Tuesday, June 3, 2008
Won't print hate
Just want to say that I won't be printing any hateful or even negative responses to Kim Fandino's comments just published on this blog. Her comments are meant to stand as written. She does not deserve any more hate and negativity coming her way. So if you read her comments and are planning to fire off a negative comment to be posted on this blog, save yourself time and energy by not bothering, as such comments will not be posted here.
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So will you print positive comments? That would seem a bit hypocritical.
Yep, on this one I will only print positives.
To the teacher who couched some positive around very negative comments:
Here is my standard for printing comments on the Fandino post -- Would it be something I would be comfortable hearing at a going-away party? Fandino is done with this huge portion of her professional life: Is it appropriate to kick people on their way out?
You might try sending that comment to the LT blog. She might be willing to print it, while I will not.
Unfortunately you lose your high ground by your stand. No person is perfect in what they do, so long as the comments are respectful, criticism is helpful. I know in my life it is the constructive critics that have helped me the most. I think in Kim's case the good outweighs the bad but there is bad. To censor in this manner makes your opinion count for less since the question will remain, what else are you avoiding printing? Is this not the same bias you claim for the Express, DO, and Robinson supporters? Their actions diminish their stands as yours does now.
Much of Ms. Fandino's comments do not meet your criteria of what would be heard at a going-away party. Funny how you will defend her taking shots at others but won't let anyone criticize her...
Yes, my criteria for publishing comments on this particular post ARE different. And no, I don't claim to be objective: A newspaper reporter's stories SHOULD be objective. A blog usually has a point of view (like editorials). Again, this blog was started to voice a point of view different from LT's RE issues concerning this school district.
Kim's comments generated a few really raw, crude, ugly comments to this blog, in addition to some that were a mix of positive and negative perceptions, which I elected not to print either as Kim is leaving her position after doing some good work for teachers under some really difficult circumstances.
OK, by your criteria, we all won't say anything mean during her "going away party," but everyone knows as soon as that person is away... the minions don't feel that they have to bite their tounges anymore.
Well, hopefully anyone has been biting their tongue will frame their thoughts productively vs. hatefully.
Your column title is a lie. You printed Ms. Fandino's hate with no hesitation.
Yes, I printed Ms. Fandino's fairwell presentation to the board as she reportedly read it to them at the last board meeting. I heard the audience clapped and cheered after she read it.
I had assumed it would not be printed "whole" in the paper, due to its length.I had not expected to see NOTHING in the papers about it, but I may have underestimated the papers' apparent level of pro-Robinson bias.
It is true that Sprenger's surprise resignation was bigger news, however, several other stories on board meeting events were printed but nothing on Fandino's fairwell comments.
I have heard people are contacting the DH about this "oversight," so maybe something will be printed afterall.
What prompted me ponder not allow negative responses ON THIS ONE post, I think, was Fandinos comments about the blogs and letters to the editor being poised to attack her again, after this.
Reading that, I decided I didn't want to be part of allowing that to happen after her final fairwell speech, on the blog I operate.
Feel free to start a blog on education in Lebanon, or participate in the other existing blogs on this, if you disagree about letting this woman have her going-away party without negatives from the anonymous (mostly) blog audience.
Sprenger's farewell speech was a class act. Fandino's on the other hand was a hate filled rant.
If Robinson were the one leaving and made such attacks on Fandino in forum where she couldn't respond, she would have been in tears.
I didn't see it as a "hate-filled rant" but as a heart-felt summary of her view of the situation. If you have a copy of what Sprenger said, I would be happy to see it, though her remarks WERE reported in the local papers.
I think Kim did a nice job of summarizing the situation in our district and offering ideas for a better future. Obviously, you disagree.
I just noticed every one of these comments is critical of your decision.
Anonymous June 6 11:11 a.m. -- And you point is???
I found some interesting things on the internet. I don't know if they're true:
Confidential strategy directives from the National Education Association urge the union’s field representatives involved in the collective bargaining process to “attack the chief school administrator” and “mislead” their own members.
NEA Block the BossOne strategy the NEA calls “Block the boss” calls on field reps to “Attack the chief school administrator. Charge him with poor mismanagement, poor working conditions and rotten personnel relations.” The objective is to remove the school’s chief from the bargaining process, giving the field rep “a clear shot at the [school] Board.”
The directives urge NEA field reps to “mislead” their own membership during the collective bargaining process, the purpose being to “begin the process of dissatisfaction” — and to “continue to mislead” the member teachers “to start to personalize the conflict in the negotiations.”
Would you please send me the web address where you found this information?
Better yet, post the link in comments...
You would have to ask. I didn't save it, so googled "NEA Strategy Directives to Field Representatives". I didn't come across the same one but here are others. Nothing personal IE but take into consideration most of the links that came up are blogs.
You have to scroll to the bottom of the first one.
http://veritasrex.typepad.com/veritas_rex/2007/09/dont-tangle-wit.html
http://www.helium.com/items/566992-has-the-national-education-association-nea-lost-credibility-in-america
http://visaliaprofessionalteachers.com/rebuttals.asp
In every year when the union is ready to negotiate with the district, the union president urges the members to bash the administration. It is a rally cry to get more at the bargining table. It is a old trick that unions had used ever since they were formed. Any educated person will know this, I am surprise IE does not know since she claims to be very educated.
Kim's and Sherrie's resignation letters should not be compared. Sherrie's class act with high intergity versus Kim hateful speech should not be mentioned in the same sentence. It showed character in an individual.
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