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EverettsPride
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Posted - 04/14/2007 : 10:14:43 PM
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Just an example.... a kid can call another kid a fu**ing dirty s**t and have to be restrained by her boyfriend. When the issue is brought to the vice principal he says it is hearsay and that the student was talking to her boyfriend not the girl she has been harassing. @@ this girl is well known for having a mouth. She just happens to be an athlete.
That is just one example. I am done keeping quiet.
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Citizen Kane
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Posted - 04/14/2007 : 10:20:15 PM
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| I just don't understand why parents aren't swarming school committee meetings if these things are going on. |
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EverettsPride
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Posted - 04/14/2007 : 10:28:39 PM
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I have contacted the superintendent. Nothing more has been done. It appears if you question anything he does he is not very willing ot help you out. These things go on all the time up there. If your kid is not the type to knock someone in the nmouth to defend themselves, all I have to say is good luck!! Your kids have to be fighters to make it up there. The solution for everything is to ignore them. This kind of thing will turn the good kids bad. They have no choices. They try and do the right thing and they get kicked in the teeth.
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Citizen Kane
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Posted - 04/14/2007 : 10:31:49 PM
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| Yes, but Sally, my point is . . . a phone call the school administration is fine, but a crowd of parents walking into a school committee meeting, with cameras rolling, demanding to be heard, is something completely different. |
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EverettsPride
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Posted - 04/15/2007 : 02:03:00 AM
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They would throw you out in a minute
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Citizen Kane
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Posted - 04/15/2007 : 07:29:25 AM
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They can't throw you out, Sally. It's a public meeting. And if they try to throw you out, let them. Let them call the cops on you. That'll make a nice story for the Boston Herald or the Boston Globe. They'd love a story about how parents were denied access and the right to speak at a public school committee meeting.
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massdee
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Posted - 04/15/2007 : 07:44:16 AM
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| Citizen, the public is not allowed to speak at a school committee meeting, unless it is orchestrated by the school committee themselves. If the issue is something they do not want made public, you will never get enough votes to speak. It has been this way for years, even before FFF. |
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Citizen Kane
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Posted - 04/15/2007 : 08:05:05 AM
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I understand that, massdee, but does that mean that the effort shouldn't be made? I know how this School Committee operates -- but they operate this way because for years no one has even tried to hold them accountable. Doesn't the high school have a PTO? Aren't there PTOs in the other schools in the city? Can't these groups get together and make a show of force?
Now that the school committee members are going to be paid, and those currently occupying seats will hopefully have some legitimate competition, there has never been a better time in recent history to hold these school committee members accountable to the people who voted them in and whose tax dollars will now be paying them a salary. |
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massdee
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Posted - 04/15/2007 : 08:20:08 AM
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I agree with you completely, but in the past when these efforts were made it was to no avail. I no longer have any kids in the system, when I did I was very active. At that time the majority of the PTO's were controlled by the administration, much like the School Committee, the PTO's were stacked with FFF's people.
We even tried to get them to change their rules to allow the Public to speak. We went to the local papers, sent letters to the editors and had FFF attempt to get us thrown out of a School Committee meeting.
I am so against paying these guys, they don't work for taxpayers. They only do FFF's bidding. Especially now that we know a letter from the Inspector General was ignored.
I hope you are right and there is some competition for these seats but as you know,"the more things change, the more they remain the same." |
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massdee
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Posted - 04/18/2007 : 4:11:39 PM
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Read this on the other blog, thought it was kind of clever.
When is Dave "Rob"enese due back from Florida? Haven't heard much about him lately. |
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justme
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 Posted - 04/18/2007 : 6:04:34 PM
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| I'm waiting to see how long it takes him to start working McGonagle.(although I don't think he'll get anywhere) I can't see him staying attached to Hanlon, his no show job will be gone soon. That's 30k that can be put to good use elsewhere! |
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H1ghCh4r1ty
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Posted - 04/18/2007 : 7:48:51 PM
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Rav will wait until the last minute to see how the political winds are blowing.
I expect this time that they will be favorable to Alderman McGonagle. Rav will jump ship at the last moment and bring some insider political tidbits to Joe, and in doing so, will throw Mayor Hanlon "under the bus", as they say.
Rav will have no regrets in doing so, because he never really has anything to lose. The jobs are just "extra frosting on the dog biscuit", as the Pup would say.
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Citizen Kane
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Posted - 04/18/2007 : 8:02:51 PM
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He also has no conscience, which serves him well.
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H1ghCh4r1ty
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Posted - 04/18/2007 : 8:22:09 PM
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"The end justifies the means" Niccolo Machiavelli 1469-1527
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Fran
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Posted - 04/19/2007 : 12:34:18 PM
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Realpolitik (German: real ("realistic", "practical" or "actual") and Politik ("politics")) is a term that is synonomous to Machiavellianism and is used to describe politics based on strictly practical rather than ideological notions, and practiced without any "sentimental illusions". Realpolitik is usually used pejoratively as a term to imply politics imposed by means of physical violence, political extortion or economic suppression, or to imply completely amoral politics aimed solely to achieve the goals by any means.
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