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let’s talk about bob…and move on, shall we?

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Last week people erupted into ridiculousness because Chair of the Willistown Supervisors and lifelong Republican Bob Lange, along with his wife, appeared in a commercial saying why they had made the personal choice and decision to vote for Kamala Harris.

The horrible things people have said are astounding in their ignorance. Some of the most amazingly ignorant comments have come from Willistown which isn’t a shocker.

It’s really simple: Bob Lange (and his wife) made a choice that he felt strongly about as an American. No one coerced him. Like everyone else I didn’t know about it until somebody slipped me the ad, and then I actually thought good for him for standing up for what he believes in —- if people cannot deal with a man who is an adult standing up for the courage of his convictions then they need to sit down and shut up basically.

And in Willistown they should be more concerned about what jerks some of them seem to be to the rational world. Yes I am talking about that article in Philadelphia Magazine.

Yes it’s time for a segue. You know I live for those.

And no, I didn’t know that article was coming out either, until it did. I will admit I was delighted and found it amusing that they referenced my blog and they’re welcome. However, they did get one thing wrong. I am actually the one who figured out where that nasty postcard for Wildflower Farm came from. As in where it was printed based on the postal permit on it- not who paid for it.

truly, you can’t make this stuff up: the truth is always stranger than fiction with the NOFIMBY neighbors of castlebar lane. nothing like a little pre-easter crucifixion between neighbors, right?

the wildflower farm tale continues: giving it the good old NOFIMBY college try in willistown

I wrote about Wildflower Farm back then because I felt like someone had to and the Heenans are the loveliest family.

https://www.phillymag.com/news/2024/09/27/wildflower-farm-willistown/

I was also amused at the magazine’s choice of tour guide, but hey she needs to be big woman on campus with a rooster, right? Of course, that whole rooster issue and Willistown is just ridiculous and eventually they’re going to have to deal with it. The bottom line there is roosters don’t belong in regular old residential non farm neighborhoods. There’s not enough space. But maybe they should start with getting a better zoning officer? They always seem to pick the wrong ones.

Willistown gets messy. I used to think West Vincent was messy, but Willistown gets world champion domination messy. Which, bringing this back around again to what is happening to Bob Lange now, is not a surprise. And they do like to crucify him on occasion in Willistown, like they did over the whole sewer sale of it all. I bet some anti-sewer sale folks from back then are busy sucking up now, right?

Ok so yes, he’s going to vote for a Democrat, because the Republican Party is so polluted that even life-long actual Republicans, as in the party of Lincoln, can’t just say “We’ll just vote for Trump.”

What is at stake here is huge and Trump has not actually really done anything for anyone. The only one Trump is interested in is himself because he has a malignant narcissist and he has shown people since he emerged on the scene in the 70s that this is who and what he was. Nothing has ever changed about Donald Trump.

The Republican party is currently cochaired by his twat waffle daughter-in-law, so does that give you an idea of how far the party has fallen?

New Harris ad campaign will feature radio and digital spots aimed at Pa. rural and GOP voters

Do you think it was easy for Bob Lange or his wife to make this decision let alone make it public? But make the decision they did based on what was best for them.

Even Barry Dee who is Republican agreed with me on Friday on WCHE that no matter for whom people choose it is their right as an American and that is the beginning and end of the conversation except for one last word: Bob is from the socioeconomic playground that you would think wanted Donald Trump, but more and more of them do not. What goes on in Willistown of course is a completely different story because nobody knows how to behave most of the time anymore anyway.

BREAKING: hear that chester county republican committee? that’s gop hell freezing over

If Bob Lange is not voting for Trump, maybe people around here might want to think about that. I was a lifelong Republican myself until 2016 when Trump became the nominee. And when he became the nominee, I realized as a woman with a brain, I could no longer be a Republican.

chester county farmer being targeted on social media by political extremists

Actually, when I was on WCHE with Barry Dee on Friday and I ended my segment with a simple thought: I believe it is incumbent upon the leaders of the Democrats in Chester County and the Republicans to step forward and tell people to put an end to this nonsense of harassing and bullying people over who they are choosing to vote for. We all know they won’t have the balls to do that though.

