District Update
We have a new half-time community and business liaison. Leslie Cervantes reported for work today. Dante Thacker has been placed as an Asst. Principal at Onate.
The Board's attorney is still in town talking to employees with complaints. If anyone has an incident to report or a complaint to lodge again Diaz, call Dorothy Anderson in the Human Resources office at 527-5992. Friday will be your last opportunity.
Board members need to be aware of your concerns. Call your Board member or call all of them. They need to know that it is not just one or two disgruntled employees. They need to know the broad range of employees and community members who are concerned about the actions of Diaz and the Board of Education. I won't list their numbers here, but they are all in the phone book. Let them know how you feel.
posted by LCPS1 @ 5:58 PM
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Word has it that Sonia has other job offers and is considering leaving the district. Will she leave with a pocket full of money?
In regards to employees sharing their complaints with the Board's attorney, the word is already out and about in the community that Diaz will even more afraid to come forward. The investigation by the board seems lukewarm and superficial at best, and they already have their minds made up regarding Diaz. Even our state reps are not responsive to the employees and their major concerns. They chastise us and tell us to give her more time without truly listening to what is really happening in our district. Again, people truly are afraid to come forward and I don't blame them. How sad the day was when the Board made this choice despite already knowing out her history in other districts.
Thanks to Earl Nissen for finding out the financial facts regarding Sonia and the LCPS school board.
I hope you copied your letter to the Sun-News, Bulletin, and TV news sources.
It is disgusting that Sonia received $2000+ per diem for a two day retreat in Cloudcroft.
Other school district employees are required to submit receipts for travel reimbursement. Do you know if she is required to do so?
If the reimbursement is inflated beyond her receipts, would the board be liable for fiscal maleficence?
If so, we need to seek a recall immediately!!!
Dr. Diaz is a narcissist and a sociopath. The narcissist personality disorder accounts for her delusions of grandeur and the sociopathy accounts for her complete lack of ethics and morality.
In her case, she has two serious mental disorders. Solidifying the case against her is the fact that she has failed in her last four leadership positions miserably and has already shown her destructiveness here.
It is time to fire her and our idiotic school board for hiring her in the first place.
Speaking of the school board, they have had four years to fix things since the last board was removed. They don't deserve anyone time.
I think all of them should resign now. The only possible exception would be Chuck Davis as he did not vote to hire Dr. Diaz.
The board members need to know that if they decide to keep Dr. Diaz, knowing that she mistreats and harrasses personnel, they may be held personally liable in any future lawsuits that result in an award for the personnel.
Lonnie (Leonel Briseno), I hope you are reading this.....I have known you for many years. As a teenager I looked up to you. For many of us in the youth group at Immaculate Heart of Mary Cathedral, you made a great impact on our lives and reach us in ways others were unable to. You taught us how to love one another and be fair and good. Through your guidance many of us got through some really tough times. You were a person to be admire....WHAT HAPPENED TO THIS MAN? I am an employee of LCPS and have watched your interactions on the school board and have often wondered, "Where did this role model go?" I am so disappointed and wonder how you can support a woman who is supposed to be our school district leader and has no moral values and claims to be doing "God's work", but is only here on her own selfish agenda??? Come on, Lonnie....wake up!
In the other 49 states, creating a hostile work environment is grounds for litigation. While it appears that Ms. Diaz has done nothing illegal, it does seem as if she has treated employees with hostility. This can result in our school system paying out huge sums of money to affected employees. All of this and the tyrranical managment style of Ms. Diaz. Can we afford her leadership?
I believe it is high time to bring in the Public Education Department as we seem to be to naive to select a leader who leads and to weak to cut them loose when they don't. Perhaps they will help us select a leader based on their ability not their heritage.
These comments about Sonia Diaz are pretty scary. But let me say this. When she first came, the word on the streets was that she didn't want teachers leaving the classroom for trainings. After that, a couple of teacher trainings were cancelled at our school. But then things went back to the usual. That was so disappointing. Does anybody else see this happening? Teachers are being sent out of the classroom several times a month for "trainings". While they're gone, a sub is hired to take over. Sometimes the sub shows and sometimes not. Then EAs are pulled friom their regular assignments to fill in. Meanwhile the Ea's regular work goes undone. Hey, administrators! It's a big deal not to have your EA around to do their job. Then, while the cat's away, the mice are doing everything they can to act up for the sub. Kids know that the sub will be gone soon and so they mess around and do as little as possible. A sub usually means busy work for a day. And THERE ARE JUST TOO MANY OF THESE BUSY WORK DAYS! How much training does a teacher need? Didn't we go to college and get multiple degrees? Half the time the trainings are only so so. I realize we have to keep up with the trends but come on. Taking whole grade levels out to go to a training is ridiculous. Think about the children please. Do something about the sub problem. Let the EAs do their jobs and quit pulling them like they're not worth anything. I would support a superintendent who would actually do something about this situation.
It is unfortunate, this situation with Dr. Diaz. What is more disheartening are the comments on this Blog. For all the anger and critisim where are the suggestions and/or answers?
Replacements on the school board is probably a good start, and then where do we go from there?
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