It's been decades since Luisa D'Amato covered the school board (WRDSB) beat full time. I miss her pointed barbs in which she asked innocuous questions such as why in tough economic times does the school board spend so much time and money pounding on their critics. The answer (in my opinion) is that the Board are a pack of self-entitled, pompous, arrogant ass*s whose aim in life is to spend taxpayers money harassing anybody (students, teachers, parents, activists etc.) who has the audacity to publicly disagree with them just about anything.
Today's Record article by Luisa is titled "Latest board complaint against Ramsay has been halted by integrity commissioner". Apparently the gutless and anonymous trustee complainant plus others failed to notice two points namely that the latest complaint failed to meet the time limits (for complaints) as well as the double jeopardy criteria. As painful as it appears to be to some trustees, you are only allowed to go after a trustee through the Code of Conduct but once for each offence. The anonymous complainant was using the same alleged offence for which Ramsay had already been found in violation of the Code of Conduct over a year ago. Geez!
Apparently there is provincial legislation already passed and given royal assent. It has yet to be proclaimed and so it appears that gun slinger trustees felt that this was their last chance to pillory and harass their fellow trustee, Mike Ramsay. Or as Luisa D'Amato indicated their last chance to "...drag Ramsay through one final kangaroo court of his peers ...". Hmm speaking of kangaroo courts apparently they are popular in other K-W venues as well.
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