To be more specific than what has been reported my ‘primary’ reason for not supporting the former CSA’s agreement was more about the lack of contrition and the enormous amount of restrictions on the district. The money portion was inescapable and here’s why...
Federal statute only provides for the suspension of pay (that is to say to suspend someone WITHOUT pay) for up to 120 days and on the 121st day the individual starts getting paid again. That’s right folk our very own laws leave the people of this land powerless. My contention with the agreement was not the payout amount. Accordingly, I worked the numbers forward and backward, personally, and the amount of the settlement was truly at the least cost to our district.
Lots of folks speculated that the Board should have waited for the trial to conclude, and that somehow that would have prevented us from having to pay anything. That’s absolutely not true, nor was it ever possible as per the statute I stated above. I Wished!
The money meter was running and the only way to stop it was to reach a settlement. Look at the current circumstance surrounding this trial; it has been moved once again (this is about the 4th or 5th time) and no matter how long it takes the district would be required to continue paying the CSA’s salary. We just could not afford to go on paying out a hefty amount of money with no end in sight.
I was clear the bucks (literally) had to stop here; in fact the entire Board agreed on that point, but I wasn’t willing to sacrifice the district’s position for the sake of expediency. I felt like our students deserved a public apology, and I wanted to ensure we could prevent this situation from ever happening again. Yes I wanted an admission of wrongdoing, malfeasance -- as is the popular word of the day. Contrition! This was not to be the consensus of the majority. Some wanted to simply close the chapter on this horror story, while others – well -- wanted to spare a friend some dignity. I wanted the TRUTH -- as usual!
You all can just imagine how that conversation went…
please renata you uys bought back casy and oaul graves and that have cost the district way more money. this money will not come out of the insurance it will come out of the childrens classroom. yes i will be doing a opra request to get the dollar amounts. another big mistake made by the strike out team.
ReplyDeleteI had to post this last one because I know who she is. She often types on her "handheld" and makes such silly typos as noted therein. And yes we are striking folks out...one by one...two by two and Three Strikes YOU are out too!
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