People have a right to vote for whomever they are comfortable with. It’s personal choice, not lock step like a dictator told you to.

‘Farmer Bob’ Lange, Willistown Republican Supervisor and Sugartown Strawberries owner, agreed to appear in pro-Harris commercials. He’s been paying for it ever since.

I will also note that Barry Dee on Friday told the story of a Republican business owner in West Vincent who put a Trump sign up at his business, and he started getting harassed and threatened by Democrats. So freaks exist on both sides and everyone needs to STOP letting the freaks speak for ANY of us.

Also for the record, I’m not and never will be in Bob Lange’s inner circle. But I have a brain, so this isn’t so hard to figure out. Move on, people.

Part of our inalienable rights is not only the first amendment right to our opinion like this blog post. For example, we are also entitled to vote for whom we feel most comfortable voting for.

If we are currently living in a world, where people can’t safely express for whom they choose to cast their vote for, then how can we say this is the United States of America in the first place? Chew on that for a while.

Just vote like Ruth sent you and it will be good. Kidding, but it is the truth.

those who have gone before us, and today

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Today I got to see photographs that I never knew existed. We had read letters my late father in law had sent home during World War II, but we never saw the photos, because like most veterans, he never really spoke about it. He came home in one piece, he put this away and went to college on the GI Bill and started his life.

My father was too young to have been a World War II vet. He was just a little boy when World War II was being fought. I had friends whose fathers were World War II veterans, but looking through these photos was like looking through a History Channel program on World War II.

When you look at the photos, and I never knew really before this, that my late father in law liked to take photos as much as I do.

So this was his world, then. I found it very moving. And it really makes you think about what these boys (because they were boys and they were often teenagers) did and how many never came home.

This prompted me to think about the world we live in today and the things you see people protesting about and how they even behave on social media, and they don’t even realize that these were some of the young men who fought for them to maintain those rights to do so.

This was a part of time that my late father-in-law put away, so I couldn’t ask him how many of these friends of his came home from his unit or battalion, or whatever you want to call it, because I saw these photos for the first time posthumously. This is something my late friend Anna would have found fascinating, because her late father was also a World War II vet.

This gives us all a sober reminder of what people fought for around the world then, so so many others including politicians could act like idiots today.

I guess this is what we call perspective. This is yet another reason to me why this upcoming election is so important. We also can’t let down the memories of these people who fought and bled through the entirety of the history of our country so we could be free and live free.

We can’t really tell the stories of all of these unknown young men staring out at the harsh reality of a world war as teenagers in the 1940s, but we can damn well respect their memory by making sure we vote. And if that means some of you have to secretly scurry into a voting booth and vote for a Democrat for president because you know as a Republican, your choice is repugnant, just get to it. Vote in memory of these young men captured in a moment in time, vote for your sons and daughters today.

After all, this is why we vote, and why it’s so important. We vote to ensure that the horrible atrocities of the past don’t come forward again into the present and future.

chester county farmer being targeted on social media by political extremists

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So the other day, Bob Lange, a Republican supervisor in Willistown Township and farmer in Chester County, PA decided to speak his peace on the upcoming election. That is his right as an American. It created a stir locally, because he is voting for Kamala Harris. I wrote about it.

BREAKING: hear that chester county republican committee? that’s gop hell freezing over

Bob is a Republican like we used to know, from when it still was the party of Lincoln, not the party of Twatwaffles for Trump or Trumpublicans (take your pick).

So why then is some rando who seems to be from Michigan along with other randos targeting one of our farmers? For what? Exercising his First Amendment rights? Standing up as a taxpaying American farmer and saying why he’s voting for Kamala Harris? Whether you like him or not, it is his right, just like everyone else, to say who he is voting for whether or not you agree with him or not.

