I predict.....that you're right, 1990.
 
Did ya'll see RP's interview last night on his buttboy Rick Karle's station?  He was all spruced up, no view of the reporter (c'mon, Rick, isn't the whole idea that you WANT people to know you're his buddy?), saying "there's been no wrongdoing", blah blah blah.  
 
What a waste.  
 
You're right about old A.W., too, 1990.  Gonna be very expensive to swing A.W.'s vote.  That man doesn't even have a soul.
 
One additional prediction:  the steady stream of Hoover High's great teachers heading to other school systems will grow steadily until in 5 to 7 years, there has been complete turnover in the school.  Young, inexperienced teachers (easily controlled by RP and his other buttboy, Bishie) will head every classroom and the entire culture of Hoover High School will be corrupted.
 
Final result:  everybody screams to be rezoned to Spain Park.

I agree with the prediction of what will happen.  But the public has recourse. Don't forget.  The BOE and CC will be counting on you to lose interest.  With respect to the BOE, vote in a new CC and mayor next June that assure you that the current BOE will be replaced.
 
 With respect to the "missing accounts" that cannot be found, well, my fellow Hoover citizens and friends, it's up to us whether we let them off of the hook on that one. We need to get the appropriate governmental agencies involved to review the media and other outside contracts that we know about (MTV, ESPN, Nike, summer camps run by coaches, etc..).  Once we/they have the contracts in hand, then if Andy Craig, a CPA by training, who has been either the superintendent or certified Chief Financial Officer of the Hoover school system during the entire timeframe in question,  he will be removed by the state  and/or indicted if he cannot lawfully account for the money and funds for which he is ultimately responsible. Ignorance cannot be used as a defense by him on this issue. "Oops, don't know how much money we received or how it was spent, but it must all be gone because we cannot find it" cannot be used as a defense by him. He cannot try to blame it on the internal auditor, Wendy Brandon, who served for a short period of time as interim CFO after the state BOE told Craig that he could not serve simultaneously as CFO and superintendent. ( Now we know without any doubt why he and the BOE wanted so few people involved with handling money).  The newly named CFO for the system has not been in the picture long enough to know to look for accounts outside of the school system.  But expert government investigators with full access will find them.  Craig is culpable, and since the BOE obviously sanctioned or dictated his actions, each of them is culpable, too.  The irony is that the one person who probably benefitted the most, if not exclusively, from the missing funds is RP.  But it was not RP's responsibility to take care of our taxpayer's dollars. Once, again, RP will "skate" free.
 
If any of you as private citizens want to raise your concerns and ask for an investigation from the state BOE, attorney general's office, state board of examiners, IRS, or state ethics commission, you can find their contact info on the internet.  If you need help, private message me and I'll give it to you.  The more citizens who seek an investigation, the more likely we are to receive a response.  The local media, sadly, is not doing its job for the public.  Each media outlet should be going to the central administration office and demand to see the contracts referenced above and the corresponding financial accounts for each contract.  Each individual citizen can make the same demands to review these documents. Don't wait until after the BOE's legal team concludes their investigation.  The BOE has control over what it will disclose and it won't disclose these financial issues.  If anything, I am confident that the BOE has instructed its legal team to not focus on the financial issues for the rest of its review, but solely the academic/athletic matters.

Follow the money-- everybody knew what Al Capone had done, but the only way they ever got him behind bars was for tax evasion.

this is to YOU Andy Craig. The thing to do is the RIGHT thing. Not try to hide this or sweep it under the rug.
 
Fire the people who are causing this shool system grief....Sure, there will be press and stories but you will be known as a man with morals who can be counted on to do the right thing. Don't just whisper behind closed doors like a coward...stand up and do the RIGHT THING.

Bishop IS responsible for this mess due to either negligence or covering up; he needs to go and someone that the faculty can truly trust needs to be placed at the helm of the ship.  This means that that the BOE should not promote any of the current APs to this position.  Someone new, with integrity, and with an earnest desire to make HHS the great school it can be should be his replacement (that means working for ALL students, as well as repsecting the teachers because this school has amazing teachers that work very hard for the students - they do not deserve to be told they are disposable or made to feel that way).  
FIRE BISHOP!
 
Quote from Altec on 07/23/07 at 9:54am:

Sports, do you have a child at Hoover High School?

people digging into personal info is what started this board, after school starts look for a daily surge of post around 3:30 everyday....lol

sorry guys, I for one am not a teacher.   And, I do work... but as a parent, this is somewhat important to me.  You two (MoS and Ninnyhammer) need to realize there are alot of parents in hoover pretty upset about this situation.  I'm hearing it lots of places..You can ignore it , deny it, downplay it, whatever... you're wrong.

Quote from momminator on 07/23/07 at 5:44pm:

 
mommy nator -  
 
As I scroll back up through this thread, I don't see where anyone suggested you were a teacher.  As a matter of fact, I don't even see your alias being mentioned prior to your above post.  Anyway...
 
I can't speak for MoS, but I'm not downplaying, ignoring, denying, or whatever "the situation" at all.  However, what I am doing is NOT spewing rhetoric, lies, rumors, and the likes on public forums.  I'll wait until, hopefully, facts are known and then I may, or may not, comment on the situation.
 
Look, IMHO, some things are worth looking into, while others are simply no-body's business.  If grade changes is a "common occurrence" at HHS, then that's certainly an issue worth getting fired up about and an issue needing to be addressed.  However, I discount anything that a "former" or "disgruntled" faculty member may be spreading amongst the masses.  Heck, everyone’s all in a tizzy about Rush's personal life, and allegations of him being involved in a grade-changing scheme... but yet you have limp-wristed gays and dykes alike interacting and teaching our kids on a daily basis within our schools.  And... not to mention some of the required material they have to read that are just as much against some people's religious and/or moral beliefs as what you’re all upset about as to what RP’s “supposedly” done.  But hey, that's not near as much fun as spreading gossip, allegations, and rumors about the HC of one of the most high-profile prep football programs in the nation (or the School's Admin, City's BOE, etc, etc).  Interesting, huh?  
 
In a nutshell, I guess it's what you're willing to tolerate and as to what you'll be willing to fuss about.. and of course, what you're willing to gossip about just as soon as you get home from Church each Sunday, can get online, and sign in to your account on THE Hoover forum.  
 
Go figure.

Man of Steel, as someone who played for Coach Finley, you know all about a man of character.  Coach Finley taught that while winning is important, HOW you won was just as important.  Also important was how you carried yourself and how to be a man.  
 
That you can support a man, who remarked that "The days of Bob Finley are over!" to a group shortly after being named Head Coach, is very disappointing.  I wonder what Coach Finley would have thought had he been in the room with other coaches at Hoover when this same man told his new coaching staff and supporters that if Hoover High football and winning State Championships didn't mean more to you than "this" (and he held up his wedding ring), he didn't need them.
 
I think you can be a proud Buc and at the same time want someone as Head Coach that inspires and is a good, moral leader for our sons...like Coach Finley was.