Some New Dots - Are They Connected?

Have you ever painted yourself into the corner?

Have you ever, while sitting on the tree limb, sawed the limb closer to the trunk?


I have said before, when things don't make sense, the real decision maker is not sitting at the table.

These dots don't make sense:


Lee Drury De Cesare's Casting-Room Couch:

"An email from you with allegations about employees would not generate a Professional Standards investigation. Certainly, the superintendent had no involvement and undoubtedly had no idea who Steve Kemp was, let alone that he has a blog."

In the District’s Own Words : Goader#comments#comments#comments:

"This following was also a part of the email to Mrs. De Cesare:
District: People who work in schools are obligated by law to report possible abuse. Child Protective Investigations is obligated to investigate and they call in law enforcement. When CPI and law enforcement investigate an employee, Professional Standards gets involved. They would be negligent if they allowed someone to remain in a position involving children while CPI and police investigate abuse allegations."

Another dot:

Rape case shines light on oversight:

"TAMPA - When news surfaced that a boy at Walker Middle School was sexually attacked multiple times over multiple months - in his own school - parents and school board members had the same reaction.
How could this happen?"

Hills Board: Has The Beginning of the End Begun?:

"This past week, the result of an official request, I met with Linda Kipley, General Manager of Professional Standards. Not to be too redundant, but Mrs. Kipley is among the most professional managers within the district: professional in dress, professional in manner, and amazing professional in conversation.

An agenda for this meeting, as she explained, was that the district has become aware that this internet site may have criticized unnamed upper-managers or unnamed school board members (her words). Mrs. Kipley also said that district legal and HR staff have been tasked to research the legality of an employee, like myself, away from work and on my own time, criticizing “my” employers."

After you have jumped to a conclusion, I submit that it may be those within the higher ups that are painting themselves into a corner and sawing on the wrong side of the limb.

Someone posted this on Lee's blog:

Lee Drury De Cesare's Casting-Room Couch: A Grain a Day Makes the Rock Go Away:

"If Cobbe is ever chosen she'll see how wrong she was to side with administration."

Are we to believe that Professional Standards is allocating time and resources independent of direction? Apparently not. So who is calling the shots? Who are "district legal and HR staff?" Are we to believe that an allegation of wrongdoing is given the thumbs up or thumbs down based on the identity of the complainant?

Things are not making sense.

Once someone is caught up in this type of stuff, things never do make sense.

Just sayin'.