A publication of the Mastics-Shirley Citizens Coalition for Honesty and Integrity in our Schools.
Just a few of
Rich's
Inane Excuses for Incompetence and Corruption!
Don't expect any apologies or acceptance of responsibility from Rich, after all, he didn't know anything, or rather, "it's just perceptual"?!
From Newsday: Hawkins states....
"Unfortunately, if an individual is driven to theft, no amount of safeguards, internal controls, or burglar alarms and sirens will stop him."
In reply: A quote from Suffolk District Attorney Thomas Spota "The superintendent is the person who has to answer to the community for this. He's the leader. I don't know how in God's name the superintendent of schools can continue to say ... that all these crimes occurred and he and every other administrator in that place were blind to it and couldn't have prevented it. That's just not acceptable. " We couldn't agree more, Mr. Spota!
Don't tell
William Floyd schools chief Richard Hawkins things are going
great, unless you've got proof.
"How do you know?" he'll counter, never content to settle for
the pat answer, say many who work for him. In
reply: we really have to wonder what Mr. Hawkins knows also!?
Responding to concerns raised about board members' business connections to the district, Hawkins said, "It's just perceptual. What we've done is we have disclosed it and abstained from voting. There's nothing wrong with that." In reply: this statement really speaks for itself, total disregard for ethics or conflict of interest, or integrity for that matter.