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  1. <?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:blogger='http://schemas.google.com/blogger/2008' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005" xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2390228832516246682</id><updated>2024-11-01T04:57:14.264-07:00</updated><category term="California Law"/><category term="Bullying"/><category term="Courage"/><category term="Not"/><category term="child abuse"/><category term="child sexual victimization"/><category term="emancipation"/><category term="foster care"/><category term="foster children"/><category term="homeless youth"/><category term="9 LA SUPERIOR COURT JUDGES"/><category term="Burn Book"/><category term="Facebook"/><category term="Free"/><category term="Here"/><category term="My Space"/><category term="Richard I. Fine"/><category term="Sex"/><category term="homelessness"/><category term="human rights watch"/><title type='text'>The Neo-School Counselor</title><subtitle type='html'></subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://theneoschoolcounselor.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2390228832516246682/posts/default?redirect=false'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://theneoschoolcounselor.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><link rel='next' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2390228832516246682/posts/default?start-index=26&amp;max-results=25&amp;redirect=false'/><author><name>Anonymous</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10303696555621507222</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>34</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2390228832516246682.post-8602374285069880015</id><published>2012-05-22T22:47:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2012-05-22T22:47:22.333-07:00</updated><title type='text'>IS THIS THE EXCEPTION OR ...</title><content type='html'>&lt;div dir=&quot;ltr&quot; style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot; trbidi=&quot;on&quot;&gt;
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  8. &lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;&quot;&gt;Recent stories of thousands stolen from local school fundraising organizations may sound unusual and appalling considering the accusations, however having worked as an ASB director for nearly 5 years and educator for 15, I can tell you that the kind of theft that is described in the article happens at almost every school - public or private. Without district direction, school level oversight and administrative accountability, these incidents happen with widespread regularity. State budget cuts have reduced the number of experienced administrators needed and the problem is multiplied.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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  12. &lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;&quot;&gt;Most of the time school fundraising, whether it&#39;s elementary, middle or high school, is done in cash. Checks and credit cards are seldom accepted. Checks – because of the large number that are return unpaid and credit cards because the schools themselves usually cannot afford the cost.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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  16. &lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;&quot;&gt;There are basically three entities that oversee various student fundraising; most are school clubs that fall under the auspices of the ASB (Associated School Body, or student government). Others are run completely by parents, and are independent of the school or district, these are called booster clubs. Neither the principal nor the school district maintains a functional oversight. The last is the PTSA, PTO or PTA, although it may be known under other names. This is the organization of parents who fundraise for the good of the school as a whole and who are governed-by a very strict code with district level and state level hierarchies. Still, the handling of the monies is left to the parent or parents in charge.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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  20. &lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;&quot;&gt;The PTSA or PTO works directly with the staff and principal in order to provide for or assist all the staff and students at that school. However the&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;bookkeeping and handling of large amounts of cash is left up to the means of charter&#39;s officers, often parents without systematic direction and the temptation is too often that individuals undoing. Regardless of which three organizations, theft happens almost all the time somewhere at some school in your school district. Thefts from Booster Clubs, especially high school, often amount into the hundreds of thousands each year.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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  24. &lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: medium; line-height: 27px;&quot;&gt;JUST ANOTHER LOCAL EXAMPLE?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;&quot;&gt;At the Moreno Valley Unified School District middle school at which I was the ASB co-director, between 2008-2010, teachers and other staff including the principal and his relatives were responsible for stealing as much as $100,000 in cash from student funds. &amp;nbsp;This includes theft, illegal usage, deliberate misappropriation or laundering money into other bank accounts. Folks that&#39;s just o&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;&quot;&gt;ne school in one medium sized school district!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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  28. &lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: 12pt;&quot;&gt;When this kind of mishandling becomes apparent, it is often impossible for concerned individuals to get district level administrators to respond to complaints or reports about stealing of student fundraising monies. Often, these administrators are afraid the situation will become public and the disappearance or mishandling of these monies will reflect poorly on them and their job performance. (In some instances it should.) So instead of fixing the problem, a labor intensive effort, many district&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: 16px;&quot;&gt;administrators&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: 12pt;&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;will take the easy way out and collaborate in a series of cover-ups hoping the problem can be quietly swpt away. But the problem just becomes systemic as has happened in Moreno Valley.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: 16px;&quot;&gt;Even when presented with evidence enough to warrant a formal investigation, the Riverside County Office of Education seems hard pressed to do anything about about uncooperative districts. In 2006 Moreno Valley Unified School District&amp;nbsp;defied&amp;nbsp;the Riverside County Grand Jury&#39;s direction to change its accounting practices. The then Assistant Superintendent of Fiscal Services lied in a letter to the Grand Jury regarding the matter and got away with it because his statements were not thoroughly investigated. The changes the grand jury directed have not been implemented to this day. And the relasted problems have grown much larger. In keeping with the ideology of cover-up is better, Moreno Valley Unified has also ignored the Federal Government Office of Civil Rights&#39; list of demands for change after their investigation of the districts H.R. department practices in 2005.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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  32. &lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;&quot;&gt;This kind of system wide cover up also fosters acts of retaliation. District and site level administrators hoping to silence vocal staff or parents trying to do the right thing by way of the students and their schools. This is especially true if the issue has become endemic across the entire school district. For more than 15 years this has been the case in Moreno Valley.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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  36. &lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;&quot;&gt;Some of the irresponsibility and cover up allowing these problems occurs at the level of the district school board members. Often the issues are known and liabilities discussed in the board&#39;s &quot;closed sessions.&quot; The personalities,&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;&quot;&gt;backgrounds and&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: 12pt;&quot;&gt;voter perceptions of the board trustees influence their decisions. These factors make for a cauldron of personal vendettas, poor dicissions, illegal investigations – usually at the behest of one or more of the trustees, thousands of&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: 16px;&quot;&gt;dollars&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: 12pt;&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;in&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: 16px;&quot;&gt;unnecessary&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: 12pt;&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;legal fees, and/or blind adherence to the subjective recommendations by the above-mentioned district administrators whose very employment is determined by the whims of the board members they report to.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: 12pt;&quot;&gt;This problem is further complicated by the trustees need to show voters their school district is being well managed so these trustees will be reelected at the end of their terms. Conversely, a&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: 16px;&quot;&gt;politician&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: 12pt;&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;can not hope for election to a &quot;higher office&quot; if they are associated with some district scandal. For many trustees the school board is just a stepping stone towards a more powerful and well paying elected office.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: 12pt;&quot;&gt;For others being a board member is an extension of a narrcisstic facet of their personality. Where they can take the stage in front of neighbors and local individuals. For them, inspite of their retoric, students&#39; and parents&#39; educational needs are seldom their driving concerns.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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  39. &lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;An Employer should know when a potential harassment case may have them by the throat!&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  40. &lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  41. &lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;u&gt;Here are five signs that you might want to answer &quot;Yes, please, and thank you, Sir!&quot; when you get that Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) request to mediate.&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  42. &lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  43. &lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;The accused is a member of management and has admitted to the harassment, OR he hasn&#39;t admitted it, but you are pretty sure he&#39;s guilty. This one is obvious. Maybe he didn&#39;t admit to sending that picture on Twitter, but he can&#39;t say &quot;with certitude&quot; that it&#39;s not him. He&#39;s probably guilty, and even if he isn&#39;t, you&#39;re going to have a hard time persuading the EEOC, a judge, or a jury that it didn&#39;t happen.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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  45. &lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;If you have an admission, or just a terrible feeling in your gut that won&#39;t go away, your case may be a dog.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;Your work environment is so bad that you &quot;should have known&quot; the harassment was going on. Normally, an employer is not liable for harassment that it&#39;s unaware of, which stands to reason. After all, how can you correct a problem you didn&#39;t know existed? BUT . . . if a work environment is so bad that anyone with eyes to see and ears would have been aware of it, then a court is likely to find that you had &quot;constructive knowledge&quot; of the harassment. This means that, in the eyes of the law, you knew about it, whether you actually knew or not.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  46. &lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  47. &lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;If you had actual or constructive knowledge of the harassment, then you probably won&#39;t be able to use the defense to your inaction that the plaintiff didn&#39;t report the harassment. Your case may be a dog.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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  49. &lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;You got a complaint of harassment, and then you sat on it. Ideally, the investigation of a harassment complaint will begin the same day you get it, (or even earlier, if you had actual or &quot;constructive&quot; knowledge of it before you got the complaint.) It looks bad when you get a complaint and don&#39;t even start interviewing anybody until two or three weeks later, or even worse, when you wait until the day you get the EEOC charge or the nasty letter from an attorney in the mail.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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  51. &lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;If a delay cannot be avoided, then be sure to document the reason for the delay, and be sure to do as much you can until the key individual comes back. And, of course, promptly follow up with the employee after he or she returns to work.If there is a delay and you don&#39;t have a good excuse, your case may be a dog.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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  53. &lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;You can&#39;t even remember the last time you had harassment training. The EEOC and a good plaintiff&#39;s lawyer will always ask members of management whether they&#39;ve had harassment training, how long ago, who did it, what it covered, etc. There are at least two reasons for this:&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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  55. &lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;(1) Your agency will look very bad if you&amp;nbsp;&lt;u&gt;haven&#39;t done it recently&lt;/u&gt;, and&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  56. &lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  57. &lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;(2)&amp;nbsp;&lt;u&gt;inadequate training&lt;/u&gt;&amp;nbsp;will give the plaintiff an excuse for not having reported the harassment in a timely manner. The Employee can plausibly claim that he or she didn&#39;t report it because she didn&#39;t know she was supposed to report it, or that she didn&#39;t know how to do it.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  58. &lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  59. &lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;You should conduct harassment training for supervisors and managers at least once a year, and the training should include how to identify harassment, &quot;high-risk behaviors,&quot; what to do if the manager receives a complaint of harassment or sees a situation in which she believes that harassment may be taking place, and retaliation. Ideally, you&#39;ll conduct annual harassment training for non-management employees, too, which should cover the same topics, but in more abbreviated form. This can be done live or through web-based programs or videos. (Live and web-based are generally better than videos because they are interactive.)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  60. &lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  61. &lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;If your harassment training isn&#39;t current, your case may be a dog.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  62. &lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;You have established that &quot;quid pro quo&quot; harassment may have occurred. Let&#39;s say an employee comes to you and says that she was demoted because she did not surrender to her boss&#39;s &quot;charms,&quot; whistle blowing, etc. Let&#39;s further say that you have done everything right -- you have mandatory annual harassment training for management and non-management employees, which this boss attended last month, you have a great policy, you promptly investigated the complaint, and you fired him and fixed the&amp;nbsp;egregiousness&amp;nbsp;as a &quot;thank-you&quot; for coming forward.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  63. &lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  64. &lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;Unfortunately, you are still liable (&quot;strictly liable&quot;) under the law, because the employee suffered what the courts call a &quot;tangible job detriment&quot; as a result of the alleged harassment. All the good things you have done are relevant to damages, but not to liability, meaning that at a minimum you could be stuck with nominal damages and his or her attorneys&#39; fees.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  65. &lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  66. &lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;One would hope that an employer this good would not have to worry about getting a charge or lawsuit from the victim, but if he or she chooses to pursue legal action,&amp;nbsp;&lt;b&gt;&lt;u&gt;your case may be a dog. It may be about to bite you in the ASS!&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://theneoschoolcounselor.blogspot.com/feeds/4603781968128575866/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://theneoschoolcounselor.blogspot.com/2012/03/employer-should-know-when-potential.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2390228832516246682/posts/default/4603781968128575866'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2390228832516246682/posts/default/4603781968128575866'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://theneoschoolcounselor.blogspot.com/2012/03/employer-should-know-when-potential.html' title='IS THIS THE EXCEPTION OR ... An Employer Should Know When a Potential Harassment Case May have Them by the Throat!'/><author><name>Anonymous</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10303696555621507222</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2390228832516246682.post-4106249175008004879</id><published>2012-03-20T10:31:00.002-07:00</published><updated>2012-05-22T22:21:09.057-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;div dir=&quot;ltr&quot; style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot; trbidi=&quot;on&quot;&gt;
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  68. &lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;An Employer should know when a potential harassment case may have them by the throat! &lt;b&gt;&lt;u&gt;Here are five signs that you might want to answer &quot;Yes, please, and thank you, Sir!&quot; when you get that Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) request to mediate.&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  69. &lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  70. &lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;The accused is a member of management and has admitted to the harassment, OR he hasn&#39;t admitted it, but you are pretty sure he&#39;s guilty. This one is obvious. Maybe he didn&#39;t admit to sending that picture on Twitter, but he can&#39;t say &quot;with certitude&quot; that it&#39;s not him. He&#39;s probably guilty, and even if he isn&#39;t, you&#39;re going to have a hard time persuading the EEOC, a judge, or a jury that it didn&#39;t happen.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  71. &lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  72. &lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;If you have an admission, or just a terrible feeling in your gut that won&#39;t go away, your case may be a dog.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;Your work environment is so bad that you &quot;should have known&quot; the harassment was going on. Normally, an employer is not liable for harassment that it&#39;s unaware of, which stands to reason. After all, how can you correct a problem you didn&#39;t know existed? BUT . . . if a work environment is so bad that anyone with eyes to see and ears would have been aware of it, then a court is likely to find that you had &quot;constructive knowledge&quot; of the harassment. This means that, in the eyes of the law, you knew about it, whether you actually knew or not.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  73. &lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  74. &lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;If you had actual or constructive knowledge of the harassment, then you probably won&#39;t be able to use the defense to your inaction that the plaintiff didn&#39;t report the harassment. Your case may be a dog.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  75. &lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  76. &lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;You got a complaint of harassment, and then you sat on it. Ideally, the investigation of a harassment complaint will begin the same day you get it, (or even earlier, if you had actual or &quot;constructive&quot; knowledge of it before you got the complaint.) It looks bad when you get a complaint and don&#39;t even start interviewing anybody until two or three weeks later, or even worse, when you wait until the day you get the EEOC charge or the nasty letter from an attorney in the mail.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  77. &lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  78. &lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;If a delay cannot be avoided, then be sure to document the reason for the delay, and be sure to do as much you can until the key individual comes back. And, of course, promptly follow up with the employee after he or she returns to work.If there is a delay and you don&#39;t have a good excuse, your case may be a dog.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  79. &lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  80. &lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;You can&#39;t even remember the last time you had harassment training. The EEOC and a good plaintiff&#39;s lawyer will always ask members of management whether they&#39;ve had harassment training, how long ago, who did it, what it covered, etc. There are at least two reasons for this: &amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  81. &lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;(1) Your agency will look very bad if you &lt;u&gt;haven&#39;t done it recently&lt;/u&gt;, and&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  82. &lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;(2) &lt;u&gt;inadequate training&lt;/u&gt; will give the plaintiff an excuse for not having reported the harassment in a timely manner. The Employee can plausibly claim that he or she didn&#39;t report it because she didn&#39;t know she was supposed to report it, or that she didn&#39;t know how to do it.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  83. &lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  84. &lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;You should conduct harassment training for supervisors and managers at least once a year, and the training should include how to identify harassment, &quot;high-risk behaviors,&quot; what to do if the manager receives a complaint of harassment or sees a situation in which she believes that harassment may be taking place, and retaliation. Ideally, you&#39;ll conduct annual harassment training for non-management employees, too, which should cover the same topics, but in more abbreviated form. This can be done live or through web-based programs or videos. (Live and web-based are generally better than videos because they are interactive.)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  85. &lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  86. &lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;If your harassment training isn&#39;t current, your case may be a dog.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  87. &lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;You have established that &quot;quid pro quo&quot; harassment may have occurred. Let&#39;s say an employee comes to you and says that she was demoted because she did not surrender to her boss&#39;s &quot;charms,&quot; whistle blowing, etc. Let&#39;s further say that you have done everything right -- you have mandatory annual harassment training for management and non-management employees, which this boss attended last month, you have a great policy, you promptly investigated the complaint, and you fired him and fixed the&amp;nbsp;egregiousness&amp;nbsp;as a &quot;thank-you&quot; for coming forward. Unfortunately, you are still liable (&quot;strictly liable&quot;) under the law, because the employee suffered what the courts call a &quot;tangible job detriment&quot; as a result of the alleged harassment. All the good things you have done are relevant to damages, but not to liability, meaning that at a minimum you could be stuck with nominal damages and his or her attorneys&#39; fees.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  88. &lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  89. &lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;One would hope that an employer this good would not have to worry about getting a charge or lawsuit from the victim, but if he or she chooses to pursue legal action, &lt;b&gt;&lt;u&gt;your case may be a dog.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  90. &lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://theneoschoolcounselor.blogspot.com/feeds/4106249175008004879/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://theneoschoolcounselor.blogspot.com/2012/03/employer-should-know-when-potential_20.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2390228832516246682/posts/default/4106249175008004879'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2390228832516246682/posts/default/4106249175008004879'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://theneoschoolcounselor.blogspot.com/2012/03/employer-should-know-when-potential_20.html' title=''/><author><name>Anonymous</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10303696555621507222</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2390228832516246682.post-7519644695973509001</id><published>2012-03-19T20:03:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2012-03-18T17:20:29.666-07:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="California Law"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="emancipation"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="foster care"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="foster children"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="homeless youth"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="homelessness"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="human rights watch"/><title type='text'>California: From Foster Children to Homeless Adults</title><content type='html'>&lt;div dir=&quot;ltr&quot; style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot; trbidi=&quot;on&quot;&gt;