This is appalling behavior, and this is part and parcel what Facebook/Meta allows every day. Regular people are hounded by the creepy algorithms, and regular people are also harassed every day by completely crazy comments like this. This guy actually sat on his phone or computer or whatever and just kept vomiting a seriously defaming comment over and over again. Good job, Mark Zuckerberg.

CLICK TO READ A VERY INTERESTUNG ARTICLE FROM 9/24/24 ABOUT ZUCKERBERG

So Chester County Republican Committee (Raffi Terzian) and Republican Party of Pennsylvania (Lawrence Tabas and Liz Preate Havey) do you CONDONE this behavior? Is this what you stand for? Well? Note, I am not bothering to ask the national GOP since Trump’s huge joke of a daughter in law Lara Trump is Co-Chair. But I doubt the state GOP or county GOP will open their mouths. They are after all, good little political Stepford wives.

We can stand up and choose whom we wish as a candidate. But this is yet another reason why the United States can’t have four more years of the keeper of Mar a Lago.

It’s like we aren’t safe to have our inalienable rights.

Sign me disgusted with American politics.

more trash talk…in west whiteland

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Once again, trash is a topic of conversation literally in West Whiteland. Tonight’s board meeting also has some thing about excepting or rejecting A.J Blosenski’s latest contract. Forget about the fact that a have literally done a crap job everywhere for the past couple of years. Focus on the fact that they are talking a significant cost increase. Add to the conversation that one supervisor has been working to prove that the whole concept of going in house with trash means and how it can work and save money. But you have two of the supervisors who are townhouse development dwellers whom I think do not get it. And the one supervisor lives in a development that has private hauling, so she literally has zero clue as to the reality of living with AJ Blosenski now owned by Waste Connections. That being said she loves to ask for “data” to study while she contemplates her navel so she should try this on for size: there is a class action suit against Blosenski now. Possibly multiple class actions.

https://caselaw.findlaw.com/court/us-dis-crt-ed-pen/116103432.html

https://www.ajbclassactionsettlement.com

AJ Blosenski Trash Removal Class Action Lawsuit Investigation

See next screenshots:

I will be honest when I lived in a municipality that had their own refuse removal, it worked better. Things weren’t missed, if something happened you could speak to a real person, etc. And it was less expensive in the end then having to pay for private trash removal.

Class action suits heating up means that the litigation costs get passed through to customers, including municipalities, which means taxpayers in said municipalities are also carrying the water on this.

Those postcards were received today by Tredyffrin residents, so you know sooner or later it will make it’s way around.

talking trash west whitelandDownload

I will leave you with the numbers on A.J. Blosenski. And I will QUOTE West Whiteland Township:

For comparison, the current contracted rate for 2024 is $800,245. The proposed 2026 rate of $1,454,399.96 represents an 81.7% increase in hauling costs.

West Whiteland residents do you want an increase of 81.7 % ? I wouldn’t.

The meeting is this evening September 25th at 6:30 PM. You can go in person to 101 Commerce Drive in Exton or you can attend by zoom. Here is the packet link which includes zoom link at the top:

https://www.westwhiteland.org/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_09252024-1373

what’s with the handicap spots outside malvern borough?

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See that photo? This is today as in just a little while ago in Malvern Borough. In their parking lot.

This white Tesla is not showing a handicap tag or a handicap placard, but they just took two handicap parking spaces so they could run into the building and then come out. The parking lot isn’t jammed. Far from it.

Two days ago it was a blue Tesla. Again Malvern Borough, two spots. Two handicapped spots. The person who sent me the photo at the time told me they sat there and watched literally as two people got out of the Tesla, and “jogged” into the building. No handicap tag, paper temporary tag, or handicap hanging placard.

So is this another Tesla ignorance thing? I say a Tesla ignorance thing, because personally near where I live, I have seen a particular white Tesla run the light at a VERY problematic four way intersection instead of coming to a stop when the light is turning. so is this behavioral characteristics of people who buy the car or just plain old, ordinary ignorance?

