The Albany Democrat Herald posted an article about the Board Meeting at 9:35 last night:
http://www.dhonline.com/articles/2008/09/16/news/local/6loc01_resign.txt
It seems to be a clear and concise piece of information that gives a lot of evidence to the current status of the situation:
The DH reports, "According to the statement, board members want the superintendent's resignation because 'the current working relationship is irreparable" between them and members are concerned about further harm to district and community morale.According to the statement, board members want the superintendent's resignation because "the current working relationship is irreparable' between them and members are concerned about further harm to district and community morale."
Later in the article Mr. Robinson is quoted as saying, ""I'm always prepared to work on my relationship with folks," he said. "I never consider any relationship to be irreparable."
This all reminds me of episodes on Divorce Court.
Couples arrive before the judge, they cite irreconcilable differences and then the battle begins...
Husbands and wives swear up and down that they are the ones who are willing to try to work it out after having pushed their spouse to the limit of human endurance. At some point, both sides give up all pretense...they stary filing restraining orders and lawsuits...
The insults fly, the accusations are hurled, backs are stabbed and at the end you have a bloody mess with parents who hate each other even more trying to work out visitation schedules and alimony.
The only difference here is that eventually Mr. Robinson will have to give up his rights to the children.
He will retire one day... he has talked about the fact that he is eligible now.
The question remains, is it about what is best for the kids?
If so, Mr. Robinson needs to acknowledge that a change to whatever "custody" in store is better for them than to remain in a contentious, legally tenuous situation.
The community wants custody of their kids back...
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Good post, as usual. You are so right. And a prolonged custody fight is harmful to the children. Let's just get the divorce done and move on! If we have to pay alimony, let's hope it's short and sweet.
Robinson must leave along with his merry team...that means Kelley, who as you have noted, is part of the CARES recall effort -- wow..working to get a boss fired! Guess he feels invincible.
I look forward to a fresh administrative team with a pro-community, pro-parent, pro-teacher, pro-school board, and most importantly pro-student,
approach to her or his work, along with a solid background in research-based ideas for improving public education here!
If we hire someone who fits the bill, we can all back off and let this person run the district, as we hire them to do. If we have someone trustworthy on board, that won't be hard for any of us!
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