Posted on 01/16/2018 11:02:15 AM PST by nickcarraway
Edited on 01/16/2018 11:45:17 AM PST by Sidebar Moderator. [history]
Laving signs heralding free speech and chanting "Stand by Deyshia," about 100 people gathered in a light rain Thursday to rally to support Deyshia Hargrave -- the Louisiana teacher ejected from a school board meeting and roughly handcuffed in a video-recorded arrest after she questioned her superintendent's pay raise.
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The only way the black robes can get away with their Democrat thievery is if good people do their dirty work.
From Aug. 25th, 2017: “Vermilion Parish School Board President Anthony Fontana has filed a lawsuit against fellow member Laura Lebeouf.
The suit says Lebeouf conspired with other board members to skip meetings which unlawfully sabotaged the board’s ability to conduct business because the board didn’t have the members necessary to vote on important issues.
“Her actions and/or inactions constitute as Malfeasance in Office” the suit claims.”
“we care about our teachers and our support staff.”
Yeah? Is that why you’re taking a $30,000 raise when the teachers haven’t had a raise in ten years?
Educrat scumbag.
These people are supposed to be educators, and they write “inactions constitute as Malfeasance?”
Illiterate forksticks.
Hate to say it but Vermillion Parish has been consistently trending Republican for the past generation and is now a heavily Republican stronghold. They even voted 70% for McCain in 2008.
You’ll have to scoll down for the election information:
http://www.city-data.com/city/Abbeville-Louisiana.html
Is the school superintendent a former teacher?
That I don’t know, although possible. Probably not a teacher from that parish, and probably only in the classroom for a very brief stint. Most supers start as teachers but get into admin positions as soon as they can while they pursue the EdD that qualifies them for the superintendent’s job.
PS: The point of the post is that it’s up to the elected School Board to approve the super’s raise, and while most school boards are non-partisan positions, they are probably nominally Republicans based on the community demographics. Too many school boards abdicate their supervisory responsibilities to the superintendent.
And that is one of the reasons we have such a problem with public education.
The board is to represent the interests of the public, not the interests of the teachers. They have a union.
Nobody on the board should be a teacher or related to a teacher.
Spot on. Too many school boards have teachers who live in the school district but are teachers in an adjoining district. No conflict there, eh? The real problem is an electorate that doesn't connect the dots and realizes this is an inherent conflict and refuses to put them in office to begin with.
In this case, though, the administrator is taking the gravy and leaving the teachers with a cup of dirt. Ten years is a long time to go without any pay adjustment.
The school board in my little city kept running bond issues every year until they got one passed.
Now, they are building three new schools. Not one. Three.
And the old schools?
Perhaps sell them?
Nope.
Tear them down.
Can’t have them Christians buying them and opening up Christian schools.
Our property taxes went up $100 a month.
That’s why I’m in favor of removing property taxes as a federal tax write off.
The damn Democrats keep raising the property taxes and then they wink at you and say, “Yeah, but you can write it off on your federal taxes.”
Oh, and those new schools?
Not built on the land the old schools were on.
They had to buy new land.
At three times the appraised price.
Guess who owned that land?
Yep, big Democrats.
Just part of THE BIG DEMOCRAT PARTY MONEY LAUNDERING MACHINE!!!
Our local school officials are slightly better. They ran a bond issue to fund rebuilding our elementary schools. They started work on rebuilding several schools, beginning with one a few blocks away. They built on adjoining playground land, then as buildings were completed they began tearing down the old ones, and the former old building location will become the new playground. Smart, huh?
Except they screwed up in budgeting, and all the bond funds were depleted in work on the first school, with no money left for doing half a dozen others. All were supposed to be done with the bond funds at hand. They're currently in legal actions against the contractor, who is really blameless, while the school administrators (supposedly overseeing the project) still have their jobs and are trying to shift blame. City had to shift funds from elsewhere to get a different contractor to work on completing the first school rebuild, which has been in progress for three years now. My granddaughter goes there, amidst all the construction activity. It was supposed to be finished two years ago.
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