A Educational Nightmare at Rochester Public Schools - Independent School District #535!

I love this as this is really relevant with what is going on with the horribly bad Rochester Minnesota School Corporation right now. Somehow, in the mix, I did return emails being truthful that I will not allow complete access to the as I called them "Goons" that work at the Edison Building, here in Rochester, MN.

One of the overly sensitive little kids that works on the 2nd floor at the building took offense to the factual statements I used about how the leadership dealing with us so far has acted like goons, mobsters, violated parental rights, our civil rights, done illegal and criminal activities on purpose, ect,, ect.
I simply said they cannot be trusted and so far, that statement has been proven true.

See, they have this problem at the local school corporation with these adult words and the truth being used or the fact you call them out for breaking federal laws, statutes, acts and prefer you act like one of the sheep they employ, the kids they drone conformity to or the parents or former employee's that speak up and they try to silence. (Just Google Rochester School Corporation Minnesota Whistle blower Lawsuit!)

They like to use politically correctness and try to claim that staff was berated, verbally abused or threatened and that wasn't the case, they are just once again distorting the truth and making a narrative that fills their agenda. In as many words, they are lying once again.
I did say that people have been dishonest, have denied us things we should have open access to and the efforts of some people in certain situations has been substandard or sub par.
All of these things are facts, not opinions.

The thing is, I will never conform to your attempts to control me or put me in your pc box. It will never happen. I as a very successful manager in the restaurant world always thought outside the box and was a people person. I fought people in the corporate world on a daily basis, because of the very thought I was being to much of a people person to my employee's. 

I continue today to be that same out of the box person and I will not change how I do things for any person or institution.

Olmsted County decided to not follow through on my wife's insurance and turn it on in a timely manner, I let the supervisor of the entire Human Services program know that if she suffers severe harm or dies because of their negligence, I will file a pain and suffering or wrongful death lawsuit and I'll go public.
Once again, I had to be the asshole and I made shit happen.

I will not sit idly by and watch anyone screw with my kids life, my wife's or mine for that matter anymore.
If you cannot do your job right or slow something down by choice, expect an immediate and strong response from me.

So I guess what I'm trying to say in closing, push me, I'll push back.
Be decent to me, I'll be decent back.
Respect me, I'll respect you.
Continue to lie to my face and be dishonest, all bets are off and everything is fair game.

No one in this life has any right to command respect or special treatment from us or me in particular if you continue to be disrespectful, dishonest, cause trouble and not do things how they should be done.
Morals and integrity should be at the fore front, not an after thought people...
 

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I have had the frustration of teacher's at my sons High school Mayo, doing this with Religion and Politics.
Every time I hear more and more about teachers trying to push my child to a certain religious or politcal view point, I get a little mad and then smirk as little as my feelings and suspicions have once again been confirmed.

Teacher's and administrator's in the Rochester School Corporation here in lovely Rochester, Minnesota obviously have a hidden agenda to create Republican, Catholic "sheeple" and doing the right thing, teaching kids to think for themselves, and make their own decisions isn't happening here on any level.

As a strong, well educated independent voter and Christian, I will continue to push my kids to ask questions and question or challenge everything the local robot creating machine pushes down their throats.

MY kids will not be like many people here locally we have experienced thru various interactions. 
A killer example is when we decided to purchase a Ipad Air at the Southside Walmart to put learning and brain games on the device to help with the kids education at school.

The lady who was working security came over after the Ipad had set off the crappy alarm system.
The lady came to check our stuff, no biggy and then questioned what a Ipad was?
I was like what, what rock have you been hiding under for the past ten years lady.
Then she happily gloated that she didn't have a computer at home and didn't believe in any of the tech mumbo jumbo at all.
I couldn't believe what I heard.
No care or desire to read or learn new things online, just a horrible blind happiness to stay full of ignorance.

This is how local government and  the criminally insane school corporation keep their thugs and illegal activities ongoing, they just rely on the fact that so much of the local populace is un or under educated, not staying focuses on current events and they also rely on mob like tactics when the minority in town wise up to their malfeasance.

Think Fox News on a more, smaller scale.

The good things are, with a flood of new employee's and families coming to the area because of explosive growth at the Mayo, this controlled and deliberate brain drain will not be allowed to go on much more longer.

People with money, deep financial pockets and lawyers will help things change and a progressive push will one day become a reality.
The old that is deliberately killing or slowing down growth both in the community and at the schools will be partially replaced by progressives that will often rock the vote and demand changes.

I will eagerly just sit back and watch for this change to happen.
Maybe start going to town council and school board meetings so I can enjoy the "old guard" struggle to keep Rochester a small town and in the 40's and 50's as they are both pushed out of their comfort zones and made to embrace a evolving local population.

The great thing is, if these people continue to stifle needed growth and innovations, they can just be voted out.

That is "change" I can believe in...
   

My daughter left her back pack on her afternoon tutoring bus by accident and getting it back to her was a joke at best.

My wife called transportation, who then patched her into the First Student bus people to try to resolve this problem. They just had a general, don't give a shit, not our problem attitude.

Then we are told the pack would make it on to her nightly bus and it never happened.

The lady on the phone even bragged about the fact that my daughter's teacher should be used to the bus company losing kids back packs all the time.
Really? Bragging about ignorance. Must be a Rochester thing.

Finally, a person on the other end gets my wife in touch with Chad, I guess the only guy who works at First Student here in Rochester Minnesota, with a full functional brain.
Chad, was able to find the pack quickly and get it re-united with my daughter.

