Bill Ribblett
CTA/NEA Service Center Rep or
Victor Elementary School District Employee?

So, isn't it great that CTA allowed the raid of EVERY classroom in the Victor Elementary School District. Attached is a copy of the "response" received from Bill Ribblett, the CTA/NEA Staff Person for the High Desert Region of Southern California, located in the same city as Lomitas Elementary School. Other than this "response" NO ACTION OF ANY KIND was taken by CTA to stop the abuses that were occurring. Be sure to read the comments, that come after each of the following pages!

It's rather amazing, to say the very least, that Bill Ribblett "didn't have a clue" (DUH!) as to why the original complaint about the raid on EVERY CLASSROOM IN THE VICTOR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL DISTRICT was sent to CTA's President, Lois Tinson.  Want to see just a few of  the reasons why? Take a look at some of these pages (more will be added as this site is developed!) to get an idea:

This list will get LONGER as this site continues to develop.

Too bad Bill Ribblett didn't read the original letter that his "response" was allegedly supposed to address. A few facts he would have caught include:

The individuals who "directed and controlled the Commando Raid" (Isn't it nice that Bill Ribblett was the one who created that phrase!) WERE KNOWN! Why then, DIDN'T HE DO ANYTHING ABOUT IT!

The original letter clearly stated that LOMITAS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL WAS THE LAST, of ten SCHOOLS within the Victor Elementary School District to have been searched.

A "strong site level decision making article in the contract?" Was that the contract that only 22, out of nearly 300 teachers, ratified? (Oh yeah, most teachers were not notified of this "vote"!)

"Have a discussion with your President or an Executive Board Member who has been trained in teacher advocacy by CTA?"  You MUST be kidding!!!  The VETA President's school had already been raided (could that be the same VETA President who took out an interest free loan, using membership dues, to go to on vacation to Hawaii instead of attending the CTA President's Meeting) and who also knew about ALL of the other things mentioned all over this web site? As far as finding VETA "Executive Board Members trained in teacher advocacy" - Huh? What? Having served as Chapter Treasurer of VETA for three years, that type of training was NEVER provided to Executive Board Members.

"File a grievance?!?!?!?!" - Gosh, it's amazing that you don't know that NO ONE has EVER filed a grievance against VESD - at least not in anyone's recent memory! Why didn't YOU accept your duty as the "local staff consultant" and initiate such a grievance!

An association "investigation" - Ha, ha, ha, ha!!!!! It would be a very cold day in Hell before anything like that were to happen.

Well, the association ALREADY KNEW ABOUT THE PROBLEM and did NOTHING ABOUT IT!

Agreed, "what was described should not happen to teachers and their students" - neither should all of the discrimination, segregation, harassment, etc., etc. that had gone of for so many years in the Victor Elementary School District. So then, WHERE WERE YOU?

Thank you for your permission to "share this letter with anyone who can help remedy this problem" that is EXACTLY why a petition was signed by Lomitas Elementary School Teachers that you, once again, IGNORED and also why this letter has been posted on the Internet!