Even though, I agree with teacherindistrict in most instances, however, on this one, Willie, your comparison of what’s happening presently to what happened in the past with loss of liberties and undemocratic treatment is “right on” and, in my humble opinion, your stated sentiments are not a stretch. Your quote simply means, we cannot forget history or we are bound to repeat it.

You don’t have standing. It is up to these employees to seek redress.

Yes, there may be civil right violations and even tort issues pertaining to lost wages, but I think you need to lay off your philosophical jargon.

This is not a college class in ethics. These are violations for employees who have families and damages, including civil right damages are their redress.

They are not idiots, these employees. Just lay off the Soviet Union stuff.

Teacherindistrict, you state that this is “a free society”, but does this human rights violation perpetuated by Jenney and Johnson hold to the values that this country was built on? You state that this is not Germany, this is the USA, and I argue that to keep it the USA that we know, we, as a community need to uphold the values of our country. If not, soviet bloc repressive and oppressive tactics by Commissar Jenney and Comrade Johnson will lead us away from our core American values.

You don’t have any standing on this issue.

This is not Germany, this is the USA. Sorry but you are getting off the practicality of this situation.

Mr. Cain, I voted for you and I am sorry about the end results.

But this is a free society and education with its trademark accountability standings will come to judge our schools. Teachers will leave and things will change.

It will.

Later.

When the Nazis came for the communists,
I remained silent;
I was not a communist.
Then they locked up the social democrats,
I remained silent;
I was not a social democrat.
Then they came for the trade unionists,
I did not protest;
I was not a trade unionist.
Then they came for the Jews,
I did not speak out;
I was not a Jew.
When they came for me,
there was no one left to speak out for me.

carlos

I have a law degree, and these are the legal recourses for our fellow bloggers, in my opinion.

At any rate, I agree with your last response.

Smart thinking for ordinary situations; but under these set of circumstances which are far from ordinary, I say forget it due to the fact that the deck is stacked whatever course might be or could be pursued. I know an outstanding educator who has tried practically every legal option available and a brick wall keeps rising out of nowhere to block justice. It is like being in the no man land of the twilight zone; driving toward a destination, yet, ending up in the same place as you started; going in circles with no way out.

When an outstanding educator with a sterling track record of excellence cannot secure justice and the worth of excellence for children means “nothing” within an educational entity—well, that is, indeed, very scary. It is additionally scary at the state level also. Whoever the judge is who has jurdiction over complaints filed against school districts always rules in favor of the school districts. To my knowledge and please correct me if I’m wrong, there is not an existence of any case whereby this judge ruled in favor of the individual educator bringing the complaint.

A Criminal Complaint could work, but I think someone tried that and the District Attorney’s Office found no wrong doing after “an investigation.”

Jenny will control things. He’s even controlling a local column in some local newspaper that gets thrown into my front yard here at First Colony.

An individual needs a cause of action. If not criminal, argue disrimination, slander, libel…but is it worth it?

Filing a lawsuit is not merely to prove a point, one needs to think about the “cost benefit analysis.” Is it really worth it? Given, lost time, lost wages?

Voters screwed up.

Any lawyer will tell you this. He’s got control for quite some time.

You nailed it. The voters failed to act so there is not anything anyone else can do to counter what the voters failed to do. The deck is stacked. I agree with you; things will get worse. The only possible deliverance is that as things get worse, and wrong doing becomes even bolder and more rampant than it already is, those who engage accordingly will become increasingly careless and will begin to trip over their own feet resulting in their own undoing.

Working for the district would have to require that an employee follow the grievance process I believe before any civil rights violation can be filed.

Even then, if the employee wishes to file any civil lawsuit, you’ve got retaliation, including your personal life revealed in open court. You’ve got interrogatories, court time set… for what? More time lost and an attorney that has the meter on? What legal damages or punitive damages could you get from this sovereign?

I have been telling everyone for awhile to vote and what has been happening since the last year — since the payroll problems, computer problems, viruses, calendar changes –; required teacher training on Saturday’s, poor law enforcement on campuses, prinipal’s that violate state law tea mandates, insufficient payroll increases for para’s and teachers, backed up pay for employees in general, bus issues, disciplinary problems that are busting out at the seems. It is going to get worse and not get better.

If these employees have an bleep, go to the media direct, even Wayne Dolcifino. Drastic situations call for drastic measures.

I have no doubt you speak the truth, but this type pattern has history.

If anyone requested the monthly cell phone bill charges for the facilities department, under the Freedom of Information Act, you will see a bill in excess of $5,000 a month for these Orwellian monitoring tactics that Jeney and Johnson have implemented. Is this money that is well spent? Would it not be more prudent to use this money for programs for the children of FBISD? We, as the community, need to stop the abuse and human rights violations that are perpetuated by Jeney and Johnson. The abuse of our fellow human beings under the repressive control of Jenney and Johnson must end. Is it not shameful to live in a district that has clowns like Jenney and Johnson in charge?

It is called:
I’m so busy living the good life that I do not have time to notice that Rome is crumbling litle by little. Any way I cannot sweat the small stuff if it does not affect my day to day happiness in living my great life. Furthermore, I am not into politics. I don’t want to ruffle any feathers. Those complainers have issues and all is well with me.

Alas, too many realize too late that small things add up to big things. The gradual lost of civil liberties will eventually affect all of our lives, whether we are poor, middle class, or rich. Even when we think that we are not involved in politics, we really are all in politics because what happens in politics affect us all.

In living my life, what I noticed over the years is that whenever, I have been in a situation and noted that an undemocratic situation was occurring with someone else and chose to ignore it because it was not happening to me—it eventually reached out to grab me too.

Welcome to 1984! Led by the largest employer in Fort Bend (FBISD)and precedence for all other employers. Wake-up-time people!

We are giving away our civil liberties in Sugar Land, because most of us aren’t using them anyway, many of us are asleep at the wheel, and most of us don’t want to cause discord by speaking out, so we go shopping instead.

God help us all.

None of us benefit from giving away our civil liberties so freely.