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  157. &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.hrw.org/en/reports/2010/05/12/my-so-called-emancipation-0&quot; style=&quot;text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;My So-Called Emancipation&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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  165. &lt;i&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;The vast majority of these young people don&#39;t have a clue where to start or how to go about it. Within a few years without the intervention of a caring adult, they slide into the abyss of drug addiction, alcoholism and depression. They fill the wards of the county psychiatric units.they are no more prepared now as adults to live in a complex world than they were when they first were taken into the system as children...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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  174. &lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;(Los Angeles) - California is creating homeless adults by failing to ensure that youth in foster care are given the support to live independently as adults and by ending state support abruptly at 18, Human Rights Watch said in a report released recently. Human Rights Watch said that the state must provide financial support, connections with mentoring adults, shelter, and other safety nets for young people as they make the transition toward independence. &amp;nbsp;However those services were among the first to go during the Schwartzniger ruination years. The total financial ownness put on the counties who had already made similar cuts.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  175. &lt;div style=&quot;line-height: 1.75em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0em; margin-right: 0em; margin-top: 0.5em;&quot;&gt;
  176. &lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;The 70-page Human Rights Watch report,&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.hrw.org/node/90219&quot; style=&quot;text-decoration: underline;&quot;&gt;My So-Called Emancipation: From Foster Care to Homelessness for California Youth,&lt;/a&gt;&quot; documents the struggles of foster care youth who become homeless after turning 18, or &quot;aging out&quot; of the state&#39;s care, without sufficient preparation or support for adulthood. California&#39;s foster care system serves 65,000 children and youth, far more than any other single state. Of the 4,000 who age out of the system each year, research suggests, 20 percent or more become homeless.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  177. &lt;div style=&quot;line-height: 1.75em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0em; margin-right: 0em; margin-top: 0.5em;&quot;&gt;
  178. &lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&quot;By failing to prepare youth in foster care for adulthood and cutting them off from support abruptly as they become adults, California is failing in its duty to these young people,&quot; said Elizabeth Calvin, senior advocate for children&#39;s rights at Human Rights Watch and author of the report. &quot;These young people are capable of making the transition successfully, but they cannot do it without the state&#39;s help.&quot;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  179. &lt;div style=&quot;line-height: 1.75em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0em; margin-right: 0em; margin-top: 0.5em;&quot;&gt;
  180. &lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;This month the state is considering dramatic cuts to child welfare services, which would eliminate an existing transitional living program, over 400 social workers, and other programs for foster youth preparing for adulthood.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  181. &lt;div style=&quot;line-height: 1.75em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0em; margin-right: 0em; margin-top: 0.5em;&quot;&gt;
  182. &lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&quot;These proposed budget cuts would undermine foster youth&#39;s main defense against living on the streets,&quot; Calvin said. &quot;The state will bear the costs of the predictable result - increased homelessness.&quot;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  183. &lt;div style=&quot;line-height: 1.75em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0em; margin-right: 0em; margin-top: 0.5em;&quot;&gt;
  184. &lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;Most children enter foster care because abuse or neglect at home triggers the duty of the state to step in and protect them. The state becomes their parent and must ensure that children have adequate food, clothing, shelter, health care, and education. But the responsibility to provide the guidance and support necessary for children in foster care to grow into independent adults is no less important, Human Rights Watch said.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  185. &lt;div style=&quot;line-height: 1.75em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0em; margin-right: 0em; margin-top: 0.5em;&quot;&gt;
  186. &lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;Human Rights Watch interviewed 63 young people who became homeless after they left foster care in California. Their stories shed light on the complex array of factors that led to their homelessness: missed opportunities to learn skills, lack of ability to support themselves, a shortage of second chances, and the fact that no one cared what happened to them.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  187. &lt;div style=&quot;line-height: 1.75em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0em; margin-right: 0em; margin-top: 0.5em;&quot;&gt;
  188. &lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;Of those interviewed,&lt;b&gt; &lt;u&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;65 percent had not graduated from high school when they were forced out of state care; 90 percent had no source of income.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt; &lt;/b&gt;These young people were expected to survive on their own, though the state had provided no real training for adult living skills and was providing no support, financial or otherwise, during the transition. In these cases, homelessness is a predictable outcome.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  189. &lt;div style=&quot;line-height: 1.75em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0em; margin-right: 0em; margin-top: 0.5em;&quot;&gt;
  190. &lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;California state law requires child welfare agencies to develop, in conjunction with each youth in foster care, an &quot;emancipation plan&quot; for what the young adult will do when leaving foster care. A plan that should start at the beginning of high school, and be complete including sources of mentoring and support with the cooperation and help of the foster family. But in practice, plans are most often not made or are unrealistic and unlikely to prevent a youth from becoming homeless, Human Rights Watch said. For those young people who actually had a, &amp;nbsp;&quot;emancipation plan&quot; described to Human Rights Watch plans that lacked arrangements for housing or the income to afford it.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  191. &lt;div style=&quot;margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0em; margin-right: 0em; margin-top: 0.5em;&quot;&gt;
  192. &lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;line-height: 1.75em;&quot;&gt;Human Rights Watch called on California to provide foster youth with a variety of options as they make the transition to adulthood, however in past years, those very options were available and then some. Making the transition years more fruitful and more like their peers in family homes enjoy. In the past these could include more time with paid outside services&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;line-height: 28px;&quot;&gt;coordinators&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;line-height: 1.75em;&quot;&gt;, extra time at foster home, if needed, before moving out on their own, or helping with arrangements for somewhere to stay during certain periods, such as during college vacations. that is if they were given enough help to get into a college program.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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  194. &lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;The state should also maintain a spectrum of other options for housing, mentoring, and support for former foster youth, including transitional housing programs, mental health services, services for those with learning disabilities, and services for pregnant and parenting youth, Human Rights Watch said.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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  196. &lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&quot;The science of adolescent development shows that childhood does not end abruptly at a certain age,&quot; Calvin said. &quot;In most US families, young people continue to receive a spectrum of support -&amp;nbsp; emotional and financial - as they make the transition to adulthood, and the youth in California&#39;s care deserve no less. &quot;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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  198. &lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;Selected Testimony&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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  200. &lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;The day I graduated from high school my foster mom told me, &quot;You&#39;ve been emancipated. You can&#39;t live here anymore.&quot; My social worker showed up - I was still in my little graduation dress and heels, my flowers, my cap on. My social worker had never talked with me. [She just] told me, &quot;I&#39;ve called around and found a shelter for you. You have a bed for four months.&quot;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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  202. &lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;background-color: black; color: #f1c232; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;- Karen D., age 21, San Francisco.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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  204. &lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;On the day of my so-called emancipation, I didn&#39;t have a high school diploma, a place to live, a job, nothing...The day I emancipated - it was a happy day for me. But I didn&#39;t know what was in store. Now that I&#39;m on the streets, I honestly feel I would have been better off in an abusive home with a father who beat me; at least he would have taught me how to get a job and pay the bills.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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  206. &lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;background-color: black; color: #f1c232; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;- Roberta E., age 24, Los Angeles&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  207. &lt;div style=&quot;line-height: 1.75em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0em; margin-right: 0em; margin-top: 0.5em;&quot;&gt;
  208. &lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&quot;I wish I could have had ... someone to care about me ... like show me how to separate the whites from the darks [for laundry.] I would have hated it at the time, but I wish I&#39;d had that. They never even asked me, ‘Is something wrong? Talk to me.&quot;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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  210. &lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;background-color: black; color: #f1c232; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;- Nikki B., age 18, Sacramento&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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  213. &lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&quot;If you&#39;re going to put kids in group homes, in foster care - at least give them what they need to survive and take care of themselves. [When I aged out of care] I was expected to know how to get a job, buy a car, all that stuff, but ... I didn&#39;t have any idea how to go about doing things. So, I ended up on the street.&quot;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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  217. &lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;background-color: black; color: #f1c232; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;- Tony D., age 20, Berkeley&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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  222. &lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;It is this writer&#39;s experience&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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  227. &lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;I will weigh in here. It is been my experience with teenagers and young adults who are &amp;nbsp;homeless at such an early age, 30 – 40% have been recently emancipated from foster care here in California. These are the most unfortunate of the young people emancipated because, without a single exception they did not have a family member to take them in. They were simply dropped off in a different city often because a known family member lived there. Too often that family member had no idea and had little interested in helping. These young people often find each other and form&amp;nbsp;social &lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;&gt;groups &amp;nbsp;and for protection.&lt;/span&gt; T&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;line-height: 22px;&quot;&gt;he vast majority of these young people don&#39;t have a clue where to start or how to go about it. Within a few years without the intervention of a caring adult, they slide into the abyss of drug addiction, prostitution, alcoholism and depression. They fill the wards of the county psychiatric units. They are no more prepared now as adults to live in a complex world than they were when they first were taken into the system as children.&lt;i&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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  235. &lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;Contact &lt;b&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.hrw.org/en/node/90207/section/3&quot;&gt;Human Rights Watch&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/b&gt;for more information on how to help.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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  243. &lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;Original story by&amp;nbsp;&lt;em style=&quot;border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;mailto:andrew.donohue@voiceofsandiego.org&quot; style=&quot;border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;andrew.donohue&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  244. &lt;em style=&quot;border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;mailto:andrew.donohue@voiceofsandiego.org&quot; style=&quot;background-color: black; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;voice of sandiego&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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  246. &lt;div style=&quot;border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; line-height: 21px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 15px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;&quot;&gt;
  247. &lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;The public proclamations that the San Diego Unified School District faces a state takeover dropped like bombshells this month, but district leaders have had serious discussions about insolvency both publicly and privately for years.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  248. &lt;div style=&quot;border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; line-height: 21px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 15px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;&quot;&gt;
  249. &lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;At one point more than two years ago, former Superintendent Terry Grier was so concerned that school board members didn&#39;t grasp insolvency&#39;s consequences that he scheduled a private briefing from perhaps the state&#39;s foremost expert on it, San Diego County Office of Education Superintendent Randy Ward.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  250. &lt;div style=&quot;border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; line-height: 21px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 15px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;&quot;&gt;
  251. &lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&quot;We&#39;d just had numerous discussions with them about the possibility of insolvency. They just didn&#39;t believe the state elected officials could or would allow it to happen,&quot; Grier said. &quot;There was even early discussion about how becoming insolvent might be the right thing to do.&quot;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  252. &lt;div style=&quot;border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; line-height: 21px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 15px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;&quot;&gt;
  253. &lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;Ward knows state takeovers well. The state appointed him to&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.voiceofsandiego.org/data-drive/article_f62b02fa-f928-11e0-80bc-001cc4c03286.html&quot; style=&quot;border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;take over Oakland Unified School District&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;after it went broke in 2003. He unilaterally ran the district, cleaning up its finances after the superintendent was fired and the elected school board became an advisory council.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  254. &lt;div style=&quot;border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; line-height: 21px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 15px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;&quot;&gt;
  255. &lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;When he met with them, Ward didn&#39;t tell the board members they were headed for insolvency. Rather, he explained what would happen and how the district would need to take drastic measures to avoid it. &quot;He also rang that warning bell loud and hard,&quot; Grier said.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  256. &lt;div style=&quot;border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; line-height: 21px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 15px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;&quot;&gt;
  257. &lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;At least twice since that meeting, while the state continually cut funding to local schools,&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.voiceofsandiego.org/public_safety/pavement/article_9fce1a5a-dd8f-11e0-a189-001cc4c03286.html&quot; style=&quot;border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;the school board has made high-stakes gambles&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;that state finances would improve or that school spending would significantly increase. In light of California&#39;s continued economic problems and those serious ongoing discussions about insolvency, those gambles have begun to look misguided at best and reckless at worst.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  258. &lt;div style=&quot;border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; line-height: 21px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 15px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;&quot;&gt;
  259. &lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;District officials have cast the financial crisis as one wholly of the state&#39;s making, but talk of insolvency has always hung over the financial gambles the district&#39;s taken in order to keep class sizes small and teachers employed in the short-term. The long-term consequences of those decisions only compound the trouble handed down by the state.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  260. &lt;div style=&quot;border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; line-height: 21px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 15px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;&quot;&gt;
  261. &lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;Just a year after Ward&#39;s talk, the school board entered into a labor contract that, while providing short-term relief, saddled it with burdens it may well not be able to handle. The contract was, by the board president&#39;s own admission, a &quot;gamble.&quot; Then, this summer, the board voted to rehire hundreds of teachers based on rosy state projections, despite advice to the contrary from their staff and consultant.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  262. &lt;div style=&quot;border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; line-height: 21px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 15px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;&quot;&gt;
  263. &lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;Now, with the state&#39;s projections looking unlikely to materialize, school board President Richard Barrera is&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.voiceofsandiego.org/public_safety/pavement/article_b2b1707c-faae-11e0-8497-001cc4c002e0.html&quot; style=&quot;border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;calling for the state to levy taxes&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;on the wealthy, oil extraction or alcoholic beverages to save school districts from insolvency.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  264. &lt;div style=&quot;border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; line-height: 21px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 15px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;&quot;&gt;
  265. &lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;Grier, who left the district in 2009 for Houston, said the district&#39;s dynamics changed when the teachers union&#39;s slate of school board members, John Lee Evans and Richard Barrera, were elected in 2008 and joined with Shelia Jackson to form a pro-labor voting block.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  266. &lt;div style=&quot;border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; line-height: 21px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 15px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;&quot;&gt;
  267. &lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;When Barrera and Evans joined the board, Jackson put together a plan to cancel&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.voiceofsandiego.org/this_just_in/article_b04c0cdf-528f-5acc-9cbb-63d683af9d8b.html&quot; style=&quot;border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;teacher layoffs that had been issued before their election&lt;/a&gt;, a move the new board approved unanimously.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  268. &lt;div style=&quot;border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; line-height: 21px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 15px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;&quot;&gt;
