Special Note: The author would like to thank Keith Ball, Principal of Woodstock Middle School in Cherokee County, Georgia, for all the extra traffic he has been driving to this site.
If Mr. Ball referred you to this blog, please understand that his actions are the result of his personal vendetta against my fiancee’, Allison Burnes. For the record, Allison Burnes does not write, edit, approve, or support what is published here. I alone am responsible for this content.
Mr. Ball’s problem is with me, but he can’t seem to muster the courage to take me to task directly. Instead, he is referring all of Allison’s prospective employers here, hoping to sabotage her career by blaming my writings on her. It’s wrong, and you deserve to know his motives and the relevant facts. If you would like to read all of the articles related to Mr. Ball as of 2-15-2010, please use this link. The posts are displayed in reverse chronological order, so read from the bottom up. Thank you for visiting.
I have today filed my complaint with the Georgia Professional Standards Commmission against Principal Keith L. Ball of Woodstock Middle School. Not having firsthand knowledge or hard evidence (yet) of his other ethics violations, I have confined this complaint to his professional misconduct with respect to my blog. To wit, I cite his attempts to censor me by applying inappropriate pressure to my fiancee’ and her career, and his maintenance of copies of my writing in her personnel file in violation of my copyright and my explicit written denial of permission.
You can view the complaint here. In the file, I have used old-fashioned mechanical means (Post-It flags) to redact certain personal information in the interest of my privacy and my fiancee’s. The report sent to the Commission is complete.
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Good for you! More power to your elbow 🙂
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You go kick his sorry ass scotty 🙂
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Hope they listen
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Way to go Scott, It will be intresting to see what they do, and how he reacts.
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If by “him” you mean Ball, I expect that he will remain true to form. He’s not bothered responding to anything to date, and I expect he’ll keep his head buried in the sand.
That, in fact, is the most damning part of this entire situation. Anyone can make a mistake. I’ve made some damned grievous ones in my time, I can tell you. Most of us have consciences that compel us to recognize those wrongs, make appropriate apologies for them, and take action to remedy them. I can respect that — my respect for a man increases when he displays this kind of responsible behavior. When a man ignores his mistake and plows ahead unmindful, that man loses my respect, and the respect of anyone possessed of a conscience and the facts.
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I have remained fairly quiet during all of this. I am doing my own thing behind the scenes. Because it involves a student and confidentiality issues, I can’t blog or comment much about it. I can say that I have sent a complaint based on some of the things in which I was directly involved. When this is all over I will happily tell my story – that is if the parent doesn’t beat me to it on the nightly news.
I support Scott in what he has done. The use of his blog against me put me in the position of having to choose between my career and my beloved. Mr. Ball made sure I felt his displeasure several times over before Scott made the blog private. As I told one administrator, don’t ask me to choose between the person I am committing my life to and my boss’s ego. Ball goofed, got caught and it was publicized. Little did we know that all of that was only a warning of what was to come.
I have been informed that Ball has hired his own attorney. Very interesting.
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Scott – I am one who strongly believes in one taking responsibility for ones own actions, right, wrong, or indifferent. After spending 20 years in the military, and another 5 in the private sector, you would be surprised at the number of people that are supposedly ‘successful’ that do NOT adhere to this.
Allie – hang in there, so long as you are in the right and doing the right thing by the student, you will be ok. It is unusual that he has now retained an attorney though…I think he is preparing for his inevitable downfall…