Did I Forget to Mention...

Did I Forget to mention...


What happened on September 23, 2008 at the board meeting that ran until near midnight? APPARENTLY, Harold "Rick" Sayre and Jesus Holguin Took Part in a desperate act of CRIMINAL NEPOTISM and no one said a word (See board minutes September 23, 2008 last paragraph.)





In a unanimous vote by the school board of Moreno Valley unified school district, Victoria Baca, Harold "Rick" Sayre, Jesus Holguin, Jackie Ashe, and Tracy Vackar; voted in favor of the most egregious act of nepotism in any state agency I have ever heard of.  Then to limit the number of witnesses to their unethical act of favoritism, the board members each took a turn at running on about nothing (much like a filibuster) so as to run the meeting as late as possible and according to the board minutes there were no outsiders present.(?) Director of human resources, Willie Ross Hasson, railroaded his son Willie Mark Hasson (A.K.A. Mark Hasson) past , nearly a dozen applicants from within the MVUSD district that were more qualified, more experienced, and with proven leadership skills.  His son, Willie Mark Hasson had no significant leadership experience; further I was told by someone close to the interview process; Mark Hasson had the lowest interview scores of any applicant that interviewed.  However, the board did not question Willie Hasson even though they knew Mark Hasson was his son and Mark Hasson became the principal by proxy of Vista Heights Middle School. Hasson Jr. had the exact minimum requirements to have applied for the job at all.


As if to validate the laws against such nepotism, Hasson Jr.s track record is dismal at best. He has caused several good teachers to leave Vista Heights including the school psychologist. The overall morale of the staff is at the lowest it's ever been in the 14 years of my experience.  During the second month of his newly stolen principalship, locked away in his office; Hasson worked much of the day on his supposed doctoral thesis.  He saw no parent's he dealt with no issues, he simply depended on his father's input to run the school.  And run it he has nearly to the ground. He has divided the staff so to make himself the middleman and coerce both ends against the other.  Then there are the financial issues and the misuse of student funds.  Both deliberate and widespread.  More on that later.  Still, the board as mentioned above including three currently sitting board members, voted five to nothing in favor knowing full well once again that Mark Hasson was the son of Willie Hasson, making themselves complicit in this unprecedented act of district-sponsored nepotism.  Because of the circumstances and the explicit intent of the board to hide this matter from public view, it may well fall under those rare set of legal circumstances that would make this matter a criminal matter.


Regardless of any possible crime, this particular issue is uniquely sad and ethically reprehensible.  To those board members who remain on the board that took place in this farce, I would say it is passed time that you corrected the the wrong that you did to the other candidates and the parents and students of Vista Heights middle school.  It is time to admit and to right this wrong before it is brought out in a way that will take your options from you.  


To the Superintendent of the County School system, I highly suggest you or your representatives interview random staff members not including the five or six sycophants Hasson has mustered, to verify the sad state of affairs at the school and speak with the board about their own policy regarding nepotism and ethics they might surprise everyone and do the right thing.


As far as the financial situation, I have documented to the Riverside County Schools Independent fraud investigator the issues as they stand at many secondary schools. From their position of Independence from the County Office of education's oversight, they rebuked the request of the county fraud team to go in and investigate certain suspicious accounting practices. After reading the recommendations of both the county office of schools and the Riverside Grand Jury, it would appear the district is no closer to compliance than they were in 2005. When the accounting assistant superintendent lied in writing to the same Grand Jury. I see no evidence that the district ever intended to follow the Grand Jury's directions. It is past time for those senior board members to right this act of explicit and intentional wrongdoing in doing including fixing the sad state of affairs at Vista Heights Middle School.  Mr. Holguin keep your promise from our meeting almost two years ago about this very matter! No more lies.


I personally have reason to believe their published "prudent reserve" numbers are in accurate at best. Moreno Valley Unified School District is stumbling possibly spiraling into the abyss of financial insolvency? That's the truth as best I can determine from financial records from previous years. The District hasn't even payed off the mounting attorney's fees from defending themselves from the repercussions of their own petty often criminally liable personal attacks on their employees by MVUSD administrators and the swollen egos of the senior board trustees.




Go ahead ask, "now how would he know that?" I too have fallen victim to the same unwarranted attack on my professional and personal reputation and ultimately my employment for drawing attention to the multitude of problems in house at the district level first. Nothing. More cover-ups. More lies. The same things I write about here in my blogs. My exercise in 1st amendment rights. As it turns out HR and the two senior board members are so anxious to get rid of me that they turned down their own attorneys' advice to settle this matter on two previous  occasions - that's right they ignored their own attorney's high-high priced advice twice in two months. They are burning our tax money on personal and political vendettas that could cost the district over a $million$ dollars in combined attorney's fees and damages (state agencies are exempt from paying court fees) alone. If we go there, that will only be the price of admission. Three to Five years including appeals. WOW that's a ton of your money snatched right out of your child's education. You know the free and adequate education promised by state and federal law. As of today however that is the route we seem to be headed for. 


These two senior trustees and their HR puppet have squandered upwards of $60,000 dollars of your tax money to date on trying to conjure up a story that even their own attorney's know won't fly. All to make me go away. 10 mo.s without pay. Put off work for the first three months without explanation. Then the fictionalized allegations against me. Denied me due process. While they stumbled through different scenarios trying to find something that would stick. They will reach an easy $200 thousand if we have to ready for to a civil court remedy after the Administrative Adjudicative Hearing on Thursday January 19, 2012. (That meeting was postponed indefinitely as Voros tries to starve me out) 


I tried as best I could to avoid this route. I have no interest in taking money from the kids I care about. I met secretly with Jesus Holguin in late November, 2010 and he promised to help, that the nepotism issue was being was "being addressed as we spoke..." He lied. He didn't keep a single promise to correct the problem(s). He simply wanted to see the information I had gathered on Victoria Baca. A former board trustee and all around self serving politico that a friend and I helped to unseat. In fact Jesus himself voted to try and find a way to dismiss me, or starve me out. Rick Sayre backed or forced that play. Rick is up for reelection in November. I now know why he doesn't want me digging around or anyone else for that matter. Much to come on his shenanigans and bully-boy tactics. He was right not to want me nosing around but 10 months without work tends to make me very curious. Come back soon, here at one of the few places you can get your hands dirty and keep your conscience clean.
I, Praetorian