Is it time for a recall election

It is my understanding that the RTSD has filed a motion to reconsider the Sherry decision. I will link a copy once I get it. This is nothing but face saving using the tadxpayers money. So far about $75 K has been wasted. If you read the judges decision you will understand how badly the school board lost the decision. ( http://www.pafoic.org/pdfs/063008SherryvRadnorTwpSchl.pdf )

I appreciate the incredible amount of time and energy it takes to serve on the school board and how it "feels" to have folks second guess you BUT this is so clearly a waste of tax dollars. In this Town the School Board has become (is) so politicized. This is a bunch of crap, there is no other way to say it. I know many of the members and they are good people BUT I believe they have fallen in to one of the oldest traps in the world "Group Think". and Circling the wagons.

Folks, I voted for many of you because I believed you could do a good job, would be independent thinkers and would not fall in to these tracks. Please step back, review the situation and bebrave enough to stand up to power......

Here is an editorial from the DELCO Times
07/18/2008Editorial: Taxpayers win one in Radnor lawsuit
A classic struggle between the Bureaucracy and the Little Guy played out recently in the Radnor School District. Fortunately, in this case, the right side won.
In April 2007, the Radnor School Board raised the salaries of all district administrators by 3.9 percent. Less than a month later, the board voted to give four of those administrators another increase, after receiving a salary study report.
Director of Transportation Burchard Blackburn went from $85,453 to $88,786 with the initial raise and then to $91,241 with the additional bump. Director of Special Education and Pupil Services Andrea Chipego went from $118,045 to $122,649 to $123,632; Supervisor of Security Joseph Perchetti went from $47,390 to $49,238 to $52,555; and Supervisor of Custodial Services Duncan Smith went from $64,222 to $66,727 to $67,725.
That irked Judy Sherry, a former school board member. She wanted to know the criteria for the raises. After making several requests for the salary study and another document that studied the salaries from similar districts, officials told her those items didn't meet the criteria of the state's Right to Know law. What to do? She sued, with the help of her lawyer sons Daniel Sherry Jr. (Radnor alumni) and Parker Sherry. And, after almost a year, Delaware County Common Pleas Court Judge Robert C. Wright agreed with her.
In a 30-page opinion, the judge determined the salary study, commissioned by the school board at a cost of $10,400, and an "in-house" document containing contract information from other districts clearly met the definition of a public document. "The idea of being stingy when it comes to recognizing a citizen's rights is repugnant to our system of government," he wrote. "Indeed, it turns a right into a privilege, which may be granted or denied at the whim of those in positions of power."
He also ordered the district to pay Sherry's legal fees and court costs, which totaled nearly $30,000.
District officials, of course, aren't happy. They say the decision will chill their ability to prepare for labor negotiations in the future. They're asking Wright to reconsider, and if he doesn't, they'll appeal. After all, they estimate they've spent less than $30,000 on the case thus far.
"It's a shame that we have devolved in Radnor to citizens putting their own agendas in front of that of the students," said school board President John McMeekin II. "This is money that won't go to students."
Mr. McMeekin should dry those crocodile tears. It was, after all, the district's decision to withhold the information in the first place - a decision that has cost it almost $60,000 so far. That taxpayer money could have been better spent hiring another teacher or buying some computers for use in Radnor classrooms. An appeal will cost even more. That idea should be killed.
Citizens have the right to know how their school boards and local governments spend their money. And, as Judge Wright ruled, they have the right to see documents, which justify that spending.
So congratulations are in order for Judy Sherry and her sons for having the gumption to fight that fight, and for Judge Wright in making a wise decision. The Radnor case was a victory for all taxpayers in the state, and should serve as a lesson to those in government that their power is not absolute.