  269. &lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;Grier said the move went against staff&#39;s advice and had little justification as the district&#39;s enrollment had been shrinking for the better part of a decade and the teachers simply weren&#39;t necessary.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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  271. &lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;At the time, then-board member Katherine Nakamura said schools were fully staffed and it would be hard to even find places to put the teachers. She warned of the bad timing, too, considering the state&#39;s plight. &quot;You don&#39;t eat a jelly donut in the middle of a heart attack, no matter how sweet it might be.&quot;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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  273. &lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;Nakamura ended up voting for the plan, though, saying she wanted to move the board forward.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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  275. &lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;Barrera said his decisions have nothing to do with his relationship with, and support of, labor unions. He said his relationship with the teachers union has soured thanks largely to his vote in favor of layoffs earlier this year.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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  277. &lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;Make no doubt about it: The state Legislature has made severe changes to the way it funds K-12 education, offering districts 15 percent less money than it did just a few years ago. And it&#39;s not even giving the districts the smaller checks it promised, forcing them to borrow money every year and bank on IOUs. That&#39;s put districts around the state in serious trouble.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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  279. &lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;In response, San Diego Unified has made its own harsh changes. It&#39;s cut staffing by 15 percent since 2009 and this year it ultimately laid off more than 1,000 workers, including 500 teachers. The threat of insolvency, for example, popped up during the school board&#39;s public deliberations about whether to issue layoff warnings to teachers this March.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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  281. &lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;Today, district leaders say they&#39;ve cut to the bone and are now evaluating closing some schools. Teachers agreed to shorten the school year by five days the last two years, taking five unpaid days off and saving the district about $20 million.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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  283. &lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;But, despite those major changes, the school board has been banking on the state Legislature upping education funding or a roaring economy to come to the rescue before the consequences of some of its long-term decisions come due. Every cut that wasn&#39;t made a year ago compounds now, and only deepens the budget pain when it eventually has to be made.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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  285. &lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;Barrera said every budget decision he&#39;s had to make has involved risk. &quot;We either risk the education of kids or we risk the financial health of the district, that&#39;s the situation we&#39;ve been in, over and over and over again,&quot; he said.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  286. &lt;div style=&quot;border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; line-height: 21px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 15px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;&quot;&gt;
  287. &lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;The issue to Barrera is one of drawing a line in the sand.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  288. &lt;div style=&quot;border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; line-height: 21px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 15px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;&quot;&gt;
  289. &lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;The board has already made cuts that have raised class sizes to an unacceptable level and impacted the welfare of children, he said, but there&#39;s a point the board simply can&#39;t cross. If refusing to make cuts entails gambling against the financial health of the district, then that&#39;s what he&#39;s got to do, he said.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  290. &lt;div style=&quot;border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; line-height: 21px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 15px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;&quot;&gt;
  291. &lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;Choose against the financial health of the district too often, though, and you eventually run out of money to even keep a school district functioning.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  292. &lt;div style=&quot;border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; line-height: 21px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 15px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;&quot;&gt;
  293. &lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;That&#39;s the situation the district faces today.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  294. &lt;div style=&quot;border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; line-height: 21px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 15px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;&quot;&gt;
  295. &lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;It&#39;s already staring at a $60 million deficit for next year after managing a roughly $80 million deficit this year. It has a rather vague list of solutions to fund that deficit, from closing schools, to selling off land, to asking the union to make concessions on teacher salaries and benefits. All that will have to be decided soon.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  296. &lt;div style=&quot;border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; line-height: 21px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 15px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;&quot;&gt;
  297. &lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;If the state&#39;s optimistic revenue forecast fails to materialize, next year&#39;s deficit could nearly double for and the district will have to find more ways to cut without laying off teachers. So far, the only solution that&#39;s been floated for that problem is shortening the school year by seven days, a proposal that, again, the district would have to negotiate with its unions.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  298. &lt;div style=&quot;border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; line-height: 21px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 15px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;&quot;&gt;
  299. &lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;If the state goes ahead with the threatened midyear cuts, Barrera and Superintendent Bill Kowba say the district will be on its way to insolvency. If the district goes insolvent, it will get taken over by the state and local control would be eviscerated.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  300. &lt;div style=&quot;border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; line-height: 21px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 15px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;&quot;&gt;
  301. &lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;Budget decisions would be made unilaterally by a state-appointed trustee. The superintendent would be fired. The school board would be advisory. The state would have some power over school finances for decades as the district paid back its bailout loan.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  302. &lt;div style=&quot;border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; line-height: 21px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 15px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;&quot;&gt;
  303. &lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;Kowba, a former rear admiral in the Navy, served as Grier&#39;s chief financial officer. Grier said Kowba had continually raised red flags for the school board.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  304. &lt;div style=&quot;border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; line-height: 21px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 15px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;&quot;&gt;
  305. &lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;However, he said, often staff&#39;s warnings to the board went unheeded.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  306. &lt;div style=&quot;border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; line-height: 21px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 15px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;&quot;&gt;
  307. &lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&quot;We knew the cuts were going to be painful. We also knew from everyone we talked to that this was not going to get better. We kept sharing that with the board. They were in a hard position, I don&#39;t envy them,&quot; Grier said. &quot;But they kept going in the opposite direction that staff recommended.&quot;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  308. &lt;div style=&quot;background-color: white; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; line-height: 21px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 15px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;&quot;&gt;
  309. &lt;em style=&quot;border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;You can reach us at&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;mailto:andrew.donohue@voiceofsandiego.org&quot; style=&quot;border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #074676; font-style: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;andrew.donohue@voiceofsandiego.org&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;or&lt;a href=&quot;mailto:will.carless@voiceofsandiego.org&quot; style=&quot;border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #074676; font-style: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;will.carless@voiceofsandiego.org&lt;/a&gt;. Follow us on Twitter:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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  318. &lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: yellow;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  319. &lt;div style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;
  320. &lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: yellow; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-large; line-height: 24px; text-align: -webkit-auto;&quot;&gt;The board minutes simply state“resigned for personal reasons.”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  321. &lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; text-align: -webkit-auto;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: white; font-size: x-large;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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  323. &lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;Moreno Valley, CA. Its a shame and ethically undefendable that Assistant Superintendent of HR, Henry Voros does not afford the same standard of proof with a dozen or more employees (all of whom are at the top of the salary scale and suspended without pay and without cause or due process) as Dr. White endeavors toward Board Trustee Mike Rios in her statement&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 1.5em;&quot;&gt;. (see Below.) I could not agree more though I don&#39;t care for Rios as a person. &quot;Due Process&quot; as Board Trustee Harold &quot;Rick&quot; Sayre mentioned.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  324. &lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 1.5em;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  325. &lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 1.5em;&quot;&gt;Then again, is his sad little way, Voros is as much driven by personality dysfunction as is Rios. Harold “Rick” Sayres is also driving this back door effort to break the employees contract and their collective will to dessent or question administration. Via the conceit of these two self serving individuals they reduce payroll.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  326. &lt;div style=&quot;line-height: 1.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 5px; text-align: -webkit-auto;&quot;&gt;
  327. &lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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  329. &lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;Who said it’s hard to fire a teacher? Its easy: conjure up any reason, refuse to follow state education department regulations for disciplining educators, Ignore Education Code and State Labor law, and Government Code, then suspend without pay. Done! Effectively fired at the date of suspension!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  330. &lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  331. &lt;div style=&quot;padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 5px; text-align: -webkit-auto;&quot;&gt;
  332. &lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white; font-size: large;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;line-height: 1.5em;&quot;&gt;Voros has seen the actuarial table that shows the number of educators that will just leave (or quit) far out ways the number who will fight. There by producing a half-million dollar savings per educator to the district&#39;s&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;line-height: 36px;&quot;&gt;publicly&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;line-height: 1.5em;&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;line-height: 36px;&quot;&gt;inflated&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;line-height: 1.5em;&quot;&gt;bottom line. I further found the majority are (were) Educators at the top of their pay scale.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  333. &lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white; line-height: 1.5em;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  334. &lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white; font-size: large;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;line-height: 1.5em;&quot;&gt;Those educators who are willing to fight, sometimes to the appellate level usually win, which costs the&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;line-height: 24px;&quot;&gt;district&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;line-height: 1.5em;&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;line-height: 24px;&quot;&gt;hugely in the short run&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;line-height: 1.5em;&quot;&gt;. However, the district doesn&#39;t have to disclose documentation to the press or public regarding these cases because they&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  335. &lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white; font-size: large; line-height: 1.5em;&quot;&gt;can claim confidentiality of the former employee.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  336. &lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white; font-size: large; line-height: 1.5em;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  337. &lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: white;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; line-height: 1.5em;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  338. &lt;br class=&quot;Apple-interchange-newline&quot; /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://theneoschoolcounselor.blogspot.com/feeds/1695438536718832059/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://theneoschoolcounselor.blogspot.com/2012/02/board-minutes-simply-stateresigned-for.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2390228832516246682/posts/default/1695438536718832059'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2390228832516246682/posts/default/1695438536718832059'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://theneoschoolcounselor.blogspot.com/2012/02/board-minutes-simply-stateresigned-for.html' title='PLEASE! It&#39;s Easy to Fire an Educator'/><author><name>Anonymous</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10303696555621507222</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2390228832516246682.post-7198435952446099092</id><published>2012-02-26T21:16:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2012-03-07T08:41:50.776-08:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;div dir=&quot;ltr&quot; style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot; trbidi=&quot;on&quot;&gt;
  339. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; margin-bottom: 7.5pt;&quot;&gt;
  340. &lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;
  341. &lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: yellow;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: 25pt;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://disenfranchised-educators.blogspot.com/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;ATTEMPTED KIDNAPING: &amp;nbsp;Moreno Valley &amp;nbsp;Police &amp;nbsp;look for su&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 25pt;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://disenfranchised-educators.blogspot.com/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;spect&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  342. &lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: white;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.blogger.com/goog_922222890&quot; style=&quot;background-color: black;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  343. &lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;A 14-year-old Moreno Valley girl and two boys managed to fight off a would-be kidnapper while walking near a middle school Tuesday evening. Police are looking for the driver of a 1990s Chevy Astro van who is believed to have tried to kidnap the girl as she was walking to Sunnymead Middle School at 6:15 p.m. The incident occurred near the intersection of Old Valley and Softwind drives northwest of the school. A 6-foot-tall, 180-pound black man wearing black clothing approached the girl and offered her moneyto get into the van, according to a news release from the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department. When she refused, the man stopped the van and ran after her. The girl and two juvenile boys managed to fight off the man and they ran to safety, the news release said. The girl later told her mother, who called police. Police are asking anyone with information to call the MVPD at 951-247-8700&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://theneoschoolcounselor.blogspot.com/feeds/7198435952446099092/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://theneoschoolcounselor.blogspot.com/2012/02/attempted-kidnaping-valley-for-suspect.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2390228832516246682/posts/default/7198435952446099092'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2390228832516246682/posts/default/7198435952446099092'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://theneoschoolcounselor.blogspot.com/2012/02/attempted-kidnaping-valley-for-suspect.html' title=''/><author><name>Anonymous</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10303696555621507222</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2390228832516246682.post-3862716608359758805</id><published>2012-01-23T03:57:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2012-03-18T18:31:19.193-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Did I Forget to Mention...</title><content type='html'>&lt;div dir=&quot;ltr&quot; style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot; trbidi=&quot;on&quot;&gt;
  344. &lt;br /&gt;
  345. &lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;Did I Forget to mention...&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  346. &lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  347. &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  348. &lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;What happened on September 23, 2008 at the board meeting that ran until near midnight? &lt;/span&gt;APPARENTLY,&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: #ffe599; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;&quot;&gt;Harold &quot;Rick&quot; Sayre and Jesus Holguin Took Part in a desperate act of CRIMINAL&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #ffe599;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;&quot;&gt;NEPOTISM&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white; line-height: 115%;&quot;&gt;and no one said a word&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;&quot;&gt;(See board minutes September 23, 2008 last paragraph.)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  349. &lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;line-height: 18px;&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  350. &lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  351. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  352. &lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  353. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  354. &lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;In a unanimous vote by the school board of Moreno Valley unified school district, Victoria Baca, Harold &quot;Rick&quot; Sayre, Jesus Holguin, Jackie Ashe, and Tracy Vackar; voted in favor of the most &lt;b&gt;egregious act of nepotism&lt;/b&gt; in any state agency I have ever heard of. &amp;nbsp;Then to limit the&amp;nbsp;number&amp;nbsp;of witnesses to their unethical act of favoritism, the board members each took a turn at running on about nothing (much like a&amp;nbsp;filibuster) so as to run the meeting as late as possible and according to the&amp;nbsp;board&amp;nbsp;minutes there were no outsiders present.(?) Director of human resources, Willie Ross Hasson, railroaded his son&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;Willie Mark Hasson (A.K.A. Mark Hasson)&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;past , nearly a dozen applicants from within the MVUSD district that were more qualified, more experienced, and with proven leadership skills. &amp;nbsp;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. &amp;nbsp;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&lt;b&gt; &lt;u&gt;minimum&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;u&gt; requirements&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/b&gt; to have applied for the job at all.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  355. &lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  356. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  357. &lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;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&#39;s ever been in the 14 years of my experience. &amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;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. &amp;nbsp;He saw no parent&#39;s he dealt with no issues, he simply depended on his father&#39;s input to run the school. &amp;nbsp;And run it he has nearly to the ground.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;He has divided the staff so to make himself the middleman and coerce both ends against the other. &amp;nbsp;Then there are the financial issues and the misuse of student funds. &amp;nbsp;Both&amp;nbsp;deliberate&amp;nbsp;and widespread. &amp;nbsp;More on that later. &amp;nbsp;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. &amp;nbsp;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.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  358. &lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  359. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  360. &lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;Regardless of any possible crime, this particular issue is uniquely sad and ethically reprehensible. &amp;nbsp;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. &amp;nbsp;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. &amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  361. &lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  362. &lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;To the&amp;nbsp;Superintendent&amp;nbsp;of the County School system, I highly suggest you or your&amp;nbsp;representatives&amp;nbsp;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&amp;nbsp;surprise&amp;nbsp;everyone and do the right thing.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  363. &lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  364. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  365. &lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;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&amp;nbsp;Independence&amp;nbsp;from the County Office of education&#39;s oversight, they rebuked the request of the county&amp;nbsp;fraud&amp;nbsp;team to go in and investigate certain suspicious accounting practices. After reading the&amp;nbsp;recommendations&amp;nbsp;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&amp;nbsp;intended&amp;nbsp;to follow the Grand Jury&#39;s directions.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;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. &amp;nbsp;Mr. Holguin keep your promise from our meeting almost two years ago about this very matter! No more lies.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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  368. &lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;I personally have reason to&amp;nbsp;believe&amp;nbsp;their published &quot;prudent reserve&quot; numbers are in accurate at best. Moreno Valley Unified School District is stumbling possibly spiraling into the abyss of financial&amp;nbsp;insolvency? That&#39;s the truth as best I can determine from financial records from previous years. The District hasn&#39;t even payed off the mounting attorney&#39;s fees from defending themselves from the&amp;nbsp;repercussions&amp;nbsp;of their own petty often criminally liable personal attacks on their employees by MVUSD administrators and the swollen egos of the senior board trustees.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  369. &lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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  371. &lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  372. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  373. &lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;Go ahead ask, &quot;now how would he know that?&quot; I too have fallen victim to the same unwarranted attack on my&amp;nbsp;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&amp;nbsp;amendment&amp;nbsp;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&#39; advice to settle this matter on two previous &amp;nbsp;occasions - that&#39;s right they ignored their own attorney&#39;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&#39;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&#39;s a ton of your money snatched right out of your child&#39;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.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  374. &lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  375. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  376. &lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;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&#39;s know won&#39;t fly. All to make&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;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.&amp;nbsp;While&amp;nbsp;they&amp;nbsp;stumbled&amp;nbsp;through&amp;nbsp;different&amp;nbsp;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&amp;nbsp;postponed&amp;nbsp;indefinitely&amp;nbsp;as Voros tries to starve me out)&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  377. &lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  378. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  379. &lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;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 &quot;being addressed as we spoke...&quot; He lied. He didn&#39;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.&amp;nbsp;In fact&amp;nbsp;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&amp;nbsp;reelection&amp;nbsp;in November. I now know why he&amp;nbsp;doesn&#39;t&amp;nbsp;want me digging around or anyone else for that matter.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;Much to come on his shenanigans and bully-boy tactics. He was right not to want me nosing around&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;but 10 months without work tends to make me very curious. &lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white;&quot;&gt;Come back soon, here at one of the few places you can get your hands dirty and keep your&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;line-height: 16px; text-align: -webkit-auto;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;conscience clean.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  380. &lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;I, Praetorian&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://theneoschoolcounselor.blogspot.com/feeds/3862716608359758805/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://theneoschoolcounselor.blogspot.com/2012/01/did-i-forget-to-mention.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2390228832516246682/posts/default/3862716608359758805'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2390228832516246682/posts/default/3862716608359758805'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://theneoschoolcounselor.blogspot.com/2012/01/did-i-forget-to-mention.html' title='Did I Forget to Mention...'/><author><name>Anonymous</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10303696555621507222</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2390228832516246682.post-8370733441077566224</id><published>2012-01-22T19:50:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2012-04-10T06:33:26.953-07:00</updated><title type='text'>School Counseling Podcast: The Silent Suffering of Too Many Teenage Girls</title><content type='html'>&lt;div dir=&quot;ltr&quot; style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot; trbidi=&quot;on&quot;&gt;