And then you just have to wonder about Malvern Borough. Do they have security cameras that watch the parking lot? I do know for a fact that the person who took the photos has turned them over to the police department there. So my suggestion to Malvern would be if they don’t have a security camera that is trained on handicap spots, they might want to add one. That way those not entitled to handicap parking can pay for their privilege and misplaced sense of entitlement.

Obviously, something needs to be done if you’re seeing this in the same parking lot within two days of each other. Maybe once you could say it was a mistake, but with the second one in the same week, it’s like it’s a pattern isn’t it?

It’s not necessarily particularly easy to get a handicap hanging placard, or a handicap plate. I remember years ago when I lived on the Main Line I had a neighbor next-door, who literally kept his mother’s handicap placard for years after she was dead. He had no handicap, but he kept it so he could get parking spaces where he wanted. It was appalling.

Eventually, my neighbor from years ago got caught because there was one time when he parked somewhere and I forget what he was driving at the time (he used to like fancier cars), and anyway wherever he was he had not only parked in a handicap spot, but he wasn’t particularly neat about his parking, so he was partially in another spot, and his plates got run along with the handicap hangtag in his rearview mirror. Let’s just say it was like the PennDOT version of the cuffs don’t match the collar.

I also remember when someone I once knew became more ill with cancer, and they had to go through the hoops to get a handicap hanging placard because it made it easier for the person and person driving them getting in and out of a car and into places after a while. I also remember how offensive it was when they would be going to park somewhere and getting ready to pull into a handicap spot with the handicap tag in full display and somebody without any handicap tags would just steal the spot.

Another place where I see people doing this all the time is in the center of Wayne on N. Wayne Ave. Some of the rather entitled, nouveau Main Liners think that the handicap spots are for their convenience…along with taking multiple spots at a time.

Anyway, don’t be jerks out there. Please leave the handicap spots for the people who actually need them. And if you’re familiar with Malvern Borough you know that because the library is in the same place with the township building, etc. that there are a lot of senior citizens, who go there to use the library who are entitled to those spots.

Thanks for stopping by.

By the way, so I don’t get comments about this, as this occurred in a public parking lot and as such there is no reasonable expectation to privacy in a public space so this photo
is very much allowed.

politics make strange bedfellows…in chester county

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This is a friendraiser / fundraiser. Now look at the committee. CLOSELY!!! A former Chairman of the Republican Committee of Chester County is on the committee (June 9, 1996 – September 23, 2011)?

Is Mr. GOP coming to what the Chester County Republican Committee think of as THE DARK SIDE? Or is he hedging his bets?

Who woulda’ thunk you would find Mr. GOP on a committee with Brian McGinnis and Grandma Charlotte. Or again, is this perhaps like letting the proverbial Fox into the hen house? Or is this just a way for the fox to rearrange the furniture in the hen house as well?

What. A. Strange. Election. Season.

BREAKING: hear that chester county republican committee? that’s gop hell freezing over

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I just had to pick myself off of the floor. I literally fell off of my desk chair over this video which is a commercial:

I am not criticizing Bob Lange, Chair of the Willistown Supervisors. In fact, I commend him for doing this.

Yes Chester County GOP this is the sound of hell freezing over.

As a friend of mine said the other day, when you have Bernie Sanders and Dick Cheyney voting for the same presidential candidate, you know it reaches far beyond policy — it’s to preserve the country and our democracy.

Republican farmers of Chester County, this is a wake-up call for the rest of you…and no MAGA conspiracy theorists these are real people, not actors. What you think I make this up?

BOOM! (Mic drop!)

Bravo Bob, bravo.

back to lloyd farm and caln township. crucial meeting this thursday, september 26th.

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One photo is what Lloyd Farm in Caln used to look like – Next to it is today.

