tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-151096942903989101.post66735881249165002..comments2024-01-08T03:21:35.616-05:00Comments on DeKalb County School Watch: Bloggers, are we wasting our time here?Cerebrationhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11161868015604029471noreply@blogger.comBlogger52125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-151096942903989101.post-64944959272711067162011-02-24T16:04:35.135-05:002011-02-24T16:04:35.135-05:00From the Ga. DOE, this is required in the DCSS cur...From the Ga. DOE, this is required in the DCSS curriculum:<br /><br />160-4-2- .12 COMPREHENSIVE HEALTH AND PHYSICAL EDUCATION<br />PROGRAM PLAN.<br />(1) DEFINITIONS…… (c) Sex education/AIDS education - a planned program that shall include instruction relating to the handling of peer pressure, promotion of high self-esteem,<br />local community values, and abstinence from sexual activity as an effective method of preventing acquired immune deficiency syndrome and the only sure method of<br />preventing pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases. This instruction shall emphasize abstinence from sexual activity until marriage and fidelity in marriage as important personal goals.<br /><br />Regarding the last sentence:<br />“This instruction shall emphasize abstinence from sexual activity until marriage and fidelity in marriage as important personal goals.”<br /><br />How can we have a person making policy for students when the example she sets by her actions is diametrically opposed to the instruction teachers are required to teach students? <br /><br />I believe that’s what teachers who are required to deliver this curriculum to their students are asking in a number of posts.<br /><br />http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&cd=1&ved=0CBMQFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.doe.k12.ga.us%2F_documents%2Fdoe%2Flegalservices%2F160-4-2-.12.pdf&ei=p5RmTdqpM4edtweAk_imAw&usg=AFQjCNHshmiT9yo4SeRo6J1kD1-pAFxTMA&sig2=XHC_fX5LbZm7m4rnBA9U0QAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-151096942903989101.post-80282058943429846782011-02-24T12:36:52.915-05:002011-02-24T12:36:52.915-05:00From the Ga. DOE, this is required in the DCSS cur...From the Ga. DOE, this is required in the DCSS curriculum:<br /><br />160-4-2- .12 COMPREHENSIVE HEALTH AND PHYSICAL EDUCATION<br />PROGRAM PLAN.<br />(1) DEFINITIONS…… (c) Sex education/AIDS education - a planned program that shall include instruction relating to the handling of peer pressure, promotion of high self-esteem,<br />local community values, and abstinence from sexual activity as an effective method of preventing acquired immune deficiency syndrome and the only sure method of<br />preventing pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases. This instruction shall emphasize abstinence from sexual activity until marriage and fidelity in marriage as important personal goals.<br /><br />Regarding the last sentence:<br />“This instruction shall emphasize abstinence from sexual activity until marriage and fidelity in marriage as important personal goals.”<br /><br />How can we have a person making educational policy for students when the example she sets by her actions that have become very public is diametrically opposed to the instruction teachers are required to teach students? <br /><br />I believe that’s what teachers who are required to deliver this curriculum to their students are asking in a number of posts.<br /><br />http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&cd=1&ved=0CBMQFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.doe.k12.ga.us%2F_documents%2Fdoe%2Flegalservices%2F160-4-2-.12.pdf&ei=p5RmTdqpM4edtweAk_imAw&usg=AFQjCNHshmiT9yo4SeRo6J1kD1-pAFxTMA&sig2=XHC_fX5LbZm7m4rnBA9U0QAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-151096942903989101.post-78038164098901639242011-02-18T22:32:01.036-05:002011-02-18T22:32:01.036-05:00or:
Cooperating Witness (pick your poison)
Any co...or:<br />Cooperating Witness (pick your poison)<br /><br />Any cooperating witness potentially at risk of prosecution by a foreign government, or by a state government, should ensure that the agreement with federal prosecutors expressly prohibits the sharing of information with any other governmental entity.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-151096942903989101.post-36765113777356069072011-02-18T22:27:08.852-05:002011-02-18T22:27:08.852-05:00Case Closed--two words for you:
Confidential Infor...Case Closed--two words for you:<br />Confidential Informant<br /><br /><br />http://www.confidentialinformant.org/<br /><br />Confidential informants work for the government, often secretly, to gather and provide information or to testify in exchange for cash or leniency in punishment for their own crimes. Unlike witnesses, informants are motivated by self-advancement. <br /><br />http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/196934/guide_to_becoming_a_confidential_informant_pg2.html?cat=17<br /><br />In some cases, confidential informants are created by the police during interrogation. For example, if you are being charged as a co-conspirator in a crime, you might choose to "turn state's evidence", telling the police what you know about the crime in exchange for immunity or for a lesser sentence. If, however, you will not get into any trouble because of what you know, your best bet is to locate the detective in charge of investigating the crime.