Let's talk about Mr. Sansom...

Several people have decided to continue Mr. Robinson's practice of attacking those who might get in the way of their particular agenda by immediately attacking Mr. Sansom.

I was asked a by a couple of commentors about Mr. Sansom and so I made a few phone calls.

Here is what I learned.

In a past district Mr. Sansom found himself much in the same position as Mr. Kelley does right now...he was given a direction and task and found himself out of favor with many people when he did the job he was supposed to do.

He was directed by elected leadership in that district to make certain that certain things happened, to "take care of business" and it was not expected that he would necessarily be able to stay in that district after the job was done. Of course people were not happy with him, teachers were not happy with him, anyone who did not know the directions he was given would have thought poorly of the situation. But conversely, he did just as he was supposed to.

The CARES group contingent should understand this sort of situation. They have been advocated for keeping Mr. Robinson because he was doing the work the Board asked him to do (please note, I am referring to the prior Boards headed by Sherrie Sprenger, Tom McHill and the like, not the current Board - which by the way seems to be functioning very well as a group now that the oppressive leadership of before is gone...) Would it not be hypocritical of them to punish one man for doing as directed and advocate for another who did the same thing and even more, because Mr. Robinson also manipulated his contract and connived his way into an iron clad "I have ultimate power" kind of role?

Let's talk about his tenure as a principal.... According to staff at Seven Oak, his meetings could go a little shorter (but that is no different than any other building) and he could stand to communicate more clearly (but it appears that he communicates more effectively and clearly than several other principals in the district.)

HOWEVER, every other complaint that I heard about Mr. Sansom can be directly attributed to the direction he was given by (guess who...) Jim Robinson.

Come on CARES people... give up the ghost...Mr. Robinson is gone...You lost the election by a statistically significant margin...oh, and by the way...

Don't think it wasn't noticed how several of you area trying to manipulate things still by positioning yourselves on district committees.

People of Lebanon wake up! We need to change NOW... or this group will weasel their way in to the programs from the inside and make it LOOK LIKE "the community" wants things.

The world is run "by those who show up" so make sure plenty of people on the winning side of the recall election get on the committees to counteract those who would "stay the course" Robinson set.