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The Doges of Education

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The Politiburo of the Broward County School Board is indeed a sight to behold. These masters of ignorance and arrogance displayed no sign of caring or listening to the public, who pay their generous salaries. I observed a meeting with more than 50 disgruntled taxpayers and was appalled at the disrespect displayed to them. The Board members are paid more than $40,000 each for this very part time job, and they treated each and every speaker with disregard and perhaps even contempt.

This is a Board that a grand jury roasted in its opening statement upon its findings. “The evidence we have presented concerning the malfeasance, misfeasance, and nonfeasance of the Broward County School Board and of the senior management of the District and of the gross mismanagement and apparent ineptitude of so many individuals at so many levels is so overwhelming that we cannot imagine any level of incompetence that would explain what we have seen.” This quote is taken directly from the Grand Jury report to the Supreme Court of Florida. Although a few of the Board members are gone, the attitude is alive and well as observed that day.

Firstly, they sit above and away from the hoi-polloi like they were Venetian Doges on a dais that was designed to intimidate. The public was wanded and checked by three security guards assigned to guard the gates of this fortress of intellectual fraud and corruption. The public was kept waiting because of the Board’s own sacrosanct business that had to be hidden from the taxpayers. Once allowed in, only the people who had submitted questions or statements earlier were allowed to speak into a microphone that was halfway across the expanse of the room. One of the speakers requested that the Board meeting time be changed from 2:00 PM to a more convenient time like evenings. No response.

Most of the people there were rallying against Core Curriculum being thrust on our students. No response.

Someone not part of the group had a problem with the Transportation Dept.
He brought up the fact that an uneducated school bus driver makes about $20,000 more than a some teachers. Response? They work about 30 more days.

The following day a contingent of concerned parents and taxpayers went to the Miami Dade School Board meeting. One of the leaders was chastened by a school board member because she said Core Curriculum had not passed the Legislature. No, it seems the School Board member is the ignorant one since it was not even brought to a legislative vote in Florida.

According to the Florida constitution the Boards must be paid according to the population of their counties where they sit. It is time to take a close look at what can be done to get these know nothings and crooks out of positions of public trust.

Concealment and Collusion

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Two thumbs up for Diana West’s information packed book American Betrayal. It’s answered many questions that I’ve had starting with my former father-in law’s history. I was puzzled because, as a Jew, he was imprisoned from 1941-1946 in Siberia. If he had been in a German concentration camp- no questions. We know the stories and have seen the movies, but I never understood why he was sent to the Gulag. You see, when he declared he wasn’t a Nazi but a Jew, the arresting officer declared, ” That’s worse” and off to some hell hole he went.

Ms. West’s tome uncovers so much collusion and concealment of the Soviet atrocities of WWII by our government that it was breathtaking. Her list of footnotes is impressive and gives authority to the information she lays bare. For instance, that our greatest customer in the Lend-Lease program was Russia while Stalin was starving and killing millions. Unfortunately, we see a few of these deceitful strategies being replayed today with our so called friends . You know, the ones that murdered more than 3,000 innocents on 9/11.The ones who first bombed the World Trade Center underground garage in 1993.Let’s not forget the Cole attack and the Christians killed everyday. And on and on and on.

Our government and willing media are using the same playbook that worked to cover up the brutality and infiltration of Communists into key government positions with the Muslim Brotherhood today. And what do you know? It looks like the same old enemy can still be blamed for every paper cut in the world. Is it the Islamic fascists and their minions? No, once again it’s the Jews. Remember, both the Islamo-fascists and the Communists hate Jews. Since we’re all so modern and “they stole Arab land” is the big lie, we can now point to a whole country to destroy-Israel. Ms. West mentioned George Orwell in passing and something struck me. Transpose the numbers 1984 to the year 1948. It’s the year Israel became a sovereign modern country. The enemy of the dystopic world was no other than Emmanuel Goldstein and we know that isn’t a name usually found in the ‘hood.

We have entered a time where the government propaganda machine is working overtime to keep the truth from the citizens of this country. We the people now know that it was the Russians who massacred the Polish officers in the Katyin Forest and that Stalin murdered millions more. We know that the Rosenbergs were traitors, and that the “greatest president” FDR surrounded himself with Communists, like his most trusted advisor Harry Hopkins. who lived in the White House We also know that our white-black dictator president surrounds himself with Communists and Muslims. One even lives in the White House. The question is what do we do?