Main Line Health is interested in putting medical on PART of the property. I foolishly thought that they would carve off their part and do their thing and leave the Lloyd Farmhouse and land intact but that was just wishful thinking I guess?

More dirty deeds done dirt cheap on the part of the developer who has sat on this property??? And this was part of yet ANOTHER Penn Land grant and they have allowed an 18th century farmhouse to rot and be destroyed by vandals, and then there is the part Caln Township has played in this, right? Legally the house should have been secured, right? The township should have been on top of this right? The township should have been looking for a better solution, right?

Yeah, not so much, right?

The planned MOB (Medical Office Building) will be 4 stories high and residents say changing zoning from R4 that permits medical but also commercial? Residents fear the property owner / developer will come next with apartments or offices and get all of this and the house will be taken down? There’s a story behind all this isn’t there? There is always a story and as always with Caln there is zero transparency and mostly murky, right?

But hey Commissioner Lorraine Tindaro can live in her little house of hoarders and they at Caln look the other way right? Do any of those commissioners out there have clean hands? (HINT: buy them soap for their holiday gifts perhaps?)

Residents are further concerned that more is afoot. They say look at the proposal. They say it is very oddly drawn and interferes with the extension of GO Carlson Blvd to Rock Raymond Road that PennDot is doing for their expansion of 30 bypass? Its suspicious because they couldn’t explain it and why couldn’t it be explained? Does developer landowner have a secret pan?

GO Carlson Blvd is a road that runs parallel to Business 30 East to West. Lloyd will be cut off and the entrance moved to Rock Raymond Road and Rt 322/Manor Avenue and no one can explain that? Why???

The answer is it’s always fishy in Caln, right ?

GO TO THE SUPERVISORS MEETING! CALL YOUR FRIENDS AND REPORTERS.

And to be clear: if medical use was merely being carved out and the balance of the property was being carved out and house saved that would be different, but once again residents are waiting for the hidden shoe to drop in Caln once again. And if this is all true how cruel is it to use much needed medical in this part of the county as a Trojan horse for more development that no one needs on the rest of Lloyd Farm?

Caln Board of Commissioners Meeting is Thursday, September 26th 2024. 6 PM.

The notice on the township website starts with their projected end time of the meeting. I think that is done on purpose to confuse. The meeting starts at 6 PM. Show up a little earlier and get a good seat.

Bring your pitchfork. Actually kidding on the pitchfork, just SHOW UP. You seriously need to rally and pack the meeting.

Caln Municipal Building is 253 Municipal Drive in Thorndale.

If you care, show up. No excuses, no one knows if this will be it or not so no meeting skipping you have to show up if you care. No one likes to make the time for this stuff but if you live out there and you care or your historic preservationist and you care, show up.

https://www.calntownship.org/board-of-commissioners.html

philadelphia is a cesspool of problems

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See that above? Philadelphia is truly a city in chaos. Flash mobs have evolved, and this is like flash mob 2.0. No longer is it crowds doing meet ups and showing up and raising hell and being destructive in department stores or in shopping areas they are doing this with cars and people on the streets. It’s insanity.

There are a lot of things circulating on social media in the form of little videos, either taken by people higher up in high-rises in Philadelphia or drones. I was accused of spreading fake news today by a former state elected official. Literally they said they Googled it, didn’t see anything therefore I must be wrong. Didn’t matter that there was a Philadelphia Police Department Press Conference or articles in the Philadelphia Inquirer. Or pick a TV station.

This is what I had shared and sorry downloads from Facebook didn’t come with volume:

However, the volume isn’t important it’s the visual of what you’re seeing happening on the streets of Philadelphia. Not random remote neighborhoods, but center city Philadelphia. As in 15th and Market in front of City Hall. Cops and civilians were injured. They literally tried to run cops over. They also had flamethrowers, which is why you saw the street on fire.

But hey, it was just me being mean. It’s just me being mean about Philadelphia then I had another currently elected state official tell me how they didn’t believe this to be true. That this was isolated. Well, honey, when the police are reporting 11 of the same incidents in one night, it’s not isolated.