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-151096942903989101.post-81842441799589057052011-02-16T11:02:08.266-05:002011-02-16T11:02:08.266-05:00please take your hard evidence to the attorney gen...please take your hard evidence to the attorney general and to the FBI... give them a chance to do something putting all of the pieces together. They can't put all the pieces together unless everyone brings their little piece of the puzzle forward. So if you have a piece of evidence (not inuendo but actual evidence of fraud and corruption) bring it to both the FBI's fraud and corruption division and to the new Georgia attorney general.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-151096942903989101.post-54573952349623149822011-02-16T09:51:05.861-05:002011-02-16T09:51:05.861-05:00Do you all actually think that Tyson will dismiss ...Do you all actually think that Tyson will dismiss anyone who was part of Lewis' crew ? She is one of the crew. If Ralph Simpson can steal from the citizens of DeKalb and keep his job, then you know the fix is in. He is good friends with J. Wilson(HR), so he is being protected. You or I would have been fired and prosecuted. Also, J Wilson had an affair with a central office staffer and knew this person was working a part-time job while out on FMLA, and he has protected her. Maybe the internal auditor can investigate the investigators.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-151096942903989101.post-17765102393832506342011-02-15T14:57:45.018-05:002011-02-15T14:57:45.018-05:00@ 12:52 There are more good employees than bad, h...@ 12:52 There are more good employees than bad, however the bad employees are making the decisions in how the district moves forward. There is where the huge problem is. We have too many children who aren't meeting the GA standards and more schools are not making AYP each year. We have spent millions on programs designed to help this issue and the problem is getting worse not better. We have an elementary math program that has switched gears each of the 4 years that it has been in place, will next year be year 5? We have spent millions on computer programs that don't do what we were told that they would be able to do and have wasted countless hours of time. We hire administrators with little teaching experience and knowledge. One does not become a master educator in 3 to 5 years. <br /><br />The decision makers in DCSS, lack integrity, teaching experience, and are connected with the wrong doings of the county. Yes, we have something to worry about and be upset about and we aren't whining. We care about the children of DCSS and want them to receive a far superior education than those in even the "best" schools are currently receiving for each and every child within our county.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-151096942903989101.post-85968229026515994272011-02-15T13:39:01.356-05:002011-02-15T13:39:01.356-05:00Crawford Lewis and anyone caught using any credit ...Crawford Lewis and anyone caught using any credit card for purchases outside of the stated uses should go to jail and pay fines. If you mis-use a federal credit card, you are looking at a prison term. A former director at CDC went to prison and paid a hefty fine for using the federal credit card at Victoria Secrets (among some other places). The feds have auditors that reveiw billings. Ramona Tyson isn't required to present receipts. Our system is ripe for abuse because we do not not demand it from our board to provide rules. They don't even have an ethics policy for the board. They need one. The board needs to require receipts of all employees using government issued credit cards. That is action we should be taking. Turn over info to the DA and State and let them prosecute.Wyndy Amersonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03728954369249788222noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-151096942903989101.post-60217015391701556302011-02-15T13:14:09.118-05:002011-02-15T13:14:09.118-05:00anon 12:52
Whining?anon 12:52<br /><br />Whining?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-151096942903989101.post-77652402991427337272011-02-15T12:52:45.227-05:002011-02-15T12:52:45.227-05:00Can we please get to a place where solutions can b...Can we please get to a place where solutions can be discussed instead of gossiping about everyone in the system? There are more good hardworking people in DCSS than crooks. Yes, the crooks need to be held accountable so we can heal and get to the business of teaching and learning. The only problem is when given the chance, you voted some of the same problems back onto the Board of Education. So what is your solution now except for complaining?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-151096942903989101.post-65290857802476576452011-02-15T12:47:26.706-05:002011-02-15T12:47:26.706-05:00Dr. Tucker has done much good for many DCSS employ...Dr. Tucker has done much good for many DCSS employees. Just because you were in the hot seat for not doing your job doesn't give you the right to slam him.