This “Anon” who began posting all over the CC Times blog to defend the MDUSD leadership and try and shift blame to anyone else started doing this at the same time as Sue Brothers was hired and is none other then SUE BROTHERS herself!!!

Her posts have been shown to a couple of dozen of her former colleagues from West Sac/Roseville and all agree its Sue’s writing. By the way, comments about Sue ranged from vile, manipulative, incompetent egotistical control freak to many that are unprintable.

So why is she doing this? Because of the 3 reasons she went to MDUSD: #1, West Sac became (to quote Sue herself) “no longer a comfortable place” for her and her M.O. #2, her benefactor Steve Lawrence hired her to try and quash the CVHS Charter. #3, she has also been hired to fight the info war here on the CC Times to try and protect her savior Lawrence.

Some other interesting information has also come up.

Sue extensively lied in her interviews with Theresa Harrington. She claimed she was only making $125,000 at West Sac when she was at the top of the pay scale there at $145,000 plus benefits. She claimed she spent lots of time in classrooms and sites (when she rarely left the administrative offices until the new Super Dr. Gilleland made her get out last year and start regularly visiting sites/classrooms).

In fact, Sue spent the better part of her 5 years in smallish West Sac building up a personal empire. In her Dpt of Ed Services she had 2 “Directors” at $110,000 each (one of whom was infamous in that district for having been caught having sex at a school site with one of the custodians and whom Sue tried to replace one of West Sac’s best principals with when her Directors position was cut!). Sue also had at least one other administrator and several “Teachers on Special Assignment” as well as 2 secretaries. So her Dpt had well over 1 million dollars in salaries/benefits in a 1 HS town until the budget cuts of last year. In fact, Sue was famous for manipulating hiring in West Sac. She decided who would be hired ahead of time and represented panel interviews were conducted only to go through the motions.

Her record in these matters is less then stellar. A Super of HR who was forced to leave his former district for having conducted a blatant affair with a colleague and having unlawfully fired a teacher was hired by Sue to be a reliable and unethical hatchet man who proceeded to drive up litigation costs to exceed the rest of the districts in that county combined! She also replaced the well respected and successful Continuation HS principal with an incompetent personal friend of hers that took that school from safe to dangeous and ended up expelling like 20 kids in an over-correction.

Meanwhile Sue claims she is this zen-like coach to all the principals in matters like discipline. Well that explains why West Sac’s River City HS had a student riot in late 2009 that was so bad that the Principal suffered severe head injuries and missed months of work. To make matters worse both Sue And Stevie Lawrence lied to the board and called the riot just a food fight and this lie ended up in the Sacramento Bee!
This incident is a main reason that Stevie fled to the MDUSD and now Sue has followed him as she has her whole administrative career.

Sue also said that West Sac has a good relationship with charters. It has only had this since Lawrence left.Sue and Stevie opposed every Independant charter trying to come into West Sac and they both constantly raved about how bad charters were so Anon/Sues post #11 represents Sue’s true feelings about charters, hated competition that puts pressure on a district to reform bad management.

As ugly as that got – watching how that played out in public with the way parents / teachers / the public were ignored or treated during the board meetings, I now tend to believe the Supt and Board make their minds up prior to anyone being ‘allowed’ to review and make their recommendations for anyhing in this district.

Blah, blah, blah. Too long didn’t read.

Did you see the funny video on youtube? Just google MDUSD Parody. Come on even an old stiffy like you was probably laughing out loud.

From what I’ve heard, the panel considered Sue Brothers to be one of the strongest of those they interviewed. They had to be aware of her background. They would have seen her work with Lawrence in WUSD on her resume and at least some of them probably read the blogs. If they’d had misgivings, they could have sent only three names forward–or two, one, or none. It’s happened.

We all get it. You and a few others detest Lawrence and Eberhart and have little regard for Whitmarsh, Rolen, and one or two others. Some of us may share your feelings to some extent, but that’s actually a good reason why we should support parents and staff who are trying to be involved in district decisions.

It’s clear that many in the CVHS community believe changes are needed at the school and two scenarios have emerged: converting the school to a charter or working within the current system. Good, thoughtful people (parents, staff, and students) are on both sides of the debate, all with the same goal: better programs for students. How ’bout we let all these folks find ways to work together without having to endure name-calling and derogatory comments?