Wow wrote on May 12, 2007 5:44 AM:Just what kind of background check is Lake Elsinore School District doing?

Gary in Winchester wrote on May 12, 2007 6:46 PM:Not much, Wow, not much........

A Former Employee wrote on May 13, 2007 1:35 PM:I Know there is no connection between this story and what I have to tell, other than I was a former LEUSD Employee also. Let me tell you my own little story with LEUSD. I used to be employed by them, I was 18 yrs old at the time. I was excited, just graduated that June, my first job, and too me it paid good money! Well during December, a co-worker of mine had taken pictures of the kids we worked with during a Christmas party. We both had a myspace (I know there is a lot of controversy over that site) but we communicated through that site and I had asked her to send them to me, and she did so in a comment, and without thinking I just left them there. A SIMPLE PICTURE, not a name, not the school site I was on, certainly NOT inappropriate, but a simple picture of the child smiling. A MONTH later, I got called into the principal's office. The principal at that time, told me she had received word that I had done some thing that was in "Breach of contract", so she had asked me the necessary questions (i.e. Do you have a myspace? Do you have any students of our's on your site?) And I replied yes, she then asked me my name, jotted down some notes, printed ALL of my Myspace page, and told me that at the end of the day I was terminated. I was devastated! When I got home that day, I checked my Myspace to see if that picture was still there and it was gone. I was Terminated January 23, 2006. I had later found out that after that incident they had a meeting for family and staff, and that what I had done was mentioned. They called it inappropriate,-what comes to mind when the word "inappropriate" is used? now you imagine how HORRIBLE that made me feel-, and that it was a Pro-Active decision that the principal made. I later went to Mr. John Wise to clear up the whole incident with no success. He told me that when I applied, I had signed a form, that states: I will not send, receive, e-mail any information regarding the school district or its employees, or something to that effect. And when I had told him I did not receive a paper to sign, nor did my neighbor at the time, he simply stated that "It is common sense." Well I did not know, and know I was paying for it. When I got home from talking to him, I READ EVERY pamphlet, booklet, paper that I had gotten in my envelope during "sub- rounds ups" as they call them, and guess what? I HADN'T come across a paper that mentioned ANYTHING about sending or receiving data over the internet, or child confidentiality. I had NO INTENTION of harming the child. I loved all the kids I worked with! I wouldn't of traded that job for a million dollars or anything else the world had to offer! I loved the feeling of helping these children get an education. I loved the feeling of knowing that I had made a difference in their lives. So now I am living with that TERRIBLE experience and I have learned my lesson.

A Former Employee wrote on May 13, 2007 4:08 PM:Here is some extra added notes I forgot to mention in the former post. There was fore-warning by my Supervisor, to all employees about Myspace the day it happened. She had came up to me and asked if I had pictures of the child on my Myspace and I said yes and when i asked her if she wanted me to take it off, she said no. The co-worker that originally posted the picture on my Myspace was NOT terminated.

Mars wrote on May 18, 2007 11:48 AM:To a Former Employee-I understand your frustration and then they let this criminal off with administrative pay? Give me a break, how many lives & credit has she ruined?

Mars wrote on May 23, 2007 12:01 AM:I don't and won't know. But if my name was on that list, and they didn't inform me, thats a lawsuit right there!

A Former Employee wrote on May 23, 2007 12:01 AM:Sorry that post was FOR mars not FROM mars!