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Title: FASCIST STATE RISING!!
Source: gidswatch.com
URL Source: http://gisdwatch.com/index.php?opti ... tent&task=view&id=194&Itemid=2
Published: Oct 31, 2007
Author: Written by Administrator
Post Date: 2007-10-31 20:22:29 by A K A Stone
Keywords: None
Views: 440
Comments: 2

This is an account sent to GISD WATCH by a TEACHER that I will NOT identify because I BELIEVE they would be persecuted by Lynne Cleveland. The Lack of Trustees DO NOT REALIZE WHAT THEY ARE DOING TO THIS DISTRICT. If they do not wake up and put their pride aside and listen to the parents and teachers of this district, they will DESTROY this district. And I believe that to be a FACT.

Sent to our e-mail address via "Contact Us":

"Two well respected Weis teachers and the principal met with Mr. Proctor last month about the $250 each teacher was promised to spend on supplies, incentives, etc. According to Proctor, there was a BIG misunderstanding about the money. One of the teachers told Mr. Proctor how unfair this was and that many teachers had already gone out and purchased items with their own money with the intent of turning in their receipts for reimbursements. Teachers left, principal was told by Proctor that he did not want "that" teacher at the school board meeting that night explaining the situation to the Board. Principal told Proctor that the teacher was an adult and that she could not control what she did. This bullying has got to stop.

Also, teachers were outraged at Central and Weis yesterday afternoon at the faculty meetings. Watkins and Polzin could not answer most questions. Teachers walked out. Weis teachers are outraged that they will not have a chance to stay at Weis. Teachers do not want to change schools. Each faculty is like a family and they don't want to be split up.

Those idiots on 39th have no clue about loyalty and dedication to a school and district. GISD is just a stepping stone for these airheads until they can find something that pays more money. Watkins and Polzin told teachers that the jobs at the magnet school have already been posted and that they have 30 applicants so far from outside the district.

Therefore, the rushed meeting yesterday was held. They also said they will be accepting students from outside of the district to fill the 400 spots for the magnet school."

READ THAT AGAIN: THEY ALSO SAID THEY WILL BE ACCEPTING STUDENTS FROM OUTSIDE OF THE DISTRICT TO FILL THE 400 SPOTS FOR THE MAGNET SCHOOL.

From OUTSIDE the district?? Are you kidding me? What about our own students in GISD - the ones for which Lynne Cleveland and the Lack of Trustees reconfigured the district ? What about them?

And the $250 for each teacher came out of department funds? We're robbing Peter to pay Paul when we cut a check for $30,000 to Erik's law firm in June for ONE MONTH? We can't even give our TEACHERS AN EXTRA $250 EACH?????

NOT ACCEPTABLE. ABSOLUTELY NOT ACCEPTABLE.

fas·cism n.

1. often Fascism 1. A system of government marked by centralization of authority under a dictator, stringent socioeconomic controls, suppression of the opposition through terror and censorship, and typically a policy of belligerent nationalism and racism. 2. A political philosophy or movement based on or advocating such a system of government. 2. Oppressive, dictatorial control.


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Get your kids out of the government propaganda centers. It is the parents responsibility to educate their kids. Not some stupid police state. The police state will brainwash your kids if you aren't careful.

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Now this person is being sued for expressing their opinions on the internet.

http://www.gisdwatch.com/ Demand Letter Received!! Written by Administrator Tuesday, 30 October 2007

I received my GISD Demand letter today from Mr. Feldman on behalf of the Board of Trustees of GISD - David O'Neal, Sandra Simmons, Weez Doherty, Andy Mytelka, Mary Jo Urbani, Carole Greany-Wurst and Kelly Chambers - and the GISD Superintendent, Ms. Lynne Cleveland, "in her official capacity." My attorneys are reviewing it so I won’t post it here now. It’s a two and a quarter page document with a 5 page attachment of the items they are requesting I remove. Mr. Feldman says in the letter, “It is not the desire of the School District, the Board or this Firm to stifle free expression or inhibit robust debate regarding matters pertaining to the operation of the public schools.” Really?

Mr. Feldman, the School District, the Board and the Firm have unlimited funds with which to fight me. They’ve already spent thousands of dollars monitoring the website, discussing their options and bringing in Mr. Feldman himself for the dramatic presentation to the School Board. You can see the check registers on the GISD Board Book and request a copy of the legal bills through an Open Records Request. I’ve seen the individual line item attorney charges – they charge the district for monitoring this website. Nearly every day.

So, money is not an issue to them and as this is the attorneys’ paid profession, time is not an issue either. In fact, time is their billing friend! They have the time and the money to threaten to sue and to sue any individual they choose. Yet who among us has those sorts of resources at our disposal? And should not those resources be spent on the education of GISD’s students?

What school on this Island couldn’t benefit from a $30,613.19 cash infusion in one month? (Check #251656 Henslee, Fowler and Hepworth - attorneys) Ask the teachers and principals what could be done with that amount of money. Ask them how far they could go with that. Ask them how many children could benefit from the amount of money that GISD pays in attorney fees for one month to just one firm? And they wonder why we criticize!

I believe this whole issue to sue me for gisdwatch is a reflection of the school board members' and of the superintendent's disdain for public dissent, criticism and open government. I strongly believe it is a direct attempt to stifle some of the most sharp and revealing criticism of their actions. I believe it is a direct attempt to stifle teachers and administrators from questioning their authority, alerting us to problems and to voice their distaste for the administration. No longer can the administration and board go unnoticed. They apparently do not like to be questioned on their actions. They apparently do not appreciate being made a parody but who does? But do each of us go out and sue someone for making fun of us or criticizing us or calling us names?

