Snow Job piece in SF school district’s community mailer
l3wis What is this all about? Is this sarcasm?
SF School District
Does the SF School District’s Asst. Super have teaching credentials?
Sue Simons, Assistant Super to the SF School District (KELO-TV, Screenshot)
According to the SF School District’s website;
Sue Simons, Assistant Superintendent for HR and Legal Services
And according to martindale.com (which still has her listed as a partner at Davenport Evans):
| Susan Brunick Simons 206 West 14th Street, P.O. Box 1030 Sioux Falls, South Dakota
(Lincoln & Minnehaha Cos.)
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| University | College of St. Benedict, B.A. |
| Law School | University of South Dakota, J.D. |
| Admitted | 1987 |
| ISLN | 908719493 |
I don’t mean to split hairs, but wouldn’t you want the assistant super to have a little knowledge in teaching and administration? Maybe I can’t find the credentials. Does anybody know?
The SF school district continues to mislead, and Stehly continues to set the record straight on sub teacher pay increases
Please read these documents FIRST to have a better understanding of this situation:Â school board
The SF school district sent out a letter to subs, which they received on Saturday, saying Stehly was giving out false information about how subs were being paid in other districts. Actually, she was giving out the correct information, the SF school district was NOT. They even bragged about it in the letter;
“Because we value and appreciate our substitute teachers, we wanted you to have complete and accurate information.”
Stehly requested and received the CORRECT information today from the Harrisburg School District;
Stehly’s letter to the school board members says it all (it was postmarked today, Monday, August 6);
“All of our elected officials must always work to ensure that we foster a spirit of open, caring and transparent government. The Media also plays a very important part in ensuring the public that all activity that concerns our tax dollars and governmental policy is full of integrity and honesty.”
Big ‘T’ gets out her message of sub teacher pay raises today
This of course is the real story in Stormland today, the grunts in the trenches, not the millionaires at press conferences kissing T. Denny Sanford’s ass when he didn’t even bother to show up;
“We are hoping to give the substitutes a voice within the district and get the same treatment as every other entity,” Theresa Stehly said.
Stehly is leading the initiative. She says substitute teachers haven’t seen a raise in six years while teachers and other employees have. She doesn’t believe the district is listening to their needs but thinks they’ll have a voice in numbers.
Of course, it didn’t stop another credit card company lackey, who happens to sit on the school board, talk about the ‘merit’ of a sub teacher pay;
“In this coming budget cycle we’ll look at substitute teacher pay again if it merits it we’ll act on an increase, maybe, for substitutes,” Morrison said.
Tragic, coming from a man who works for a company that got a taxpayer bailout while the execs in his company live high on the hog. Go away.
The SF School District threatens a sub-teacher with legal action
This is so ridiculous, I don’t even want to comment, but I will say Stehly is consulting an attorney with expertise in these matters.
The gist of the letter is about a flyer Stehly wants to hand out at Thursday’s sub-teacher inservice;
Basically, Stehly is asking subs get a raise. That’s it. But the school district responded with a letter from their legal advisor, which quotes a bunch of Supreme Court cases about public property. The letter was truly a scare tactic. (click on image to enlarge)
Since when is it illegal for an independent contractor, like a substitute teacher, organize other substitutes in asking for a raise?
Apparently the administration of the SF school district either hasn’t read George Orwell’s ‘1984’ or if they have, they implemented it as school policy. Either way, their claims are a stretch.
This is what happened. Someone (Stehly) finally questioned Dr. Homan’s misleading statements to the public (about sub teacher pay) and she didn’t like being called out.
Quote all the court cases in the world, the First Amendment is pretty clear;
“The First Amendment (Amendment I) to the United States Constitution is part of the Bill of Rights. The amendment prohibits the making of any law respecting an establishment of religion, impeding the free exercise of religion, abridging the freedom of speech, infringing on the freedom of the press, interfering with the right to peaceably assemble or prohibiting the petitioning for a governmental redress of grievances.”