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You can keep saying something over and over, but that doesn't make it the truth.
As I have noted earlier, Superintendent C. J. Huff has continually told the Joplin R-8 Board of Education that everything was going to be okay with the state audit.
Of course, that was before the exit meeting with representatives from the state auditor's office Tuesday night. I haven't heard what Huff is telling the board now, but this is what he told everyone on his Twitter account Wednesday.
You can click on the photo to enlarge it, but if you don't want to go to the trouble, it reads, "Great Board meeting last night. Thank you to the MO State Auditor's team for their closed session presentation to the board. Very helpful."
For some reason, though, C. J. Huff did not want this tweet to be seen by Turner Report readers since he blocked my Twitter account.
Now why would he not want me to know that everything well and that the audit was wonderful?
Anyone wonder when they will have a school board meeting so the superintendent can tell the board what the auditor said...?
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ReplyDeleteOkeh.
Spin, baby, spin. Yes, it was a wonderful meeting. Don't let my greasy tight face and my sweaty armpits while I was talking about those TIF funds fool you. That was a great time. And the parade of fools, aka elementary principals and their nonstop blather of the latest school vernacular was spectacular. It'll make no difference at test time, but it looked good right now. We'll have a new excuse by August, you betcha. All that, and an audit, in one night. Now, what fool wouldn't think that was a good time? The dessert was the depraved McGrew spewing morality instead of alcohol laden vomit. Good times. Good times.
ReplyDeleteI've heard some stupid stuff over the years but this takes the cake. Does he think we will be all warm and fuzzy when it comes out and too stupid to realize what it says? Perhaps our little friend is just trying to buy a few weeks time until he can run off and join his friends in Texas. After all, he won't want to face those pitchforks and lanterns when that auditor comes back. Please leave. Soon.
ReplyDelete96 grand for new seats. 53 million dollars borrowed to cover his ass in construction. Empty reserves. Cuts to classified and certified staff. 14 million gone in TIF funds. No fema funds on the horizon. Expenses to restore the East warehouse, the mall school, and MODOT to their former state. Excess trips. Jumbo tron. 6 mile ribbon. bonus retirement accounts for Paul and CJ--thanks Ange, for leaving, and making that possible. Excess folks at admin. A new middle school that didn't need to be built. This is all I can remember off the top of my head. I bet that audit was really fun.
ReplyDeleteHope I can copy this post so I can share your list. Oh well maybe the globe will print it Lol
DeleteEvery time I think this dumbass had embarrassed us as much as possible, he proves me wrong. I cringe wondering what he will do next.
ReplyDeleteThat meeting had to be as much fun as a colonoscopy. Now you know how the rest of us feel, Huff. I didn't think it was fun though. That's just perverted.
ReplyDeleteBamboo under the nails. Thumbscrews, Hair shirts. All equal in fun value to that meeting. Can't wait until the next one.
ReplyDeleteWell now, folks, couldn't you all tell by the way they were rocking those chairs so hard through the TIF presentation that they were having a great time? A fool might have thought they looked tense, judging from their expressions. But nope, it was a party all night long. I would love to play poker with this bunch. Be better pay than my day job.
ReplyDeleteI just hope they get the cuts in funding figured out before I have to sign my contract. Kind of need to know if the loss of income is going to continue. Or if my job will still even be there. I need to know in time to look around.
ReplyDeleteDual appointment calendars for deceptive purposes, falsifying attendance records to aquire state funding, justification for the continued employment of MJ after having to pay out huge lawsuit amounts with more pending, his hundreds of thousands made (but not reported) on his boo-hoo hero tour and the coup de gras-a multimillion dollar high school that is unfinished, falling apart and sinking.
ReplyDeleteHis degree of arrogance appeared to have been taken down a few notches after this audit report came out. And quite frankly, his face aged 10 yrs in those few hours the auditors were here. Anne, I hope you plan on paying him from your personal account when he runs, since you're the one that insisted on the second and third year to his contract. What does he have on you? Why are you so indebted to him? What is so bad, or so important to you, that we, and our children, must be punished so severely? Don't you think enough is enough? You have now turned the people against you as well. We use to be on your side, you could have gone further, but you betrayed our trust. Shame on you and shame on those that thought CJ Huff was good for our children. He is no better than Wallace Bajjali. Huff blew into town, made a pile of promises he didn't fulfill and debated us financially. The only difference is he hasn't sculked off in the midnight hour, as of yet. But thanks to you Anne, he won't have to, you've guaranteed him a bundle of cash if he gets fired. Something is fishy here and the BOE had better start dressing up to the corruption before the taxpayers open up a lawsuit for breach of contract of the education of our children and misallocation of taxpayer funds by the Joplin School District. It's time you people understand you are elected by us, therefore work for us. You are to listen to us and not do as you damn well please.
Well said 7:17
DeleteTeachers are tired of the lies, tired of the rhetoric, tired of being belittled and disrespected, tired of being forced to "teach" in a manner detrimental to the students, tired of the meaningless data and assessment, tired of spending countless hours collecting numbers to dissect during the poorly-named professional development meetings, and tired of this administration and school board.
ReplyDeleteI don't think Annie cares about the financial mess she and Huff have created. She's so angry that people no longer go along in lock step with her, that she forced the extension of his contract as a big FU to the public and worse the school children of Joplin. Vote her off the BOE.
ReplyDeletePay attention to some of the points Anonymous @7:17 PM made, if they turn out to be true:
ReplyDeleteFalsifying documents to get money is fraud that the state and/or the Feds should be very interested in.
Falsifying financial disclosure records is something the state ought to be very interested in.
I'd add that spending earmarked money for other things, like the Franklin Tech money that went for video stuff outside of Franklin Tech, ought to be something the authorities would be interested in (but they might skate on the Franklin Tech stuff).
Just being stupid is not criminal, and we can't make it criminal without only the worst of people volunteering to become school board members. As bad as things are in Joplin R-VIII, there's much much worse out there, as our host implicitly notes from time to time.
Also look for some variant of the most chilling thing an auditor can say (after finding fraud), the going concern qualification, that there is "substantial doubt about its ability to continue as a going concern". That is, in the forseable future they're going to run out of money absent some sort of bailout, and the well for that is pretty dry after the huge bond issue, then the sub rosa borrowing we weren't allowed to vote on.
I wonder how much a favorable report from a State Auditor goes for these days?
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