People in the public arena should expect to get criticized. I do on the website. I don’t like it either but I don’t remove it and I always read it and see if there is anything I can learn from it. But I certainly don’t seek out whoever wrote it and threaten to sue them. That just goes with the territory. Mr. Feldman writes: “This is solely about the publication of materials that clearly go beyond that which is legally and constitutionally encouraged and permitted, and into the realm of what is legally offensive and actionable.”

From the Galveston Daily News:

“The district’s move to sue for defamation is rare and unlawful, said Sandra Baron, executive director of New-York based Media Law Resource Center.

Under the 1964 Supreme Court case New York Times v. Sullivan, government entities cannot sue for libel — any court would toss out the “threatening” suit as being inconsistent with U.S. law, she said.

A school district suing for libel is an intimidation tactic and a waste of taxpayer dollars, Baron said.

“It’s clearly designed to tell citizens of the community: ‘Don’t mess with us. We have the power. Not only do we have the power, we have the tax dollars. And we’re using your dollars to fight your fellow citizens when they say something we don’t really like,’” she said.

“It’s pretty extraordinary to use the power of the state and the resources of the state, that is, the entire tax base, to ... try to bring a libel suit against an individual citizen.”

So which one of us is more “legally offensive and actionable”?

And which one of us has the power, the money and the resources to silence our dissenters?

And where should the “power of the state and the resources of the state, that is, the entire tax base” of the Galveston Independent School District really be going?

OUR CHILDREN.

It’s a sad day in Galveston.

A K A Stone  posted on  2007-10-31   20:23:41 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


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http://blogs.galvnews.com/story109087.html

GISD moves ahead with threat to sue parent

By Rhiannon Meyers The Daily News

Published October 31, 2007 GALVESTON — The public school district has officially demanded that parent Sandra Tetley remove what it says is libelous material from her Web site or face a lawsuit for defamation.

Tetley received a letter Monday from the district’s law firm demanding she remove what it termed libelous statements and other “legally offensive” statements posted by her or anonymous users, and refrain from allowing such postings in the future. If she refuses, the district plans to sue her, the demand letter states.

Tetley said she’ll review the postings cited by David Feldman of the district’s firm Feldman and Rogers. She’ll consider the context of the postings and consult attorneys before deciding what to delete.

“If it’s not worth keeping in there, I’ll take it out,” she said. “If in fact it is libelous, I have no problem taking it down.”

Libel Or Opinion?

Feldman said Tetley’s Web site — www.gisdwatch.com — contained the most “personal, libelous invective directed toward a school administrator” he’s seen in his 31-year career.

“It is not the desire of the School District, the Board, or this Firm to stifle free expression or inhibit robust debate regarding matters pertaining to the operation of the public schools,” Feldman wrote in the demand letter. “This is solely about the publication of materials that clearly go beyond that which is legally and constitutionally encouraged and permitted, and into the realm of what is legally offensive and actionable.”

Feldman cited 16 examples of what he says are libelous postings. Half were posted by Tetley; the other half were posted by anonymous users.

The postings accuse Superintendent Lynne Cleveland, trustees and administrators of lying, manipulation, falsifying budget numbers, using their positions for “personal gain,” violating the Open Meetings Act and spying on employees, among other things.

Tetley said the postings were opinions only.

“Everyone deserves to have their opinion,” she said. “I don’t think they have a right to make me, or anyone else, take down criticisms of them off the Web site. They’re not going to force us to take off our opinions because we have no other place to go.”

Tetley said she had not removed any of the postings as of late Tuesday.

Rare Move

One legal expert said the district’s move to sue Tetley is rare and unlawful. Under the 1964 Supreme Court case New York Times v. Sullivan, government entities cannot sue for libel — any court would toss out the “threatening” suit as being inconsistent with U.S. law, said Sandra Baron, executive director of New-York based Media Law Resource Center. She called the district’s potential lawsuit an intimidation tactic and a waste of taxpayer dollars.

Feldman said the district is only asking Tetley to remove a small percentage of postings on her site that he says accuse trustees and administrators of breaking the law. They’re not trying to shut down the blog or eliminate postings, he said.

“How can that be threatening or initmidating?” he said. “There’s a tremendous amount of dialogue, if you will, on that Web log that we’re not touching with a pole ... What we leave is this huge field of free expression and discourse. There’s debate and then there’s libel. Debate all you want, criticize all you want, but don’t accuse people of committing crimes when you have absolutely no evidence to support that.”

More than 130 registered users post on Tetley’s site. Since trustees threatened legal action, more people have been visiting the site and posting, Tetley said. She said she planned to post Feldman’s letter on the site.

“People are very tired of what this type of government is doing,” Tetley said. “They are using our money to silence us.”

The law firm monitored the site for months before trustees took action. Board President David O’Neal said the postings deter potential employees from working at the district.

Tetley and her group, Galveston Alliance for Neighborhood schools, has long criticized the district for reconfiguring its middle schools, closing elementary schools, meeting in executive sessions some claimed were illegal, refusing to divulge the contents of a letter from a civil rights consultant and for issuing a budget forecast that was off by $10 million.

The district’s controversial reconfiguration, to go into effect in 2008-09, prompted Tetley to start the site.

It’s often difficult to prove a public official has been libeled. Aside from proving the libelous statements are damaging, public officials must also prove actual malice. Actual malice means knowing a statement is false or having reckless disregard for the truth.

A K A Stone  posted on  2007-10-31   20:28:20 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


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