Posted on 08/18/2005 9:36:30 AM PDT by Rakkasan1
Minneapolis school officials have ordered an inquiry into claims that Superintendent Thandiwe Peebles misused her office by assigning school employees to do personal chores and her college work.
School Board Chairman Joseph Erickson said he asked outside attorney Dennis O'Brien to check the allegations in two detailed letters sent anonymously to school board members last month. "We feel like it's important and worth investigating," he said.
The Star Tribune also received copies of the letters. Employees and former employees interviewed by the newspaper corroborated some of the details, plus similar allegations. They described an office in which employees working for Peebles routinely used office computers to pay Peebles' bills.
They said employees helped Peebles prepare work for the school finance course she completed this spring at the University of Minnesota so she could gain her state superintendent's license. They said they also handled other personal chores for her, including making grooming and kennel arrangements for Peebles' Kerry blue terrier, Askari.
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whats tragic to me is she is over the
teachers in this school....
most public school teachers
scare me with their liberal views..
I can't imagine the kind she hired...
Those poor kids.....
it's the MN version of the UN. but it's for the children...
I wonder how you say that.
She's a fairly attractive and stylish black lady who drives nice Jeep (which has never been off-road, of course) and has a little dog with her yapping at the attendants the whole time they're checking all her fluids, tires, washing the windows, etc. while she buys $3.00 worth of gas.
I wonder which staff member is preparing her response (with a flip chart, I assume). Another shining example of our school tax dollars in action. More money goes to administration, and not to teaching the children.
Exactly what I was thinking ... she imagines she's Kofi Annan.
And government offices are full of people like this, who think public employees are their personal servants, and taxpayers' equipment and supplies are intended to be gifts to them.
She's a fairly attractive and stylish black lady who drives nice Jeep (which has never been off-road, of course) and has a little dog with her yapping at the attendants the whole time they're checking all her fluids, tires, washing the windows, etc. while she buys $3.00 worth of gas.
Anyone who sends their kids to public school is either a liberal, doesn't care what liberal views they learn, or are just plain brain-dead.
Yes, yes, thank you, we all know public school teachers who are Republicans, support this country, and actually try to teach something worthwhile. The reality is, however, that the vast majority of the public school establishment are not in that camp and are liberals looking to indoctrinate your child.
Get 'em out now. Don't support a socialist institution with your presence.
Just her first name should have been warning enough not to hire this gubbermint trough feeder
Unless you live in one of those NJ insular, island school districts. You might be a "racist" but you know the schools are good because your neighbors teach there, your neighbors' kids attend, and you actually stay on top of the curriculum and the faculty.
I tried a few different ways, none of which sounded correct to me, and now my brain hurts.
From her picture, I would guess "Than-DEE-wee." And I'll bet the name had something to do with her being hired for the position - it sounds so multiculturally-foreigny.
I hear you, but you cannot possibly know, unless you are in the classroom and read all their books, that they are not getting handed the subtle liberal bias everywhere. The save-the-rainforest, global-warming, government-is-good claptrap that is in every single textbook published for K-12 schools in this country. Teachers who do not point out where conservatives differ from liberal agendas.
NJ is one of the most heavily democrat state in this country. Are all your neighbors Republicans ? Unlikely.
I live in PA, in a very highly regarded school district in suburbia, and at least half of my neighbors are Dems. I can tell you, based on a Dem neighbor who also teaches at the high school, that the teachers vote over 80% Democrat. One of the elementary schools included the infamous "Heather Has Two Mommies" on in 3rd grade reading, and the parents didn't find out until AFTER the fact.
It's everywhere in the schools, and cannot be avoided if your child is in public school. After spending 7 hours a day at school, another hour or so on homework, how much time and attention do you have from that child to counteract what they get at school ? Precious little.
it's pronounced "Ton-da-way."
or in some places "overpaid".
I feel like an island in the middle of the biggest socialist sea on earth.
How much longer are we going to have to put up with this b.s.?
This woman was hired without having the education/credentials to even hold the job!
I'll bet I could find them an educated, licensed white guy in about two days to fill this job.
well, I'm a Santorum republican in NJ. My wife is home with the kids and yes, we spend each night, during and after dinner, discussing with the kids what went on in school that day. I ask about teacher comments. I know the teachers, and I look at the textbooks from time to time. If there were an issue I'd address it promptly. Most of my neighbors are republicans or right-leaning dems and the kids... well if you saw them and the way they behave, treat other people's property, and speak, you'd say our schools were doing a great job. Should that change, I move. I am here to get my kids to 21 years old without major problems, that's my only priority.
I wonder how many staff members it takes to braid the hair?
"They said employees helped Peebles prepare work for the school finance course she completed this spring at the University of Minnesota so she could gain her state superintendent's license."
Wonder if she is going to hire someone to take the licensing test for her??? She obviously hasn't done any of the homework herself. Probably doesn't have a clue how to run a school. Typical NEA MO. Know-nothing, barely educated, degrees bought, not earned, empty suits running our schools. Un-freakin'-believable. Your tax dollars at work, friends.
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