Back in Feb 2010 I spoke for the first time to a fellow Kossack after I posted news about a principal in Georgia I WAS very concerned about. Oh yes..Very concerned.
This Kossack and I discussed the possibility that maybe the Blue Jean ban could be a little more than just about control from an educator claiming to be an x cop. Well..
I investigated after I posted here at KOS and sure enough the principal had a history at a former high school of abusing power and all kinds of wierd behavior including sexual
allegations. I posted the story on another liberal site as I was just getting my feet wet
here with a few diaries here and there.
I then with a few concerned parents..Three to start with started a Watchdog site for our schools and other local government corrupt misdoings. The site grew on Facebook and pretty soon we had 100 plus friends or members. We got a PO Box and I had my daughter take pictures of the school with chains on the doors in the gym.
There were coaches and teachers getting fired or leaving after sexual allegations and
porn charges cropping up under this principal's administration. I GOT REAL WORRIED.
Tough guy had Swat teams practicing police shooter practices in the HS. Well that got posted as well. Then Mr. Big Stuff decided when several of us took him on at the School at 3 scheduled board meeting to have the press in there after he suspended 300 students in one day. Several of us went toe to toe with this guy and his press conference did not got so well. We still occupied our Watchdog. We watched this guy and had a place for inappropriate behavior to be posted.
go to jump please....
There was press and news helicopters at the meetings to begin with and then the news I had brought up regarding his behavior of spitting, cursing, sexual allegations, etc. got brought up by several who followed the Watchdog from his previous school and we started and stood on the Freedom of Expression amendment and the ruling of Tinker Vs. DesMoines of 1969 handed down by the supreme court.
This dude had teamed up with an investor and they were going to open a shop for what he considered proper attire and this too got reported which I received some hate mail from this local Wall Street and hometown investor. I dished it back as documented on the Watchdog. It was documented again at the School Board Meetings.
We occupied that Watchdog and that school via our reports from kids and stood firm against a School Board and IMO which turned out to be true out of control loose cannon. I was writing the ACLU, talking to a Kossack who knew the little shop from an investor would be set up and writing letters to editors all over Ga. I called the
Ethics commission and found two complaints on this guy and one from the former
School Board. I started a petition along with 37 people who joined in demanding this guy resign. We wanted him out of our schools. We asked for him to be fired....
We stayed on this Get rid of him till eventually he stepped down but guess what he was hired in the adjoining county unknown to us. He lived in the same town as the Chairman of the State of Ga School Certification and Ethics director and today.....today after all of this ......and all of our warnings from well over a year ago..He got BUSTED!
There were so many sexual allegations against his coaches and he turning a blind eye and so were the Police for the most part. Today.......HE GOT BUSTED..............
ARRESTED FOR FELONY SEX ON A MINOR !!!!!
Here are the links and this is why I post here and why I am an activist...This is why
I continue to speak up and speak out because eventually..yes eventually the truth
like cream rises to the top.
http://www.facebook.com/...
AJC
Original DK diary 2010 on this
Original Story posted at Smirking Chimp