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"Hillsborough County School Superintendent MaryEllen Elia noted at the town hall meeting that Area 5 schools had 10 five-star schools: Apollo Beach, Brooker, Cimino, Corr, Mintz, Sessums, Summerfield and Symmes elementary schools; and Dowdell and Giunta middle schools. Alafia, the first elementary school to house an official branch of the Suncoast Federal Credit Union, is a 2008 Little Red Schoolhouse winner in the category of community involvement."

They say a picture is worth a thousand words. It is not uncommon for the HCPS to stifle words. How many of you remember the night that Glen Barrington asked that the cameras be turned off for the publicly televised meeting of the school board meeting? It was the night that Doug Erwin was speaking. I was there.

How many of you remember the night that Lee DeCesare was cut off from speaking and then escorted off the ROSSAC premises by the school board security?

How many of you know that Ms. DeCesare filed an ethics complaint about Tom Gonzalez regarding the issue of free speech? How many of you know what the implications of this complaint had regarding how the HCPS school board conducts it's business with the public?

How many of you know the full story of how the "old guard" silenced the "new members"? How many of you know the story about how Jack Lamb publicly commented about how he used to "send notes" to Ms. Faliero to coach her when she was new and feisty?

The information is available for those who want to know the truth.

One who understands the meaning and intent of Mr. Lamb's "notes" might find the following comments, found on the below link, interesting.

Parents Critical Of Alafia Elementary Principal#comments#comments#comments


Posted by ( raider1 ) on 10/15/2008 at 03:45 pm.

Go to the video of the school board meeting at the SDHC website and look up the meeting these parents attended and listen to the male voice you hear after Mrs. Elia is asked to look into this and she responds she will.(Little over 2 hours into the meeting) There is a male voice that says "Can we move on to the next?" Which male at the board meeting would have had access to a microphone? There are a few gentlemen at the meeting - but only one male on the board itself. Ms. Griffin makes a comment, then Mrs. Elia informs the board Mr. Otero has met "numerous times" to work through issues with these parents. Mr. Otero had been Smith's area director when she was at Seffner Elementary. Do you think he is hearing these comments and complaints for the first time?!

Something to think about.

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Posted by ( Gatorfan1 ) on 10/15/2008 at 08:50 pm.

raider1,

The male voice you are hearing is Jack Lamb. I know this because I was there at the meeting and saw him try to hurry the whole thing along before any other school board members could get any comments in.

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Posted by ( lwb250 ) on 10/15/2008 at 11:00 pm.

How ironic. He (Jack Lamb) was tending bar at a "meet and greet" she held at her home the first year she was there. Sort of a subtle "I have friends in high places" thing.

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Posted by ( ernstruntz ) on 10/15/2008 at 11:20 pm.

Jack Lamb earlier in the year:
"I'm really appalled at the lack of community attendance at this meeting, school board member Jack Lamb scolded before four parents got up to complain about bus problems and a lack of communication about Tuesday's meeting."
Guess he has changed his tune about parents expressing themselves at the school board meetings??

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Posted by ( ConcernedTaxpayer ) on 10/16/2008 at 09:50 pm.

Elia, Lamb, Otero, Sikes and the school board have all been put on notice. If there is a serious injury or worse because of their failure to act, they will have no where to hide now.