  381. &lt;a href=&quot;http://theneo-schoolcounselor.blogspot.com/2012/01/blog-post_01.html#links&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;&quot;&gt;School Counseling Videocast: The Silent Suffering of So Many Teenage Girls&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://theneoschoolcounselor.blogspot.com/feeds/8370733441077566224/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://theneoschoolcounselor.blogspot.com/2012/01/school-counseling-podcast-silent.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2390228832516246682/posts/default/8370733441077566224'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2390228832516246682/posts/default/8370733441077566224'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://theneoschoolcounselor.blogspot.com/2012/01/school-counseling-podcast-silent.html' title='School Counseling Podcast: The Silent Suffering of Too Many Teenage Girls'/><author><name>Anonymous</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10303696555621507222</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2390228832516246682.post-1177937780911414483</id><published>2012-01-06T17:22:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2012-05-12T16:37:54.027-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;div dir=&quot;ltr&quot; style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot; trbidi=&quot;on&quot;&gt;
  382. &lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #6fa8dc;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  383. &lt;i&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 31.5pt;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: #6fa8dc;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://disenfranchised-educators.blogspot.com/&quot;&gt;IF ONLY YOU KNEW&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  384. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 15.75pt; margin-bottom: 12pt;&quot;&gt;
  385. &lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 15.75pt;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: #6fa8dc;&quot;&gt;Well folks, the &quot;Press Enterprise newspaper&quot; did a&amp;nbsp;perfunctory&amp;nbsp;articule on money missing from student fund coffers at three Moreno Valley Unified schools and how the district&#39;s accounting department was soooo contrite.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  386. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; line-height: 15.75pt; margin-bottom: 12pt;&quot;&gt;
  387. &lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: #6fa8dc;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 15.75pt;&quot;&gt;They are going to fix those schools! Attendance and all! If only those three schools represented the real problems. The fiscal wrong doings at Moreno Valley Unified School District are rampant and well beyond any three schools. So too, it has been&amp;nbsp;alleged&amp;nbsp;that such abuses extend back at least 15 years. However, the problems worsened and became more obvious under former Assistant Superintendent Robert Wallace Crank. Crank, eliminated all positions of fiscal over sight regarding MVUSD&#39;S loosely and randomly regulated&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;u style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 15.75pt;&quot;&gt;student fundraising&lt;/u&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 15.75pt;&quot;&gt;.&amp;nbsp;There has not been any meaning full systematic structure for handling and accountability in that 15 year span . No training of state aligned methods or manuals, bookkeeping software has been mysteriously been wiped out completely (with no server level back up to be found), on ASB account’s computers. Amazingly, on at least three ocassions; just ahead of some official inquiry by an outside agency or the treat thereof.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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  389. &lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: #6fa8dc;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;line-height: 15.75pt;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;&quot;&gt;I do not however, think of the new Superintendent Dr. White as complicit. I believe though she has been kept uninformed by individuals with vested interest in keeping these things hidden. In any case, most of the personnel who knew the truth&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 15.75pt;&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;have left the district by now. Some retired some forced out by a VERY&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;&quot;&gt;complicit&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 15.75pt;&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;school board &amp;nbsp;Those who have not gone and might speak honestly, are systematically being forced out by deceit, harassment, &amp;nbsp;and lies in the hopes of silencing the truth once and for all and avoiding an incredible amount of liability and embarrassment. The majority of this unethical and sometimes illegal action comes from a top administrator who 20 days into his new job at MVUSD, said he “was going to clean up the reputation of HR.” referring to the unethical behaviors notorious of the previous HR Director.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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  391. &lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #6fa8dc;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 15.75pt;&quot;&gt;I am&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;&quot;&gt;referring for the moment, to&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 15.75pt;&quot;&gt;nearly half a million dollars every year.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;&quot;&gt;May be more?&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 15.75pt;&quot;&gt;Probably more.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 15.75pt;&quot;&gt;Stolen, misplaced,&amp;nbsp;misappropriated, or just gone.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;&quot;&gt;Its a&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 15.75pt;&quot;&gt;rough estimate based on my years working with ASB and talking to other advisors. Not to mention that MVUSD refused the County School&#39;s Forensic Accounting team access to their books and those of the school sight&#39;s &quot;student funds account,&quot; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 15.75pt;&quot;&gt;One of the problems is almost&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;u style=&quot;font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 15.75pt;&quot;&gt;all fundraising now is done in cash&lt;/u&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 15.75pt;&quot;&gt;. Due to the logistics of handling returned checks, the schools seldom take them anymore.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  392. &lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: #6fa8dc; font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 15.75pt;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  393. &lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: #6fa8dc; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 15.75pt;&quot;&gt;At my sight, large sums of cash were routinely kept in just about any lockable container. Sometimes for months on end. &amp;nbsp;As an example: In a singular act, five years ago, $10,000 in cash was stolen directly from the safe at one MVUSD middle school.&amp;nbsp;Under the circumstances I was told, it took less than ten minutes to accomplish and there were only five people who had all the necessary keys to walk in and out with the money. No investigation occurred and no further mention was made of it. &amp;nbsp;The only persons who should have the key and safe combination are the ASB (Associated Student Body or &quot;government&quot;) accountant and the school principal. &amp;nbsp;The cash sits with no oversight and no truly accurate record of it&#39;s&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;&quot;&gt;existence&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 15.75pt;&quot;&gt;. &amp;nbsp;No club fundraising cash deposits go through the ASB cabinet approval process as do purchase orders or check requests. They are handled directly by the ASB accountant under the&amp;nbsp;over site&amp;nbsp;and responsibility of the principal.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  394. &lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: #6fa8dc; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 15.75pt;&quot;&gt;About MVUSD &quot;clubs.&quot; In general regarding fundraising; i&lt;/span&gt;&lt;u style=&quot;font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 15.75pt;&quot;&gt;t is and has always been mandatory for students to pay to participate in extra-curricular activities.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 15.75pt;&quot;&gt;Fundraising seldom covers even half the student expenses. Recently this&amp;nbsp;practice&amp;nbsp;has been deemed ILLEGAL in law suits against surrounding school districts. However at&amp;nbsp;MVUSD,&amp;nbsp;the money parents pay is shown on School Board Minutes as “Voluntary Parent Contributions,” but the child can&#39;t participate without paying the fee. &amp;nbsp;Therefore, it appears that participation is neither voluntary nor a contribution. (Handout, gift, or offering.) The courts have recently interpreted &quot;fair and adequate&quot; to mean that all public school activities requiring parents to pay money or monies for participation; Must be offered free to any and all eligible students. This includes extracurricular sports and any student clubs. It is a violation of the law to charge parents or force students to&amp;nbsp;fund raise&amp;nbsp;their share. In one&amp;nbsp;discussion, the practice was deemed &quot;double dipping,&quot; because parents pay for their child&#39;s education through taxation. The court&#39;s interpretation extended to include uniforms and protective gear.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;u style=&quot;font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 15.75pt;&quot;&gt;In keeping with previous years, more than one MVUSD principal&lt;/u&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 15.75pt;&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;of late has been implicated in possible financial wrongdoings&amp;nbsp;regarding&amp;nbsp;student funds. While seldom investigated by MVUSD in any fair and through manner,&amp;nbsp;the&amp;nbsp;problem&amp;nbsp;itself best documented under deposition (Williams v. MVUSD 2006) by former Director of Secondary Education, Kim Kruger. Who further admitted under oath that the problem was commonplace and that he himself had problems regarding student funds as principal at Valley View High School.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 15.75pt;&quot;&gt;More recently, regarding a here to unnamed middle school and their ASB student fund for the 2009-2010 school year; it opened school with a ledger balance rollover from the&amp;nbsp;previous&amp;nbsp;year, somewhere in the vicinity of $115,000.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;Which is extremely high and a strange discrepancy in the rollover for any student fund account. This is the ASB general fund to which all other clubs, excluding parent run booster clubs, deposit their fundraising cash,&amp;nbsp;draw their money,&amp;nbsp;pay their bills and obtain their club status. At the end of these first two months, this middle school&#39;s account ledger reportly dropped to&amp;nbsp;just&amp;nbsp;over $7,000.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;The ASB ledger entries for this school, &amp;nbsp;during this time period, are said to not make sense nor add up to any where near $100,000. This example was but one school and one school year in Moreno Valley Unified School District.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i style=&quot;font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 15.75pt;&quot;&gt;&lt;u&gt;Next report;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;u style=&quot;font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 15.75pt;&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;ASB and Booster Clubs. The&amp;nbsp;difference&amp;nbsp;between the two and why both are ripe for cash skimming.&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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  396. &lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: #6fa8dc;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;&quot;&gt;Posted by&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.blogger.com/profile/10303696555621507222&quot; title=&quot;author profile&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;I, Praetorian&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;&quot;&gt;at&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://theneoschoolcounselor.blogspot.com/2011/12/well-folks-press-enterprise-scratched.html&quot; title=&quot;permanent link&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;8:31 AM&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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  398. &lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: #6fa8dc; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;Praetorian: spent 4 years as an ASB co-director for MVUSD and has 14 years as a middle school counselor.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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  423. &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.mvgordie.com/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;When Moreno Valley Mayor Richard Stewart Is Asked To Tell The Truth, His Response Is&amp;nbsp;Silence.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
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  425. &lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;background-color: #cfe2f3; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 12px;&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;•December 14, 2011 •&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;http://mvgordie.com/2011/12/14/when-moreno-valley-mayor-richard-stewart-is-asked-to-tell-the-truth-his-response-is-silence/#respond&quot; style=&quot;text-decoration: none;&quot; title=&quot;Comment on When Moreno Valley Mayor Richard Stewart Is Asked To Tell The Truth, His Response Is Silence.&quot;&gt;Leave a Comment&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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  427. &lt;div style=&quot;font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.5em;&quot;&gt;
  428. &lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;line-height: 12px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;strong style=&quot;background-color: #cfe2f3;&quot;&gt;Mayor Stewart had told the public that it is the responsibility of the City Staff and City Council to clarify any miss information made by the public during the publics portion of speaking during City Council meetings, however that doesn’t seem to be the case when that misinformation or outright lies are the making of the Council or the City Staff themselves.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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  430. &lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;line-height: 12px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;strong style=&quot;background-color: #cfe2f3;&quot;&gt;mvgordie.com had made an email request to seek answers in a truthful nature from Mayor Richard Stewart in regards to public comments and statements made on the record during numerous city council meetings, however no response to the questions asked has been made by the Mayor.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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  432. &lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;line-height: 12px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;strong style=&quot;background-color: #cfe2f3;&quot;&gt;Well I guess if you can’t answer truthfully, or the truth will go to prove that prior statements were in fact incorrect and or misleading, the best answer would be no answer at all.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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  434. &lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;line-height: 12px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;strong style=&quot;background-color: #cfe2f3;&quot;&gt;Although the questions asked were problematic for&amp;nbsp;the City, the public has a right to know the answers, after all the questions were $75 million questions.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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  436. &lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;line-height: 12px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;strong style=&quot;background-color: #cfe2f3;&quot;&gt;Here are the questions which were asked:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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  438. &lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;line-height: 12px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong style=&quot;background-color: #cfe2f3;&quot;&gt;Dear Mayor,&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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  440. &lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;line-height: 12px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong style=&quot;background-color: #cfe2f3;&quot;&gt;With your last council statements of the need for City Staff and Council to keep the public informed of the truth, by correcting misstatements of facts etc. made by members of the public, maybe you could clarify a few points of interest to me as to some of the falsehoods, misleading statements and so on made by you and members of the City Staff.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  441. &lt;div style=&quot;font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.5em;&quot;&gt;
  442. &lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;line-height: 12px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong style=&quot;background-color: #cfe2f3;&quot;&gt;Here are just a few which need addressing:&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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  444. &lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;line-height: 12px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong style=&quot;background-color: #cfe2f3;&quot;&gt;1.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;With the Mayor and City Manager publicly announcing a joint venture between The City of Moreno Valley and Highland Fairview for a mixed use medical complex along Nason Street, can you please tell the public where they can obtain a copy of this publicly announced agreement which we are moving forward through the spending of $75 million in roadway improvements?&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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  446. &lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;line-height: 12px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong style=&quot;background-color: #cfe2f3;&quot;&gt;2.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;It seems to have slipped my mind but the public hearing on this joint public private project was held when?&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  447. &lt;div style=&quot;font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.5em;&quot;&gt;
  448. &lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;line-height: 12px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong style=&quot;background-color: #cfe2f3;&quot;&gt;3.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;Why is it that the term medical corridor is being misused as to what actions were taken by the City Council on September 26&lt;sup&gt;th&lt;/sup&gt;, 2006. When that action only limited development in that area to developments which would be compatible with existing medical facilities in the area, and not that development in that area was to be for medical use only?&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  449. &lt;div style=&quot;font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.5em;&quot;&gt;
  450. &lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;line-height: 12px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong style=&quot;background-color: #cfe2f3;&quot;&gt;4.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;Why is it that the Mayor continues to rain down praise upon the City Manager for actions which were not of his making, but were directly out of the playbook of Highland Fairview, and merely appeased their (Highland Fairview’s) desires? Such as designating the eastern edge of Moreno Valley as Industrial (Distribution and Warehousing) Zone, which was the desire of Highland Fairview, and was plainly stated out within their EIR for the Highland Fairview Corporate Park Project, in a letter submitted on their behalf by CB Richard Ellis, as well as converting the use of a portion of the Aqua Bella Specific Plan, to a mixed use medical complex, as stated by Iddo Benzeevi in a letter to the City of Moreno Valley in 2010 regarding Highland Fairview’s desire to keep its development agreement for Aqua Bella active during its annual review.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  451. &lt;div style=&quot;font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.5em;&quot;&gt;
  452. &lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;line-height: 12px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong style=&quot;background-color: #cfe2f3;&quot;&gt;5.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;Why would the City enter into an agreement to the tune of 75 million dollars with Highland Fairview, when it wasn’t able to finance its Corporate Park Project, and needed to create several joint venture corporation with Skechers, in order for Skechers to seek the funding for the projects construction, with Highland Fairview only supplying the land for which the project sits?&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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  454. &lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;line-height: 12px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong style=&quot;background-color: #cfe2f3;&quot;&gt;6.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;Has the City even taken the time to see how and whom is paying off the sub-contractors for the Highland Fairview Corporate Park Project, to see if Highland Fairview is even a financially solvent company?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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  456. &lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;line-height: 12px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;strong style=&quot;background-color: #cfe2f3;&quot;&gt;Now did those questions seem to hard to address?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  457. &lt;div style=&quot;line-height: 1.5em; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;
