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On the Blog Post District 135 Honors Staff Service Milestones
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On the Blog Post What is Palos Hills doing about the increasing homeless population?
Bob
12:55 pm on Monday, May 20, 2013
Patty, I understand that many stay at the Chicago Ridge Nursing Center. According to their statistics ( http://www.skillednursingfacilities.org/directory/il/chicago-ridge/chicago-ridge-nursing-center/145639/ ) about 46% of their short term patients are given anti-psychotic drugs. There's about 231 patients there IIRC. that's the "demographic" for many of the homeless. Under medication, I wouldn't be surprised if most had the priviledge of leaving the facility for periods of time.
You've also got "Homeless" shelters at St Mark's Lutheran Church at 111th and 78th ave and at Sacred Heart Church next to Stagg HS.
There's also two rehab/halfway houses at 10761 S. Roberts Rd and 9944 S. Roberts Rd (right across from Conrady Middle School). Doesn't seem like a good place to put one of these places, does it? Ask Mayor Jerry why he thought it was a good idea. They need a permit to open one there. In fairness, both those places are private pay, so I don' think there are too many indigent there.
Bottom line? We have a lot of organizations that chose to attract the homeless and those with mental issues into our community. If you invite those folks and give them something to come for, they're there!
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On the Blog Post District 135 Honors Staff Service Milestones
Bob
12:19 pm on Monday, May 20, 2013
ReplyWow! These folks look WAYYYY too young to quit working! Time to rethink this "Early Retirement Option" stuff that's bankrupting the state and soon will devastate our local schools after Dem Mike Madigan's "cost shifting" for pensions!
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On the article Coroner Reveals Scheidegger had Alcohol in his System During Fatal Crash
Bob
9:47 am on Wednesday, May 22, 2013
I see you don't have the guts to give your name, though you choose to insult my wife and I. I guess that shows the kind of character YOU have.
Also, if you ARE a lawyer, you apparently aren't a very good one. You'd recommend that a client of yours who's seen a person once in twenty years accuse them of drug abuse based upon rumors? If it was true, I'd be reporting it to people in the administration who likely knew about it and chose to cover it up and take no action. If it wasn't true, I'd be harming an innocent person. I had no information or reason to believe she was endangering students, yet you, as a lawyer, would recommend treating them as they had?
You either are lying about being a lawyer, Pat, or you must've gotten your law degree from a correspondence school.
As far as bringing my wife into this, she has her own opinions, apparently unlike you and your wife who have to meld your first names to state an opinion. Or do you demagogue her thoughts too?
Please note I didn't give the teachers name. That wouldn't be fair to them. I brought it up because I have reason to believe there's been drug abuse in staff at 230. The tragic situation here indicates there MAY still be one. That's the question I brought up which you would prefer to attack me over rather than addressing.
My intent is to deal fairly with a situation that may be a threat to the kids. You want to attack that position. Who on the staff are you trying to protect?
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On the article Protesters March Down 95th Street Over Alleged Racial Profiling
Bob
1:47 pm on Sunday, May 19, 2013
ReplySeems like there's more cops than protesters. i wonder how much of our tax dollars went to payfor this non-resident's "free speech" rights. Municipalities have the pwoer to charge demonstrators a fee (at cost) for police services associated with the event. Anyone know if Sexton charged the perp so that taxpayers weren't stuck with the bill?
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On the Blog Post What is Palos Hills doing about the increasing homeless population?
Bob
8:58 am on Sunday, May 19, 2013
ReplyMany "homeless" people to whom you're referring actually are not "homeless" but live in an open drug and alcohol rehab center near SW Hwy and Harlem.they're a lot of the folks you see with the panhandling signs at intersections in the area.
Although things have changed in the Obama middle class depression, a few years ago I had an apartment available near the end of the year, and I kept hearing how there were deserving families that did nothing wrong who were homeless, so I figured as part of my charitable giving for the year I'd give the apartment free to homeless family in the area form three months, provided the referring charity would take responsibility for any damage they may cause.
This would allow the family to enroll their kids in local schools and give them and address that woudl help them get a job.
I had some simple criteria for people enjoying the "freebie"; no resident could have a criminal record or history of substance abuse, no smoking allowed, and no pets.
Any clean living family just down on their luck would qualify.
