Same Old, Same Old?

So SACS is meeting with groups of folks to identify issues and explore the charges against the school board. One of those groups was a group of principals. One principal noticed another fiddling with a tape recorder in his pocket, and asked that principal what he was doing.

Mind you, the discussions that SACS has with folks are confidential, so as to elicit truthful responses and to minimize retaliation from the school board. Why Mr. Randy Sain (husband of school board member Karen Britain Sain) was even part of that meeting is beyond me.

From: Sain, Randy K
Sent: Mon day, August 03, 2009 11:17 AM
To: All High School Principals; All Middle School Principals; Holden, Michael Alan
Subject: SACS meeting

Hi folks,I want to clarify something I did today at our meeting and allay any fears you may have. I brought my digital recorder into the meeting to record it. I had no idea of the tenor or focus of the questioning and brought it merely to have a record in case anything we said was misconstrued (in other words - CYA). I turned it on as quickly as I sat down. It was recording when the moderator started telling us the responsibilities of the review comm. and that everything said was to be anonymous and in strictest confidence. At that point, I stopped recording. It had recorded for 3:02 before I cut it off and none of the questions they asked were recorded. In retrospect, I should have put it back in my pocket after cutting it off but I just didn’t think about it. I have already erased the recording. I apologize if my action kept anyone from speaking their mind. That was certainly NOT my intent.


How many other confidential group meetings have been surreptitiously recorded?

Unfortunately for Mr. Sain, unwise move or not - we all know what this looks like: business as usual for the board majority.