The Need to Organize

Teachers and Concerned Members of Las Cruces: We can sit angrily typing all day and night; this is an invaluable dialogue from which action can spring forth. However, if we fail to organize and make our demands for change know publicly, we fail and fester and continue this subservience* to the ignorant powers that be. I, like many of you, know we need to "take over" the district ourselves. We don't need politicians to do that. Let's use this forum to organize public protest and civil disobedience!!!!!!!! If we all put our necks out at once, there will not be enough axes to chop off all our heads. We MUST do this for the kids. Hey, publish the board meeting dates, and any other dates and times we need to all stand together on. Each of us inform our circles of influence to come out in droves! Teachers, parents, students, EAs, principals, and whoever else is sick of this lack of accountability downtown need to come out and make a public statement. I just found this site, and I will be a regular reader. I will also publicize it at my high school. I encourage all other teachers and school staff to do the same. Revolution starts with a common dialogue.

I am a retired LCPS educator and I am appalled at the behavior of the current superintendent and school board. Please continue to allow a forum for employees to voice their concerns. This district has had a policy of divide, deride, demoralize and conquer with LCPS employees for far too many years. I applaud your efforts to repair the grave damage done by Louis Martinez and Sonia Diaz to the educators and children of our district. Since I have relatives who are employed by the district I will remain nameless for the time being.

For all of her alleged brilliance, she couldn't move her agenda. Diaz-Salved, as she was known in Bridgeport, is clearly a person who values style and form above substance. In Las Cruces, she drives her Mercedes. In Bridgeport, she was chauffeured around in a limo with a driver at her beck and call. Quite the Diva!Apparently, she has not changed her ways. It appears that she has once again leashed upon an unsuspecting school system, her erratic and maniacal management style, shooting from the hip and taking no prisoners. Diaz doesn't play by the rules. . She makes up her own as she goes along. In her wake she left a destruction of spirit and the incompetent groupies she brought with her. Bridgeport made the mistake of hiring her and took too many years to get rid of her. It is my fervent hope that Las Cruces doesn't make the same mistake.

The comments on Briseno are incredibly on point. I have heard all this from different folks but have not seen them put together in such a fashion and so thorough. But that's a lot of what's going on. I'm in. I'm going to do whatever I can to finish Diaz off and then either recall this board or elect new people when their term is up.I don't think LCPS can survive much more of this. My friends and colleagues are strong people and since Diaz has been put on leave, smiles and some measure of actual fun have returned. It's amazing how quickly this all has spun so badly. We'll bounce back quickly but only if everyone fights back and finishes this thing off in the fashion it needs to be finished and that's with Diaz out and this board at minimum, on high notice (if not totally out).

Why has it not been brought to the public's attention that the district has paid FYI a million dollars since Briseno was elected to the board? He abstains from voting on these contracts, but it still seems to be a clear conflict of interest.

As a non-NM resident, I have heard of Diaz's outbreaks since she arrived in this district. She uses fear and intimidation as means of control and motivation. I am a close friend to one teacher. I've been keeping up with this blog all week and I would just like to say how important it is that teachers call the representatives conducting the investigation. I know the complaints are out there, because I hear them in another state. I would also like to point out that the blog host monitors the visitors to this site. Using cookies, it will count each computer only once. (Not the hits.) This means, LCPS Underground has been seen by over 1000 people. Most likely, they're like me. The come back time and time again. This should be a wake-up call to Diaz and the Board. There are not one or two disgruntled people!