  458. &lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;background-color: #cfe2f3; font-family: &#39;Trebuchet MS&#39;, Tahoma, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 12px;&quot;&gt;&lt;strong style=&quot;font-weight: bold;&quot;&gt;Here is a copy of the exact email sent:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://mvgordie.files.wordpress.com/2011/12/email.jpg&quot; style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;&quot; class=&quot;aligncenter size-medium wp-image-10086&quot; height=&quot;388&quot; src=&quot;http://mvgordie.files.wordpress.com/2011/12/email.jpg?w=300&amp;amp;h=182&quot; style=&quot;-webkit-box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.199219) 0px 0px 0px; background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-style: initial; border-top-left-radius: 0px; border-top-right-radius: 0px; border-width: initial; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.199219) 0px 0px 0px; display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; padding-bottom: 8px; padding-left: 8px; padding-right: 8px; padding-top: 8px; position: relative;&quot; title=&quot;email&quot; width=&quot;640&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;i&gt;Click Image to Enlarge&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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  460. &lt;div style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 22px;&quot;&gt;
  461. &lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: &#39;Trebuchet MS&#39;, Tahoma, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: #cfe2f3; font-weight: normal;&quot;&gt;&lt;i&gt;What was interesting however was how the all references to the “Medical Complex” was avoided until the City Manager mentioned it, Mayor Stewart only referred to it a “The Thing.”&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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  512. &lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.californiabusinesslitigation.com/2011/11/lawsuit_alleges_new_positions.html&quot; style=&quot;text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;Fontana Unified School District is the subject of a lawsuit&lt;/a&gt;...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;
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  516. &lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;The Fontana Unified School District is the subject of a lawsuit filed by the teachers union in the San Bernardino County Superior Court. The suit is demanding that the school district reinstate counselors that the district laid off. The teachers union alleges the counselors should be allowed to return to work on the basis of seniority.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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  518. &lt;img align=&quot;left&quot; alt=&quot;School%20Counselor.jpg&quot; height=&quot;200&quot; src=&quot;http://www.californiabusinesslitigation.com/School%20Counselor.jpg&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 5px; margin-top: 10px;&quot; width=&quot;197&quot; /&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;The teachers union claims that the Fontana Unified School District has violated the California Education Code. According to the lawsuit, the district let 68 counselors go after the 2010-2011 school year, then created two new job titles for what was essentially the same position and attempted to hire 42 new counselors.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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  520. &lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;According to Pat Mazzulli, president of the Fontana Teachers Association, the new counselor positions are “substantially similar” to the old counseling positions. “Rather than follow procedure in the Education Code, the FUSD made reduction in force counselors reapply and interview for their jobs. FUSD attempted to hire outside the district as well,&quot; Mazzulli said. According to Mazzulli, the California Education Code requires that the laid-off counselors be given the opportunity to accept or refuse substitute slots before the jobs are offered to new applicants.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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  522. &lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;The Fontana Unified School District denies any wrongdoing and insists the new counseling positions are entirely different from the old ones. William Wu, assistant superintendent of human resources for the school district, said in an interview that &quot;the district reviewed the comprehensive counseling program, tailored it to the needs of the district and then created new district positions to provide better and different student services…They are not the same as the comprehensive counseling program.&quot; Furthermore, said Wu, “The district is not in the business of violating peoples&#39; rights. We are in the business of serving children, but we are not in the business of violating peoples&#39; rights in the process.”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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  524. &lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;However, the school board has postponed plans to hire applicants for the new positions. According to Mazzulli, no trial date has been set.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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  528. &lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://theneoschoolcounselor.blogspot.com/feeds/1432460125684415842/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://theneoschoolcounselor.blogspot.com/2011/12/ruse-to-hire-new-counselors-at-lower.html#comment-form' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2390228832516246682/posts/default/1432460125684415842'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2390228832516246682/posts/default/1432460125684415842'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://theneoschoolcounselor.blogspot.com/2011/12/ruse-to-hire-new-counselors-at-lower.html' title='The  ruse to Hire Counselors at Lower Pay'/><author><name>Anonymous</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10303696555621507222</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2390228832516246682.post-4719687141828633333</id><published>2011-12-16T14:40:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2012-02-27T03:13:02.592-08:00</updated><title type='text'>IF ONLY YOU KNEW!</title><content type='html'>&lt;div dir=&quot;ltr&quot; style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot; trbidi=&quot;on&quot;&gt;
  529. &lt;div dir=&quot;ltr&quot; style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot; trbidi=&quot;on&quot;&gt;
  530. &lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;color: #073763; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.blogger.com/goog_547869684&quot; style=&quot;background-color: #cfe2f3;&quot;&gt;December 14, 2011&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  531. &lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #9fc5e8; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; color: #073763; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 19pt;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.blogger.com/goog_547869684&quot;&gt;An accusation of &quot;Criminal Nepotism&quot; is currently being leveled at Moreno Valley USD TRUSTEES H. “RICK” &lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.blogger.com/goog_547869684&quot;&gt;S&lt;/a&gt;ayer&amp;nbsp;and Jesus Holguin&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  532. &lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; color: #073763; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 19pt;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.blogger.com/goog_547869684&quot; style=&quot;background-color: #cfe2f3;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  533. &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  534. &lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;color: #073763;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.blogger.com/goog_547869684&quot; style=&quot;background-color: #cfe2f3;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #cfe2f3; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;THERE seems to be an increase in recent years. Hire a fool to run your school as long as they are related! Here we go again! Charges have been forwarded to the California Attorney General&#39;s&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #cfe2f3; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;&gt;Office claiming that &amp;nbsp;on October, 23, 2008, The aforementioned senior school board trustees&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;&gt;collaborated&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;&gt;in a willful misuse of the public trust appointing (5-0) a blood relative, son of the then HR Assist.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;background-color: #cfe2f3; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;Superintendent as the principal of their flagship secondary school. in a two minute&amp;nbsp;process&amp;nbsp;according to Board Minutes, at approximately 12:02 AM with no observers&amp;nbsp;left, the Gavel Dropped and it slid by &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;background-color: #cfe2f3; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;public&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;background-color: #cfe2f3; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;scrutiny due to the late hour. &amp;nbsp;Everyone had gone home. The alleged actions could be a &quot;violation of the public trust.&quot;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  535. &lt;span style=&quot;color: #073763;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  536. &lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;color: #073763; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.blogger.com/goog_547869684&quot; style=&quot;background-color: #cfe2f3;&quot;&gt;Doing so placed the son under the direct supervision of his father and violated the civil rights of every candidate that applied.Given the circumstances if convicted each could be removed from office by the Attorney General.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  537. &lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;color: #073763; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.blogger.com/goog_547869684&quot; style=&quot;background-color: #cfe2f3;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  538. &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  539. &lt;span style=&quot;color: #073763;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.blogger.com/goog_547869684&quot; style=&quot;background-color: #cfe2f3;&quot;&gt;During the supposed incidenct, HR and the board overlooked more than 12 more qualified, more experienced, women, minorities, and all older candidates. iT WAS LEAKED TO THIS REPORTER that the person placed as principal at Vista&amp;nbsp;Heights&amp;nbsp;Middle School, had the lowest interview scores of any applicant.&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.blogger.com/goog_547869684&quot; style=&quot;background-color: #cfe2f3; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 21px;&quot;&gt;There is a Four year statute of limitations on those explicitly involved if the allegations stand.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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  541. &lt;span style=&quot;color: #073763;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  542. &lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;color: #073763; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.blogger.com/goog_547869684&quot; style=&quot;background-color: #cfe2f3;&quot;&gt;Morale at Vista is at its lowest and the leader is now seldom be found. An ex-felon school employee, stand in; runs Vista during the many periods the principal is off campus.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  543. &lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;color: #073763; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  544. &lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;color: #073763; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.blogger.com/goog_547869684&quot; style=&quot;background-color: #cfe2f3;&quot;&gt;Dozens of Parents Line Up to Dis-Enroll Students After Drug Ring Bust&amp;nbsp;in Moreno Valley High School&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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  546. &lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;color: #073763; font-size: x-small;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.blogger.com/goog_547869684&quot; style=&quot;background-color: #cfe2f3;&quot;&gt;Click on Link for more details&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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  548. &lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;color: #073763; font-size: x-small;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.blogger.com/goog_547869684&quot; style=&quot;background-color: #cfe2f3;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  549. &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  550. &lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;color: #073763; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.blogger.com/goog_547869684&quot; style=&quot;background-color: #cfe2f3;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  551. &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  552. &lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;color: #073763; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.blogger.com/goog_547869684&quot; style=&quot;background-color: #cfe2f3;&quot;&gt;THE PROBLEM WITH MIKE RIOS HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH THE ARREST OF HIS WIFE!&amp;nbsp;AND EVERYTHING TO DO WITH YOUR&amp;nbsp;CHILD&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  553. &lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;color: #073763; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.blogger.com/goog_547869684&quot; style=&quot;background-color: #cfe2f3;&quot;&gt;Click on Link for more details&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  554. &lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;color: #073763;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.blogger.com/goog_547869684&quot; style=&quot;background-color: #cfe2f3;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  555. &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  556. &lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;color: #073763; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: #cfe2f3; font-size: x-large;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;In or about Janurary, 2011. At Palm Middle School, an eigth grade student brings a loaded 9mm pistol&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.blogger.com/goog_547869684&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: #cfe2f3;&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: #cfe2f3;&quot;&gt;to school with admitted intent to retaliate for being &quot;Jumped&quot; by two other students there. Although, tipped of the next day by a concerned parent,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;background-color: #cfe2f3; font-size: large;&quot;&gt; &lt;b&gt;THE RIVERSIDE PRESS ENTERPRISE&lt;/b&gt;&amp;nbsp;news paper refused to investigate. &#39;thee simply isn&#39;t enough advertising to be had in Moreno Valley.&#39; The District covered it up. Life in Mo Val goes on as usual.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  557. &lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;color: #073763; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.blogger.com/goog_547869684&quot; style=&quot;background-color: #cfe2f3;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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  560. &lt;span style=&quot;background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; color: #073763;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.blogger.com/goog_547869684&quot; style=&quot;background-color: #cfe2f3;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;&quot;&gt;Moreno Valley teacher charged with sexual abuse&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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  562. &lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;color: #073763;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.blogger.com/goog_547869684&quot; style=&quot;background-color: #cfe2f3;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-color: windowtext; border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-left-color: windowtext; border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 1pt; border-right-color: windowtext; border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 1pt; border-top-color: windowtext; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 1pt; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-top: 0in;&quot;&gt;November 10, 2007&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-color: windowtext; border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-left-color: windowtext; border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 1pt; border-right-color: windowtext; border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 1pt; border-top-color: windowtext; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 1pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-top: 0in;&quot;&gt;| &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-color: windowtext; border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-left-color: windowtext; border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 1pt; border-right-color: windowtext; border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 1pt; border-top-color: windowtext; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 1pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-top: 0in;&quot;&gt;Maeve Reston&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;|&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-color: windowtext; border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-left-color: windowtext; border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 1pt; border-right-color: windowtext; border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 1pt; border-top-color: windowtext; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 1pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-top: 0in;&quot;&gt;Times Staff Writer&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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  564. &lt;span style=&quot;background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; color: #073763; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.blogger.com/goog_547869684&quot; style=&quot;background-color: #cfe2f3;&quot;&gt;A Moreno Valley middle school teacher was arrested on 75 counts, Friday after four men told police he had molested them in the mid-1990s when they were young teenagers.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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  566. &lt;span style=&quot;color: #073763;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 24px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-color: windowtext; border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-left-color: windowtext; border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 1pt; border-right-color: windowtext; border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 1pt; border-top-color: windowtext; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 1pt; font-size: large; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-top: 0in;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.blogger.com/goog_547869684&quot; style=&quot;background-color: #cfe2f3;&quot;&gt;Teacher suspected of sex with teenager arrested&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.blogger.com/goog_547869684&quot; style=&quot;background-color: #cfe2f3; line-height: 13.5pt;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-color: windowtext; border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-left-color: windowtext; border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 1pt; border-right-color: windowtext; border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 1pt; border-top-color: windowtext; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 1pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-top: 0in;&quot;&gt;February 1, 2007&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;|&amp;nbsp;&lt;span style=&quot;border-bottom-color: windowtext; border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-left-color: windowtext; border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 1pt; border-right-color: windowtext; border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 1pt; border-top-color: windowtext; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 1pt; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-top: 0in;&quot;&gt;From Times Staff and Wire Reports&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  567. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;line-height: 12.0pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;&quot;&gt;
  568. &lt;span style=&quot;background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; color: #073763; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.blogger.com/goog_547869684&quot; style=&quot;background-color: #cfe2f3;&quot;&gt;A teacher from Rainbow Springs Elementary School on Wednesday was arrested on suspicion of sexually assaulting a 17-year-old youth he met on a chat website, Moreno Valley police said. Terry Delanye Evans, 43, of Moreno Valley was held on suspicion of sexual battery and sodomy of a person under 18 years old. Evans was arrested after officers noticed two people in the backseat of a Mitsubishi Montero near Calle Luna and Avenida Anillo.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  569. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;
  570. &lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;color: #073763; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.blogger.com/goog_547869684&quot; style=&quot;background-color: #cfe2f3;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  571. &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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  573. &lt;b&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;color: #073763; font-size: large;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.blogger.com/goog_547869684&quot; style=&quot;background-color: #9fc5e8;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-color: windowtext; border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-left-color: windowtext; border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 1pt; border-right-color: windowtext; border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 1pt; border-top-color: windowtext; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 1pt; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-top: 0in;&quot;&gt;2nd&amp;nbsp;T&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-color: windowtext; border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-left-color: windowtext; border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 1pt; border-right-color: windowtext; border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 1pt; border-top-color: windowtext; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 1pt; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-top: 0in;&quot;&gt;eacher FACES Molestation Case&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  574. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;line-height: 13.5pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;&quot;&gt;
  575. &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.blogger.com/goog_547869684&quot; style=&quot;background-color: #9fc5e8;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #073763;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-color: windowtext; border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-left-color: windowtext; border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 1pt; border-right-color: windowtext; border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 1pt; border-top-color: windowtext; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 1pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-top: 0in;&quot;&gt;August 29, 2003&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;|&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;border-bottom-color: windowtext; border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-left-color: windowtext; border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 1pt; border-right-color: windowtext; border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 1pt; border-top-color: windowtext; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 1pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-top: 0in;&quot;&gt;Lance Pugmire and Kristina Sauerwein, Times Staff Writers&lt;/span&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  576. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;line-height: 12.0pt;&quot;&gt;
  577. &lt;span style=&quot;background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;background-color: #9fc5e8; color: #073763; font-family: &#39;Trebuchet MS&#39;, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;The Moreno Valley Unified School District will launch an investigation to determine how a middle school teacher accused of molesting two boys, including a former student, remained on staff despite a similar case a decade earlier, district officials said Thursday. &quot;The issue is that if the district was derelict, we need to know how and why,&quot; Supt. Nick Ferguson said. &quot;What we&#39;re asking ourselves is how we can fill in the blanks. We are looking to explain this.&quot; Thomas Lee West Jr.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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  579. &lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: &#39;Helvetica Neue&#39;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  580. &lt;div class=&quot;main_text&quot; style=&quot;border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;&quot;&gt;
  581. &lt;div style=&quot;border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.714em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;&quot;&gt;
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  583. &lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;&quot;&gt;Edit by I, Praetorian&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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  587. &lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: x-small;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;Belair, Conneticut.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: 16px;&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;Three incidents involving unfamiliar vehicles and children were reported to police last week.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  588. &lt;/div&gt;
