their denial EVERTHING impacts instruction. So many teachers are FED up with micro-managing of their classrooms. The current over-abundunce of paperwork, mandatory meetings that do nothing but take them OUT of the classroom, and spineless principals IS taking the joy out of teaching. These comments are not once in while "I'm having a bad day" thoughts from teachers. I hear them EVERYTIME I talk to teachers. These are not 'difficult', 'disgruntled' or 'bad' teachers. These are TOTY teachers, these are the teachers that have THE BEST CRCT and Gateway scores in their school and the district year after year.
They are the ones that providing the best education that tax dollars can buy. These are the ones Mr. Wilbanks likes to say are the success to his initiatives. But they are ready to quit GCPS and go elsewhere. GCPS is not THE school system of Georgia, it's just the one that pays way more than most. But joy has its price...
So Mr. Wilbanks, Dr. McClure and BOE it is NOT just Mr. Mills whose is upset.
Jim said: "Teachers cannot successfully teach if THEY are not enjoying the process, and the rampant micro managing by "administrators" is killing teacher joy in education."
Amen to that brother! I've been saying that for years, only it's now surpassed the point of absurdity. Just about every teacher I know does not enjoy their job anymore nor can they successfully teach.
I've got to ask, so I'm not to be mistaken as a martyr, what other bureaucracy is larger than gcps that will allocate their weight and force to us little people?
"Throughout, the victory, young men go to the front."
Well Friend,
what other bureaucracy?
The system itself combined with parents and teachers willing to stand for their profession, fellow teachers,and the children might be larger.
Governments and companies thoroughout time have succeeded thru power, greed and sex. Think about it.....and it is the same three things that bring them down.
A 1.2 BILLION dollar government organization HAS coruption. Don't be foolish to think it doesn't. All agencies have it. But greed or sex ALWAYS brings it down. Yes Alvin, you may have weeded some out the latter with 'disgruntled employees' but the former is still present.
Alvin must have power to stay in power. He also apparently getting SOMETHING on the side to have this much control of the BOE. He scratches their backs and indirectly their palms.
I wonder how much stuff sits in the houses and businesses of the BOE that was bought with GCPS money. I KNOW for a fact MS. Radloff does. I wonder who their contributors are to their election campaigns.
Do us a favor Alvin, retire. Go out with some dignity. Staying will only show your pride to the point to where it WILL crumble within.
Most of the GCPS employees I have spoken with agree that many allegations that have been made on the blog are true. They however will never be investigated. The employees are actively reading the blog. They just feel that the blog will have no effect. That no change is forthcoming....
Has anyone yet put in a Phone call to the Anti-Deflamation League, The NAACP, ACLU, The Push Coalition or Atlanta Pride's office in Atlanta?
If you know of religious or racial discrimination at GCPS please contact these organizations now.
Also contact The US Department of Education Office on Civil Rights ?
They have an online complaint form on their Website...
You can never accuse anyone in power of ever lying, as one writer has show. The department directors have always stated things like Dr. McClure said, “I have spoke with”. Again on what day, about what subject? This is most common in transportation.
Grant Reppert is the master.
Lets see if we can get this right
Under Wilbanks, the school system has been fined by the EEOC, sued in Federal court, has broken labor laws, crippled staff, discriminately fired blacks, committed insurance fraud, hired in wives/relatives with unjustified salaries, physically threatened employees, harassed ex/current employees. Anything else.
I dislike that your board gave Wilbanks his $40,000 in sick pay, knowing that employees injured on the job were not allowed sick leave or given workers compensation.
Isn't it correct that HOPE grant money was given to build schools in Gwinnett? Even after your executive director of technology tried his best to thwart the reporting of eligible students to the state?
Well, as a taxpayer of this state, I don't like the idea of giving Gwinnett money with this superintendent in office... You are all on your own as far as I am concerned!
