Comments on: Questions raised about MDUSD bond expenditures

By: Doctor J

Doctor J — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 07:13:39 +0000

In light of the “sexual harassment” pay raise scandal uncovered by Bay Area Newsgroup at UC Berkeley using Public Records requests, one has to wonder if the MDUSD has in place policies and proceedures to prevent superiors that may be involved in a sexual relationship from recommending pay raises or promotions of those they may be involved with. Will this topic be covered in the mandatory March 21 training ? http://www.contracostatimes.com/news/ci_20152160/cal-administrator-repeatedly-hiked-pay-employee-during-sexual

By: Doctor J

Doctor J — Sat, 10 Mar 2012 17:21:53 +0000

“Mandatory” sexual harassment training is the responsibility of the Personnel Dept, so why is it suddenly without prior notice coming from the “legal dept” ? Its only offered “one day” and so mandatory they won’t allow any employee to miss — even though prior commitments and meetings were in place. Could it be related to those undisclosed “potential” litigations ? Has someone filed a sexual harassment claim with the state or feds and it came to light that there is no sexual harassment training as required ? I can’t wait to hear why the district has ignored the law passed in 2004 ? Just remember when months ago I pointed that out — but was ignored. When was the last “sexual harassment” training ? Its required every two years — can’t remember when the last one was ? Was there a “last one”? I wonder why Julie Braun-Martin, Greg Rolen and Deb Cooksey have not been paying attention to AB 1825 that was passed in 2004 ? You wonder why the district hires people in a field who are unfamiliar with basic concepts ? Do you really think President Whitmarsh’s employer Chevron would miss their employees having the mandatory sexual harassment training ? Even the California School Boards Association teaches about it — oh yeah, Gary and Sherry don’t believe in CSBA training. http://www.csba.org/~/~/~/link.aspx?_id=0C3B20D7E4764C42815182AB3F4621D3&_z=z
Julie, please tell us why you haven’t been insisting on mandatory sexual harassment training every two years for all supervisory employees ? Greg, please tell us. Deb, please tell us. Supt. Lawrence, you of all people should know this, why haven’t you insisted on this ? All of you have put the district “at risk” by not enforcing mandatory trainings in the last eight years !

By: g

Sat, 10 Mar 2012 06:11:56 +0000

Dr J: In the interest of education, and just for fun, here’s a bit of Friday night pick-and-choose history (and some blatant plagiarism from Wiki) all designed to make you and others ‘in the know’ think about the very real possibilities of history repeating, strange coincidence, and things that go bump in the night.

The controversial Grigori Rasputin, marries a Dubrovina in 1889, has three children, a boy and two girls, and it seems perhaps, another child by another woman.

After 12 years of marriage, tiring of the lifestyle, and having an inclination to wander and, it is said, a huge (pun intended) propensity to lust, he roams around and lands on the doorstep of the elite Tsarist Courts, where he soon becomes a controversial figure, becoming involved in a paradigm of sharp political struggle, while the people of the land call for fairness and honesty.

He is accused by many eminent persons of various misdeeds, ranging from an unrestricted sexual life to undue political domination over the royal family.

We all know what happened with that entire regime.

G.R.’s story contains many twists and turns, and goes on to contain many mysteries which we’ll leave for another lesson; but tonight I thought you might appreciate the contemporary image his story evokes.

By: Doctor J

Doctor J — Sat, 10 Mar 2012 04:07:23 +0000

@TH#98 Not sure what the personal info was that was not relevant to the potential qualifications of the lecturer on the topic of sexual harassment.

By: Theresa Harrington

Theresa Harrington — Sat, 10 Mar 2012 03:47:05 +0000

Here is the district’s latest News Update regarding impasse with the teachers’ union, followed by comments from Mike Langley: http://bit.ly/xHTW4B

By: g

Sat, 10 Mar 2012 03:44:33 +0000

That first one’s all yours Dr. J.

Thank goodness we have Theresa keeping good minutes for us!

By: anon**

anon** — Sat, 10 Mar 2012 02:42:02 +0000

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@ Dr j -98 In regards to the bus inventory – I think it was requested by Hansen within the last 2 mos. But since board meetings’ reader’s digest minutes are always at least a month behind, there’s no way of knowing until next month or the month after-it could be intentional that the minutes come out so late-probably a part of Lawrence ‘s “shift-the-focus” strategy — if the minutes are never up to date, then he and his crew have a better chance of the community forgetting about goings-on at board meetings which provides him time to shift the focus and then he can’t ever be held accountable for anything. It’s actually a very clever (but very deceitful) strategy – you’ve got to give him that!

By: Doctor J

Doctor J — Sat, 10 Mar 2012 00:25:35 +0000

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Curious things are happening. Rolen’s office suddenly schedules a “mandatory” sexual harassment training for March 21, and assigns every manager and administrator in the district to attend either an AM or PM session — no requests to attend the unassigned session permitted. Wow. What’s the rush Greg ? Greg are you teaching the course ? Looks like there are lots of conflicting meetings on the schedule.

By: Doctor J

Doctor J — Sat, 10 Mar 2012 00:17:08 +0000

This is the problem — information being provided in secret not to see the light of day by the public. Board members are entitled to ask that those kind of reports be made an agenda item, and be written and attached to the agenda. How many months ago was that promise by Rolen ?

By: Theresa Harrington

Theresa Harrington — Sat, 10 Mar 2012 00:13:07 +0000

I believe Rolen said he would provide that to her directly. However, he also promised a Transportation report to the board, which he still has not presented yet. He said he wanted to wait until after the district got clarification on state transportation budget cuts. Now that the state has clarified that, perhaps he will present the promised report.