  589. &lt;div style=&quot;border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-style: inherit; line-height: 1.429em; margin-bottom: 0.714em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;&quot;&gt;
  590. &lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;After one of those incidents, the school system issued a message to individual schools as a precation. Police say the three incidents are not related and they do not believe anyone is targeting children in the area.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  591. &lt;div style=&quot;border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-style: inherit; line-height: 1.429em; margin-bottom: 0.714em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;&quot;&gt;
  592. &lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;“Through a two-day period last Thursday and Friday, we had three reports of suspicious vehicles in different neighborhoods that do not appear to be connected whatsoever,” said Monica Worrell, a&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;http://belair.patch.com/listings/harford-county-2&quot; style=&quot;border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #0044aa; cursor: pointer; font-style: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;&quot;&gt;sheriff&#39;s office&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;spokeswoman.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  593. &lt;div style=&quot;border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-style: inherit; line-height: 1.429em; margin-bottom: 0.714em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;&quot;&gt;
  594. &lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;On Dec. 8 a man living in the Cool Springs II neighborhood in Bel Air called police after discussing an unknown vehicle with his neighbors, according to Worrell.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  595. &lt;div style=&quot;border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-style: inherit; line-height: 1.429em; margin-bottom: 0.714em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;&quot;&gt;
  596. &lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;The man had heard from neighbors that two unidentified teenage girls were walking home from the bus in the area of Deer Valley Way and Tobacco Run Road when a man in a vehicle, either a white panel van or a beat-up pick-up truck, stopped and addressed the girls, Worrell said.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  597. &lt;div style=&quot;border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-style: inherit; line-height: 1.429em; margin-bottom: 0.714em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;&quot;&gt;
  598. &lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;The neighbor reported the man in the vehicle asked the girls, &quot;do you want to meet my dog?&quot; according to Worrell.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  599. &lt;div style=&quot;border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-style: inherit; line-height: 1.429em; margin-bottom: 0.714em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;&quot;&gt;
  600. &lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;The neighbor was unsure when the incident took place or who was involved, Worrell said.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  601. &lt;div style=&quot;border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-style: inherit; line-height: 1.429em; margin-bottom: 0.714em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;&quot;&gt;
  602. &lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;In response to the incident, Churchville and&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;http://belair.patch.com/listings/prospect-mill-elementary-school&quot; style=&quot;border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #0044aa; cursor: pointer; font-style: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;&quot;&gt;Prospect Mill elementary&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;schools sent messages to their school communities, according to Teri Kranefeld, a school system spokeswoman.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  603. &lt;div style=&quot;border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-style: inherit; line-height: 1.429em; margin-bottom: 0.714em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;&quot;&gt;
  604. &lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&quot;On the advice of the authorities involved and erring on the side of caution, both schools chose to notify their entire school communities in order to increase awareness of the situation,&quot; Kranefeld wrote in an email.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  605. &lt;div style=&quot;border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-style: inherit; line-height: 1.429em; margin-bottom: 0.714em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;&quot;&gt;
  606. &lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;The incident was the&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;http://belair.patch.com/articles/2-suspicious-vehicles-in-bel-air-area-are-unrelated-police-say&quot; style=&quot;border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #0044aa; cursor: pointer; font-style: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;&quot;&gt;third of its kind&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;reported within two days.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  607. &lt;div style=&quot;border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-style: inherit; line-height: 1.429em; margin-bottom: 0.714em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;&quot;&gt;
  608. &lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;Before 6:57 a.m., on Dec. 9, a 16-year-old girl was walking to her bus stop near&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.mapquest.com/&quot; style=&quot;border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #0044aa; cursor: pointer; font-style: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;&quot;&gt;Estates Court in Bel Air&lt;/a&gt;, when two men in a white van stopped and asked if she needed a ride, according to police.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  609. &lt;div style=&quot;border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-style: inherit; line-height: 1.429em; margin-bottom: 0.714em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;&quot;&gt;
  610. &lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;Around 3:25 p.m., Dec. 8, a man in a red, four-door car called, &quot;Hey&quot; to a boy walking along Schucks Road, according to police.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  611. &lt;div style=&quot;border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-style: inherit; line-height: 1.429em; margin-bottom: 0.714em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;&quot;&gt;
  612. &lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;The boy walked away and the car left the area. The boy&#39;s parents reported the incident the following day.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  613. &lt;div style=&quot;border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-style: inherit; line-height: 1.429em; margin-bottom: 0.714em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;&quot;&gt;
  614. &lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;“At this point, the Harford Count Sheriff’s Office does not believe there is an individual or individuals trying to abduct anyone in the communities described,&quot; Worrell said. &quot;But, as always, if you have first hand knowledge of something suspicious in your neighborhood, report it.&quot;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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  617. &lt;div class=&quot;form-card white-list-element small_rounded_light_gray_border clear&quot; style=&quot;-webkit-box-shadow: rgb(170, 170, 170) 0px 2px 4px -2px; background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-left-radius: 3px 3px; border-bottom-right-radius: 3px 3px; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-color: initial; border-left-color: rgb(222, 222, 222); border-left-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(222, 222, 222); border-right-width: 1px; border-style: initial; border-top-color: rgb(222, 222, 222); border-top-left-radius: 3px 3px; border-top-right-radius: 3px 3px; border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; box-shadow: rgb(170, 170, 170) 0px 2px 4px -2px; clear: both; font-style: inherit; margin-bottom: 2px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 4px; padding-left: 4px; padding-right: 4px; padding-top: 4px; vertical-align: baseline;&quot;&gt;
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  633. &lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://theneoschoolcounselor.blogspot.com/feeds/4527415282467842803/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://theneoschoolcounselor.blogspot.com/2011/12/three-incidents-involving-unfamiliar.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2390228832516246682/posts/default/4527415282467842803'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2390228832516246682/posts/default/4527415282467842803'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://theneoschoolcounselor.blogspot.com/2011/12/three-incidents-involving-unfamiliar.html' title='A 17-YEAR-OLD, CONNECTICUT  GIRL DISAPPEARS A-MIST A RASH OF STRANGERS TRYING TO TALK TO THE HIGH SCHOOLS STUDENTS WALKING HOME'/><author><name>Anonymous</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10303696555621507222</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2390228832516246682.post-7914661500429009081</id><published>2011-12-14T12:54:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2011-12-16T18:44:52.031-08:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;div dir=&quot;ltr&quot; style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot; trbidi=&quot;on&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;background-color: #cfe2f3;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;Our Prayers go out the Moreno Valley Police Officer&amp;nbsp;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;line-height: 19px;&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;when his motorcycle collided with another vehicle in that city.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 24px;&quot;&gt;The deputy, whose name was not released, was taken to a hospital, according to the Press Enterprise Newspaper.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  634. &lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;background-color: #cfe2f3; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 24px;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  635. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  636. &lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;background-color: #cfe2f3;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  637. &lt;div style=&quot;line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 5px; overflow-x: visible; overflow-y: visible; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;background-color: #cfe2f3; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;The collision happened about 4:25 p.m. at Heacock Street and Webster Avenue, Donowho said. She had no information on the collision, which is being investigated by Highway Patrol officers.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 5px; overflow-x: visible; overflow-y: visible; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;background-color: #cfe2f3; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;&gt;The condition of the injured deputy was not know&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;&gt;n.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://theneoschoolcounselor.blogspot.com/feeds/7914661500429009081/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://theneoschoolcounselor.blogspot.com/2011/12/our-prayers-go-out-moreno-valley-police.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2390228832516246682/posts/default/7914661500429009081'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2390228832516246682/posts/default/7914661500429009081'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://theneoschoolcounselor.blogspot.com/2011/12/our-prayers-go-out-moreno-valley-police.html' title=''/><author><name>Anonymous</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10303696555621507222</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2390228832516246682.post-3218898119821410993</id><published>2011-11-25T21:40:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2011-12-30T08:49:14.748-08:00</updated><title type='text'>What would Dewey do?</title><content type='html'>&lt;div dir=&quot;ltr&quot; style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot; trbidi=&quot;on&quot;&gt;
  638. &lt;a href=&quot;http://doe.concordia.ca/jds/index.php&quot;&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;John Dewey Banner&quot; src=&quot;http://doe.concordia.ca/jds/images/Banner.jpg&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://theneoschoolcounselor.blogspot.com/feeds/3218898119821410993/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://theneoschoolcounselor.blogspot.com/2011/09/john-dewey-banner.html#comment-form' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2390228832516246682/posts/default/3218898119821410993'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2390228832516246682/posts/default/3218898119821410993'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://theneoschoolcounselor.blogspot.com/2011/09/john-dewey-banner.html' title='What would Dewey do?'/><author><name>Anonymous</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10303696555621507222</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2390228832516246682.post-5560120175644731024</id><published>2011-10-24T05:45:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-10-25T06:48:53.071-07:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="9 LA SUPERIOR COURT JUDGES"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Courage"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Richard I. Fine"/><title type='text'>This is COURAGE - YOU NEED TO KNOW WHY. As educators we are loosing the promise of Public Education at the hands of Very similar types of criminals!</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;Please understand&amp;nbsp;&lt;u&gt;this is a 70 year-old former U.S. Prosecutor&lt;/u&gt;! This man, Dr. Richard I Fine, PHd is my hero and model for my fights to&amp;nbsp;come &amp;nbsp;with Moreno Valley USD which also is one of the most&amp;nbsp;litigated&amp;nbsp;school districts of it&#39;s size in the inland empire.&amp;nbsp;For over 20 years the corruption spearheaded by the personalities of the COWARDS and BULLY BOYS RUNNING MVUSD&#39;S HUMAN RESOURCES has rotted the structure of our district. &amp;nbsp;One of the former HR bully boys participated in felony misuse and theft of public funds as well as an act of agrregious criminal Nepotism as defined in California State Educ. Code. Another, HR thug, a convicted felon used an unregistered pistol firing at a car fleeing his house with his own daughter and her girlfriend inside the car. He was and is still employed and partially running a MVUSD middle school dealing with children daily, in spite his&amp;nbsp;extraordinarily&amp;nbsp;explosive temper. The current HR coward is mentioned as knowingly or unknowingly helping to cover up the theft &amp;nbsp;or miss use of &amp;nbsp;student&amp;nbsp;funds which totals in the multiple $100,000s in cash&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;EVERY YEAR.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  639. &lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  640. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  641. &lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;The man most responsible for this system wide cover-up, a man who lied more than once to me when I was looking for help with the&amp;nbsp;apparent&amp;nbsp;criminal activity I stumbled upon, was fired early this year then allowed to stay on with a double demotion to assistant principal. The Board was afraid that out and out firing would tempt him to tell all.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  642. &lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  643. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  644. &lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;Due to years of cover up i.e. elimination of positions with the power of financial oversight by some of the Superintendents and their assistants, including Bob Crank who was one of the key players, most area taxpayers are paying twice over for there child&#39;s education without knowing and much of that money is stolen in cash! Watch for the documentation and names to come. &amp;nbsp;BUT lets not forget&amp;nbsp;the&amp;nbsp;School Board who hires these people,&amp;nbsp;among&amp;nbsp;which contains a documented CHILD MOLESTER (who as part of his duties regularly visits elementary schools unescorted) and a yet to be charged criminal who used the power of the office for... well, come back and see. Another is on the payroll of a local Developer and member of the shadowy Jewish &quot;Gold Trust&quot; and its silent charter and members. An organization who&#39;s home is somewhere in Beverly Bills, CA. I have fired off a letter to the Jewish Defense League* asking point blank if they are associated...&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  645. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  646. &lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;Did I mention the possible cover-up of an&amp;nbsp;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;alleged murder&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;of a 17 year-old student at the hands of a former school&amp;nbsp;district&amp;nbsp;employee? One of the alleged co-conspirators&amp;nbsp;was working here until two years ago. I am still working on that. Time and the&amp;nbsp;efficiency&amp;nbsp;of the&amp;nbsp;alleged&amp;nbsp;cover-up has made it hard. Folks I lack the imagination to make this stuff up. I was as&amp;nbsp;disbelieving&amp;nbsp;as you probably are. Worse yet, there is more than eluded to herein.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  647. &lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  648. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  649. &lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;Sincerely,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  650. &lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;I praetorian&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  651. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  652. &lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;&quot;&gt;&lt;span lang=&quot;EN&quot;&gt;*The&amp;nbsp;&lt;b&gt;Jewish Defense League&lt;/b&gt;&amp;nbsp;or&amp;nbsp;&lt;b&gt;JDL&lt;/b&gt;&amp;nbsp;is a&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish&quot; title=&quot;Jewish&quot;&gt;Jewish&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nationalism&quot; title=&quot;Nationalism&quot;&gt;nationalist&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;and&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Far-right&quot; title=&quot;Far-right&quot;&gt;far-right&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;organization whose stated goal is to &quot;protect Jews from&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antisemitism&quot; title=&quot;Antisemitism&quot;&gt;antisemitism&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;by whatever means necessary&quot;.&lt;sup&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_Defense_League#cite_note-backgrounder-0&quot;&gt;[1]&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/sup&gt;While the group asserts that it &quot;unequivocally condemns terrorism&quot;, and claims to have a &quot;strict no-tolerance policy against terrorism and other felonious acts,&quot;&lt;sup&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_Defense_League#cite_note-1&quot;&gt;[2]&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&amp;nbsp;it was described as &quot;a right-wing terrorist group&quot; by the&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Bureau_of_Investigation&quot; title=&quot;Federal Bureau of Investigation&quot;&gt;Federal Bureau of Investigation&lt;/a&gt;&lt;sup&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_Defense_League#cite_note-fbi-2&quot;&gt;[3]&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&amp;nbsp;in 2001, and as a&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hate_group&quot; title=&quot;Hate group&quot;&gt;hate group&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;involved in &quot;anti-Arab terrorism&quot; by the&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_Poverty_Law_Center&quot; title=&quot;Southern Poverty Law Center&quot;&gt;Southern Poverty Law Center&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;sup&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_Defense_League#cite_note-3&quot;&gt;[4]&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&amp;nbsp;According to the FBI, the JDL has been involved in plotting terrorist attacks within the&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States&quot; title=&quot;United States&quot;&gt;United States&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;sup&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_Defense_League#cite_note-fbi-2&quot;&gt;[3]&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;Outside the FBI,&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;background-color: #f3f3f3; color: red;&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;the&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;background-color: #f3f3f3; color: red;&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;background-color: #f3f3f3;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;line-height: 19px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Defamation_League&quot; style=&quot;background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; text-decoration: none;&quot; title=&quot;Anti-Defamation League&quot;&gt;Anti-Defamation League&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;(ADL)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;sup class=&quot;reference&quot; id=&quot;cite_ref-titleADL:_Fighting_Anti-Semitism.2C_Bigotry_and_Extremism_1-0&quot; style=&quot;font-style: normal; line-height: 1em;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hate_group#cite_note-titleADL:_Fighting_Anti-Semitism.2C_Bigotry_and_Extremism-1&quot; style=&quot;background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;&quot;&gt;[2]&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;and the&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_Poverty_Law_Center&quot; style=&quot;background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; text-decoration: none;&quot; title=&quot;Southern Poverty Law Center&quot;&gt;Southern Poverty Law Center&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;(SPLC).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;sup class=&quot;reference&quot; id=&quot;cite_ref-titleSPLCenter.org...forwarding_to_index.jsp_2-0&quot; style=&quot;font-style: normal; line-height: 1em;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hate_group#cite_note-titleSPLCenter.org...forwarding_to_index.jsp-2&quot; style=&quot;background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;&quot;&gt;[&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-origin: initial; white-space: nowrap;&quot;&gt;3&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;line-height: 13px;&quot;&gt;are the largest watch dog organizations monitoring hate groups&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;line-height: 13px;&quot;&gt;in the U.S.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;line-height: 13px;&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 19px;&quot;&gt;&lt;sup class=&quot;reference&quot; style=&quot;font-style: normal; line-height: 1em;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  653. &lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: x-small;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 13px;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  654. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  655. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  656. &lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  657. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;object height=&quot;360&quot; width=&quot;585&quot;&gt;&lt;param name=&quot;movie&quot; value=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/v/qUuZ5aqu1lU&amp;amp;rel=0&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;feature=player_embedded&amp;amp;version=3&quot;&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name=&quot;allowFullScreen&quot; value=&quot;true&quot;&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name=&quot;allowScriptAccess&quot; value=&quot;always&quot;&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/v/qUuZ5aqu1lU&amp;amp;rel=0&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;feature=player_embedded&amp;amp;version=3&quot; type=&quot;application/x-shockwave-flash&quot; allowfullscreen=&quot;true&quot; allowScriptAccess=&quot;always&quot; width=&quot;585&quot; height=&quot;360&quot;&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://theneoschoolcounselor.blogspot.com/feeds/5560120175644731024/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://theneoschoolcounselor.blogspot.com/2011/10/please-understand-this-is-70-year-old.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2390228832516246682/posts/default/5560120175644731024'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2390228832516246682/posts/default/5560120175644731024'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://theneoschoolcounselor.blogspot.com/2011/10/please-understand-this-is-70-year-old.html' title='This is COURAGE - YOU NEED TO KNOW WHY. As educators we are loosing the promise of Public Education at the hands of Very similar types of criminals!'/><author><name>Anonymous</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10303696555621507222</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2390228832516246682.post-3039883657555694441</id><published>2011-09-09T19:46:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2011-12-30T08:48:39.017-08:00</updated><title type='text'>In response to Craig&#39;s somewhat &quot;pedestrian&quot; question...</title><content type='html'>&lt;div dir=&quot;ltr&quot; style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot; trbidi=&quot;on&quot;&gt;