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-151096942903989101.post-39793032642049558752011-02-14T21:22:11.284-05:002011-02-14T21:22:11.284-05:00Anonymous 10:46. You are so right about tucker is ...Anonymous 10:46. You are so right about tucker is a scum ball. He will try and turn your words around to fit his purpose. I too have been in his office and i ended up walking out. He needs to go home and get a life. You are very correct when you go in his office take a lawyer and say nothing with out your lawyer's ok. I don't know how he can still be on the payroll and is retired. He never left the building. More tax payer waste.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-151096942903989101.post-6099699934297859592011-02-14T15:39:52.845-05:002011-02-14T15:39:52.845-05:00Maybe this helps explain things: In an article ti...Maybe this helps explain things: In an article titled "Let's Take Dominion Now!" (and also in his book Church in the Workplace), C. Peter Wagner describes Eddie Long as providing a model for city `transformation.' Wagner quotes Long's book Taking Authority, <br /> The New Birth congregation finances and operates vital support programs in the city and pumps large sums of money and thousands of volunteer hours into key areas such as youth offender intervention programs, public school programs, and support and outreach programs for homeless women and children. We are involved in every aspect of life, and we are making a major impact in the Atlanta metropolitan areas. <br /> This, in turn, is causing us to gain major footholds in the city infrastructure, . . . the criminal court system, public high schools, the Georgia State Senate, the United States Senate, and even into the White House itself. . . . When you are a politician in a major metropolitan area, it isn't wise to dismiss or ignore a highly unified, committed, and motivated group of voters exceeding twenty-two thousand people representing almost every voting precinct in your city.<br />In light of the fact that Eddie Long's church received a million-dollar grant from George W. Bush's Faith Based Initiative, Wagner's analysis is striking, and all the more so for the authoritarian and intolerant nature of the new apostolic movement Long represents. As Rachel Tabachnick details, Eddie Long's teachings are both virulently anti-gay and also openly contemptuous of church-state separation. <br />Eddie Long and C., Peter Wagner are dominionists - they want to extend church authority over every sphere of society including the political realm. The strongly anti-democratic nature of dominionism comes out perhaps most strikingly in the doctrine of "spiritual fatherhood" that's now in mainstream media parlance especially due to the fact that Eddie Long has been accused of coercing sex from his "spiritual sons." <br />http://www.talk2action.org/story/2010/9/29/234537/872Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-151096942903989101.post-23858281678468498812011-02-14T12:02:24.932-05:002011-02-14T12:02:24.932-05:00I would suggest you write Governor Deal and the ne...I would suggest you write Governor Deal and the new State Superintendent John Barge expressing your concern that DCSS is filled with administrators who have gotten their jobs based on family, social and sexual relationships. Ask why the BOe is continuing to employ personnel who received their promotions through a sexual relationship to the former superintendent.<br /><br />Express your concern that Mark Elgart of SACS is refusing emails from the very taxpayers who pay SACS salary and the parents who have children in DeKalb County schools. You might want to talk about the message of these extramarital relationships for promotions sends to our young people.<br /><br />Governor Deal:<br />http://www.georgia.gov/00/gov/contact_us/0,2657,165937316_166563415,00.html<br /><br />John Barge:<br />http://www.doe.k12.ga.us/sup.aspx<br />(there is an email link on the left hand side below his picture)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-151096942903989101.post-15971062402265647282011-02-14T11:33:00.342-05:002011-02-14T11:33:00.342-05:00@ 9:55 2/13 "Promotions should not be based o...@ 9:55 2/13 "Promotions should not be based on friends and family relationships or on sexual relationships."<br /><br />All so true. But that is the fabric of DCSS.<br /><br />I often write members of the BOE. Sometimes I get an answer. You all should do the same. <br /><br />SACS, Mr Elgart, has shut off his <br />e mail. My e mails come back. I guess that he just does not want to hear anything bad. That makes it easier to do the whitewash.<br /><br />DeKalb County government is about as bad as DCSS. Another job machine that has no foresight.<br /><br />I moved into DeKalb County in 1993. How things have changed...all for the worst.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-151096942903989101.post-82899046877105731462011-02-14T10:13:43.394-05:002011-02-14T10:13:43.394-05:00You are correct, 4:07. But it's very hard to ...You are correct, 4:07. But it's very hard to have patience when we are spending so many resources on these people and their mishaps—criminal AND civil. This latest issue with Lewis' lawyer is ridiculous - after all this time (and most likely after having spent his $100,000) suddenly the lawyer becomes an issue? I'm not sure it's all as "above board" as you may think. There's an awful lot of stalling and stonewalling happening here. We are all beginning to wonder if we'll ever be able to move past all of this and refocus our energy (and money!) back on the task of simply educating our children. We are spending millions upon millions of dollars meant for educating children, on lawyers. Pitiful.Cerebrationhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11161868015604029471noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-151096942903989101.post-20266499704551686742011-02-14T09:36:59.163-05:002011-02-14T09:36:59.163-05:00@8:51... I agree, though too bad the go-to-jail ca...