LTISD Info

They are suing me for asking them questions, filing complaints and attending board meetings.

If you don’t believe me read for yourself:

Law suit filed by the LTISD filed September 29, 2006

Updated plea to law suit filed on October 24, 2006

Let’s take a look at a few items mentioned in the pleas which are fantastic to say the least:

1. The LTISD claims that I caused the district to copy “approximately 100,626 pages” (September 29, 2006) then they modified their claim to say that I caused them to copy “over 120,000 pages” (October 24, 2006)
   • That is a lot of pages, so many in fact it is hard to believe. The LTISD should be challenged to prove such fantastic claim
   • “approximately 100,626 pages” is very exact, at least the last time I recall using approximations
   • If you can believe “approximately 100,626 pages” why not make it “over 120,000 pages”!
   • How can you claim 19,374 more pages were copied between September 29th and October 24th? Again, I think that the LTISD should prove this one as well. Does this second claim result from all of the copies that their lawyers thought they needed for the law suit?
   • Let’s look at some simple analytics of the LTISD’s claims:
     1. They claim that I was a “nuisance” between June 20, 2005 and September 29, 2006, a time span of approximately 15 months
     2. Using the first claim of 100,626 copied pages, that averages out to be approximately 6708 pages per month, yet over the one month time frame of September 24, 2006 – October 24, 2006 they made another 20,000 copies?
2. The district claims that I cost them over $600,000 in damages (September 29, 2006) yet in less than one month, they modified their claims to over $700,000 (October 24, 2006)
   • Over $700,000 is a lot of money to spend on one “nuisance”. Why? How can one man cause all of this?
   • $100,000 more in just one month? How? Where?
   • Notice that when it comes to the money spent, the liberally approximate the costs. Where are the earlier approximations like “approximately 100,626 pages”?
   • Let’s look at some simple analytics of the LTISD’s claims:
     1. They claim that I was a “nuisance” between June 20, 2005 and September 29, 2006, a time span of approximately 15 months
     2. Using the first claim of $600,000 of legal bills (refer to the LTISD administration’s presentation to the Board at the March 27, 2006^TPIA for some background), that averages out to be approximately $40,000 per month, yet over the one month time frame of September 24, 2006 – October 24, 2006 they claim costs of over $100,000?
3. The district hired one of the lawyers, Susan Bohn, who co-authored the fantastic claims made in the LTISD’s law suit.

4. Rocky Kirk signed an affidavit attesting that the “factual statements contained therein are with his personal knowledge, true and correct.” Can Rocky prove these “factual statements?”

It seems that if you are the only citizen attending board meetings, you are a nuisance. Often I am the only citizen who attends the meetings and unfortunately this happens on a very regular basis. Yes, they have their Student of the Month presentations, or something similar, at the beginning of a meeting, then everyone except myself typically evacuates the building. Why? I guess they don’t want to become an LTISD public nuisance. Do you know that we have citizens who live in the LTISD who are members of organizations with motto’s such as “Government Goes to Those Who Show Up!” who don’t even “show up” at board meetings?

Stay tuned, they have approved spending more of your tax dollars to appeal their law suit!

Read more about “SLAPP” (A Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation) law suits in Peyton Wolcott’s articles posted on her web site and on EdNews.org (Part I, Part II).