  658. &lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;color: #333333; line-height: 14px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;commentBody&quot; data-jsid=&quot;text&quot; style=&quot;background-color: #cfe2f3; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;I tease my friend about his constant walking. He pondered a question on his face book acct. I recommend that you look it up. Regardless here is the only worthwhile anwer: The question belay&#39;s the point. It doesn,t matter which is better when confronting the issues of human greed and poverty, irrationality is the weapon of choice. It gets to the lowest common denominator of the human experience and motivation - happiness and fear. This is the place were every economist since Adam Smith has argued ultimately for an inaccurate mathematical equation supposed to predict both the problem and the solution. In this they all have failed miserably. Because we have yet to quantify large collective movements of malleable human behavior driven by undeniably emotional variables as it effects a stable empirically consistent tangible or ideal.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  659. &lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;color: #333333; line-height: 14px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;commentBody&quot; data-jsid=&quot;text&quot; style=&quot;background-color: #cfe2f3; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  660. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  661. &lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;color: #333333; line-height: 14px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;commentBody&quot; data-jsid=&quot;text&quot; style=&quot;background-color: #cfe2f3; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;We are decades away from understanding even the entire nature of the problem although many well read persons with their swollen agendas espouse to own the answer. the question is still in flux. Economics are the respective processes and procedures, a vague blueprint of an engine in motion. it is measurable and somewhat predictable in that aspect, Although when it intersects with the emotionalism of the collective, lets say voters, it takes on its own uniquely unforgiving mercurial quality; as predicable in the short term as man&#39;s unrealized potential is in the long term.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  662. &lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;color: #333333; line-height: 14px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;commentBody&quot; data-jsid=&quot;text&quot; style=&quot;background-color: #cfe2f3; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  663. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  664. &lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;color: #333333; line-height: 14px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;commentBody&quot; data-jsid=&quot;text&quot; style=&quot;background-color: #cfe2f3; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;Damn that was the Sheeeztz&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://theneoschoolcounselor.blogspot.com/feeds/3039883657555694441/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://theneoschoolcounselor.blogspot.com/2011/09/in-response-to-craigs-somewhat.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2390228832516246682/posts/default/3039883657555694441'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2390228832516246682/posts/default/3039883657555694441'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://theneoschoolcounselor.blogspot.com/2011/09/in-response-to-craigs-somewhat.html' title='In response to Craig&#39;s somewhat &quot;pedestrian&quot; question...'/><author><name>Anonymous</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10303696555621507222</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2390228832516246682.post-4204157544709870113</id><published>2011-08-24T12:06:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-12-27T06:00:12.078-08:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="child abuse"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="child sexual victimization"/><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;div dir=&quot;ltr&quot; style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot; trbidi=&quot;on&quot;&gt;
  665. &lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;background-color: #e9edec;&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  666. &lt;h3 class=&quot;post-title entry-title&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font: normal normal bold 22px/normal Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; position: relative;&quot;&gt;
  667. &lt;a href=&quot;http://disenfranchised-educators.blogspot.com/2011/08/these-are-voters-that-choose-every.html&quot; style=&quot;font: normal normal bold 22px/normal Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;background-color: #cfe2f3; color: #7f6000; font-size: x-large;&quot;&gt;Offenders and Victims - misconceptions about child pornography&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;
  668. &lt;div class=&quot;post-header&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.6; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;&quot;&gt;
  669. &lt;div class=&quot;post-header-line-1&quot;&gt;
  670. &lt;/div&gt;
  671. &lt;/div&gt;
  672. &lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;background-color: #cfe2f3;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; line-height: 25px;&quot;&gt;The Police Chief magazine, vol. 74, no. 3, March 2007&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  673. &lt;div class=&quot;post-body entry-content&quot; style=&quot;position: relative; width: 676px;&quot;&gt;
  674. &lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;
  675. &lt;div style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.4; text-align: left;&quot;&gt;
  676. &lt;/div&gt;
  677. &lt;div style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.4; text-align: left;&quot;&gt;
  678. &lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;&quot;&gt;&lt;i style=&quot;font-style: italic;&quot;&gt;&lt;b style=&quot;background-color: #cfe2f3;&quot;&gt;By Michelle K. Collins, Director, Exploited Child Unit, National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, Alexandria, Virginia&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  679. &lt;div style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.4; text-align: left;&quot;&gt;
  680. &lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;&quot;&gt;&lt;i style=&quot;background-color: #cfe2f3; font-style: italic;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  681. &lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  682. &lt;div style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.4; text-align: left;&quot;&gt;
  683. &lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;background-color: #cfe2f3; font-size: medium;&quot;&gt;Offenders and Victims&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  684. &lt;div style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.4; text-align: left;&quot;&gt;
  685. &lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;background-color: #cfe2f3;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  686. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  687. &lt;div style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.4; text-align: left;&quot;&gt;
  688. &lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;background-color: #cfe2f3; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;There are several misconceptions about child pornography. Some believe child pornography refers to baby-in-the-bathtub pictures and others are under the impression that child pornography images are 19-year-old women dressed up in pigtails and schoolgirl uniforms. Neither of these descriptions constitutes child pornography. Child pornography is not pictures of teenagers romping on a beach; it is pictures of children, often babies in diapers, being violently molested. Not only did these children suffer the initial sexual victimization, they will continue to be exploited every time their image is traded online among individuals who use these images to fuel their sexual desire for children. These traded images are photographs of actual crime scenes.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  689. &lt;div style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.4; text-align: left;&quot;&gt;
  690. &lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;background-color: #cfe2f3; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  691. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  692. &lt;div style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.4; text-align: left;&quot;&gt;
  693. &lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;background-color: #cfe2f3; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;As a result of NCMEC’s collecting data regarding child pornography investigations in the United States and around the world, a greater knowledge has been gained regarding the perpetrators of these crimes. In almost all cases tracked by NCMEC, the abuser was an adult with legitimate access to the child victim. In fact, in those cases where the child has been identified by law enforcement, 35 percent of the abusers were a parent of the child victim. Twenty-eight percent of the abusers were neighbors or trusted family friends of the child victim. Although it may be difficult to accept, the offenders who photograph the sexual abuse of children are typically in a position of authority in the children’s life. Not surprisingly, few children disclose their abuse to a trusted adult.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  694. &lt;div style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.4; text-align: left;&quot;&gt;
  695. &lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;background-color: #cfe2f3; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  696. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  697. &lt;div style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.4; text-align: left;&quot;&gt;
  698. &lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;background-color: #cfe2f3; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;Another disturbing trend investigators have noticed is the dramatic drop in the age of the child victims seen in these sexually abusive images. According to data collected by NCMEC, 58 percent of identified child victims are prepubescent. Sadly, 6 percent of the identified children were only infants at the time the sexual abuse occurred and the images were produced. And although NCMEC does collect information regarding children from other countries who were used in the production of child pornography, most of the children known to NCMEC are from the United States.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  699. &lt;div style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.4; text-align: left;&quot;&gt;
  700. &lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;background-color: #cfe2f3; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  701. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  702. &lt;div style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.4; text-align: left;&quot;&gt;
  703. &lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;background-color: #cfe2f3; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  704. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  705. &lt;div style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.4; text-align: left;&quot;&gt;
  706. &lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;background-color: #cfe2f3; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;Law Enforcement’s Response&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  707. &lt;div style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.4; text-align: left;&quot;&gt;
  708. &lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;background-color: #cfe2f3; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  709. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  710. &lt;div style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.4; text-align: left;&quot;&gt;
  711. &lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;background-color: #cfe2f3; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;Over the last decade, law enforcement has proven itself highly effective in identifying and apprehending individuals who transmit child pornography on the Internet. On a federal level, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), and the U.S. Postal Inspection Service (USPIS) are working these crimes effectively. In addition, strong networks of trained law enforcement professionals are working on the state and local levels through the 46 federally funded task forces devoted to stopping Internet crimes against children (ICAC). The successful teamwork among these agencies is reflected in the large number of arrests they make each year.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  712. &lt;div style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.4; text-align: left;&quot;&gt;
  713. &lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;background-color: #cfe2f3; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  714. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  715. &lt;div style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.4; text-align: left;&quot;&gt;
  716. &lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;background-color: #cfe2f3; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;In the last eight years, there has been a collective awakening in law enforcement regarding the need to identify the children seen in the images. Today, law enforcement considers as part of its mission not only using the child pornography images to charge a defendant but also scrutinizing the images for any possible clues that could lead to the location of the abuse. Many of these children are being abused in the basements and living rooms of their homes across the United States. Few of these children will disclose their abuse to a trusted adult. Thus, in recent years, investigators working child pornography investigations have begun to examine each disturbing image and video to find a clue that could lead to the rescue of a child from an abusive situation.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  717. &lt;div style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.4; text-align: left;&quot;&gt;
  718. &lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;background-color: #cfe2f3; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  719. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  720. &lt;div style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.4; text-align: left;&quot;&gt;
  721. &lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;background-color: #cfe2f3; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  722. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  723. &lt;div style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.4; text-align: left;&quot;&gt;
  724. &lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;background-color: #cfe2f3; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;History of CVIP&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  725. &lt;div style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.4; text-align: left;&quot;&gt;
  726. &lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;background-color: #cfe2f3; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  727. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  728. &lt;div style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.4; text-align: left;&quot;&gt;
  729. &lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;background-color: #cfe2f3; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;In 2002, as a result of the court decision in Ashcroft v. Free Speech Coalition (535 U.S. 234, 2002), the Supreme Court decided that computer-generated child pornography was not considered illegal if no actual child was used in the production of the images. The Supreme Court maintained that these images are not criminal because there is no live victim, hence no real child.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  730. &lt;div style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.4; text-align: left;&quot;&gt;
  731. &lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;background-color: #cfe2f3; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  732. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  733. &lt;div style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.4; text-align: left;&quot;&gt;
  734. &lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;background-color: #cfe2f3; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;This ruling allowed defendants to argue that the child pornography images found on their computers are actually images of virtual kids and not real children. In response to this defense, many prosecutors try to establish the actual identity of the children seen in the illegal images. Since determining the identity of children in child pornography may be difficult or even impossible, this presents additional challenges when prosecuting cases. CVIP is playing a critical role in helping to ensure the successful conviction of child pornographers.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  735. &lt;div style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.4; text-align: left;&quot;&gt;
  736. &lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;background-color: #cfe2f3; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  737. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  738. &lt;div style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.4; text-align: left;&quot;&gt;
  739. &lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;background-color: #cfe2f3; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;CVIP analysts, in cooperation with in-house federal law enforcement partners, work with law enforcement and prosecutors to ensure convictions of child pornographers. Most importantly, CVIP analysts closely examine the heinous images for any clues that might point to a location of the abuse. The efforts of law enforcement across the country have been astounding. In the first four years of CVIP, law enforcement has notified NCMEC of more than 900 child victims rescued from the hands of their abusers.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  740. &lt;div style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.4; text-align: left;&quot;&gt;
  741. &lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;background-color: #cfe2f3; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  742. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  743. &lt;div style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.4; text-align: left;&quot;&gt;
  744. &lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;background-color: #cfe2f3; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  745. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  746. &lt;div style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.4; text-align: left;&quot;&gt;
  747. &lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;background-color: #cfe2f3; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;Evidence Reviews&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  748. &lt;div style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.4; text-align: left;&quot;&gt;
  749. &lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;background-color: #cfe2f3; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  750. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  751. &lt;div style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.4; text-align: left;&quot;&gt;
  752. &lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;background-color: #cfe2f3; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;Local and federal law enforcement agencies are able to submit copies of seized child pornography to the federal law enforcement agents assigned to NCMEC, accompanied by a written request that the images be reviewed for identified children. After a review of all of the pictures on the defendant’s computer, a child identification report is provided to the submitting agency listing every single picture containing an identified child. In order to protect the child’s privacy, this report contains detailed information about the law enforcement agency that identified the child.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  753. &lt;div style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.4; text-align: left;&quot;&gt;
  754. &lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;background-color: #cfe2f3; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  755. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  756. &lt;div style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.4; text-align: left;&quot;&gt;
  757. &lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;background-color: #cfe2f3; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  758. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  759. &lt;div style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.4; text-align: left;&quot;&gt;
  760. &lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;background-color: #cfe2f3; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;Image Analysis&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  761. &lt;div style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.4; text-align: left;&quot;&gt;
  762. &lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;background-color: #cfe2f3; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  763. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  764. &lt;div style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.4; text-align: left;&quot;&gt;
  765. &lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;background-color: #cfe2f3; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;The most critical function of CVIP is the ongoing effort to rescue the unidentified children seen in sexually exploitive images. There are many children still suffering at the hands of their exploiters who need to be located. While reviewing evidence submitted by law enforcement, CVIP analysts closely examine the images and videos and document all investigative clues that could lead to the location of a child victim. Once a location has been determined, CVIP enlists the assistance of the appropriate law enforcement agency to identify the child victims. Many children have been rescued from ongoing exploitation as a result of the cooperative efforts between CVIP and law enforcement.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  766. &lt;div style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.4; text-align: left;&quot;&gt;
  767. &lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;background-color: #cfe2f3; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  768. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  769. &lt;div style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.4; text-align: left;&quot;&gt;
  770. &lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;background-color: #cfe2f3; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;This case highlights the importance of image analysis and cooperative investigations involving federal and local law enforcement agencies. During the course of providing technical assistance to the ICE and U.S. Secret Service, CVIP analysts reviewed several child pornography images of six prepubescent girls. The CVIP analysts had never seen these pictures before, which heightened their concerns that these children might still be in an abusive situation. Many of the sexually explicit photographs showed the girls in various rooms of a private home that provided critical clues for a location.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  771. &lt;div style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.4; text-align: left;&quot;&gt;
  772. &lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;background-color: #cfe2f3; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  773. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  774. &lt;div style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.4; text-align: left;&quot;&gt;
  775. &lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;background-color: #cfe2f3; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;CVIP analysts began an aggressive analysis of the images with the hope of identifying the six young girls. CVIP reviewed the images, one by one, and documented a significant number of investigative clues. The first clue that led CVIP analysts to the children’s location was an envelope seen in the background of one of the images. Image enhancement provided the analyst with the name of a storage facility. Internet searches for this company indicated six possible locations in the Minneapolis, Minnesota, area.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  776. &lt;div style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.4; text-align: left;&quot;&gt;
  777. &lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;background-color: #cfe2f3; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  778. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  779. &lt;div style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.4; text-align: left;&quot;&gt;
  780. &lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;background-color: #cfe2f3; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;The second clue that indicated that the victims lived in the Minneapolis area was a particular picture in which a child’s uniform is seen draped over a chair. Partially visible on the uniform was the text MINNEA. CVIP analysts believed that this clue, along with the envelope, could help law enforcement find the victims. In addition to a possible location, CVIP analysts determined that many of the images were taken with an Olympus digital camera between March and October 2004.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  781. &lt;div style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.4; text-align: left;&quot;&gt;
