Thursday, November 29, 2007

Open letter to the editor, Aiken Standard

Aiken County's "... trusted local news source".

The truth about your new superintendent is;

She and her cronies in the good ole boys club in the APS, over the period of the last few years, have deliberately and methodically excepted themselves from honest accountability to any meaningful standard of competence or conduct, even the law.

Should anyone in Aiken County care to pursue the issue, the truth of the allegation is easily proved.

Ask Beth Everitt to show you any evidence that board members and administrators are honestly accountable to any standards of conduct and competence, at all.

In what ever she shows you, look for proof that a complaint against an administrator or board member will receive a principled resolution; an impartial resolution based upon agreed upon principles,
and free of undo influence.

She will show you none, because their isn't any.

The record of the leadership of the APS is one of excepting themselves from accountability, even to the law.

They are absolutely damned by their record.
That is why their record is kept secret from stakeholders, even in violation of open government laws.

Your school board president has suggested that local bloggers who are writing the truth about the APS, are illegitimate.

Ms. Sanders is apparently confused by the fact that she is reading the truth only on the blogs and not in the local papers; the Journal and the Tribune.

The decision by the Journal and the Trib, not to investigate or report upon an ethics and accountability scandal in the leadership of the APS, is a decision that they will not explain, defend, or even acknowledge.

The only fact that is substantially proved by their decision, is the fact that they have betrayed the interests of their stakeholder readers.

That fact, does not make blogs "illegitimate" because they are then alone in writing the truth.



This is about the message, it is not about the messenger.

Ms. Sanders would do well to stop worrying about the "legitimacy" of the complainant, and more about the legitimacy of the complaint.

She would do well to start asking a few hard questions of Beth Everitt.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Ms Sanders... Aiken's version of Paula "get in teachers' faces" Maes. Hmmm, sounds like she deserves what she is getting.

Joseph Lopez said...

Good Ole' Boy (and Gal) Handbook

When faced with a whistleblower or witness to your ongoing crimes and malfeasance, do not panic! The Skull and Bones club and Templars have excellent best practices in this area, and we stole their strategy books!

Here is a synopsis of their elimination of witness strategies:

A. Destroy any records that implicate you in crimes

B. Make sure everyone is on "the same page" with a secret meeting - make sure no one takes notes or is followed!

C. Threaten the whistleblower with whatever you can think of that you can manufacture evidence on; remember your cronies have to lie for you or you send pictures of them with a goat to their spouse!

D. If that doesn't work, find some impressionable youths (they can't be prosecuted as adults!)to just so happen to kick the whistleblowers head in, then make it seem like the whistleblower is at fault for being attacked! HA HA!

E. Rinse (blood off hands) , repeat