During the summer of 2007, our faculty members received training in two new programs. Capturing Kids’ Hearts and the Olweus Bullying Prevention Program are both designed to help build relationships between students and teachers and students and their peers. A special period is inserted into the daily schedule that we are calling “General Intermission.” This period will include one day for relationship building, one day for intramurals, and three days each week for study and reading time.
My letter to the Super and Principal;
Dr. Susan Curtis
Principal
Grasslands Middle School
Dr. Curtis,
I have read extensively and heard about, the recent firing of your football coach for sending out a song that he wrote that is critical of the current administration. If this was done on his own time, sent from his own computer to his personal email list and did not use any school resources, how could his summary dismissal be a positive example for the children?
If personal and private expression of political thought and expression is met with this type of immmediate summary dismissal, do we not teach that you should never “question authority” or “speak truth to power?”
I have seen the lyrics and there is nothing in them to raise concern about racism or any personal attack or threat. I simply do not understand the stance you have taken.
Sincerely,
How many times does this have to be explained to you?
THE MAN INCLUDED A LIST OF HIS EMPLOYER'S CLIENTS (THE PARENTS)IN HIS " PERSONAL EMAIL LIST".
Your employer's clients are NOT "your personal friends". They do NOT belong on your "personal email list".
If you start sending partisan political emails, dirty jokes, etc., to your employer's clients, you will be scolded, at the very least, or fired.
Your "personal friends" do not call up your boss and demand that you be fired for sending them an e-mail they did not appreciate.
Pissed off clients do.