  782. &lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;background-color: #cfe2f3; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  783. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  784. &lt;div style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.4; text-align: left;&quot;&gt;
  785. &lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;background-color: #cfe2f3; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;NCMEC referred the case to ICE’s field office in Minneapolis. ICE agents coordinated the investigation with the Minnesota Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force and the Burnsville Police Department. The investigators created a mini-taskforce and successfully identified all six children within a few days. During the search warrant of the abuser’s home, many of the items seen in the photographs were seized as evidence. The U.S. attorney’s office successfully convicted the producer of these images on 24 counts of manufacturing child pornography, one count of possession of child pornography, and one count of receipt of child pornography.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  786. &lt;div style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.4; text-align: left;&quot;&gt;
  787. &lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;background-color: #cfe2f3; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  788. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  789. &lt;div style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.4; text-align: left;&quot;&gt;
  790. &lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;background-color: #cfe2f3; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  791. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  792. &lt;div style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.4; text-align: left;&quot;&gt;
  793. &lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;background-color: #cfe2f3; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;Newly Identified Victims&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  794. &lt;div style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.4; text-align: left;&quot;&gt;
  795. &lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;background-color: #cfe2f3; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  796. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  797. &lt;div style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.4; text-align: left;&quot;&gt;
  798. &lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;background-color: #cfe2f3; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;During the course of child sexual exploitation investigations, law enforcement investigators frequently encounter children who have been pornographically photographed or videotaped. It is an unfortunate reality that many of these pictures will be uploaded to the Internet for the enjoyment of others. It is often difficult, if not impossible, for law enforcement to determine whether photographs of locally identified victims have been traded with others. NCMEC can generate reports for law enforcement documenting where specific pictures have been seen. These reports have been incredibly helpful to law enforcement and prosecutors who were looking to ensure convictions on charges of distribution.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  799. &lt;div style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.4; text-align: left;&quot;&gt;
  800. &lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;background-color: #cfe2f3; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  801. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  802. &lt;div style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.4; text-align: left;&quot;&gt;
  803. &lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;background-color: #cfe2f3; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;More than 900 children seen in these horrific images already have been identified, but there are many sexually abused children who still need to be rescued. It is critical that law enforcement agencies notify NCMEC when they’ve identified a child who was pornographically photographed, whether they believe the images were distributed or not.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  804. &lt;div style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.4; text-align: left;&quot;&gt;
  805. &lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;background-color: #cfe2f3; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  806. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  807. &lt;div style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.4; text-align: left;&quot;&gt;
  808. &lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;background-color: #cfe2f3; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  809. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  810. &lt;div style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.4; text-align: left;&quot;&gt;
  811. &lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;background-color: #cfe2f3; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  812. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  813. &lt;div style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.4; text-align: left;&quot;&gt;
  814. &lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;background-color: #cfe2f3; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;Victim Identification Laboratory&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  815. &lt;div style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.4; text-align: left;&quot;&gt;
  816. &lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;background-color: #cfe2f3; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  817. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  818. &lt;div style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.4; text-align: left;&quot;&gt;
  819. &lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;background-color: #cfe2f3; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;Every week, CVIP staff members view thousands of illegal images of children where the victim appears to be in the United States yet has not been identified. CVIP analysts work to identify the location of these children by looking for distinguishing clues in the background such as newspapers, calendars, and envelopes. Such unique identifiers may not be recognizable to CVIP staff members, but it is highly probable somebody may recognize them. Based on the assumption that more children can be located if more people are looking at the backgrounds, NCMEC created an aggressive new tool in the fight against child pornography called the Victim Identification Lab.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  820. &lt;div style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.4; text-align: left;&quot;&gt;
  821. &lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;background-color: #cfe2f3; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  822. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  823. &lt;div style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.4; text-align: left;&quot;&gt;
  824. &lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;background-color: #cfe2f3; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;In summer 2006 the first-ever United States–based victim identification lab was launched at the Crimes Against Children Conference in Dallas, Texas. It was a cooperative effort involving NCMEC, the ICAC task forces, the FBI, ICE, and the USPIS. The purpose of the lab was to create a secure environment where law enforcement officers could review sanitized, nonpornographic images that contain potential clues in the background that may be regionally identifiable.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  825. &lt;div style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.4;&quot;&gt;
  826. &lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;background-color: #e9edec;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  827. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  828. &lt;/div&gt;
  829. &lt;/div&gt;
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  831. &lt;br /&gt;
  832. There’s been a spirited, well actually a heated, discussion going on at Facebook and by email regarding our blog post that asks: Should parents drug test their teens?&lt;br /&gt;
  833. &lt;br /&gt;
  834. When we did the interview with Steve Stahovich of Teensavers, a home drug-testing company, we made the assumption that readers knew we weren’t suggesting that parents randomly test children for no reason.&lt;br /&gt;
  835. &lt;br /&gt;
  836. We were addressing caring parents who noticed signs that their kids might be using drugs but didn’t know that home drug-testing is an option that allows for privacy and protection. We were also talking to concerned parents who don’t buy the myth that it is unavoidable or even normal, for kids to experiment with drugs. And we were speaking to parents who do not believe it’s okay, or even harmless, for kids to use drugs “recreationally”.&lt;br /&gt;
  837. &lt;br /&gt;
  838. The responses from readers were, to me and the colleagues I talked about this topic with, passionate. Perhaps we were most disappointed (though not surprised) by the Facebook comment that says using drugs 2 or 3 three times on a weekend (not sure if this was a one-weekend party or on subsequent weekends) was “normal” for teens.&lt;br /&gt;
  839. &lt;br /&gt;
  840. It might be common, but that doesn’t make it normal. And the difference is serious. Many kids manage to live their lives without even trying drugs once. Many, sadly, don’t.&lt;br /&gt;
  841. &lt;br /&gt;
  842. Some people believe that experimenting with drugs is simply something teens are going to do. This is fatalistic thinking.&lt;br /&gt;
  843. &lt;br /&gt;
  844. First, education and prevention does work. (Not for everybody and not all the time, and only if done skillfully).&lt;br /&gt;
  845. &lt;br /&gt;
  846. Second, until very recently, people all over the world, including the United States, believed that illicit drug use wasn’t a good thing. Now we’re saying since “everybody” does it we have to look the other way.&lt;br /&gt;
  847. &lt;br /&gt;
  848. Remember when you used to want to do something and you argued that all your friends were doing it? Your mom had a great answer for that: “Well, if everybody was jumping off the roof should I say go ahead and do that too?”&lt;br /&gt;
  849. &lt;br /&gt;
  850. I’ve worked with literally thousands of families on every side of this issue. I know that the myth that some forms of illicit drug use isn’t a big deal is the viewpoint that gets the most play. But it actually isn’t the most prevalent viewpoint.&lt;br /&gt;
  851. &lt;br /&gt;
  852. Most parents do not believe using drugs (or alcohol) is a simple, safe rite of passage, even if they themselves tried drugs when they were young. Now that they are adults they recognize the physical and emotional dangers. Sure, not everyone who tries drugs ends up addicted. But addiction isn’t the only danger.&lt;br /&gt;
  853. &lt;br /&gt;
  854. There are many stories. Here’s one: I recently listened to a mom, a teacher, tell her daughter that the reason why she doesn’t want her to smoke pot is because when she was in college she passed out smoking pot and woke up to find that she was being raped. By a fellow student.&lt;br /&gt;
  855. &lt;br /&gt;
  856. Think this is an extreme example? It’s not. Every day at the treatment center where I work, we hear how people were victimized, robbed, assaulted, and yes, even raped, because they were too high to defend themselves. Conversely, we work with parolees and prison groups, made up of men and women who committed crimes while high on drugs.&lt;br /&gt;
  857. &lt;br /&gt;
  858. And in case you think this couldn’t happen in your nice neighborhood, you should know: Not all drug-related crimes happen in low socio-economic areas. I regularly volunteer to speak with kids-at-risk. Most of the neighborhoods where I speak are middle to upper-middle class.&lt;br /&gt;
  859. &lt;br /&gt;
  860. In fact, my experience shows that many drug-related crimes are seriously under-reported when they occur in middle, upper-middle and even upper-class communities. Generally it’s because the victim and the perpetrator know each other or are even related. No one wants to turn in their neighbor’s kid, their own mom or husband, their best friend or members of their daughter’s lacrosse team.&lt;br /&gt;
  861. &lt;br /&gt;
  862. If you don’t want to be convinced that even “flirting” with drug use is potentially hazardous, you won’t be convinced. What I can tell you is that the data tell a different story.&lt;br /&gt;
  863. &lt;br /&gt;
  864. Part II, Coming Soon&lt;br /&gt;
  865. &lt;br /&gt;
  866. &lt;br /&gt;
  867. &lt;br /&gt;
  868. Richard Zwolinski, LMHC, CASAC is the author of Therapy Revolution: Find Help, Get Better, and Move On Without Wasting Time or Money and is an internationally licensed psychotherapist and addiction specialist with over 25 years experience as well as a consultant to organizations and companies in the fields of mental health and addiction.&lt;br /&gt;
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  872. Since I am on a rant, I would like to share with you some of my experiences in the opinions derived from them. With regard to the foster care system as it exists in the school district that I work for and that city, it is simply another source of welfare dollars for people who are otherwise unwilling or unable to work. These so-called foster families have little investment emotionally or otherwise in the constant revolving door and the children that they house. Very often the mistreatment that put these children into foster care in the first place is nearly matched by the consistent neglect of these for-profit foster care companies and the for-profit people that take in these children.&lt;br /&gt;
  873. &lt;br /&gt;
  874. It is a rare foster parent that comes to non-essential functions at the child&#39;s school. In fact many of these parents get upset with the child if they are forced to come to the school say to take that child up if he or she were sick. these foster parents are extremely frustrating to the teachers, counselors and administrators at the schools their children go to. Not to mention the fact that most foster care children spend a maximum of eight months, give or take, at any one school because there social worker who of course works for the company moves these children around to best fill their empty bed situations. Once again with little or no forethought to the emotional needs of the child. These children are often from the most hellish family environments where abuse is not just common but it is horrifying in many cases. These are the very children who so desperately need the care and the physical and emotional stability of growing up in one neighborhood with nurturing adults. Stability is often the key word here.&lt;br /&gt;
  875. &lt;br /&gt;
  876. These foster caregivers make there house payment from the monies supplied by the state for the children in foster care. So too, the companies they work for, private for-profit or non – profit with a profit in mind, companies that care more about filling empty beds than the best emotional interests of these children.&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://theneoschoolcounselor.blogspot.com/feeds/5415241632467899243/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://theneoschoolcounselor.blogspot.com/2011/07/in-response-to-children-of-california.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2390228832516246682/posts/default/5415241632467899243'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2390228832516246682/posts/default/5415241632467899243'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://theneoschoolcounselor.blogspot.com/2011/07/in-response-to-children-of-california.html' title='In response to the Children of the California Foster System'/><author><name>Anonymous</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10303696555621507222</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2390228832516246682.post-4953263882092830178</id><published>2011-07-14T18:12:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-07-28T12:11:01.375-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Parents, Teens and Drugs: The Conversation II</title><content type='html'>&lt;div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;color: #222222;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;color: #446677;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;By&amp;nbsp;&lt;span class=&quot;authorb&quot; style=&quot;text-transform: uppercase !important;&quot;&gt;RICHARD ZWOLINSKI, LMHC, CASAC&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;text-transform: uppercase;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;color: #446677;&quot;&gt;edited by &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.blogger.com/profile/10303696555621507222&quot; style=&quot;color: #446677;&quot;&gt;I, praetorian&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;color: #446677;&quot;&gt; and a host of others (&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;color: magenta;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.webmd.com/depression/guide/depression_online_community&quot;&gt;personalities&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;color: #446677;&quot;&gt;)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  877. &lt;div style=&quot;color: #222222; font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  878. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;color: #222222; font-family: verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&quot;If you don’t want to be convinced that even &#39;flirting&#39; with drug use is potentially hazardous, you won’t be convinced. What I can tell you is that&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.homehealthtesting.com/infographic/teen-drug-use.html&quot; style=&quot;color: #286ea0;&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;the data tell a different story&lt;/a&gt;.&quot;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;color: #222222; font-family: verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  879. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;color: #222222; font-family: verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;Prescription medication abuse and addiction are such a serious problem that new medications and treatments are being developed all the time. It is quite a challenge to help people get off these drugs, especially since the withdrawal symptoms are very uncomfortable. People’s marriages and family relationships really suffer when a family member is just hanging on until their latest prescription can be filled. How many parents really want their&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.getsmartaboutdrugs.com/stories/ryan_haights_story.html&quot; style=&quot;color: #286ea0;&quot; target=&quot;_self&quot;&gt;kids “experimenting” on the weekends&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;with oxyocodone, codeine, vicodin, or other medications?&lt;span id=&quot;more-2390&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;color: #222222; font-family: verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  880. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;color: #222222; font-family: verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;What about ecstasy? Cocaine? What about crack? Heroin? Which one of these would be okay for your kids to experiment with? What would be the cut-off point? Would one line of coke be okay or six lines? What if they liked ecstasy so much that they decided to use it two or three times a months, but only on weekends?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;color: #222222; font-family: verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  881. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;color: #222222; font-family: verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;Would you be okay with your child doing opium or LSD? What kind of environment would be “safe” for your son or daughter to hallucinate in? Would you be willing to be there in case they had a bad trip?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;color: #222222; font-family: verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  882. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;color: #222222; font-family: verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;What about them using&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.justthinktwice.com/&quot; style=&quot;color: #286ea0;&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;marijuana&lt;/a&gt;, which some people believe is safe because it is natural? Tobacco, poison ivy, and the ebola virus are also natural, by the way. Pot use can not only can lead to&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blogs.psychcentral.com/therapy-soup/2011/06/parents-teens-and-drugs-the-conversation-ii/Put%20off%20actions%20and%20decisions%20to%20the%20point%20of%20being%20a%20burden%20on%20family%20and%20friends%20%E2%80%A2%20Given%20up%20personal%20aspirations%20%E2%80%A2%20Had%20nagging%20health%20concerns,%20such%20as%20worries%20about%20lung%20damage%20%E2%80%A2%20Made%20excuses%20for%20unfinished%20tasks%20or%20broken%20promises%20%E2%80%A2%20Experienced%20disapproval%20from%20family%20and%20friends%20%E2%80%A2%20Been%20involved%20in%20the%20criminal%20justice%20system.&quot; style=&quot;color: #286ea0;&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;dependency&amp;nbsp;&lt;/a&gt;, but can damage brain cells, cause serious lung disorders, trigger extreme paranoia and anxiety, and create such general apathy that kids give up on their life goals.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;color: #222222; font-family: verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;And yes, it is a gateway drug. The people who say it isn’t simply don’t have the facts. Go to any addiction treatment center in America and ask the people who work there and the clients who are in recovery if smoking pot once or twice a week is safe.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;color: #222222; font-family: verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;What is a reasonable pot budget for your teen to have? Would it be okay for him or her to take money from college funds and use it to buy pot? Would it be okay for them to spend the money they saved for a trip to Europe to spend on pot? Would it be okay if they money that might have been spent on tickets to a ball game or even donating to a charity? Would you be okay with them using the money you earn, i.e., their allowance money?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;color: #222222; font-family: verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;Where should your son or daughter go to buy pot? What would be okay with you? How much time would you like to see your kid spend smoking pot? Getting and staying high?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;color: #222222; font-family: verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blogs.psychcentral.com/therapy-soup/files/2011/06/marijuana-006_thumb.jpg&quot; style=&quot;color: #286ea0;&quot;&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;&quot; class=&quot;alignright&quot; height=&quot;91&quot; src=&quot;http://blogs.psychcentral.com/therapy-soup/files/2011/06/marijuana-006_thumb.jpg&quot; style=&quot;border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 0px; border-width: initial; float: right; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 10px;&quot; width=&quot;136&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;color: #222222; font-family: verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;Would you let your teen drive drunk? What about high? Most people couldn’t pass a driving test while drunk or high—they’d never show up for the exam in that condition. Why do so many insist it’s just fine to drive that way?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;color: #222222; font-family: verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;If you have a supportive, healthy family structure (even if you have problems—everyone has problems), your pre-teens and even your teens will trust you and want to talk to you about many topics. Despite the generation gap portrayed in popular media, many teens do in fact turn to their parents for advice. A surprising number of kids also do feel comfortable asking their parents about very serious issues including drug use.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;color: #222222; font-family: verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;If you have serious problems and rocky relationships with your pre-teens and teens, and I agree many of us do, if they live with you, you still can repair and reconnect with them. Counseling may help.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;color: #222222; font-family: verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;If you suspect your children are doing drugs, don’t go in there like gangbusters. Unless you regularly have open conversations with your kids, confrontation could lead to arguments.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;color: #222222; font-family: verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;If the signs of drug use are there (see our post,&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blogs.psychcentral.com/therapy-soup/2011/06/seven-signs-your-kids-might-be-doing-drugs/&quot; style=&quot;color: #286ea0;&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;The Seven Signs Your Kids Might Be Doing Drugs&lt;/a&gt;), call an addiction counselor, treatment center, or a hotline. Discuss your concerns with someone. Ask them for advice on how to handle your particular family situation.&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.getsmartaboutdrugs.com/prevent/getting-started-talking-about-drugs.html&quot; style=&quot;color: #286ea0;&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Asking your child to take a drug test might not be easy&lt;/a&gt;, but it might literally save his/her life and the lives of others.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;color: #222222; font-family: verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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