Sunday, August 21, 2022

THE WHEELS GRIND SLOWLY......

By Bob Walsh

 

PHOTO: Nikolas Cruz, the suspect in a shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., is escorted out of a hospital and into a police car.
Nikolas Cruz, the suspect in a shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., is escorted out of a hospital and into a police car.
 

A Grand Jury report has just been released regarding the goat-rope at the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida in 2018.  It isn't pretty.

The report recommends that Governor DeSantis remove four members of the Broward County School Board for misfeasance, nonfeasance, neglect and incompetence in their oversight and handling of the district's campus safety program.  Patricia Good, Donna Korn, Ann Murray and Laurie Rich Levinson are the targets.  A fifth member, Rosaline Osgood, has since failed upward and is now a member of the state senate.

The district is the sixth largest in the country with 333 schools, 270,000 students and a budget of $4 billion.

The grand jury report focuses on the causes of the shooting and the district's non-response to them rather than the law enforcement issues once the excrement hit the air circulation device.

You might recall the Governor removed Broward County Sheriff Scott Israel from office back in 2019, shortly after DeSantis took office.  Assuming the governor does remove the board members he gets to appoint there replacements. 

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