DON'T LET LATHAM LANGUISH ANYMORE

DR. LATHAM deserves to have a contract tendered. We had a HEARING, we had a VOTE. My side LOST. So I say man up and offer THE DOCTOR a contract. I can take defeat, let bygones be bygonnes. What's the HOLD-UP?

UNLESS.......

the dollar amount demanded by theDEVILISH DOCTOR is so OUTRAGEOUS that it would be POLITICALLY SUICIDAL for JUGGLING JUDY to part with that much of her NEW FOUND FREE CASH, a.k.a. REELECTION SLUSH FUND.

Serving up CATHE SLUSHIES is just not in her fiscal or political diet.

I have not even heard rumors of numbers, I'm still in WV, but I bet those EXORBINANT PRINCIPAL raises were just an APPETIZER. They got to be high if they postponed their SECRET EXECUTIVE session last night until who knows when.

I sayquit OBSTRUCTING THE EXECUTION OF OFFERING A CONTRACT.

tHE vote WAS TAKENTO OFFER HER A CONTRACT, NOT TO MAKE HER SIGN IT.

PUT THE BUDGET UP NOW!

When is that BUDGET going to be ON-LINE so I can go through it again? It has already been passed. We havea right to see it.

LET'S GET REAL, unless some PESKY POET causes some trouble the ONLY thing that's going tocome out of a smoke-filled backroom secret session is BUSINESS AS USUAL.

Close your eues tight and pass the vaseline!

THE PRICE(NO STRIKE THAT - COST) OF LOYALTY

Hmmm... Some principals who testified in favor of not bringing in any challenges to the currebt superintendent got promotions and double digit payraises while others who remained silent got squat.

NO WORRIES, theincreases will be coveredd by JUGGLING JUDY'S "free cash" find. Who needs to get re-elected anyway.

HOW YOU FEEL ABOUT YOUR VOTE NOW, MAYOR? LET'S NOT FORGET ALL OF THOSE COUNCILORS WHO SIGNED OFF ON THAT LETTER OF SUPPORT?

Don't worry, I'm coming for you.

WHO'S SORRY NOW?

Raises for principals cause rise in tensions at School Committee

Not the principals who testified in support of THE GOOD DOCTOR at our hearing. How does KIMBERLEE POWERS score the DAILLY DOUBLE by walking away with BOTH a salary increase and a promotion?

WHO'S SLEPT IN OUR JUNGLE LAST NIGHT?

Navigators Sink the Sharks

In the fields of Frasier last night, TIGER, RAMS, and BULLDOGS were all roaming free. No it wasn't a lost episode of WILD KINGDOM or some new-fangled reality show but instead was a night to pay tribute to all high schools across the NORTH SHORE. MCAS weary students were asked: ARE YOU READY FOR SOME WINNING BASEBALL?

WHAT DO THEY INTEND ABOUT THE SUPERINTENDENT?

EVEN the mayor wants tto have a SPECIAL EXECUTIVE SESSION to hear how the GOOD DOCTOR came to dole out HUGMONGOUS RAISES for special principals.

STILL....

there was NO talk tonightabout LATHAM'S contract....

SO....

the way it looks right now....

very soon LPS will NOT have a SUPERINTENDENT under contract.

HEY LSC you don't haveto gointo EXECUTIVE SESSION to say I'm giving out

MISINFORMATION because....

we are all in an INFORMATION BLACKOUT

nobody knows nothing!

SPECIAL DISCRETIONARY SPENDING FOR SPECIAL PEOPLE

Can anyone tell me why the agenda for last night's Finance Subcommittee was not posteed on the CITY OF LYNN'S WEBSITE but tonight's CURRICULUM SUB was? Does anyone else think this is suspicious?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewxmv2tyeRs

COULD IT BE......

because of the WILDLY inequitable PRINCIPAL RAISES?

Hmmm.....

I wonder if anybody has found a correlation between the RAISES and testimony in FAVOR of NOT-POSTING the SUPERINTENDENT'S POSITION?

