In a move very few are willing to understand. The SBBC chooses the first ever School Board Meeting where there is a 5pm Public Speaker Time... the first time in the Presidency of Anna Fusco, and the Vice Presidency of Terry Lopez Preuss that close to 200 teachers crowded into the school board chambers wearing the new BTU logo'd bright blue T Shirts to show solidarity.... the first time that over a dozen teachers spoke to the board in earnest about the bully mandates and technology reverie that impedes teaching.... this is the time they choose to film only from the BACK OF THE HEAD! WHY?
President Fusco made an inspiring plea to the county and she was faceless. Not one camera managed to focus on her speech or her countenance.
Dozens of teachers followed suit and they were faceless. Public speakers, even children who spoke were faceless. WHY?
I've never seen anything like it. Not one speaker had their face on the footage. What an outrage! And for what purpose?
Our voices are heard but our faces go unseen.
Does this make our VOICES matter less?
We will continue to speak and do hope this affront will be quickly rectified.
Already Representatives Osgood and Bartleman have taken to asking why and getting the situation improved after many emails and calls came in to BTU and a letter to Runcie and the Board was written inquiring... Faceless Voices...Why? We are grateful to them and all others who move quickly to rectify the insult made to our members, presenters, committee representatives, teachers, leaders and even students showing their speaking talents.
The reason for the sudden and ill timed change in how citizen's and speakers are filmed is said to have come by way of PR person, Tracy Clark, who is said, by Terry Lopez Preuss, BTU VP, to have stated that she had made the decision to do this in order to facilitate filming in some way and have a set pattern in place for future filming, where the cameras do not need to shift around.
However, being that I am Terry Lopez Preuss... I doubt she could have made this decision on her own without a directive from above and I find it sad that the young PR rep is taking the fall for this.
If she did make the decision. Easy fix... un make it!
:-) And hurry....Please !
Terry Lopez Preuss, NBCT
Saturday, October 22, 2016
Monday, October 17, 2016
A BADASS is Born July 13, 2013
Hi all! I wrote a letter to my superintendent recently after a mass exodus of our seasoned veterans got walking papers or where muscled out. I knew nothing of Eli Broad or Badasses when I wrote this a few weeks ago, when the last straw of the exodus was issued. Decades deep gutting of my school... and even laying off an office clerk who served my community 28 years. My city was outraged. My mayor is trying to help us save my school. I will soon be meeting with a group of parents, teachers and students and the superintendent. BADASS founder suggests I get your local support. I'm in Broward. How can we stop this together? I'm already working with the press. A fellow badass also published below in his blog parts of my letter. I need help and Ideas. I can out myself as a badass or keep it on the down low... but my community is getting involved and we plan to stop this hostile takeover which has devastated my once A school with a large voluntary gifted and advanced program. Those have fled, leaving my school with half the population and test scores going down. I thought it was just incompetence, and Rallied the community... but now that I know my Supt. Is an Eli Broad alumni... what do I do know and how can you guys help me??
from: BAT...Christopher Chase: Terry, thanks for showing me the letter you wrote to your superintendent. I posted it here, edited with names taken out. Let me know if you want it changed in any way.https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=605336429498190
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