@8:51... I agree, though too bad the go-to-jail card is a "Chance" card, and not a "Community Chest" one. Seems the latter is where the funds are allegedly being pilfered.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-151096942903989101.post-87168952895789565682011-02-14T08:49:04.483-05:002011-02-14T08:49:04.483-05:00Let's not forget the attempts by Lewis & P...Let's not forget the attempts by Lewis & Pope to buy taxpayer purchased vehicles at 50% of fair market value -- even after being warned.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-151096942903989101.post-31611760721261332002011-02-14T06:41:06.405-05:002011-02-14T06:41:06.405-05:00Anon 8:03, there is a lot of truth to your questio...Anon 8:03, there is a lot of truth to your question. There is an old guard that is quietly pulling the strings in affairs in DeKalb, both with the school board and county government. Most of it comes down to who controls the money and contracts. They will allow the current leaderships to continue to hang themselves then come in and rescue the county.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-151096942903989101.post-62123911948576038992011-02-14T04:07:38.476-05:002011-02-14T04:07:38.476-05:00Maybe I'm missing something with this blog top...Maybe I'm missing something with this blog topic. You reference the revenue employees that have been indicted for credit card fraud. An indictment is a formal accusation of a crime. It doesn't mean the persons are guilty simply that the DA believes there is enough evidence for a trial.<br /><br />Dr. Lewis has been indicted for several alleged crimes. Trials have been delayed for a variety of reasons, all above board. Why does anyone think that the trials for the revenue employees will occur faster than that for Dr. Lewis. We don't know when those crimes occurred so we don't have a timeline.<br /><br />Patience everyone, the truth will come out in due time.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-151096942903989101.post-42802071683298146822011-02-14T01:10:23.041-05:002011-02-14T01:10:23.041-05:00This is our opportunity to step up to the plate an...This is our opportunity to step up to the plate and be positive about geting out system's back in to the running of "Race to the Top". this willncrease our property values and increase student acheivement. Let' work togethher for a united DeKalb County School and be th "COME BACK DEKALB". Oh what a day? Let us be proactive and meet the challenge!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-151096942903989101.post-17224737740845837722011-02-14T00:00:59.895-05:002011-02-14T00:00:59.895-05:00Vaginal politics, it's a first for me!Vaginal politics, it's a first for me!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-151096942903989101.post-8129602790911027532011-02-13T23:59:27.525-05:002011-02-13T23:59:27.525-05:00WE are not wasting our time. I have learned more ...WE are not wasting our time. I have learned more about this BOE and other areas of Dekalb schools than I ever wanted to know! I inform others about this stuff and they simply can't believe it.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-151096942903989101.post-41411130979443730782011-02-13T23:03:25.788-05:002011-02-13T23:03:25.788-05:00Could Tyson be part of the problem, which is why s...Could Tyson be part of the problem, which is why she is not doing anything? <br /><br />What church does she attend?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-151096942903989101.post-43321944977509534142011-02-13T22:46:28.066-05:002011-02-13T22:46:28.066-05:00Who is Tucker? Is he another attorney?
A retired ...Who is Tucker? Is he another attorney?<br /><br />A retired DCSS HR director who is now "working" for Internal Affairs under direction of Ronald Ramsey. He's not to be trusted. I've had personal dealings with him. He is NOT out for truth, but out to protect the bosses. The truth always comes out and will come out about him. He puts words in people's mouths during depositions by saying, "Don't you really mean to say ..." It's become a very scary situation and I chose that word very carefully. If you are ever called to Internal Affairs to be questioned, make sure you have an attorney with you and say only short answers to their questions ... do not offer more because your words of innocence, your words of incredulousness that you are even being questioned when you are the victim of a much larger war, will be twisted and turned against you to protect the guilty. <br /><br />This has been reiterated and reiterated so many times on this blog by so many different people, and nothing is done. I'm not sure anyone understands why these people are untouchable, when other smaller fish are quickly found guilty and punished.<br /><br />Can anyone shed some light on WHY Tyson isn't getting rid of these people? Can the new board members look into this?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com