I did save my screenshots. I like to be factually accurate. These politicians are fortunate I am not posting the screenshots. Well I am posting one. THIS ONE:

I asked this politician why it was my job to do something? I asked why I wasn’t allowed to have my opinion? I asked wasn’t this the job of elected officials and former elected officials to help take care of? And I like the way they peppered this comment with gun control too. Do they really want to have that conversation because this conversation has nothing to do with that conversation.

And then my favorite if I’m not going to do anything personally then why am I complaining? I wasn’t complaining I was stating my opinion, but if somebody doesn’t like your opinion, and they are or were an elected official, then you’re complaining, right? But hey, I’m glad I was able to have this conversation where my opinions don’t matter because when I have seen this person out, they have pretty much tried to avoid even saying hello, and when all you are doing is being polite and saying hello at a function, well that is silly and rude. Actually they are not the only current or former elected official who has done that when they see the evil blogger in the room. I don’t really care, but I do like to point it out, because I find it amusing.

I was born in the city of Philadelphia and I lived there during other tumultuous times. I was born in the mid-1960s and we lived there to the mid-1970s, and trust me there were all sorts of things that people and suburbia thought never happened and it all happened.

Crazy Vietnam era protests, getting jumped by gangs as a kid in Bingham Court of all places in Society Hill, and that really did happen because my best friend at the time got her little glasses smashed in her face because they were trying to steal our bikes. We were little kids. Maybe 5th grade.

Getting mugged with our parents when we were carrying UNICEF boxes going trick-or-treating. That happened too.

Flash forward to today when people I know have been attacked on their own doorsteps on well lit streets in good (and fairly expensive neighborhoods) over the past few years.

And I guess the whole riots and looting of recent past in Philadelphia are just fake news too?

These things are actually happening and this is the reality of Philadelphia and people can do what they want. I choose to stay out of the city as much as possible now. I don’t find it enjoyable any longer, and there’s so many things I used to love about the City of Philadelphia.

The streets are a mess, they have a mayor who wants to destroy Chinatown with the sports arena, there’s crime, there’s all sorts of stuff all over the streets, every single day. There are professional beggars, mentally ill and drug addicted homeless etc.

And remember when the Temple cop that got carjacked and shot outside a newer apartment building at Temple? Was that the building that your kid lived in? It was the building ours lived in.

Have you ever been surrounded by a mob of illegal ATVs on the streets? I was once years ago and trust me, it’s something you will never ever forget. It’s scary.

Did you have an elderly relative harassed by a deranged homeless person sitting on a bench outside her doorman building? I did. I also had a friend riding his bike beaten to a pulp by a gypsy cab driver kind of cab driver because he couldn’t get out of the way fast enough when the cabbie was barreling down the wrong way on a one way street. That didn’t make the news, so does that mean that it didn’t happen? (And it took the police over 2 hours to respond.) And what most don’t realize and wouldn’t realize unless you knew people that live in the city, a lot of times crime is not reported because the police don’t come or can’t come in a timely manner because they are dealing with such a volume of bad things.

Close to this time a year ago when I was having postcancer, reconstruction surgery, when we were driving home from a hospital in Philadelphia, the streets were lit up like it was noon on a bright sunny day. And these were streets that had street lights, but as we’re driving down the street directly above us is a police helicopter with big giant lights on looking for some criminal.  that is definitely another give you pause moment.

So don’t tell me I’m making things up or posting things that didn’t happen, they have happened and they are happening.

A friend of mine, who is also a Democrat said, just ignore the critics on this, they are wearing liberal blinders. I found that a wonderful turn of phrase. And I am floored that with all that we have at stake in this country that you are expected to be exactly the same as everyone else and you can’t point anything out that’s different or point anything out that might be wrong even if it is wrong.

Philadelphia is a hot mess. You don’t have to like my opinions when I share something it doesn’t make me a bad person or wrong.

