The people who attacked Lowell Billings when he defended the principal of Castle Park Elementary are most likely the people who forced Mr. Billings to fire Principal Tim Suanico.
The teachers' union, Chula Vista Educators, is as powerful as, or perhaps more powerful than, the superintendent, when it comes to personnel actions regarding teachers and principals.
Jim Groth, President of Chula Vista Educators, and his predecessor, Gina Boyd, have worked hand-in-glove with the district in many personnel actions.
But when the district doesn't do what CVE wants, CVE demands arbitration.
In the Castle Park Five case, in which five teachers were transferred out of Castle Park Elementary, CVE presented a shamefully false story to the arbitrator when it demanded that the teachers be returned to Castle Park Elementary.
Why didn't the district counter with the truth? Because the district had worked with CVE to protect Castle Park teachers who violated the law. CVE dishonestly concealed at the arbitration hearing any mention of the large amount of money the district had spent on legal representation for some of those teachers in the Superior Court case which resulted from crimes committed at Castle Park Elementary.
If CVESD had told the truth at the hearing, it probably would have won.
It's time for the truth to come out about past backroom deals between CVE and CVESD regarding personnel actions, and for both CVE and CVESD to begin a new era of respect for the truth and the law.
The similarities between the Tim Suanico case and the Maura Larkins case are remarkable. Teachers, not administrators, initiated both personnel actions. Bullying and cronyism are rampant in Chula Vista Elementary School District, as they are in many other workplaces. Competent employees are frequently attacked by colleagues who fear exposure of their bullying, cronyism or incompetence.
Chula Vista Educators is so powerful that it even pushes around its US Representative, Bob Filner.
For more information, see California Teachers Association and Chula Vista Educators.
Update: The San Diego Union Tribune is widely known for its biased reporting and censorship of the news, but the South County edition appears to be the most deeply-censored edition of the SDUT. The reporting on events at Castle Park Elementary is a case in point. The SDUT knows about the Superior Court Case involving Robin Donlan and other teachers, but has kept that information out of its many stories about Robin Donlan and Castle Park Elementary.
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CVESD is run by the teachers union, which is led by Jim Groth and Robyn Higginson. Why does the union have so much power? Because they get the district to help commit, and then to help cover-up, wrongdoing. Then when the union takes action against the district, the district can't tell the truth to defend itself without incriminating board members and administrators! So the union ends up calling all the shots. We need clean board members and clean union leaders before the district will start serving kids. Until then, the district will make decisions based on the best way to advance the careers of union leaders, board members and administrators--not the future careers of students!
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