Trust is an important ingredient for positive based results.
After today's board meeting, it appears there is a discrepancy in what the facts are about the reported, alleged or mention toe-popping activities in HCPS. One thing that I think, at this time at least, that we can agree on is that the activity was considered "strange", according to today's HCPS board meeting.
What may be a surprise to many is that apparently the reported, alleged or mention that the "investigation" found evidence of "indicators of abuse" is now in dispute.
If you listen to today's comments of the HCPS's Board attorney, I think you will hear that the following reported, alleged and mentioned statement is not a fact.
Administrator at Tampa's King High 'popped' students' toes for poor grades - St. Petersburg Times:
"Though deputies and an assistant state attorney concluded the punishment didn't amount to battery, a child protective services investigator with the Sheriff's Office said he saw 'some indicators' of abuse."
The reported, alleged and mentioned story can also be found here on Detentionslip.org:
Florida & Tampa Bay schools blog - The Gradebook:
"Tampa's toe-popping AP makes blog fodder
So ... is this an appropriate form of discipline? Or is this a case of 'This little piggy crying wee wee wee all the way to children's services to report a case of a creepy pedophile with a foot fetish'?"
Ut ro!!
After the comments made from the dais of today's board meeting, some one may want to look at this statement again:
Administrator at Tampa's King High 'popped' students' toes for poor grades - St. Petersburg Times:
"'Since there was no dispute of the facts of the case, our professional standards office did not need to conduct another investigation,' said spokesman Stephen Hegarty."
Trust is such a fleeting entity.
So, while the target of trying to achieve fairness in how teachers and administrators are dealt with has now been moved, time will tell if it will ever be brought back to focus.
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That wouldn't fly with the Alafia crowd! Isn't it strange that some parents would allow that when others would Scream out loud? The whole thing is scare to me and I would be screaming at the top of my lungs but it looks like the board wants her for another year. I guess we have to deal with it until we vote all of them out
One can only imagine what would happen to a teacher ifsh/she had a student remove the equivalent of a piece of clothing and being fondled!!!! Good grief--fire the man or give him a job where he can fondle something inanimate--like a broom, a shovel or lots of pieces of paper!!! Steve Kern gets a years' worth of the rubber room for restraining an ESE student to protect him while he chased down another !!! Soemthing needs to be done with "Professional Standard"!!What's going on with THAT issue? What do they do down there, anyway? Wouldn't a board of parents, teachers and school official that meet as needed be more effective AND save lots of money????
There is so much to this story that is reflective of the system.
To fix a problem means there is a problem. It is difficult for them to say there isn't a problem if they then turn around and fix it.
The fact that the AP was told, according to what I heard at the last school board meeting, that he was never to do that again and that his behavior was "strange", seems to me to admit that there was and is a problem.
Part of the bigger picture is that the local system complains that they are not respected, that the media gives false negative reputations and there is a disconnect between staff and families.
These types of double standards fosters distrust and does not promote positive relationship building.
This type of head-in-sand defense leaves me to mock a system that I truly would like help improve, and tried to for so many years before I saw the truth.
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