Note to the Superintendent

Your remark that these types of websites pop up when a parent is upset such as with a sports coach just highlights your ignorance of the purpose of this website and my intentions. I would not like to trivialize a major issue with-in the school district by comparing it to whether my son or daughter participated in a sporting event. The point and only point of this website is to help disseminate both positive and negative information to the patrons of Deer Creek Schools and raise their awareness of major issues in the school district.

It has become very obvious, very quickly that the laptop issue at Prairie Vale is more a symptom of a larger problem, not what some deemed "Rookie Mistakes" made by you and other school officials. Let’s examine some other issues:

1. Who is responsible for seeing that students have textbooks to start the school year?
2. Who approved the painting of a mural when there are not enough funds to fully supply Prairie Vale?
3. Who approved hanging blinds in an office when there were not enough funds to fully supply Prairie Vale?
4. Who told a school official not to participate in a resolution meeting and then directed the blame towards that school official?
5. Who hired their daughter to fill a teaching spot without posting the open position?
6. Who has told so many different stories about the laptop project that they probably don’t remember the truth anymore?

The answer to all the above questions is you. Should I accept these actions as "Rookie Mistakes" or does the term “Lack of Institutional Control” seem to fit better? I hope for all the students’ sake you don’t have a Sophomore Slump next year. One would have to ask where is the School Board when all this is going on?

I had made promises that the information shared on this website would be positive and would work towards providing solutions. Sometimes when addressing the truth there is no way of putting a positive spin on the facts.

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