Caught Lying
This has been out there a couple of days, but just in case you missed it, it's a bombshell.
Here's a brief recap what came before. Try to follow along:
- Paul Rossi, a middle school math teacher at Grace, blows the whistle by going public with an expose on neo-racist Critical Race Theory run amuck at Grace (after trying and failing internally).
- Headmaster George Davison says Rossi shouldn't come to school this week for "his own protection."
- Then he says don't come for the school's protection.
- Then he says don't bother ever coming back, and don't even come in the building for any reason.
- Then Davison sends a school-wide letter which is highly critical of Rossi and says he made "glaring omissions and inaccuracies."
- Rossi responds with a letter of his own, relating that in a private conversation between them Davison was sympathetic to some of the points Rossi was making, in particular that they were "demonizing" white children.
- Davison accuses Rossi of lying, saying he never made these statements.
And here's the update:
Rossi knew he had to protect himself, so he recorded* the conversation with Davison. Sure enough, Davison said, word for word, what Rossi said he did.
Davison lied.
My question for Davison is this:
You apparently know, on some level, that all this is insane. You are retiring at the end of the year. And yet, even you didn't stand up to the madness. Why?
I'm not a lawyer, but it strikes me Rossi has grounds for both a wrongful termination suit (when he is formally fired) and a defamation suit.
I hope it happens.
*Note that this is perfectly legal in New York State.
Weird this stuff bothers you so much. You don't seem to be the slightest bit incensed by the massive institutional racism against non-whites for the last 200 years.
ReplyDeleteI guess it's not so weird.
You don't seem to be the slightest bit incensed by the massive institutional racism against non-whites for the last 200 years.
Delete1. There is no such thing as 'institutional racism'
2. There can be racist policy, but racist policy which does direct injury to blacks-qua-blacks hasn't been of much significance in this country for 50 years or more. (And a good deal longer outside the South).
3. There are policies which do indirect injury to blacks-qua-blacks. People of your ilk are responsible for all of them.
Nonsense...the US has done more than any country to dismantle racism and move forward positively as a pluralistic society. But people will disagree over history. The point is that CRT is a concoction with identifiable inventors, an identifiable place, an identifiable birth and an identifiable purpose. It is not history, it is a plan to do precisely what it is doing rn in schools.
ReplyDeleteFirst, school heads are not known for their courage, they just manage stakeholder groups. Faculty are prob 40-60% pro-CRT. Parents are prob 10-30% pro-CRT. Of the prob 30-60% of parents that are anti-CRT, all but a small % are silent. Donors prob have no clue. So it doesn't hurt a Head to either push it or just let it seep in via faculty and programming staff. Davison may be squirrelly but he's acting rationally.
ReplyDeleteThe calculus needs to change to get CRT on its heels. The term is called "preference cascade" and it requires people to speak up like Gutmann. This will get other parents and voices weighing in. Once Heads and BoTs understand that CRT is a threat to the institution, it'll get rolled back.
Curiously, several ppl have apropos of nothing have sent me Gutmann's letter ... it's spreading like wild fire around the country. A very good sign!
First, school heads are not known for their courage, they just manage stakeholder groups.
DeleteWell, Grace Hopper once said our cultural decline began in the business schools, as they propagated a conception of 'management' which displaced leadership.
Don't know if this is true or not. The problem here is one of integrity. In the course of 'managing stakeholder groups' (and doing it incompetently), he's lying his tuchus off.
how can we get in contact with Scott to give him more ongoings from a school similar to Dalton?
ReplyDeletescott.c.johnston@gmail.com
DeleteI'm not a lawyer, but it strikes me Rossi has grounds for both a wrongful termination suit (when he is formally fired) and a defamation suit.
ReplyDeleteI hope it happens.
*Note that this is perfectly legal in New York State.
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I'd be curious as to how many people have ever been prosecuted in CA (the only state of which I'm aware that requires two party consent to record phone conversations) as it would be virtually impossible to prove since the person recording it has a near unimpeachable (albeit, concocted) defense:
"I didn't record it, and I didn't know it was being recorded".
I've had numerous conversations on land lines that I didn't know were were being "monitored" (not listened to, just recorded).
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Meanwhile, insofar as his cause of action, in theory, maybe. But Mr Rossi would almost HAVE TO prove malicious intent to have any shot of being awarded more than a token amount, and he probably wouldn't even get that.
Since he's not a member of a "protected class", he can pretty much be fired at will.
"You caused great dissension among the students and/or their parents and/or the school staff is an acceptable (albeit odious) reason for termination.
If I say "My employer is an immoral monster" I can be fired on the spot. However, if I can prove that I was targeted - for example, if my supervisor is angry with me over a personal issue (and has tolerated far more injurious comments about the company) CHA CHING !
I'm gettin' me a fat check.
Bottom line: Mr. Rossi got "cancelled".
And I'm not 100% sure that's not exactly what had wanted.
The Right loves to embrace (and enrich) those it can plausibly claim were cancelled by the "Loony Left".
Our victim won't be out of work for long. And I'll lay odds his next job pays a?Lott more.