As one anonymous blogger has so cleaverly pointed out....It is too my belief that the majority of the comments being posted on this blog are being made by current employees who have the priviledge of "witnessing" the daily infractions committed by the current GCPS administration. Yes, we are all concerned about expressing our dissatisfaction about the underhanded, unethical and corrupt practices. Yes, most of us are afraid to speak out or even attend the regular board meetings because we fear that our presence, even if we are silent, will send a "red flag" to the watchful eyes of the adminstrative henchmen. It truly saddens me that I am unable to attend the board meetings or ask questions, although I have two school age children in GCPS, because I fear losing my livelihood.
What is wrong with this picture and why is there no recourse for the victims (victims = employees, students, parents & ordinary folks)?
Is there an active and organized effort underway to get in touch with GCPS Teachers and tell them how and where to access this blog for information?
A Bigger Bureaucracy you ask, The State of Georgia and US. Departments of Education are both bigger and wealthier bureaucracies
that can bring there weight down on GCPS if forced to....
Just contact them and supply evidence and facts of these charges to them to investigate, it is actually pretty simple to do!!!
GCPS's IBM Contract is the mother of Mismanagement, Wasteful Spending. This relationship needs intense scrutiny by The Public, The School Board, The District Attorney and yes the State !
This
takes a tremendous amount of courage from the teachers TAG/White Rose
and shows that they really do have the best interests
of the children at heart. it is imperative that the
citizens of gwinnett support them, and thus their own
children, in this endeavor to improve the current
situation.
It is unfortunate but there is a federal decision in the courts that as a public school employee (by the way it is one of the very, very few agencies in all levels of government) you have absolutely NO RIGHT to speak out against it's administration publically and be protected. It is one of the few instances that freedom of speech is actually taken away!!!
In other words as a teacher or staff employee you gave up your right as a taxpayer to criticize in public the school system. A precedent was set in federal court of few years ago in which a teacher wrote to the local newspaper criticizing the use of funds. The school board fired the employee. The teacher appealed all the way to a district federal court and lost!
Alvin and his legal people know this decision and use it all time to intimidate exiting employees.
UNLESS your case invloves the 5 protections (race, sex, religion, disability, age) you have no leg to stand on.
And in Georgia's right to fire statute and in GCPS' with no whistleblower hotline/dept....HR has you by the balls....
BTW I heard the new Internal audit lady is coming from FLorida...Anyone here contacted her to get her to see what she is getting into?
New "internal audit lady?" What, because the new internal audit DIRECTOR is a female, she doesn't deserve to be called "director?" How ironic that this wonderful blog that is exposing all the so called racism is allowing sexism in responses while you filter out anything critical to your so-called cause. What a bunch of hypocrits.
I've heard about the new internal audit DIRECTOR and she appears to have impressive credentials,as opposed to the former director, who was hired by Jeff Weiler. I'm sure she'll be able to handle any situation she encounters.
The 1:57 post responded:
"A Bigger Bureaucracy you ask, The State of Georgia and US. Departments of Education are both bigger and wealthier bureaucracies
that can bring there weight down on GCPS if forced to....
Just contact them and supply evidence and facts of these charges to them to investigate, it is actually pretty simple to do!!!"
Thanks for answering the question. In my opinion however, in order to go to a Bigger Bureaucracy you better have a Bigger Alliance.
I'm with Jim: "The system itself combined with parents and teachers willing to stand for their profession, fellow teachers,and the children might be larger."
But only if they would quit moving away.
Ok, Sloan, my comment was about the new internal audit lady was not meant to be sexist...I was merely adding that a new person was hired to head Internal Audit dept. .....cuze me if it sounded sexist. I could care less if it is Martian as long as they are HONEST!
Forgive me for growing up in the sixties.....I will refrain from slang terms as dude, lady and man in the future. ABSOLUTELY no disrepect was intended or meant.
However, you are absolutely correct Sloan, I need to keep it all on a Corporate level. Tell the CEO I'm sorry.
"The strike, the boycott, the refusal to serve, the ability to paralyze the functioning of a complex social structure-these remain potent weapons against the most fearsome state or corporate power."
-Howard Zinn in The Progressive magazine, January 2000, p20
"I've got to ask, so I'm not to be mistaken as a martyr, what other bureaucracy is larger than gcps that will allocate their weight and force to us little people?"