Interesting, VERY INTERESTING.

FOLLOW THE MONEY IF TOU CAN

Default Live and OnDemand 13 Jun 12 6:58 PM
Jun 13 2012 - 6:58:47 PM
1 hour and 58 minutes

A lot of people were unsure about the existence of this meeting. A agenda for a FINANCE SUBCOMMITTEE EXISTS FOR TONIGHT but I neveeer seen one for last night.

In fact, I didn't even notice any notice of it even occured. This recording is proof that it did. Thabks to DR. LATHAM livestreaming these meetings, I will be able tokeep up with thegoings on frommy WV SATELLITE OFFICE.

Just think, maybe I will be able to figure out why DR. LATHAM doesn't have a NEW CONTRACT.
Maybe she is going to work for FREE like I did in the library.

WHAT'S UP?

THEGOOD DOCTOR'S contract has been taken off the table for discussion. Off the table and into the back rooms? Now I am in my satellite office in WV atthe moment butthatdoesn't meanI am not interested.

I mean it looks like I might have a hearing to go to. Give me a vote so I can start a petition or better yet be reasonable and let's focus on the kids. Something seems fishy and my SPIDEY SSENSES are tingling!

http://www.lynnschools.org/documents/district/school_committee/2012_notices/2012%20-%2011th%20Reg%20SC%20Agenda%20REVISED%206-11-12.pdf

READING ISTHE RIGHT THING TO DO

LYNN – Kicking off a summer of learning for every elementary student in Lynn Public Schools, teachers and volunteers will be distributing 7,552 books - one for each student grades pre-K through five – at 17 elementary schools in Lynn. The distribution, a partnership of Lynn Public Schools, Centerboard and United Way, will take place across the City of Lynn on Tuesday, June 12th through Thursday, June 14th.

SCHOOLS OUT AND SHARPEN THOSE PENCILS

Why has the LSC failed to execute the contracts of the DEPUTY SUPERINTENDENTS, waiting until THURSDAY'S meeting? Possibly because too much time has elapsed since the vote was taken for the raises that a CHARTER MANDATED public hearing due to a significant number of citizens signing a petition might be AVOIDED due to a time lag between the actual vote and the release of the details? Hmmm..

MAAAAYBEEEEE.....,

PERHAPS.

Well after TWO FAILED super secret executive sessions that have not resulted in a contract for THE GOOD DOCTOR,

MAYBE......

we could save time and would only need ONE HEARING.

TASTY TRAVELS

I overslept yesterday morning. I was planning to sneak up to FORD SCHOOL and try to stowaway on their class trip charter bus. Sure going to PHILADELPHIA will be educational and touring AMISH country will help broaden the student's perspective.....

BUT

they are going to HERSHEY!!!!!

CHOC -A-LATE

MIDDLE MOVES

Here's your chance to enjoy still more graduation celebrations!

Middle School Graduations
Breed Middle School	Thursday	June 14	9 AM	At Breed
Marshall Middle School	Thursday	June 14	9 AM	At LEHS
Pickering Middle School	Thursday	June14	1 PM	At LEHS

GALLO STOPS SCHOOLING

I've been going to LSC meetings for a little over two years now and at the last one I heard something I've never heard before. That was a HOME SCHOOLING request not be approved. Now it didn't get denied, only tabled because GALLO being the lawyer his education says he is was uncomfortable with what everybody thought was a typo on the school year the request covered.

Got to have those "t's" crossed and those "i's" dotted.

REFINING ON-LINE

At the last LSC meeting they presented the new GRADEBOOK eSCHOOL PLUS. This new program will not only keep marks on-line but will allow TEACHERS remote access anywhere there is internet connection.

May I offer some limited seating at my BOSTON STREET OFFICE, free WI-FI and coffee for a dollar.

I wonder though if all of this new technology we are testing is just causing us more tests to test. Anyway, come on down, refills are free and join me and the senior coffee crowd. That's what us old people do.

