What BulldawgDad said was exactly what I have stated previously (although a little more harshly because of the pushback that some of the ‘regulars’ with SOME of their ridiculous spin). You guys are spinning it your way (which doesn’t make you look good, to be honest), and the school board will spin it their way. But when it comes to the LEGAL FACT OF THE MATTER (and not people’s opinion), is that you admitted guilt. It doesn’t matter how many charges they brought that were dropped. That happens every day in almost every court case in every court room in the USA. Not every charge is upheld. There are also plea deals. So, it doesn’t matter if it was 5 or 12 or even 1. The fact is, you admitted guilt to 5 of them.

Keep in mind (and I can relate to BDD), what POSTERS (like me) write is one thing (although Freedom of Speech does not totally protect them either). What YOU post is something completely different. I know some posters were crying about “freedom of speech” (talk about someone not having a clue what they’re allegedly screaming about — sounds like some of the tea party wackjobs LOL). One does NOT have the right to say whatever they want.
You really have to be careful with what you post and pass off as fact and what you don’t. You can offer **opinion** that you **think** they are being misleading with “whatever” (just using generalities).

Like I’ve said before, I don’t visit here often, but this site can be a HUGE asset to this community. I would strongly suggest letting this go already. This site can either be a driving force in the community, or it can be like the Regular Clueless Complainers who regularly put their ignorance on display with their Letters to the Editors in the Stow Sentry (which are laughed at by many, and rightfully so). I don’t think you want to be viewed as the latter.
Stop writing about or even referencing it. You’re sounding like the bitter ex who didn’t get his way in a child support hearing LOL. You know the School Board is checking this site out for what YOU write, and the more you harp on this, the more they eat this up because they know you’re still ticked at them. You boo-booed and got smacked. Oh well. It happens.

Like I said before — time to step-up YOUR game! Because you know you’ve got a captive audience! Not meant to rip — just trying to offer constructive criticism who has no dog in this fight (outside of being a homeowner). Peace.

From what I read online in the public records of the OEC and from what you say in above article about correcting your own web site, you admitted to five of the charges in exchange for a promise from the board and the commission not to be fined or prosecuted. You saved yourself some time and legal fees in this negotiated “settlement” as the Sentry calls it.

Your lawyer should tell you that you need to be accurate and careful in your future commentary to avoid further complications with the elections commission. That’s why the school board spent their time and effort — to get a little legal leverage on you. As a veteran blogger and news media pro, I can tell you that you undermine your credibility every time you have to correct or clarify inaccurate statements — like in the long post above. Ask the Sentry or the Beacon Journal editors about accuracy and corrections. They hate them.

Citizen bloggers like you (and me) have a good role to play, but we hurt our own arguments with false statements that we have to admit to in court or in a quasi-judicial process. Good luck.

In May, Hudson has a 5.9 mill school levy on the ballot to raise some $5.6 million dollars. Judging from the letters-to-the-editor in the Hudson Time Hub, there is considerable resistance to this tax hike. Strangely, the citizens of Hudson seem to think they already pay enough for their schools.

To push the levy, the Hudson administration is going through the usual display of hysterics, saying that the city schools would face huge deficits in 2012 without passage of the levy and this would result in ‘dismantling” the schools.

“Dismantling” the schools, yes that’s the superintendent’s chosen word.

I can’t imagine a janitor, let alone the school superintendent, making such an ignorant statement as that, but there it is.

The point here is that we are not alone in facing arrogant, out-of-touch school bureaucrats & administrators whose main concern is feathering their own nest and the nest of the others who are fortunate enough to be employed in our schools.

Hudson is a rather wealth community which historically has not battered an eye to showering its public schools (and municipal work force) with an excess of money. If the tax increasing levy goes down there May 4, the echo of that defeat will be felt across the border to here in the Stow-Munroe Falls and beyond. It will be a not too subtle message to the squanders in charge of the public schools that tax increases will not be tolerated.

The school administration’s attempt to discredit SCRG has had the opposite affect. The superintendent would have us believe this group’s four reprimands legitimize $20,000 and counting in lawyer fees. He conveniently forgets that he swore to twice that many FALSE claims.

This was an obvious, albeit misguided, attempt to shut this group and website down. Rather than attempting to build the district’s credibility with honest communication, fulfilling records requests in a timely manner and truly emulating the pillars of “Character Counts,” the school board and superintendent have chosen to prevent public discussion by jumping on the litigation bandwagon.

The students deserve better…the taxpayers deserve better. They and the staff are truly responsible for the district’s “Excellent with Distinction” rating. The only difference is that they don’t enjoy the $5,000 bonus the school board awards the superintendent every time that rating is attained. Way to go board – keep adding money to the superintendent’s already bloated benefits package. Sit back and rake it in Dr. Jones; according to your recent evaluation, there is no end in sight.

Connect the dots. Superintendent spends distsrict money to lodge complaints. Superintendent asks PTA Council to collect money registrations for the 2nd annual SMFCS Golf Outing. (The 1st annual golf outing was a fundraiser for the levy committee.) PTA writes the check to the levy committee. SCRG finds out and raises a stink. The levy committee returns the money to the PTA.

Yes, keep up the good work, SCRG.

SCRG, keep putting out the fact on this trivial complaint business ….. and its cost.

The more the public learns what it is all about, the more the community will come to see what a poor stewart Jones is of the taxpayer money regardless of what his apologists may say.

An open and continuing discussion of this matter is a debate Jones and the education establishment can’t win.