A she-bear with cubs is by far the most ferocious animal on earth.
Dear EM:
Fortunately, I don't work for the GCPS nor have I ever! I never plan to work for them either! It pains me to see such wonderful, intelligent people being treated so unfairly (not to mention, being molded into robots with no brains)because these are the people that I entrust my children to everyday AND they DO have influence over how my children think and what they become!
Unfortunately, my issues are personal both past and current because they affect my most precious belonging, my children. I do care about how these issues impact the lives of other children as well because these children will be my childrens' friends, co-workers, neighbors and future families.
I have raised concerns with GCPS and I have made suggestions for improvement that I have seen work in other "World Class School Systems". It is amazing that the administration and BOE frowns on parents that truly want to be involved. I find it ironic that lack of parent invovement is blamed when things are bad in most school administrations but GCPS blames parent involvement a bad thing because it gets in their way of control!
If my children were in a "Best In Class" environment, in schools that could pass AYP, and didn't have issues with violence every day,then maybe I would "move" on! I have elected to keep my children in public schools because I did believe in public education and for reasons that I won't get into here; however, I am beginning to lose faith in public education in GCPS based on what I am seeing with this administration and BOE. This blog confirms that what I have suspected for a long time is a reality!
Maybe I should give up the fight and move to private school like everyone else! (If you are with GCPS administration as I suspect, I am sure you will be thrilled). Have you ever stopped to think about the high test scores you lose to these schools year after year and what they could do to your test averages?
Do you think we should tolerate an administration and BOE that puts themselves first, spends our dollars unwisely, unethically and perhaps illegally and then has the audacity to tell the public that they don't need to answer to us about how they spend the taxpayers' money, treat our teachers or develop programs?
It concerns me that the teachers' are being stifled in how they teach. America's best ideas have come from people that always thought "outside of the box". How will our children be influenced to be creative thinkers and learners if they can't "question" anything because it doesn't fit "The Agenda"? Why do you think some of the best universities in the U.S. are liberal arts universities?
At the meeting, there was nothing discussed to "move on to". If there are new programs and ideas being developed, they weren't discussed. However, we need to clear the baggage in order to be able to focus on the future. Perhaps, you are part of that baggage? If there's nothing to hide, let us see the "whole story" and not make us go through the "red tape" to get the details.
The BOE was elected to oversee that the administration and Superintedent are doing their job and doing it "above board". There are questions today about this Superintendent and administration and the BOE needs to do their due diligence to ensure that things are being done ethically and prove to the public that they are. The BOE are the stewards of our money and they need to show us that they are responsible about it. If they aren't doing their part in this matter, it makes you wonder about their interests in other areas.
A Parent Who Is Concerned For Our Future Leaders......
What can we do to make the Union(aka GAE) acquire some cojones and effectively represent us? As it is they seem to cater to or even fear Wilbanks et al. A teacher I know used a lawyer recommended by GAE when he had an issue with the county and ended up firing him because the man would not do anything that would affect his cozy relationship with MS.Sweeney the great Barracuda. By the way, that case involved a student attacking a teacher(have you noticed how vague the guidance is as to how teachers are supposed to protect themselves in such cases?). The student had been on rule 12 for 2 years with over 20 referrals after being on rule 12. The assistant principal who gave no consequences for these referrals was none other than Mrs McKinney, Frances Davis's sister. If a proper investigation had been allowed it would have revealed her sister's inefficiency as well as her lack of credentials for being an assistant principal so it was quickly decided(and leaked to the press) that the teacher was a bad apple who had attacked the student.
I am disappointed that the system has turned its back on dedicated employees that have committed their lives to educating our children. How is it that people like Frances Davis and Sid Camp continue to harass and intimidate employees in GCPS? How is it that employees are called into the office and asked why they did not attend a Christmas party held at Frances Davis' clubhouse? Furthermore, if it was held on the weekend and if they had to pay is it not an option on whether I want to attend a function outside of normal working hours? I know that I am not obligated to attend a function that my company gives. What are you thinking? Are you really wanting to go down this path? The harassment and intimidation has to stop. The big bad wolf was in a children's book he was not real.
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