{"id":354,"date":"2023-04-02T15:57:52","date_gmt":"2023-04-02T20:57:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.alliancewaukesha.org\/?p=354"},"modified":"2023-04-04T20:30:57","modified_gmt":"2023-04-05T01:30:57","slug":"open-letter-to-the-superintendent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alliancewaukesha.org\/index.php\/2023\/04\/02\/open-letter-to-the-superintendent\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Letter to the Superintendent"},"content":{"rendered":"<!--themify_builder_content-->\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-354\" data-postid=\"354\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-354 themify_builder tf_clear\">\n                    <div  data-lazy=\"1\" class=\"module_row themify_builder_row tb_pktw111 tb_first tf_w\">\n                        <div class=\"row_inner col_align_top tb_col_count_1 tf_box tf_rel\">\n                        <div  data-lazy=\"1\" class=\"module_column tb-column col-full tb_el7c112 first\">\n                    <!-- module plain text -->\n<div  class=\"module module-plain-text tb_h1m57 \" data-lazy=\"1\">\n        <div class=\"tb_text_wrap\">\n    <p>\n\tMr. Sebert &#8211;<br>\nStop gaslighting the \u201cstakeholders\u201d and hiding behind a policy that is being implemented in a discriminatory manner at YOUR direction. Despite the attempt in your letter to deflect responsibility for the most recent debacle, as the top administrator in our school district, the buck ultimately stops with YOU. Step up and take responsibility for your actions, the actions directed by the current board, and the actions of your staff who under YOUR explicit written direction have been told to remove \u201ccontroversial\u201d issues from the educational environment, that YOU (and the board) have erroneously interpreted to include rainbows. Better yet, do us all a favor and resign. Your lack of effective leadership, including poor decision making and inability to accept responsibility, has become an embarrassment to the school district and the community at large.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<em>-Kristin<\/em>\n<\/p>    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<!-- \/module plain text -->        <\/div>\n                        <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n<!--\/themify_builder_content-->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mr. Sebert &#8211;<br \/>\nStop gaslighting the \u201cstakeholders\u201d and hiding behind a policy that is being implemented in a discriminatory manner at YOUR direction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[23,32,17,29,30,28,15,18],"class_list":["post-354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-open-letters","tag-censorship","tag-leadership","tag-parents","tag-policy","tag-rainbows","tag-school-board","tag-students","tag-teachers","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author",""],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - 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Despite the attempt in your letter to deflect responsibility for the most recent debacle, as the top administrator in our school district, the buck ultimately stops with YOU. Step up and take responsibility for your actions, the actions directed by the current board, and the actions of your staff who under YOUR explicit written direction have been told to remove \u201ccontroversial\u201d issues from the educational environment, that YOU (and the board) have erroneously interpreted to include rainbows. Better yet, do us all a favor and resign. Your lack of effective leadership, including poor decision making and inability to accept responsibility, has become an embarrassment to the school district and the community at large. <\/p> <p> <em>-Kristin<\/em> <\/p>","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alliancewaukesha.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alliancewaukesha.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alliancewaukesha.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alliancewaukesha.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alliancewaukesha.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=354"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.alliancewaukesha.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":383,"href":"https:\/\/www.alliancewaukesha.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354\/revisions\/383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alliancewaukesha.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alliancewaukesha.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alliancewaukesha.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}