To Our District Staff Tasked With Censoring This Site: A Bit of Sunshine

To Our District Staff Tasked With Censoring This Site: A Bit of Sunshine

With all the hubbub lately about this site and the scrutiny of its content, particularly its ability to gain, through satire, the ire of certain unnamed employers, namely twinkle and toes, I will provide you here with some amusement.

As I’ve previously mentioned, an unnamed employer or two has asked district staff to research the legality of me, a current HCPS employee, making critical remarks here, on my own time away from work, about HCPS employers.

So we are all on the same page, school board member April Griffin, one of my possible employers, posted the following on her blog last December, 2008:

“I am of the firm belief that whether they like it or not blogs are here to stay. Should you believe everything you read on a blog? I would hope not! I would hope that everyone takes everything you read on the internet with a grain of salt and you do your own research.

However blogs have allowed people with no voice the ability to be heard for the first time in the history of our district. Blogs, for better or worse, will change education systems throughout the world. Business as usual will not be allowed.

Light is the enemy of darkness. And blogs are shedding a light in some very dark places. If we are truly on the side of right transparency should not be a problem.

As you can see I support blogs. You are protected by the 1st amendment of the US constitution.

I am very supportive of any medium that encourages transparency. That being said I would hope that the intent of any blog is to create a better school district in the end, not just to hurt the district or individuals without the ultimate goal being continuous improvement.”

Well, ain’t that a kick in the britches. I guess Ms. Griffin indeed supports my efforts to find truth, justice, and the American way here at Hillsboard.com.

All this time, I was rather suspicious, almost in firm belief, that the unnamed employer who lodged a complaint again me and this site was ole April. But now, with her own words providing “transparency,” along with her firm belief that “I am protected by the 1st amendment to the US constitution,” Ms. Griffin cannot be my protagonist. What a shock. I am confused and bewildered. Which unnamed employer should I shift my interest towards?

I’d say Valdes, but heck, she too is a constitutional officer who no doubt reads the constitution daily.

So in the name of my new found 1st Amendment rights, here’s a toast for you, my complaining unnamed employers. As Johnny Carson would say: May a sick yak leave a present on your Sealy Posturerpedic.

posted by admin @ 6:35 PM