DOES AMTRACK STOP AT COMMERCIAL STREET?

You might wonder why I ask? I got these questions, you see. When I was at the last LSC meeting a copy of the proposed FY13 BUDGET was supposed to be sent to LSC members by the end of the week.

That was before they FAILED to come to terms with CATHE on a contract. SO......

HOW can the BUDGET be put on the agenda for THURSDAY NIGHT"S meeting when we don't officially know what the SUPERINTENDENT is going to be paid and even if we are going to have a SUPERINTENDENT? Hmmm.....,

UNLESS......

they are going to try and RAM something down our throats. Not too tasty our most honorable MAYOR and you are coming up for ELECTION soon and it's no secret that the vultures are circling. Heck I mean I might even run, except I would hate to take a cut in influence. Being poor ain't so bad.

BACK TO BUSINESS....

furthermore and finally (probably not finally, it just sounds nice), how can you even schedule a SUBCOMMITTEE meeting a day earlier. What could you possibly have to present?

UNLESS.....,

backrooms have been busy. DEALS, DEALS and more DEALS. And I didn't even know COMMERCIAL STREET was tapped for a CASINO LOCATION.

THANK YOU CATHE AND CHERYL

Hold on to your horses, I want to take this opportunity to publicly thank DR. LATHAM, DR. MENINO, and the entire SPED for their efforts in regard to the services provided for my son over the years. I mean, I do everything else in public (except bath and YOU should be thankful for that), why not this?

Because of the services provided, he is now testing at the HIGH SCHOOL level in MATH while still in the 7^th grade at PICKERING (I know it sickens me, he might be a MATH person) and exceling at ALL subjects there. So services are being drastically reduced.

Why are they being reduced? BECAUSE THEY WORKED. There is a lesson there and it’s no real epiphany. Provide the services early and they won’t be needed later when they are more costly both financially and socially.

Why did my kid get the needed services? Did I get SPECIAL TREATMENT? Perhaps, but others will tell you it was because I was just a PAIN IN THE POSTERIOR.

No matter for me but my example should be a lesson for LPS and if COMMERCIAL STREET keeps their learning disability, I am available for assistance. I don’t wear  funny shoes or make balloon animals but I do write a mean letter. And I will perform at events other than BIRTHDAY PARTIES.

FACTEAU LEARY RECOGNIZED AND ON DISPLAY

At the recent LAW DAY at JUVENILE COURT the LYNNE M. O'CONNELL LAW DAY AWARD went collectively to MAURA DURGIN-SCULLY AND THE STAFF AT FACTEAU-LEARY JR/SR HIGH SCHOOL for making such a huge difference in the lives of their students. Even lawyers know EDUCATION MATTERS.

Hanging in JUVENILE COURT is an amazing piece of artwork made by the students there. I had hoped to post a picture but due to TECHNICAL DIFFICULTIES I am left with begging you to go down and take a look. You will not be disappointed!

TECH'S CAPABLE COUNSELOR TOUTED

LVTI'S own JOHANNA SMITH was awarded 2012 MA School Counselors Association (MASCA) the TORCH AWARD: RISING STAR. Looks like the TIGERS are adding to their growing collection of hardware.

A NEW KIND OF FRONT WHEEL DRIVE

That's putting a positive spin on the old axiom of PUTTING THE CART BEFORE THE HORSE. That's what the LSC will be doing this WED. night at the special FINANCIAL SUBCOMMITTEE meeting on next year's LPS budget.

How can there be a budget to discuss when after two failed attempts to come to a CONTRACT FOR CATHE in EXECUTIVE SESSION, the LSC are going to PRETEND to discuss the budget at this meeting.

What's to discuss? We don't even know for sure yet CATHE will be coming back. Yeah the LSC has to extend her a contract but at least twice before she must have REFUSED to accept it. She must want LOTS more money. Sorry teachers, firefighters and even old KEVIN, I bet you're not in her league.

How do I know? Has somebody told me something? NO, but when have I ever let facts get in the way before?