Atypical response of anyone associated with this horrible school corporation here in Rochester.
We'll get to it when we feel like it as the kids are second fiddle to our personal schedule's and desires.

Another failure in the long list of failures with this inept school system. They have gotten so good at it, that they accept it here now and there is no push for betterment or advancement.

So sad...

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1. Stand your ground, being the first step. Don't give a inch, expect them to play mind games and have a counter-punch ready for every low blow they will volley your direction.

2. Lawyer up. This is the packet I sent our authorizing a lawyer in St. Paul, MN to do his thing, bring justice and restore balance to what has been a nightmare.
No you cannot take my rights to "free expression" or any of my civil rights away, as I have people that are now going, to level the playing field and push you back over that criminal and civil lines you decided to cross.

3. Don't give them anything beyond the bare minimum information wise.
Remember, these are the people who tried to hurt you by silencing and intimidation tactics.
Don't give them a leg to stand on and wait for them to fall on their own illegal activities and later "crash and burn".

4. Spread the good word.
Create a blog and publish everything to it.
Link to the illegal and damning documents using so interested 3rd parties can download them.
Use a scanner, your local Fed Ex Kinko's or a Android/ I phone with a camera or free scanner apps and post it all to your website or blog.
Use your local Craigslist rants and raves as a platform as I have done.
Post things like videos or illegal phone calls from the school heads to a YouTube account also as I have done.

4. (A) Don' be afraid to go to the local media and seek out reporters looking for a sensational story.
Especially, being involved with a school corp. that is largely mistrusted by the local populace, that media contact you make could use their past sins as a pile on for a "huge" story that would blow the lid open on what is going on.
Media exposure like this can sometimes get those involved in your mistreatment or those initiating the illegal activities terminated with cause, which is a perfect ending to what you have experienced.

These person's terminations can also be the background for a ground breaking and often situation changing civil rights lawsuit, that in time, can change every thing for the better.

4. (B) Use popular "social media" apps/ sites like Whisper, Instigram and Tumbler to glean intelligence and spread your message to others quickly and directly through these outlets.
For example, I put up one test post to judge the local interest in the Whisper app and had a ton of people getting back to me how they despise certain local high schools and how they are run.
The most hated school was Century High, located here in Rochester, MN.
These are students, openly saying our school sucks and is more of a prison than a free-thinking, learning environment.
This is what happens when you push conformity, lack of free expression and no major technological push in your schools.
You have to draw student's interests in, make them excited about learning, not drone them with all things boring, creating the future sheep of tomorrow.

Remember, no school cabal or business likes bad press and that is a critical tool that plays into your advantage pushing back against them.

5. Google your school corporation administrator's and the school board where your kids go.
I did this and found out that our local superintendent was part of an illegal book banning, still uses a $4500 desk his predecessor had bought with school funds, that Mr. Munoz was not the most qualified candidate at the time of his hiring, and that from person meetings, Mr. Munoz rallied for an I pad initiative that never got off the ground. 

The ironic twist being, all of the administrator's I have encountered are sporting nice flashy newer I pad's, while the kids have none.

They also are sitting on a very fast expensive Gigabyte internet connection at the Edison Building and I don't see the need, and thus, the culture of unneeded and wasteful spending never left this district.

6. Get as many people involved and in the know as you can about your situation.
Quite literally, I have 4-5 people "in the loop" about our ongoing fight with school leadership that drops the ball and won't do the right thing.
These can be social workers, counselor's doctor's, local business owners, the mayors office, the more people who know, again that vice or public pressure will come down hard on those doing the illegal activites.

I've shown these people everything and let them make judgement on their own.
Everyone who saw the criminal and illegal IEP notices sent by the head of the Special Education department (a direct and deliberate attempt to deny my children FAPE and a proper IEP based education!), the direct violations of my "freedom of expression" and general "civil rights" via a signed letter by Mr. Munoz. Their actions were shocked and in bewilderment.

The actually comment verbatim was, "they actually sent those letters?", this coming from 3 lawyer's who know that they had put their illegal activities on paper, gave us a great paper trail (evidence) and in their haste, gave us the critical tools to establish and show a direct pattern of oppression, criminal activities, misconduct, harassment an intimidation.
All directly sue-able offenses, both criminally and civilly in the court system at the federal level.   

The general consensus is, wow, things really haven't changed and they are intentionally breaking the law! 

In closing, don't give in. hold your ground, do whatever it takes to get your oppression into the public's eye and then watch them scatter like roaches.
The only rights goons like this can take from you are the ones you allow.

My son alerted us this morning that he was pulled from his normal classes to do some type of testing and then we get this in our emails:

---------- Forwarded message ----------

From: "Mayo High School Attendance"

Date: Oct 28, 2013 6:03 PM Subject: Unexcused Absence To: Cc: This is a message from Mayo High School informing you that your child, , was marked unexcused during the following periods: 3. If your student believes this absence might be an error, please have your student contact his or her teacher. If you have further questions, please call 507-328-5510. If you have already been in contact with the school attendance office, you can disregard this message. Thank you.

This is probably minor mistake, but how many little ones lead up to the big ones? 

I mean. c'mon. at some point, these schools need to get their shit together.

I am a subscriber of the "trickle down theory" in this aspect only.

Failed leadership from above, does trickle down and amount to glaring failures below...