I contacted the main charities in the area, and they COULDN'T FIND A SINGLE HOMELESS FAMILY THAT COULD QUALIFY.
Now this was before our current Obama middle class depression, so things may have changed.
I've also been a part of the St Vincent DePaul Society in the area, and I know there is need, but the "homeless" issue seems more drug, crime and mental illness related than just economic.
Is this is still true, Shari
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On the article Coroner Reveals Scheidegger had Alcohol in his System During Fatal Crash
Bob
9:59 pm on Thursday, May 16, 2013
PPatrickJane, to answer your questions,1) no I've never done coke. 2) As a former teacher, I was trained on noticing the symptoms of drug abuse, but there's few "sure signs" of using a certain drug. If I saw a teacher snorting in the bathroom, you BET I'd report it.
You sound from your shrill, ignorant justification for drug users in public ed being protected to be a public school teacher, perhaps in 230. Tell me, why does your union oppose random drug testing as every REAL professional does such as nurses and engineers? No evidence, no crime, right?
Finally, I've published my name many times in these blogs. I don't hide. Have YOU got the guts to give your real name, or are you just a sniping coward with personal attacks from the shadows? I suspect the latter.
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On the article Coroner Reveals Scheidegger had Alcohol in his System During Fatal Crash
Bob
3:30 pm on Thursday, May 16, 2013
ReplyFinally, I thought the substance abuse issues in 230 had been solved, but apparently not. About 10 years ago I did some subsitituting there, and I ran into one of my former teachers. She had far more energy in her fifities than I remember her having in her twenties. I remarked about this to a student, and they gave me the "coke sniffing" sign. A number of other students brought up the same thing. Apparently it was an "open secret" that some teachers were coked up at school.
Under the current policies, teachers are only drug tested at hire, unless someone reports them as appearing to be intoxicated. Apparently that rarely, if ever, happens.
I've had kids in the district for the last 8 consecutive years, and I must admit I haven't seen or heard of any sign of a problem, but this incident may indicate a problem still exists.
That being said, it would be a tragedy if a faculty or staff member exhibited the kind of problem that appears to be the case here, and didn't do anything about it for the good of the employee.
Is anyone else aware of whether this may NOT be an isolated incident in 230? No names please.
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On the article Coroner Reveals Scheidegger had Alcohol in his System During Fatal Crash
Bob
3:20 pm on Thursday, May 16, 2013
BTW, I understand the Stagg students were arrested by the Palos Hills police for "starting a riot" even though no physical harm to stuednts or Staff nor property damage occurred!
For Chrissakes, what would "Palos Hills finest" do if they had to deal with a REAL violent "riot"? It seems they have WAY too much time on their hands......
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On the article Coroner Reveals Scheidegger had Alcohol in his System During Fatal Crash
Bob
3:17 pm on Thursday, May 16, 2013
I truly hope not, Davey. Getting intoxicated on a school sponsored event would be cause for a student to get a long suspension if not expelled. I would expect the consequences for a faculty/staff/ administrator would be far more severe.
Last week a bunch of kids (seniors) got into a water balloon fight at the Stagg HS lunch room (no bleech or other "unmentionable" things in the balloons) and they were given 10 day suspensions and denied the priviledge of being in the graduation ceremonies.
If the district is that severe with behavior of throwing harmless water balloons, how severely should faculty and staff be disciplined for risking their and innocents' lives by DUI while participating in school activities? I'll bet if he was at a school event we paid him for his vehicle expenses so he was probably "on the clock" for a salaried faculty member.
Even more troubling is that it's unlikely this is the first time he was in this condition. Perhaps some "tough love" with a demotion, suspension, or other disciplinary action could've saved his life. Preventable tragedies are perhaps the worst ones to suffer.
Bob
4:18 pm on Monday, May 20, 2013
If so, that's my bad. I guess the retirees are the first names listed, although they're not identified in the story as such. Seems most of the pictures are of people not on the list. Too bad they couldn't get the retirees together for a picture. That's the way its usually done.
BTW, I see a Lynn Zeder recognized in the district office for 20 years of service. How can she have 20 years in 135 when she was assistant principal over at Palos South for a few years? I think she was in 140 or 146 before that. It seems she found her niche in curriculum development. She sure had some problems in the principalship department, expecially in discipline issues. Did she ever become a principal at 135? I know she was up for a spot at one time.