We can’t just dumb down life. Wake up.

hey great valley school district is this what is now officially known as a tiktok fall guy?

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So I wrote about why was the Great Valley Middle School principal last week, remember?

when did middle school become such a hell hole?

You would have thought that I was committing sacrilege or something for asking.

And then last week there was the threat of it all as well.

https://www.shorenewsnetwork.com/2024/09/22/police-and-school-district-investigate-threat-at-great-valley-middle-school/

So hmmm…my opinion (which I am allowed) is this man is officially now the TikTok fall guy. Fall guy much Great Valley School District ? The TikTok principal of Great Valley Middle School took his orders like a good soldier, yes? So why is superintendent staying? I would be curious as to which parents were emailed because parents I know who always look at their email did not get an email they saw this on a social media page.

I feel sorry for this man. Perhaps it’s time for Superintendent Daniel Goffredo to actually go? He’s the top, effective leadership is supposed to start at the top but is it?

Allow me to quote some parents:

I did not receive an email either. Nor did the other mother of my children. And this is why I feel the way I do about these situations. I have to find everything out not from the source. And most of the time my kids know more than I do.

And

BS- there is no email to ‘parents’. I just checked all my folders. I have plenty other emails from them regarding the MS including one earlier today at 11:35 as a follow up to Friday’s incident. But nothing on the 19th, or 18th, or any other day with that information. What a great way to find out because someone else posts on FB….not!

I searched my primary inbox, spam, promotions, social and updates. All my folders, and there is nothing. Just the emails about Friday’s incident, and nothing from the district on the prior days post School Board meeting when they approved his retirement as a no-name employee number xxx (found in the agenda under personnel item 1e I think)… I suspected it that night. Now I know.

And

I didn’t see one. I agree. Fall guy.

And

I DID NOT receive the email that was supposedly sent to families on 9/19. Upon finding out the news tonight on Facebook(of course) in another group where other parents were sharing similar screenshots and saying this is also their first time learning about it, I went digging in my email thinking I missed something. Nope. I checked my primary folder, spam, promotions, social and updates folders. These are all my 5 folders. Nada. Zilch. No such email. None of the MS families who commented in other groups have received the email mentioned in dr Goffredo’s blurb.
I had my suspicions during the latest SB meeting when one of the agenda items under Personnel was ‘Retirement Agreement Employee #827867, effective June 30, 2025’. The other staff members were all named in the agenda.
Lack of communication, poor communication, conflicting information/communication, too vague and so on- these are just some of the continuous complains from the community when it comes to GVSD. You’d think they would double check that an email was indeed shared with families before posting that claim in an official statement. I won’t say I’m surprised- I’m most certainly not.
Dr Souders wasn’t perfect- who is? But to see him go this way is sad.

Update about MS Leadership
The Great Valley School District emailed teachers and families to provide an update about leadership at Great Valley Middle School. The email is below in its entirety.
September 19, 2024
Dear GVSD Community,
This email is sent to update you about leadership at Great Valley Middle School. Dr. Edward Souders will remain on leave for the remainder of the school year and will retire in June 2025. Consistent with our practice, we cannot provide any additional information as we are committed to honoring our employees’ right to privacy.
Dr. Sharon Cohen will remain in the interim principal role at Great Valley Middle School and will be supported by Mr. Thomas Mulvey. We will conduct a principal search in an expeditious manner with the goal of naming a permanent principal as soon as possible. You can expect an additional announcement regarding the search in the near future.
We are grateful to Dr. Souders for his many years of service to the Great Valley School District and wish him well in his retirement.
Sincerely,
Daniel Goffredo, Ed.D.
Superintendent of Schools

https://ms.gvsd.org/

Think it’s still just me?

And Great Valley School District has person whose job it is to communicate. This is yet another failure to communicate in this school district, sadly. Maybe she should retire too?

Well Great Valley this sure is awkward isn’t it? Should the question actually be should Goffredo stay or should he go now?