I have to say that I can’t agree with one of Steve’s statements, namely, that Florida Keys residents should be the only ones who have a say in who is hired as superintendent. I’m pretty certain that has been the cause of the current woes.

I DO agree that nobody as superintendent is going to fix the problems plaguing MCSD unless they are willing and able to flush the toilet that is the nepotic administration system and start anew with fresh faces.

On another note, I thought I should report yet another incident involving KWHS Administration Gone Wild. I seriously expect to see that video advertised during one of my infrequent bouts of insomnia. I will order it if I see the ad. Anyway, our mutual teacher friend witnessed, right after the holiday break, Chris Valdez, unesteemed Assistant Principle, and Officer Bulne aka Officer Bull, KWHS apparent full-time police officer, presumably under the rather thin guise of school security, had confiscated a tazer from a student and were rambunctiously chasing each other around the office with it, the little scamps. I know, I know…boys will be boys.

From my understanding of it, there was no questioning of the student as to why he felt the need to carry a tazer to school, nor any counseling provided on the assumption that he was being bullied, as is sometimes the case (I have no knowledge or proof as to what the situation is, so the bullied theory is pure conjecture on my part), but it seems rather incompetent for either of them to even ask, and unbelievably unprofessional of them for their subsequent actions.

In summary, I have to agree that a state takeover of the school system is in order.

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On the other hand, I had a similar issue in Orlando, where the police told me they wouldn’t enforce a law because too many people were breaking it, so I’m wondering if there is simply some sort of inherent laziness in Florida law enforcement that makes this sound like a valid excuse.

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I have an amazing idea that will allow Monroe County to stop getting interference from the state and Federal levels: are you ready?

Go ahead, get comfortable.

Ok, here it is:

Start doing things the right way. If they do things the right way (ie, according to state and Federal rules, laws, and guidelines), they won’t be interfered with by the state or the Federal.

*takes a bow*

Do bullies grow up to be Bubbas …I know I am being bullied in the City of Key West, and they are all grown up Bubbas who are doing it.

When I asked Mark Willis what the then Sheriff Rick Roth was going to do about a situation of some deputy bullying kids, Mark Willis embarrassingly told me that Sheriff Roth had replied he was going to do what they always did,…Ignore it. When I asked Mayor Cates recently what he was going to do about a handful of City officials misconduct of “bullying”, he said for me to “Sue the city” if I wanted it stopped. Obviously, as you said Sloan, nothing will be done if they can get away with doing nothing. Ignoring unfair situations and bullying is what Bubbas do….and we non-Bubbas will get Bubba-whooped on if we try to change it…really whooped on, for real.

OK… so here’s what I’m going to do. If our school officials are more concerned about bad publicity than dealing effectively with this matter then, unless they step-up to the plate, I’ll personally call the Advocate, tell them they were correct, and offer-up this senario as a real-time example why.

Deal with it now on your terms, or deal with it later on someone else’s terms; those are your choices.