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so there's lots of issues in the local school district.... the Smiling Faces lawsuit, some new faces running for the board and as always the controversies surrounding superintendent David Cash and the guys he brings with him from Fresno..I've covered some of this but it bears repeating because I like to repeat myself...and because the local media refuse to mention it

I do not trust Cash and his pal Ben Drati... I was watching Drati being interviewed and he was looking at the camera like he just got caught on "Bait Car"! very twitchy and nervous dude..and Cash put him in charge of students!

but Drati has reason to be nervous because of things that happened in the Clovis school district:
The Fleeners say that Drati and other school administrators refused to meet with them until after Jacob had served his five-day suspension.
When he finally did meet with them, they say, "Drati was rude and condescending to plaintiffs, which plaintiffs perceived as an attempt to bully, intimidate and belittle them. Drati was also deliberately untruthful with plaintiffs. For instance, Drati informed plaintiffs during the meeting that he had not yet made a decision on what discipline to implement/recommend for Jacob. However, plaintiffs subsequently learned that Drati had already given his recommendation to the district, and that he had recommended that Jacob be permanently removed from Clovis West."

The Fleeners say they appealed the forced transfer, but the district refused to let him return to Clovis West High School.

http://www.courthousenews.com/2011/05/10/36439.htm

and of course the drug sniffing dog nonsense that Cash unleashed on the student body...guilty until proven innocent?? there is no excuse for a freekin drug sniffing dog franchise in the public schools....if they're using animals to sniff students for drugs, why not just hire a trained chimpanzee as superintendent!! dogs are good for one thing: sniffing each other's ass..that's it. that's all.

the mistake these dogs make can mess up a student's life!! I can't believe we trust these people to educate young folks!!

anti- teacher anti- cop teabagger kook enters school board race!
so we have another guy running for the school board..his name is Lou Segal and apparently Lou is mad at teachers because he's got an idiot son! I've read Lou's comments on Noozhawk and he sounds like a rightwing anti-union teabagger crank who is pro-Tony DeNunzio and pro-drunk drivers!

here's some of Lou's pathetic anti-union nonsense..you know those union folks who were heroes during 9/11....

lou segal on 02.02.12 @ 09:33 PM

Just saw this article for first time and couldn’t agree more with the comments. Of course, the poster asks why does our community tolerate a partisan non-neutral judiciary and I wish I had a good answer.

Unfortunately, the election of the DA turned into a partisan race with police union endorsements for the current DA. She is a partisan Democratic liberal who received the backing of this union, so she is not about to act independently of them. The supreme irony is the liberals in this town seem to back this biased DA and SB police chief. I always thought liberals were fierce defenders of our civil liberties and freedoms, but, sadly, conventional wisdom has been turned upside down in this town.

when Denunzio was found guilty of battery

»lou segal on 01.24.12 @ 10:16My only complaint with this story is that the headline is misleading. He was actually found not guilty of spousal abuse. I obviously don’t know what happened here, but the charges seem to make him look much worse than the reality of what apparently took place. It sounds like he has a dysfunctional relationship with this woman. I would only say it takes two to tangle.

http://www.noozhawk.com/article/012412_tony_denunzio_found_guilty_of_one_count_of_battery/

so Lou is making excuses for scumbag Tony DeNunzio, a wife beater, drunk driver and a guy who hits teenagers!!

Lou wants to get rid of the Teachers' Union by serving on the school board....looking at his picture in the Independent, he looks pretty creepy, I mean really creepy... like Jerry Sandusky creepy!!

the kids are alright..they are doing fine despite the tons of nonsensical rightwing "data" to the contrary...it seems these guys spend their time away from the schoolgrounds..they should have attended the graduations and seen all the young people excited about their futures...instead of criticizing them to smear the teachers! yes demeaning students to denounce the teachers' union is unconscionable....and having a whacky vendetta is no reason to run for the school board....

and not everyone needs to go to college...vocational schools are needed so start talking about that...the schools need money, the tobacco companies don't need more loopholes, the nonprofits don't need more tax breaks, the religious organizations need to get out of politics and resume charitible work or we start taxing them..and where's all that casino money for the schools?

the News-Press endorsed Orly Taitz and I guarantee they will endorse Lou Segal..if Tony Denunzio ran for office, they'd endorse him, too!!

 keep these morons off the school board!!