Carnal campus?
With the recent allegations coming out of McAllen ISD, my sources say they’re true, I was thinking of some special Valentine’s Day cards (e-cards) for district employees who may already be in a relationship with a school colleague. Or for one who has gone the extra mile and recorded a sexual act in a district office and/or Central Office restroom (don’t ask).
“Be my Valentine after school. I’ll lock the door.”
“My Valentine, You make desk work easy.”
“My Valentine, you’re so handy.”
If you haven’t listened to the podcasts that attempt to cover this McAllen ISD novella, you can find them online at anjournal.com. Just look for the link, “Gregg Wendorf Daily Podcast.” Obviously, I make liberal use of the word “daily,” since I still don’t upload them daily, and may go weeks between recordings. The podcasts I recently recorded about McAllen ISD, however, were back-toback, Friday thru Sunday.
Speaking of recordings, that’s the chismé going on at McAllen ISD Central Office, which my sources say is true. Digital recordings now in the hands of the administration that show at least several district employees engaged in making homemade recordings not fit for family night, some on school property, making good use of school furniture. Some of them have allegedly been found on a school computer.
Check out the Gregg Wendorf Podcast at open. spotify.com.
That may explain why the school board voted unanimously this Monday night to rescind the vote it made Jan. 9 to accept the investigation its attorney had delivered to the board allegedly involving several school district employees as well as School Board President Tony Forina. Actually, there were two complaints at play. One was allegedly made against the district’s former communications director, Jake Berry, and Tony Forina, while the other was made against the female employee filing the complaint against the two men. That second complaint was allegedly made by a young woman who also worked under Berry. To some people, it looked an awful lot like payback.
The female complainant who filed against Berry and Forina was relocated. Berry has reportedly since left the district.
In the meeting Monday, School Board Trustee Sam Saldivar, Jr., said, that he made his vote Jan. 9 to basically clear Forina of any wrongdoing, and presumably at least several of the school employees named in the two complaints, based on the school attorney’s investigation.
“That motion premise was based on an investigation finding that we now know was flawed,” Saldivar said. “…because at least two individuals material to this investigation gave false statements to our attorneys.”
In other words, those graphic digital recordings reportedly in district hands allegedly contradict statements made by at least two people who may have said that they didn’t really know one another, at least on an intimate basis.
Principal Juggles Three?
Then, as soon as those stories came out, which still need factual evidence to support and fully flesh out, someone calls me about this high-level administrator at a McAllen ISD school who was recently discovered (allegedly) engaging in intimate relationships with three subordinates. If the story I heard jives with reality, he’s in deep whatever you want to call it, because first, one woman discovered that she wasn’t his one and only, which was followed in fairly immediate fashion by number two discovering the same, immediately followed by the third woman saying, “Please explain this,” or words to that effect.
Facing three angry women can’t be fun.
If this particular novella episode is true – an administrator juggling three women/subordinates on the same campus simultaneously – then he should perhaps write an instructional pamphlet: “How to Get Ahead on Campus.”
I think at least a few people would say, “Hey, Wendorf, why are you engaging in such salacious gossip?”
Well, for starters, the people I talk to, I trust what they say. Plus, on the last podcast, I mentioned to the district, if I’m wrong, call me or email me, and I’ll run a correction/retraction: “The Central Office restroom was never seen on any of the recordings made by the solo practitioner. Nor were any digital recordings found on a school computer including a school administrator and multiple women, including a school-district employee and a young woman.”
Some Serious Stuff
I don’t take any of these sex-romp rumors lightly, even though some of the particulars may strike me as ludicrous.
I had a good friend who committed suicide. One of the greatest guys I ever knew. Always laughing, smiling, joking. The only explanation I could ever get, and even that was speculative, was that he had found out that his wife, who worked in public education, was cheating. Now when I heard that, I had a hard time believing it. Not so much about the spouse. About her there were already rumors, which may or may not have been true. In fact I almost called him once to ask him if he had heard of the rumors going around about his wife. Even if they weren’t true, he should know that there was this gossip floating around disparaging his wife. I didn’t want him to ever get blindsided. I could just never find a way to do it.
However, would discovering that his spouse was being unfaithful have pushed him over the edge? Don’t know. The last text I sent him, asking him how he was, knowing that he was recovering from an illness, he texted back to say that he was doing okay, but was requesting some privacy. Next thing I knew, he was gone.
Back to the McAllen ISD story: Besides any digital recordings that are reportedly at the district, there is also the issue of sexual harassment.
There is a certain aspect to it, however, that I’m seeing more of lately. That is, two people have been flirting with one another via the smart phone for an extended period of time. No harm, no foul, unless they’re married and their respective spouses hear about it.
Then all of a sudden, one of them gets ticked off at the other and uses those same flirtatious texts as grounds to file a charge of sexual harassment or a complaint against their former texting friend.
The only way to uncover the truth is to ask both parties to let the employer do a phone dump of both phones to see what each has been texting the other.
It’s at this point that the case is usually dropped because the accuser knows that if his or her texts are handed over, too, they’re not going to come out looking like Mother Angelica.
Sex. It’s been with us forever. The smart phones have just upped the ante in terms of what stupid things people will do when the hormones are raging.