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Subject: [Lee Drury De Cesare's Casting-Room Couch] New comment on Mystery, Mystery.

Anonymous has left a new comment on your post "Mystery, Mystery":

Since I mentioned your name on another blog, thought I would send you a copy for your thoughts. Here it is: (from St. Pete Times article): I'd eliminate the School Board meetings altogether before I'd eliminate the Math Homework Hotline," said board member Candy Olson, after learning at a recent workshop that the district is paying about $250 per hour to broadcast the meetings live with two replays."This is not the best use of our resources at this time."

How about eliminating the television commercial ads for School Choice running on BayNews9 that contained no real substance? How much did THAT cost the district? School Choice is publicized well through print media, newsletters, websites, post card mailings, and the automated phone system. How much does a 15-20 second ad (with only music for audio, BTW) cost the district every time it runs?

When it comes to matters that affect students, the district always seems to be looking at the bottom line. But when it somes to Mrs. Elia's pet project, School Choice, the budget seems endless.

Thanks to Mrs. Elia for her tireless commitment to promoting school choice, regardless of the financial climate. She is now the recipient of the Dr. Carlo Rodriguez Champion of School Choice Award and also a half scholarship to Nova Southeastern University for the Doctoral Program (this should make Lee DeCesare very happy).

I forgot...why can't we afford the Math Homework Hotline?

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Subject: RE: [Lee Drury De Cesare's Casting-Room Couch] New comment on Mystery, Mystery.

c: all hc board, administration, various school proletariat; all hc school- board, press

Reader:

I didn’t know about the school-choice foofarah. If Elia wants it, nobody will say a word of opposition. People in ROSSAC and on the board have the guts of butterflies. Everybody is afraid of Elia. Why, I don’t know. I could face down an interview besprinkled with the “f” word any day of the week.

Irate patients in various states of pathology called me some pretty vivid things—often in French or other non-US languages-- when I was a psychiatric nurse. I got a thorough acquaintance with indigenous verbal abuse when I was local leader of the Women’s Movement forty years ago. My favorite came from a right-wing Christian passing out Bibles at the Women’s Million-Women-March for Choice in Washington a couple of years ago. He called me a “Jezebel.” A septuagenarian grandmother of ten loves the implications of that accusation.

You never make any headway in life unless you are willing to deflect expletives with your Wonder-Woman bullet bracelets.

The county school board is all inhabitants of the Dark Side. Even the two board members whom I supported with money and encouragement—Griffin and Valdes-- have morphed into ROSSAC clones once they were elected. The two turncoats wouldn’t even answer my email about getting an official place on the board agenda for teachers and students. Even HCC, my pre-retirement stomping ground, has that privilege, and put the students and teachers at the beginning of the meeting.

I can put that Choice question in at the board meeting. I won’t get an answer, but I can get it into the public dialogue.

I think the board should have the guts to eliminate Hamilton’s featherbedding job for $65,000 a year for both ethics’ and also budget’s sake. Failing to get any response from the board except a cold, glassy stare, I have taken that situation state wide on my K12-bureaucrat-list blog outreach. I am still working on that project. This is publicity of a higher order and takes time to seep in.

Elia not only invented Hamilton a job when he retired and sat in probably Otero’s ROSSAC office long enough to cold call recruits for his lobbying scam to compile a quorum; but later she hired him as the schools’ lobbyist without discussing it with board or advertising the job is my bet. Now Dr. “Your” “You’re” is set up to double-dip the taxpayers for his pension and also it looks like half a million a year via the eight schools that he scammed for his lobbying coup-d-etat.

A clerk told me that Ms. Elia had put Hamilton’s name on that $140,000 super-dupper-administration post-retirement job before it went on the books. I learned via public information that she eliminated this ad-hoc job when Hamilton finally left after costing the taxpayers about $70,000 for his sitting on his gluteals speed-dialing his lobbying chumps.

It looks like Le Hamilton wants to be in Tallahassee, where Ms. Mileto plies her job got through his influence against qualified degrees and experience. Dr. Hamilton’s wife divorced him during this exotic personnel exercise. I can’t figure out why she married him in the first place. Such deficient specimens fill the administration, though none as rank as Le Hamilton. Also, none is as big a fool as Hamilton. He is stupendous in both fecal and idiot categories.

Since we can’t get valid information from the administration, I don’t scruple to report gossip. I heard Candy Olson wants to sell her house and is getting or will get a divorce, contingent, apparently, on unloading her house. I hope that means she will relocate out of the school district. She has done enough damage to merit her a condo in the infernal regions. If I were her husband, I would divorce Candy with pleasure and run off with a cocktail waitress not as ugly as Minnie Pearl.

Lee

PS: Check my analysis of the illiterate NOVA thesis of “Dr.” Clayton Wilcox, former superintendent of Pinellas, who has moved on to some highly paid job in an education testing outfit if I heard correctly.

Illiterate people always move up the administrative ladder in anything to do with administration of the schools, usually with a ghosted thesis or gimcrack diploma-mill credentials.

NOVA is the state’s most active diploma mill. It would be a perfect fit for Elia’s academic talent. The NOVA president wouldn’t even answer me when I wrote him to explain how such a pitiful thesis as Wilcox’s merited a NOVA terminal degree when the “university” has a Web spiel on how NOVA requires the highest literacy.

A significant number of people in education are bound on turning it into just another racket. This quotient is high in Hillsborough County.

I don’t know how the Hillsborough County School Board and administration differ from the Halliburton’s half-billion dollar rip-off of in Iraq except that Halliburton scammed more money. The only difference is that the school cheats were not in the arms and other death-and-destruction accoutrements biz, which they would have just loved for its chest-pounding bravado, but are confined to ripping off the oblivious taxpayers in as many ways in the local school enterprise as the lower-quartile specimens in ROSSAC could think up. If the school crooks had the chance, they would have overcharged the US army for Cokes in Iraq too.

The reason the local press avoids this ugly schools-management situation is that the print press is dying, and its top press brains—oxymoron -- think that avoiding controversial issues such as management school theft and writing piffle in as bland a way as possible with no punchy diction will prolong their demise.

They had better start lining up as gofers for Slate.

Wilcox’s Romper Room Nova thesis: http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=6520837584997793196&postID=3328796914433574826