Cultural Sabotage and Collusion

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The Zimmerman case gave the whole country, as well as the rest of the world, a window into the ignorance and deeducation of our children. The bankruptcy of Detroit is another window for the oblivious of what’s happening to our country and the politicians who made it possible. Let’s look backward so we can put the decline of our country in perspective.

My husband and I left the Atlanta area in 2000, after the Clinton’s Empowerment Zone initiative gave more than $200,000,000 to poor city areas. Since I was an appointed member of a county Human Relations Commission I was invited to a huge gala announcement. These funds were supposed to be used by different organizations to fix urban neighborhoods. A few years later the Atlanta Journal did a story asking where all the money went. So, I was not surprised to see that fraud and corruption marked the initiative by Democrat and very white-black Mayor Bill Campbell, ending up in federal prison. Not surprisingly, Detroit was another recipient of taxpayer largesse, and the lawlessness that apparently goes hand in hand with government programs. Think Kwame Kilpatrick, the thug Democrat mayor of Detroit convicted of fraud and corruption.

Many people were shocked by Rachel Jentel admitting that she had a 3.0 GPA. I wasn’t. I worked in the school system and know that no matter how bad a student is, or how disrespectful and disruptive, a teacher is forced through bureaucratic rules and its enforcers, the administration, to pass all students no matter that the only thing they know are the latest rap lyrics. Middle class parents pay private schools or home school as well as pay taxes that keep the education bureaucracy alive. They left cities like Detroit and Atlanta so they could live in peace and not watch everything around them be destroyed. We are now paying for a deeducated population with a white-black president who managed to transfer to Harvard after a self proclaimed average performance at Occidental College. His adopted home of Chicago boasts black murders daily, but those guys must not look like him. Personally, I hear my grandmother as she watched her neighborhood change. “How do they burn brick?” she asked. I’m still wondering.

Just Another Injustice

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Many of us are disgusted and appalled watching the corruption and politicization of our judicial system play out right in front of our eyes. Now we have proof that our DOJ (www.judicialwatch) got involved and dragged a non case into the system, one month after the Sanford police captain decided not to charge based on the evidence. It’s not the first time, but hopefully the “white-Hispanic” George Zimmerman will be the last political prisoner taken in the name of “justice.” My own experiences in the system warn me not to be optimistic.

A little of my history: Before I started working for the Department of Children and Families in Florida, I volunteered to be a guardian ad litem, which is basically a guardian for a child in the foster system. I had moved from Atlanta where I had served on the Human Relations Commission, been a teacher in the public schools, and a counselor in one of the county jails. My idea was to see what was going on in the state where I had moved. As that great philosopher Charlie Sheen said “Boom.”

I knew from my previous experiences with the state that most bureaucrats don’t read files, so when I received my first client I was not surprised, but still shocked, to see that a baby with cerebral palsy was taken away from his parents. The files stated the British mother was “too calm” when she called 911 and then was accused of trying to “abscond with her son” when she tried to loosen his IV in the hospital. After a year of the parents jumping through bureaucratic hoops and spending oodles of money on county programs designed to make money for the lawyers and other county or state employees I was able able to help get their child back because the judge mistakenly thought my credentials read MD and not MA.

The family court in Miami proved to be another forum of injustice based on the premise that government is always right. Children were taken from parents based on the DCF inspector’s judgement. Many of these first line employees had degrees in fields like accounting and had no experience with children. Judges always ordered the children to see psychiatrists and after a fifteen minute appointment with a Medicaid psychiatrist, and the foster parent kvetching about bad behavior, the children were put on meds. If their mood didn’t improve or worsened they got more. The judge took whatever the doctor said as TRUTH, and that was the end of the story.

As Americans we have mistakenly believed that we lived in a free country. Ask people who have been caught in the Statist nightmare. It’s not.
“You shall not pervert judgment; you shall not respect persons, nor take a bribe; for a bribe blinds the eyes of the wise, and perverts the words of the righteous.” (Deuternomy) Justice is a value honored in the Judeo- Christian tradition. Power is the only value honored by a Statist.