Of The Jedi and Emancipation

Junior (watching Star Wars Ep 1): "Daddy, d'know Anakin was a slave?"
Me: "What do you think a slave is?"
Junior: "A person who works for someone else."
Me: "Am I a slave? I work for someone else."
Junior: "Nah, it's when you do gardening and stuff."

The Kallenberg Case - Smackdown on KCBE

In the sordid Kimberley Kallenberg defamation case, U.S. District Judge Leon Jordan lays a smack-down on Knox County Schools. Judge Leon states, citing case law, that both KCS and individual defendant Russ Oaks's response to Kallenberg's arguments "simply fails the straight face test" and calls the defendants' responses "ineffective", "disingenious" and "inadequate", all of which are apparently legalese of "yer full of shit". Now that Knox County Board of Education has turned its lawyers to its witnesses and is engaged in pointless legal floundering, one cannot but ask: When is Knox County Schools Superintendent Jim McIntyre grow a pair and end this trainwreck, fire the instigators and settle the case with due dignity?

The Kallenberg Case - Bombshell Documents

Holy Moley. The truth is finally getting out. This case has stunk to high heavens, and now Knox County Schools is in deep do-do for hiding crucial documents. These uncovered documents prove that school system officials knew that accusations against Kimberly Kallenberg were untrue and attempted to discredit Kimberly Kallenberg her through a vicious email campaign.

According to a memo belatedly released by Knox County Schools, the school system attorney had credible information from the get-go that there was an "insider consipracy at Powell High to get rid of Kimberly Kallenberg", and that the ex-principal at Powell High, Diane Psihogios, was intimitated by the school system.

Yet, at the eve of the trial, scheduled for July 7th, Knox County Schools is engaged in full-on legal shenanigans, flipping Knox County Law Director's Office attorneys to defense witnesses, releasing oodles of critical documentation thus far having been covered by client-attorney privilege. Attorney Greg Isaacs claims that KCS was wrongly withholding documents that would have proved Kimberly Kallenberg's innocence and the school system's misconduct, including sworn statements from Powell High staff proving that grade tampering allegations against Kallenberg were patently false. Isaacs is going to have a field day with these stooges.

Kallenberg was ousted from her position as a Vice Principal at Powell High School after allegations of sexual misconduct and grade tampering -- both of which were never proven. As expensive as this will be to Knox County taxpayers, justice will prevail, and hopefully heads will roll.